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Started playing Cris Tales yesterday. Didn't realise this was an RPG with random encounters - and a minimum of 10 seconds loading time before and after each of them, which makes exploration kind of tedious. And the loading screens are completely white, hurting my eyes when playing in a dark room. Still early into the game, like two hours but enjoying it except the loading parts and a few strange design decisions - like you can time jump in towns by pressing X and then moving to either side (past or future) and confirming with A - why not just press L or R? They aren't used (yet).

Sorry, double post

The amiibo has been hit by some unforeseen shipping delays, apparently:

Got the first shot of the vaccine yesterday. I am a bit sore in the shoulder but otherwise felt nothing. Getting the second shot in mid-August.

Fair enough. I didn't remember that. I agree that is against the nature of the game (but it's not an autosave).

In MM3D, the new saves were temporary and would be erased once loaded. How did that break the game's design? If anything, it made it possible to actually stop playing at will rather than when the game wanted you to stop playing?

Went on the scales when i got into work today. 67.4 kg - down from 69.3 in late November. That's pleasing as I have been working from home almost entirely since then.

I've been concentrating on the spear lately and came very close to finishing yesterday evening. I was surprised by the final boss when I just thought I had him and he Today I got to the final boss again but knew I wasn't going to make it as I didn't have very good Boons and had no Death Defiance left. Was surprised that I even got past the third boss with my setup.

Went for a run today when I arrived at my parents-in-law, there is a fine 5k route at their place that isn't too hilly. I wasn't quite motivated and the first km was a bit of a struggle but ended up with a new best in the last five years or so: 20:13. I was battered afterwards, though, but I believe that if I could get a completely flat route I would be able to hit that 4:00 / km on a 5k. Hit 3 km in 12 minutes on this run. Also, recently I did a PB on the rowing machine 20 minutes, which is my standard rowing workout (that and 8*500 m intervals). Did 5,719 meters. Beat my previous record by a little about 30 m which is actually quite an improvement.

Oh no.... December 17 is so far away.

It is. But here in Denmark, we are almost there with vaccinations, restrictions are mostly gone and things are returning to a normal situation. It's okay to go abroad if you are vaccinated, but the children can't be vaccinated (yet) so it's quite the surprise at this point. I know of a few that were going abroad to visit parents they haven't seen in a year that were affected by this. It's a shame, that's all.

@Ronnie True, they could lose a bit. But at the moment it's still "Yeah, well, in three months a slightly better model will release." So those who will wait are still going to wait, those who want it now just get it now. I don't think it'll matter much.

My son's day care was just shut down today because an employee was tested positive. On the last day before they close for summer vacation for three weeks. How many parents are now forced to postpone vacations, flights, and stays for a week? It's just possibly the worst timing they could ever have had. And to make matters worse, it's actually the first time they have shut down. Just great. We aren't that affected. My son will go to his grand parents on Sunday and stay there until next Thursday - they are completely vaccinated and don't worry about it. They'll then take him to be tested twice.

It surprises me that they want to keep the original Switch around. They should just have phased it out and put this out at the same price. I think that would have resonated better with people and would have given less confusion.

I was SO close yesterday, met whom I think is the final boss before freedom. I took away a quarter of its life but I wasn't good enough to beat it. It was my first time battling the third boss, and I was lucky I had three Death Defiances at that point because whew, a lot was going on in that arena! This was also the first time I met an alternate version of the second boss and actually I also met yet another version of the first one. Both were fine and I beat them without much trouble. This is by far the most accessible roguelike I have played, you get stronger much quicker than in other similar games, and I feel like I have a chance to actually win in this game. However, it's coming with an expense to the roguelike genre with all those extra lives you can get - yesterday I got five extra lives; two from the mirror, one form the cabinet and I bought an extra when I got the chance just before the final boss. Still, it's a good game.

Episode 4 was interesting. To say the least.

They could at least have added support for bluetooth headphones! Improving audio output is just stupid compared to enabling bluetooth headsets. But yeah, if you only play it docked, this is nothing. I wonder why they didn't just upgrade the Lite to something like this and then calling it a day. This is for the new Switch owners, nothing worth upgrading for.

Fared a bit better and have been reaching the second boss now. Was almost there this morning but it got the best of me suddenly with a shitload of attacks from all sides. I've been using the spear as I feel the range of it is more my play style. Edit: just won over that rattle snake. Easy peasy.

I haven't really played this game much - I just set it up for freeroaming the living room and then my son drives the car around. It works splendidly this way.

And we've just started season 3 of Cobra Kai. It was supposed to be a show we watched in parallel to a show with longer episodes and a deeper story but this is just fine. It's a good show. However Also. God damnit, sit down and talk more, people!

I suck at this game. Met the first boss two more times and died both times. I'm using the sword at the moment as I don't know which new weapon to pick - I don't want to waste those keys so I'm hoarding them instead. That's always a problem with these games - I don't want to waste resources so I don't upgrade much. I can't say that I'm really enjoying the game, though. It's fine, but Enter the Gungeon and Dead Cells are also really fine games. Both of which I have put too many hours into without ever completing a single run.

Finally gave in and bought this while it was still on sale. In the last run I met the first boss and of course died as I wasn't quite prepared for it but I think I did alright, taking away about a third of the health before making a mistake. Up to now it's a fine game, nothing out of the ordinary. It takes a while to learn all the small things, though.

Ender Lilies is supposedly a really good Metroidvania. Put it on my wish list for me to pick up later.