Mostly played Yoshi Mysteriously Harasses the Wildlife. I was wondering if there were going to be ‘boss’ stage equivalents and World 2 tells me yes! It was fun until I tried to complete it. Lining up those shots got really annoying with how slow he is. I’m two stages into World 3 now and we’re reaching a point where I have a harder time figuring everything out.

Picked Visions of Mana back up. Maybe the game has more content left than I expected, we finally got to meet who I assume is the true villain! The guy we had before was not being very good at his role, what with him being absolutely right about everything he says and barely showing up.

The game is also being very weird about its side quests. You beat a chapter and a few places you have no reason to go back to have a new quest that ask you to go to a place you have already explored to kill a few enemies that are the same level as they were when you first went there. Interesting quests are few and far between.

In Fallout 3, I did the iconic Tranquility Lane quest, my favorite part of the game that I know from my first half-playthrough. Which brings me to a point in the story where it felt appropriate to take a vacation to the Point Lookout DLC, which I know absolutely nothing about! The lever-action rifle is a nice upgrade, using the very common 10mm ammo but being much stronger than the default pistol. I’ve been sitting on 1,500 of those bullets. Plus 1,000 Railway Spikes, 1,100 Shotgun Shells… This would be a very different game if ammo had weight!

Considering all the projection, I’d check the pizza places first.

Truth be told, I don’t even notice most flowers. I paid extra attention today and most flowers are directly tied to research, so I just end up picking them up and a minute later I won’t remember where I got them.

I just watched it last week myself and I was so happy that they fixed up the music. I still can’t believe the first movie thought taking a Kart track to the Kong Kingdom needed ‘Take On Me’.

I really only played Yoshi’s Mysterious PhD on Behavioral Biology and I can’t believe how much this game is exactly what I expected. I was worried I overhyped it for myself but whoever created the original trailer apparently did a banger job explaining it. I’m halfway through the second world right now, but I also make sure to complete every level. Usually the silhouette hints are enough, sometimes I need to buy a hint and once I had to actually look something up. I hope there’s a level on the seagull enemies at some point, those were my favorites in Yoshi’s Island and they seem versatile enough to be featured here.

Visions of Mana is very linear, this is intentional.

From what I know of Fallout 4, you’re not missing out on anything. The max level of Fallout 3 is 30 and I’m on 21 already. In Fallout 4 the limit is technically 65,535 but that’s only because the game crashes past that point. You’ll be able to max out the SPECIAL stats and any other perk loooong before that.

Played more Visions of Mana. Got the final party member and I’m surprised he joins this late. Especially since he’s the dedicated healer! Well, my party is established and I really have no use for him at this point. It’s hard to tell how much longer the game is, but I think I could power through this weekend. Except of course…

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is finally here! Only played the first two levels to completion today and it’s exactly what I expected. I got very strong Pokemon Snap vibes! I’m curious how the general reception to the game is going to be, though. Anyone who wasn’t paying too much attention and is expecting an actual platformer is bound to be disappointed.

My Fallout 3 journey is now taking me southwest. Taking care of an unmarked quest I’ve had for a long time on my way to the next story segment, which I remember very well from my first attempt of playing the game. I’m looking forward to doing Tranquility Lane again, easily my favorite part of the game (that I know of).

Did a little bit of everything this week.

Explored the desert area in Visions of Mana. It’s a good thing I like the style of the game, because there are long stretches where really nothing interesting is happening. But I was also really happy that Vuscav the turtle still makes the same weird sound that he did in Trials of Mana on the Super Nintendo. Back then I assumed the sound was bugged because it’s just so strange!

Did a little grinding in Monster Hunter Wilds, worried I got rusty after not playing for a few weeks. I’m fine, and I got two Lagiacrus Sapphires in a single hunt. I did complain a good year ago that this game made the rare drops too easy to get and they really overfixed that with the monster added in updates later. 1% carve, 2% quest reward, no other sources, I needed 13 to make all the equipment. Only one more…

Played some more Mario Kart World, Free Roam. Some of the challenges are really insane. I had to look up one of them because I didn’t even understand what my fingers were supposed to do to jump across multiple pillars sideways in a wall-ride.

In Fallout 3, I finally got the last part I needed for the Railway Rifle. I’ve picked up 800 Railway Spikes so far, so I’m set for a long time. I don’t think I used this gun on my first attempt to play the game and the description says it can pin enemy limbs to the wall, which sounds fun.

Haha, of course it’s 64 again! XD

But I haven’t played any of the other remakes and reboots since the original and this one looks really nice, so I guess this is the one for me.

April sucked for me and i haven’t played much in weeks. I was laid out by allergies and lost a lot of sleep, plus other things I’ll keep to myself. But that’s all behind me and I’m ready to pick everything back up.

Last I played Visions of Mana, I swapped classes so that physical attacks regenerate MP, so my Palamena can use magic more aggressively. I’ve always liked playing mages the most in Mana games.

I actually did play a bit of Mario Kart World again before things (and me) went down and I hope to pick that up again, too. The changes to Free Roam were long overdue, but now it’s finally playable for completionists.

Fallout 3 was the only game I kept going since I record it. Followed up on the main story again and visited Rivet City. There’s a little more to do in the vicinity and then it’s back to roaming the wastelands again!

That said, there are no AI generated images of Trump wearing Papal vestments or overseeing the holy mass.

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I believe this was from before the new pope was decided.

Students are creative; if they can’t walk out, they’ll all bring headphones.

I don’t expect to actually finish the crowns, to be honest. I still have other grinding to do and resetting the world for crowns is a good excuse to get a Lagiacrus with a guaranteed Sapphire drop to spawn.

Silver and gold crowns are markers for a monster’s size. Especially large and small monsters are marked with these crowns in the compendium, which has been a stable in the series for a very long time. It doesn’t give you anything except an achievement, but it’s also much easier to do in Wilds. Previously, you learned a monster’s size after you hunt it. In Wilds you have binoculars that reveal this information beforehand, so you can just quickly check every monster in the area.

Mostly Monster Hunter Wilds this week. I’ve been grinding for gold crowns, which I have never done in another game before. I can’t explain why I’m doing this, some bug just bit me and made me do it.

In Fallout 3, I’ve done everything in the metro maze I’ve been wanting to do for now. I’ll still have to go through one soon, but what matters is that I’m back in the actual world!

Speaking of being bitten by weird bugs, I’ve been wanting to play Mario Kart World again for the first time since release for no apparent reason. I haven’t done it yet, but it’s on the table…

AFAIK they’re optional, but I’m sure there’s some kind of reward that’ll be worth it.

Made more progress in Visions of Mana. I wish the game had more boss fights and fewer trial battles with time limits. I started lowering the difficulty for them because I just don’t have the damage output to finish them in time on Hard. And I don’t think your party members are very good at fighting, either. Bosses are fun because you actually have to dodge attacks. Normal battles just don’t have any depth to them.

I’m lost in the metro network of Fallout 3. I remember not liking it when I first played the game, but the DC city area with its isolated sub-areas you can only access via sewers and metro lines is an absolute pain in the rear.

At least I have the Anchorage quest behind me, the Fallout DLC for people who wish they weren’t playing Fallout. Crazy rewards though, I now have armor that makes me invisible when I’m crouched. I knew it existed, but I expected it to have some kind of limit or cooldown. But it’s just busted and its base defense is on par with what I had before, too. I almost don’t want to use it, but invisibility has always been my favorite power, so I find this very entertaining~

JD Vance comes out in orange face paint and it will work.

It’s not really new, just Nintendo of America adapting to what Nintendo of Everywhere Else has already been doing.

Played more Vision of Mana and misunderstood how skill points work the entire time. I thought they were shared among all characters, which didn’t really make much sense to me, but the system with the extra points from gold clovers had me utterly confused.

Meanwhile, in Fallout 3, I’m finally getting to use the one mod that I prepared (aside from bugfixes and visuals). I want to play mostly vanilla, but when I looked through the list of companions to prepare my playthrough, I noticed my favorite companion from my first attempt to beat the game was missing. I experimented with a bunch of mods back then and just forgot this was one of them. But I want to have Bittercup as my companion! She and my character, Jimothy, are two very different kinds of idiots who just happen to perfectly misunderstand each other. I’m almost ready to follow the main story again, but I’ll stop by a DLC that is not too far away from Megaton, though I remember really not liking that one…