#SlazoCollection Day 564. Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc! I remember renting this back in the day and having a blast. Sadly I was also a child with limited money, so it’s not until this year that I now own this. Maybe I’ll stream this at some point, we’ll see…

Finished Apothecary Diaries vol 11! Getting to see more of the Emperor and his family is great, especially since by this point why wouldn't they just hire Maomao directly. Though the series' continued insistence on the "ooooh whooo is Jinshi" bit is... c'mon, we *all* figured this out ages ago.

#SlazoCollection Day 563. An Absolute Casserole! When they said they’d make a Taskmaster book, obviously I was onboard, as one of the few shows I’ve been consumed by over the years. Having Jack Bernhardt work on it too was perfect, after all his work on spreadsheets and the People’s Podcast.

#SlazoCollection Day 562. Immortals Fenyx Rising! From the early days of our current gen when Ubisoft decided to drop several of their open world games all in one go! Though now I think about it, outside of more Assassin’s Creeds… have they even done much else this gen…

The amount of ads on 4OD has skyrocketed in the past month, its gone from like 1 minute to 4+ per ad break.

#SlazoCollection Day 561. Kyoka Jiro Popup Parade! My Hero always had a knack of making me fall for the secondary characters, and Kyoka was no exception. Though hang on, she gets a figure but Mina doesn’t!?

Free of randomisers for now, let's get back to games! Games like Mario! We never play those. But surprise, it ain't Sunshine, as there's a whole Galaxy out there on www.twitch.tv/slazoking

Name your top 15 TV shows, gut instincts only: Robot Wars Top Gear Pokémon Angel Beats Steven Universe Kamen Rider Gaim Kyouryuger The Good Place Brooklyn Nine-Nine House Takeshi's Castle Taskmaster Simpsons Orville Lucha Underground Can't wait to hit Post and immediately remember a buncha others.

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#SlazoCollection Day 560. Persona 5 & Persona 5 Royal! I still remember the days post-P4G, with Persona thrust into the limelight, the P5 announcement. And then the years that passed waiting for the dang thing to release. But it’s fine, they learned their lesson. Just don’t announce P6. 😂

#SlazoCollection Day 559. Teddiursa plushie! They always present this Pokémon as a cutie that the female trainers of the Pokémon world go gooey eyed over, and I’m not having it, the things an absolute menace, even before it evolves.

Finished Apothecary Diaries vol 10! I... expected them to do a lot more with the special envoys than they did. The Crystal Palace bit felt rushed through too, it's weird how the series just doesn't seem to know how to pace anything anymore...

#SlazoCollection Day 558. Disgaea DS! I remember there being Disgaea games on Sony’s handhelds, but had no idea the DS got one too. Though less surprising is it being a port of the original. And hey, 9/10 from IGN! Guess it didn’t have much water. 😂

#SlazoCollection Day 557. Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man! It feels so rare we get these kind of manga anthologies, even though it’s always fascinating to see the work of creators outside of their main pieces.

#SlazoCollection Day 556. Extreme-G 3! I’d forgotten this franchise even existed and that it made it to the Gamecube, despite the fact I think I own the N64 version? Anyway, I guess F-Zero but on motorbikes is the easiest way to describe this one.

#SlazoCollection Day 555. Juri Nendoroid! One of my Street Fighter mains, it’s Juri! Though damn, I’ve not played one of those in forever. I really love the aesthetic of this Nendo though, has a lot more pop to it than the standard look of most of the range.

#SlazoCollection Day 554. Fire Emblem: Three Houses! It was interesting to see Fire Emblem become more Persona-y, and the impact that had on the fandom new and old. If you’re interested, I picked Golden Deer, because Claude is bae. Also… when did my copy of this get… damp? Mouldy? Whaaaa.

The last Async Archipelago stream for now! Can Toon Link free me from the dreaded BK mode? Doing Wind Waker's Wind and Earth Temples for the first time in over a decade live on www.twitch.tv/slazoking

Finished Apothecary Diaries vol 9! The daily life and mysteries of Maomao continue, as we sort of maybe slowly make our way towards the next big event? Like, I still love the characters, but the series feels very much stuck in a holding pattern at this point.

#SlazoCollection Day 553. Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes! My favourite author, no-one will ever match Pratchett’s wit, creativity and ability to write the insane yet entirely understandable. Owning this was a must, as I continue to collect and work my way through Discworld.

#SlazoCollection Day 552. Super Mario Galaxy! While I prefer the sequel, the original Galaxy is still superb. So many iconic bosses, levels and themes, and created a franchise mainstay in Rosalina. We will do this on stream one day.

#SlazoCollection Day 551. Zorua plushie! It's always interesting seeing which Pokémon in each gen end up becoming the most popular, and I didn't necessarily have Zorua (and Zoroark) down for that, despite their movie. Definitely a cute design though, would love to have one in my squad one game.

#SlazoCollection Day 550. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call! It amazes me to this day how Square Enix haven’t done more games around their music. Like if they made one on Dragon Quest and… huh? Japan only? Oh for fucks sake.

#SlazoCollection Day 549. Makoto Niijima Nendoroid! The Queen of the Phantom Thieves once more, because just a Popup Parade wasn’t enough. Though this reminds me, it would be nice to get some more Persona 4 figures at some point, barely got any of that game’s cast…

come on man.

#SlazoCollection Day 548. Soul Hackers 2! Sometimes Atlus games just seem to slip under the radar for me. If there hadn’t been a random event dedicated to this game during E3 season a few years back, I’d have had no clue it existed. Also, curious they abandoned the SMT branding for this one.

Finished Frieren vol 14! Frieren's at its weakest the closer it gets to more traditional shounen, but at least it lets us see some faces that haven't been in the series for a while. Crazy that this is the *only* volume that'll be out this year though, vol 15 isn't until January 2027...

#SlazoCollection Day 547. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse! I loved getting to see this in cinemas, so the BluRay was a must. Deepened my love for Miles and Gwen, plus introduced a bunch of new Spideys to enjoy. And, y’know, brilliant writing, gorgeous animation etc. Shame they never made a sequel.

Async Archipelago schenanigans continue! Can I finally finish one of my five games in the pool? Let's rack up checks and BKs live on www.twitch.tv/slazoking

#SlazoCollection Day 546. Destiny 2! The bizarre ballad of Destiny 2. Solid at launch though a step behind Taken King, and then… made all the exact same mistakes as the original’s first year. And slowly lost the plot, leading to content vaulting which killed off any interest I had in it for good.

#SlazoCollection Day 545. The Master! A tennis book, of course I have tennis books, and of course it's on Roger Federer, the best to ever do it. Looking forward to getting the Nadal one later this year too.

#SlazoCollection Day 544. Rune Factory 4 Special! Apparently I hadn’t done a Rune Factory game yet, so here we are. I own a version of most of the RF games, though in news that likely won’t shock you, I’ve not played any of them…

#SlazoCollection Day 543. Dragon Zentreya plushie! Zen’s had a fair few looks by this point, but her classic dragon one has always remained my fave, and I’ll never say no to yet another awesome plushie.

Did the thing about the games. Might have different answers if I spent like a day on this, but this feels like a good representation of what I've played over the last... 25+ years dear god

#SlazoCollection Day 542. Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection 1987 - 2012! Kept you waiting, huh? This was my first proper experience of Metal Gear though, including such classics as “oh shit they recognised my footprints” and fumbling through the digital box art and manuals.

#SlazoCollection Day 541. Tomo Aizawa Nendoroid! Always happy to pick up Tomo-chan merch, it remains of the best romcoms and manga we’ve done on Trash Manga Friends over the years, in part thanks to said strong lead female Tomo.

Oh lord what have we done. 8 people, 28 games, one big Async Archipelago, including yours truly playing Mario 64, Sunshine, Jak, Ratchet and Wind Waker! We kickoff the nightmare now live on www.twitch.tv/slazoking

The fun and/or horror of being a year behind in my slow journey to catch up on WWE is something else. Like, watching the absolute train wreck of a Wrestlemania build from the outside is just... what the hell even happened...

#SlazoCollection Day 540. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers! I always forget how many SMT spinoffs there are, and how many of them came out for Nintendo's handhelds over the years. Could easily spend an eternity just playing DS/3DS JRPGs...

Since the current plan is to kick off an Async Archipelago with friends this evening, no stream this afternoon. Should instead be live probably around 7pm.

#SlazoCollection Day 539. Wobbuffet plushie! One of those Pokémon the anime has given me such a fondness of. Though Wobb came in clutch for me back in Stadium 2, finally getting me past my existential nightmare of the Poké Cup Master Ball difficulty, which I'll be forever grateful for.

Finished Apothecary Diaries vol 8! Yeah, it definitely feels like we've gotten more monologuely, mainly because it's become far more episodic, sometimes even multiple "episodes" in one chapter, with Maomao expositing the whole way. The resolution (for now) of Lakan's story was nice though.

#SlazoCollection Day 538. Pac 'N Roll! You'd think ball rolling games would work well on the DS with a sort of touchscreen trackerball control scheme, but for whatever reason, they never did. I recall Pac-Man's attempt came out better than the DS Super Monkey Ball... but not by much.

#SlazoCollection Day 537. Crunchyroll Essential Anime! Bought before(?) Crunchyroll completely shat the bed, I’d wanted an X Anime To Watch book and this was that. The choices are mostly obvious, but at least it isn’t riddled with whatever modern rubbish they were trying to push at the time.

#SlazoCollection Day 536. Catherine! While I have always fancied myself as good at platformers and puzzlers, Catherine was one brain leap too far for me at the time. That and I found the game to have a really icky vibe. Maybe I'd be better at it nowadays, but don't know if I'll ever go back.

#SlazoCollection Day 535. VTuber keyrings! One of the artists I follow released these a while back, and with them being most of my faves, I had to pick up the set. Though I’ve still yet to actually use them as keyrings since I don’t want to lose or damage them, haha.

#SlazoCollection Day 534. The Diofield Chronicle! Another of those weird Square Enix games where they were experimenting with a bunch of new IPs, though unlike some of the others this didn’t really make any impact. Though I’d argue this at least has a better name than “Triangle Strategy”…

Holy moly we actually finished an Archipelago game in like 5 hours, it's an Easter miracle!

Finding things in all the wrong places! Yet another 7-way Archipelago Multiworld Randomizer! This time, I'm playing #MediEvil (PS1), so come watch the madness on www.twitch.tv/bersekrer

Join us for another special Saturday stream, with another Archipelago randomiser with friends! www.twitch.tv/wcreaf With @bersekrer.bsky.social playing Medievil and showing all our screens, www.twitch.tv/bersekrer And @slazo.bsky.social playing Mario Kart Double Dash www.twitch.tv/slazoking