I got some early birthday gifts from some friends today.
These perfect catalogues are awesome. They list every game for the system chronologically. On first flick through the DS one I found a new game I want to try.
I also got THE DUMBEST BOOK EVER MADE as a joke gift. Recipes from the world of Halo. You know, a game known for having a real culinary element. These are all pretty basic recipes (nothing wrong with that) framed in the Halo universe. They all come from different, memorable locations in Halo; the mess hall in a UNSC ship or everyone’s favourite, Fronks (which is a billboard in one Halo 3 multiplayer map (apparently)).
Ah yes the Turkey dinner, an important part of the forerunner lore in Halo.
I’ve truly never quite understood the “game cookbooks” trend myself so I’m the worst person to even wonder if this is a worthwhile endeavor, but Halo in particular doesn’t seem like a game where I go ‘man I wonder what the food is like’.
The PS2 I got had one weird issue with Ridge Racer 4: the game wouldn’t load. I swapped it for a different copy at the store and it still wouldn’t load. Through some debugging, discovered that the problem is with the third party 128 MB PS2 memory card. Using an official Sony one totally works. Really weird. But good to know.
While at the store figuring this all out, I exchanged a smelly Virtua Fighter 4 for a few cheaper games and a legit Sony PS2 memory card:
I’m genuinely excited for the games and don’t know what to expect from some of them. I know Recore and Valkyria Revolution aren’t beloved, but maybe for $4.99 my perspective will somehow be different? They scream 7/10 based on what little I know.
What’s up with Eternal Ring? I just know it from reading about From Soft’s catalog and saw from the screenshots it’s first person.
Can’t put this one in the mail thread as it was given to me as an early birthday gift from a dear friend, but very happy to have the weirdest controller I’ve ever seen.
This here is a real mystery to me, because her name is a pun. “Yakisoba” and “sobakasu” (which means freckles). But in the frame of animation, she doesn’t have her freckles! Maybe they’re too annoying to draw all the time.
Got these for 20€ and 15€ each. I never played a Warriors game and I heard of the ones on the Switch Hyrule Warriors is supposed to be “the good one” but for this price I’ll give the Fire Emblem one a chance.
I’ve been curious about DQ Treasures for a while and remember Tim saying good things about it. Since I’ll be commuting by train for longer periods of time starting in 2 weeks, these might help me kill some time if I’m not in the mood for reading.
FE Warriors is great fun! It has a little extra RTS flourish to it that most other Warriors games don’t, which I prefer! You’re basically controlling a party of 4 and switching between them, unlike the classic 1 vs 1000 dynamic. It’s also very much a 3DS era fire emblem, for good and for ill - the story doesn’t make sense or need to make sense, but there’s a fun amount of mechanical depth to it. Having time-restricted sidequests let you access Anna’s secret shop is also a perfect way for them to give the game the feeling of a dynamic Fire Emblem map.
The only drawback is sometimes it can be tough to play because it makes me want to play the real FE game associated with it. I’ve never been able to play Three Hopes for more than a single map without turning it off and returning to my Maniac Mode Three Houses playthrough.
The cast of that Warriors is great too – especially the DLC characters. Unlike Tokyo Mirage Sessions which was weirdly full of scrubs like Virion and Draug, this one has more of the interesting personalities and memorable characters chewing on the scenery in the cutscenes (with welcome inclusions by Celica, Lyn, and Odin Dark as comic relief)
