10 August 2026

Dragon Quest XI Scompleted

The structure of the game is pretty good now that I can fully see it. It's like an old season (as in like 24 episodes) of television. You have your monster of the week episodes and that are their own self contained little story but it still feeds into a slow burn ur-plot. I assume it'll mostly keep that structure until we get to the equivalent of a multi part season finale.

I wrapped up the northern section of the medals academy, beating up a giant bird for an orb. It isn't lost on me that my first Dragon Quest game has me collecting a bunch of spheres that were scattered around the world to collect with characters designed by Toriyama. Where have I seen that before? Hmmmmm.

Flamecraft Dualsactive

We played this for the first time tonight, two games back to back. Within a couple minutes I knew it was good. Really easy to understand, mostly fast playing (I think there's definitely a possibility for analysis paralysis but the number of decisions to make is pretty small), and it's pretty short (in a good way, it doesn't overstay its welcome.) The presentation was really good and I initially regretted not getting the deluxe but I looked into it, I don't feel like I'm missing much there.