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Car repairs and dental work….

felt, did you crash your car again.

I haven't actually gone back to Monster Train 2 yet. I have been playing Dungeons of Hintenberg, which is on Gamepass, but I got a key for it on Steam for 79p.

I had played it a bit before, but it sorta got swallowed up by other releases. It's really, really good. Looks wonderful on handheld with a line drawn art style unlike anything I've seen before and is really charming. On the Performance graphics setting it runs incredibly smoothly on the Ally (so I'd imagine would also be fine on the Deck, and would probably really pop on the OLED one).

I didn't know I wanted to play a Swiss holiday resort themed social simulator crossed with an Zeldaish action RPG, but turns out I did. The dialogue is good, the structure is vaguely Persona-like and the enemies have a sort of gloopy charm to them. Combat is a bit simplistic until you get level specific powers that are quite entertaining.

I dunno. A bit like Eternal Strands, I feel it got swallowed up at a time there were AAA bangers being released almost daily.

Ys Seven, maybe?

It is indeed a Ys game, Ys: Memories of Celceta. Nice deductions.

Loved Detectorists (so much so we bought a metal detector) and have this saved up for a watch. I don't think during The Office I could've predicted how fucking good Mackenzie Crook would be in nearly everything he touches.

I can't believe I've played a JRPG that Alastor hasn't. I spent about 100 hours on Dark Chronicle back in the day.

The vibes in the opening town are superb. And I spent so long building my forest village.

I love Dark Chronicle. Looked gorgeous at the time - shame it never got remastered/remade.

I was trying to remember a JRPG I really enjoyed the other day. I think it was on PSP (or Vita), fast paced, third person, real time combat…. the first level is set on a beach perhaps. Not enough for even AI to guess what I was talking about.