The end?

Dragon Quest XI Scompleted

Well, I'm not going to finish this before Zero Company, but that's fine. I'm pushing the critical path a bit more after doing some exploring and grabbing some more recipes and such.

Overall I still don't really know how I feel about the third act, or the concept of it. It just kind of tosses away the big moments of the first two acts and presents a new villain that I have zero attachment or caring about. It feels reminiscent of P5R, we went from Shido to the God of Control who I didn't care about. Heck, at least the God of Control was a twist on something and not totally random.

Like Veronica's death and Serena's transformation meant something and it felt interesting and impactful and now we're just back to plain toast Serena. Heck, I would have liked it if Veronica stayed big as the seer changed her, but now she's back to being a kid.

I'm going through this thing where Sylvando reconciles with his dad again and it's like...this feels less impactful than it did the first time, both because I've seen it and also because the build up to that was more.

The more I think about it, the more likely it is that zero company coming out is not going to just mean that I play Dragon Quest in parallel. It might just be a break from it

Metroid: Samus Returnscompleted

I really thought I was so done with this game but then I beat this last big-ass Metroid and I got this little baby Metroid and I love it. Insert Brooklyn Nine-Nine meme of "I just met this but if anything happened to it I would kill everyone."

I went around and started gathering up a bunch of the old power-ups I missed just because now the Metroid unlocks, getting rid of all these crystal things that I never knew how to get past before.

It's been mostly fun, except for the fact that I got fed up by these long rows of spikes and I was like, "I have basically everything and I have to assume I am adjacent to the end of the game." How do I get past these long long rows of spikes? The answer is they don't tell you how but you're supposed to use the power bombs and use those to rocket you past it. I got so frustrated that, like, why would you gate this? What a stupid thing to do. The power bombs are like, you don't get so many of them to the point where it feels like you can just burn them on experimentation. Maybe that's just me