{"id":11044,"date":"2025-03-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11044"},"modified":"2025-03-30T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:58:09","slug":"month-end-video-game-wrap-up-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11044","title":{"rendered":"Month End Video Game Wrap-Up: March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">~ Game Over ~<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monster Hunter Wilds<\/strong> (PS5) &#8211; Very good Monster Hunter game. Maybe a little too easy, and there&#8217;s a pretty slim selection of monsters to fight. Also the post-game story just kind of petered out&#8230; no big finale like we&#8217;re used to. Oh well! It was still a bunch of fun all the way through and I look forward to grinding hundreds more hours out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scary Shadow Spot: Bitter Glass<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; This is probably the most unique-feeling Doesn&#8217;t Matter game, but is in need of a <em>lot<\/em> of polish. I even encountered a game-breaking bug that forced me to restart the game halfway through.  It took less than 20 minutes to recover my progress, but still. Big oof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy&#8217;s Kong Quest<\/strong> (SNES) &#8211; This would be a much more frustrating game without NSO&#8217;s rewind feature. That&#8217;s all I want to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Perfect Dark<\/strong> (360) &#8211; A fun revisit. I was actually shocked at how difficult some of the missions are, and how unintuitive the objectives can be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crystar <\/strong>(PC) &#8211; Well, this sure happened. The gameplay is fun, but very basic and repetitive. The story is stuck somewhere between compelling and a little too anime. Mostly I liked the bleakness of it all, as I often do, and I appreciated all the references to philosophers and such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">~ Progress Notes ~<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Picross: Records of The Shield Hero<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Chapter 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Chapter 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Revenge of the Titans<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; Final mission on Mars<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">~ Purchases ~<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Dusk<\/strong> (PC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Death Stranding: Director&#8217;s Cut<\/strong> (PS5)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Picross: Records of The Shield Hero<\/strong> (Switch)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scary Shadow Spot: Bitter Glass<\/strong> (PC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gestalt: Steam &amp; Cinder<\/strong> (PC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Indigo Parallel <\/strong>(PC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition<\/strong> (Switch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ Game Over ~ Monster Hunter Wilds (PS5) &#8211; Very good Monster Hunter game. Maybe a little too easy, and there&#8217;s a pretty slim selection of monsters to fight. Also the post-game story just kind of petered out&#8230; no big finale like we&#8217;re used to. Oh well! It was still a bunch of fun all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11044\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Month End Video Game Wrap-Up: March 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,49,20,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monster-hunter","category-monthend","category-retro-gaming","category-spooky","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11044"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11062,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions\/11062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}