For as much as I was saying last night that I am kinda disappointed with Horizon so far, I do still have the incredible hankering to play it. Unfortunately I have plans today so I won't be able to play until later this evening. 😔 At least it's maintaining that Trails urge to just keep going!

I posted my main thoughts with spoilers in my thread, but in general I'm unfortunately not enjoying Horizon as much as I had hoped. All the complaints I remember hearing about DB2 that I really didn't agree with I am feeling towards Horizon. It's still fun because it's Trails, but so far... meh. 😔

I will say my biggest complaint with Horizon so far is that they took the CS2 approach of "Accuracy doesn't make you more likely to hit, it makes you less likely to miss" If you don't have your characters stacked with Accuracy buffs, they're able to hit sweet fuck all.

A bit of lore about me. My biggest fear is the ocean. I'm fine swimming by the shore or lounging on a beach looking out at it, but being out ON the ocean terrifies me to no end. But for some reason, water-based areas in games tend to be my favorite. Riverside in Daybreak, Ruan in Sky, etc.

Rean if he were playing Baldur's Gate

I am so glad to be home. Work was a bitch and a half for my last day. But now I have a week off, and I'm now set to relax with some Chipotle, Dr. Pepper, and Trails 🙂‍↕️

Something interesting about Horizon to me is that there's a character who (as far as I know) is notably missing from the roster. Like at the very least I know this character isn't playable. It's just strange to me because the game makes a point to have this character show up at the end of DB2. 🤔

Well, that's day 1 of Horizon on the books! Tomorrow I work, then I have the whole next week off to play more 🙂‍↕️ So far it's not what I was expecting, but in a good way! I was expecting it to be more like Reverie, but it really does feel like Daybreak 3 at this point.

I am so Fire Emblem pilled after Fates that I keep using SCLM in Horizon waiting for the little Support hearts to appear over their heads 😂

IT BEGINS! Remember to mute #CirkusHorizon for no spoilers 🤫 NOW LETS GOOOOO

So I was looking at the DLC packs for Horizon right... For costume pack 1 it's $30. But the Deluxe Pack which includes costume Pack 1... It's $24 Even if all you want are the costumes, why would you not just get the Deluxe Pack? Weird as fuck pricing Falcom but I won't complain I guess.

Praise be to remote downloading 🙂‍↕️ Also preemptive "Be sure to mute #CirkusHorizon if you want to avoid my playthrough for now for spoilers" because this starts as soon as I get home tonight!

I just want the work day to end so I can Trails 😭

So I was spoiled on something slightly for Horizon but it's very general? I guess it would be the equivalent of saying "There's a twist about Darth Vader" if that makes sense. Enough of a spoiler to be annoying, but not enough to actually tell me anything important. But man it has me scared.

So I finished the new content for P5X and I still FUCKING HATE how they're doing these updates. The third palace is being released in FOUR FUCKING PARTS multiple months apart. I get it's a gacha and they want to pad things out, but that's like a whole fucking year for one arc. That's stupid.

Well, here's my overall review of Fates. Big ol' wall of text in the link. But for an easy idea of my thoughts: 7/10 bckl.gg/qJU5

QRP with your GOTY for each year of the 2020's so far. 2025: Trails in the Sky 1st 2024: Trails Through Daybreak 2023: Trails into Reverie / FF16 2022: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 2021: Tales of Arise 2020: Persona 5 Royal Using JP games is funky because of staggered release dates. I went by US dates.

This is the one of these I've done that I feel is least correct? Don't get me wrong, a lot of it is right. But I don't know about lacking execution for ideas or trying to have an objective viewpoint.

It's Wednesday. You know what that means? THE TRAILS ARE QUITE LITERALLY JUST BEYOND THE HORIZON 😱

Just finished Fire Emblem Fates! I'll probably get my full thoughts up on it tomorrow in a review but for now... Birthright - A resounding "meh" Conquest - Story good, characters good, gameplay awful Revelations - Story good, Characters good, gameplay good

#CirkusFates Yeah. The traitor in Revelation was really obvious. Especially since the game doesn't let anyone bond with them 😂 I figured they would either die early or be the traitor once that was revealed.

It's almost time for the boy to return. (Also yes, this is a terrible joke, but +1 point if you get it)

Only a couple of missions left in Fates! Coming in right under the wire for Horizon! Hopefully I can finish up tomorrow and use the small gap to do the new P5X content.

#CirkusFates Ah shit. I accidentally Alabama'd 😭

I am not above engagement bait

#CirkusFates I see we're back to this game's obsession with unceremoniously killing side characters out of nowhere. RIP Scarlet I guess?

I guess this is more of "characters I want" than "characters I think are reasonable" - Estelle Bright (Trails) - Kazuma Kiryu (Yakuza) - Solaire of Astora (Dark Souls) - Rayman - Shantae - Chibi-Robo - Mio (Xenoblade 3)

Trails starts an insane string of releases for me, to be honest. Jan 15 - Trails Jan 29 - Code Vein 2 Feb 5 - All's Justice Feb 12 - Kiwami 3 Feb 20 - Proud Nordics March 19 - Crimson Desert AND Mouse PI March 26 - Screamer So basically from next week until April the gaming schedule is booked 😅

I'm gonna be cutting Fates really close when it comes to Trails coming out 😅 I'm on chapter 18 of Revelations so I'm a little over halfway through that route, with 5 days to finish it. I think I can manage it with a little determination! 😤

#CirkusFates Me playing revelation and having all the Hoshido royals marry the Nohr nobles to make the most bizarre but historically accurate royal family of all time. Playing this shit like it's Crusader Kings

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

#CirkusFates Ah. So chapter 17 has fallen back into the Conquest mindset of "Difficulty comes from copy pasting 18000 enemies, not from level design or strategic unit placement"

So I did that like... My opinions on games template thing earlier and I swear every time I have to say what my favorite video game OST is I pick Persona 5. But it always hurts me to not pick Metal Hellsinger. Listen to this shit. To quote Brütal Legend's Headbangers, "It's fuckin' awesome!"

#CirkusFates I'm only on Chapter 14 of Revelations but I'm really liking the level design so far. They're all interesting and unique, and each one makes the difficulty interesting without feeling cheap like Conquest. Though I am worried this will change by the end.

So wait... They are going to have people make art, to train an AI to make generations based on that art? If I am understanding this right, that may be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard, and I live in the US. Our government spouts stupid shit non-stop.

My turn! Used more "hidden" version of the villains to prevent spoilers 🤫 Also I'm not so guilty about that guilty pleasure 😏

I got my car back from the shop with them telling me there's nothing wrong with it. They are incorrect because I am still having the same problems I was. It's just apparently not the alternator or battery And now I did something to fuck up my foot. 2026 sucks. I never thought I'd want 2025 back.

Once again I learn that apparently some of my favorite parts of Daybreak are the things everyone else hates 😅

Same English VA

Me saving up for when they drop Akechi in P5X and they release a variant of one of my favorite new Thieves 🙃 I am realizing this whole "gacha" thing the kids are into these days is truly evil, providing these impossible choices.

So first my laptop dies and I need a replacement And now I think my alternator is going out. 2026 is certainly off to a start 🫩

Trails writers deciding on a name like:

#CirkusFates Ended up romancing Azura in Revelations. I feel like she's kind of the one the *story* wants you to romance. But Camilla is still my number one girl 🥰 Also, TWO kids with Azura?!

Something that has always interested me are people who have what I call "ship brain" I ship characters too, but I ship characters who have like... Romantic dialogue? But there are people who see two characters whose only interaction is being in the same room and they're like "THEY'RE SO IN LOVE!!"

The one thing that sucks about my work closing for a week for the holidays is that when we come back we're then hit with two weeks worth of problems 😮‍💨

What was the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I was maybe 12 or 13. My cousin got a punching bag for his birthday. We set it up in his basement on one of those load bearing support beams. My dumb ass went to kick it. Missed. Toe got caught on the corner of the beam. Toe broke.

Something interesting about Fire Emblem is that it might be the only series where the actual combat effectiveness of a character can impact my opinion of them. Not always. I mean, I love Felicia in Fates even though she's unfortunately bad, but sometimes how they perform really changes my views.

This doesn't make any sense??? If it's a prequel it makes no sense that Frodo would then trust Gollum??? If it's a sequel, they fucking know exactly where he is???

More of a behind the scenes thing, but any time I find out that they used two similar locations that are far away for the same thing. If you are already filming in a forested area in Washington, you don't need to fly to move production to Maine for different forests. Such a waste of resources.

Well, my laptop just died. I was planning to get another but I wasn't expecting it to be so soon. I was just watching YouTube and all of a sudden out of nowhere it completely turned off and now doesn't work at all Thankfully I keep all my files on an external HDD but still, really annoying. 😮‍💨