Cowardice reigns

Dragon Quest XI Scompleted

Yeah I turned off the Draconian Quest. Got absolutely bogged down just dealing with trash mobs in the hekswood. Also the fact that the Draconian Quest thing just stays up there the whole time is so annoying.

Also found out I sequence broke some after getting totally lost? There was just nothing to do in the library nor the hekswood, so I googled it. Apparently you have to visit the Queen first? Went around and did the things I needed to do. It wasn't bad, went much faster without the Draconian Quest.

Final Fantasy VII Remakecompleted

The decision to have the Sephiroth reveal at the Shinra building in Hojo's lab and then the long pointless party switching phs stuff is mind boggling to me. Like there's so much narrative momentum and excitement and then we're just going to waste time dicking around? I literally was like "you know what? I did this once already. I could be done with the game."

I persevered though and got to the glowy Jenova blood trail so now it's really all downhill from here.

STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Ordershelved

Well I got to the blood trail and was like "I have maybe 30 minutes I don't want to start anything what's something short I could do." I played like two hours of this and it's been something that I've continually felt I should go back, and an Into the Aether podcast I listened to liked it a lot, so that was the thing I needed to actually put it on The Official Backlog. And I figured why not.

It was fun for 30 minutes! It's stupid to start something, I probably should have played Super Metroid but I didn't want to reach over and grab the Thor.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Nightcompleted

I think I figured out the problem with this game. It's fucking annoying. I played through more, I looked up some shit because I didn't want to keep going around this castle in a circle looking for some little hint that I missed the first time. Super Metroid like clearly advertises (HEY THIS DOOR IS A DIFFERENT COLOR COME BACK AT EXACTLY THIS TIME). I got the power of mist and the power of bat and it's just meh.

Like it's annoying to get around. The travelling and platforming doesn't feel great, and you're getting chipped at by these annoying ass armored fleas and then you're like "fuck I've actually lost a lot of health I guess it's not a good time to fight a boss" and then you have to backtrack your ass to the save point to reheal.

Also if you die you have to go through the world's longest screen and reload back into the game from the title. Thank god for save states. Me finishing this game seems unlikely but it's not long? I think I'm going to give myself the option to quit whenever since I think I've gotten what I need out of it.