Started playing Potionomics and this game has charm! Love the art style, music, voice acting — all stellar. The gameplay loop is fun too even though I suck at it. Has to be the only deck builder game where you want ALL numbers to go up. 😌

My Steam Replay 2025. You can tell when Monster Hunter came out and when I started playing my Switch 2/PS5 later in the year. Sadly spent little time on my Steam Deck but hope to change that next year.

New regret unlocked: not playing Digimon games sooner. Superior to that other popular monster catching game in many, many ways. Cyber Sleuth has been a joy to play and I’m nearing the end. 😌

Stranger Things has had me on a 70s/80s/synthwave kick and I just discovered Journey’s Who’s Crying Now for the first time and just wow

Watched M3GAN 2.0 and it was a great cautionary tale about letting technology outpace legislation. Not as good as the first movie but still fun. I could go for a whole series of these movies now. 😂

Next year, I’m definitely not tracking/posting about the games I beat. I just want to go where the wind blows and play what I want rather than feel like I’m checking a box on a list. I’ve already been doing that the past couple of months and it’s been fun. 😊

I’m really enjoying Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth. Something about the mechanics and seeing favorites that are a blast from the past. I’m sad that it took me this long to ever play a Digimon game.

An incredible feat and well deserved. I hope this puts the industry on notice. Give us quality games with strong gameplay and/or narratives, make it fun, make it impactful, and drop the bloat.

This is great, but hearing stuff like this only makes me more frustrated with Pokémon games. 😂 Like look at the quality we can get on a “low budget.”

My 2025 PlayStation Wrap-Up. A stellar year for games. There were so many games I wanted to play but never got the time to.

Drop something ARMORED

A few hours into Code Vein and I’m like wtf is going on with this story?? They explained things (maybe too lightly) and it still doesn’t make sense to me lol. It’s a fun souls-like though.

My PS5 has been collecting dust since finishing Ghost of Yotei. Meant to start Death Stranding 2 and just haven’t yet. Instead I’ve been playing Dark Souls 3 and ER Nightreign with friends and started Code Vein, Demonschool, and Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth. 😅

We got a new car! To go from a 20-year-old car to this — feels like I’m in the future lol.

I’m usually against gate keeping but when someone says they’d prefer it if Baldur’s Gate 3 was an action 3rd-person over the shoulder game, I get it. Maybe we should gate keep.

Stranger Things has a way of awakening the often dormant synth wave enjoyer in me and I’m not mad at it

Playing Digimon Cyber Sleuth and this was my reaction to my wife calling Agumon “Walmart charmander”

Our heater has FINALLY been fixed after nearly 3 weeks thanks to our incompetent landlord and their incompetent contractors.

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday. This is an out of context meme of HVAC techs and electricians regarding our heater that hasn’t worked for over 2 weeks now. 🙃

Debating whether I should get Demonschool on Switch 2 or Steam…

When Ben Franklin said the 2 certainties in life were death and taxes, he didn’t mention the ever present 3rd certainty (probably because as a man in that time he didn’t do them): dishes

This sounds like an arguably good, practical use of AI. However, I offer a different solution. Maybe release seasons yearly like we used to so we don’t need the recap. Don’t think I’ve ever met anyone that liked a show and was happy with waiting 4 years for the next season…

Finished Mega Man Legends and what a fun stroll through nostalgia. We need a modern entry if Mega Man turned into an RPG. Also, how tf does this game come out in 1997 with voice acting but we can’t get that in a certain long running, popular series in 2025??

Years of the paltry PS5 storage and a 1TB PC have taught me “if I don’t need it, delete it.” It prepared me for only 256GB on the Switch 2.

I think it’s time for me to start Death Stranding 2. But I have other games I want to get back to or finish — GBA Fire Emblem, Valkyria Chronicles, Atelier Sophie 2; and some others I’d like to start —Yakuza 0 replay, Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth. Too many games, too little time!

I say this as someone who enjoyed Scarlet/Violet despite the technical issues and absolutely adores Legends Arceus. I think they should just go back to 2D games because 3D is that much of a struggle with what’s invested into these games.

Finished Pokémon Legends Z-A and aside from a couple system tweaks and a fun combat system, it was not very good or fun. Traversal was ass and the setting was boring. It just need more variety and a more engaging story.

It’s been a stellar year for games, no doubt about it. Sadly, I’ve only played 2 of these and completed 1. I just can’t keep up. But then again I’m not trying very hard. 😂

Storming a beach with infantry and tanks? Chapter 11 of Valkyria Chronicles most definitely got its inspiration from D-Day. Time for pain. 😭

Just appreciating Final Fantasy XIII ❤️🥺

I watched M3GAN last night and it was amazing. It was so much more than a murderous doll. It had great themes around grief and attachment, illustrated the pitfalls of tech & AI — a horror in its own right. The tension throughout was immaculate and it was a parody at times but that was the point.

I’ve been a long time Pokémon fan but the combo of Scarlet/Violet and Z-A are testing the limits of my enjoyment of these games… Fun with great character designs but absolute trash stories and visuals. We deserve better. TPC needs to invest more in Gamefreak.

Finally fought the coolest character in Legends Z-A, Lebanne. I love it when a character lets loose and their personality changes.

Sad but not surprised. Those other titles are significantly more recognizable to the general public of which the Grammy committee is made up of…

Really glad to hear this is still a reality but I really would have liked a story about the ME lore like the First Contact War or the Genophage or the like. I look forward to it either way.

This may be an old man rant but I cannot stand seeing a phrase online like “ts is legit.” We all know what you’re trying to say and you’re only 2 letter short. Just spell “this.”

So many modern games are like this and while they may be fun, it’s hard to find the time to finish some. This is a large part of the reason I’ve never finished BG3 despite wanting to…

I know the songs are different but the Lumiose City song in Z-A sounds similar enough to the X/Y version that I feel like I’ve been hearing a song I don’t really like on repeat for 10 years 😭

The Barren Swamp in Lies of P is straight up BS. I get that the game is supposed to be challenging but holy shit…

Guys there’s cell service at Alcatraz 💀

My Thor is setup is complete. Haven’t had much of a chance to play on it yet but I love it already. The 3DS games are crisp!

Before and after of my PC setup. Loving the new ultra wide but it’s going to be an adjustment because I’ve been dual screen since 2017. The high res really helps though because you get way more real estate than you’d think.

Based on the promo pics of Welcome to Derry I was NOT expecting that ending to episode 1, holy shit! I loved it but part of me worries about how it will continue because I liked where I thought it was going.

Exciting things happening this week. I also bought this beautiful monitor so I can replace my dual monitor setup with it. 😌

Finished Ghost of Yotei the other day and all I can say is what a game. Amazing in every aspect. The story was a bit predictable so it didn’t hit as hard as Tsushima but it was still powerful and a fantastic time.

Rachel should have been in the 3rd one already. 😭 But I understand why she wasn’t. Started watching it a couple years ago and never bothered to finish because she wasn’t there…

Started watching Welcome to Derry last night and those first 10 minutes had me like ‘WTF did I just watch??’ Not so secretly, I’m like show me more…

Picked up the AYN Thor and can’t wait to play some retro games like Megaman Legends. Playing 3DS games at higher res will be great too. 😌

So I watched Barbarian 😌