{"id":5280,"date":"2015-08-01T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2015-08-01T14:31:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T19:31:23","slug":"monthend-video-game-wrap-up-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5280","title":{"rendered":"Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up \u2013 July 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finding that I\u00a0spend a lot less time playing video games than I did only a few months ago. Maybe I&#8217;m growing up finally? Nah. Just keeping busy with other things.<\/p>\n<p>Though somehow the Now Playing list still seems to go on forever. I think the real answer must be that my ADD is progressively getting worse.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~ Game Over ~<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Puzzle &amp; Dragons Z<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; I rolled the credits, but really I&#8217;m only halfway through the game. It&#8217;s one of those situations where beating the &#8220;final boss&#8221; unlocks another adventure and the other half of the game world. Also the final boss was a total joke compared to the penultimate boss. That was really weird.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mega Man Sprite Game<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; An RPG based on what I assume is a sprite comic. It only took an hour, but it wasn&#8217;t as funny as it wants to be. A lot of the music used in it is really good, though. It&#8217;s probably worth a look if you&#8217;re bored and enjoy absurd humour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve Got To Run!<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; It was on sale for <em>ten cents<\/em>, if you can believe it. It&#8217;s an endless runner game, so I can&#8217;t really <em>beat<\/em> it, but I unlocked all the modes and characters, so good enough. Some of those extra modes are pretty fun, too, so&#8230; good buy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3D Classics: Kirby&#8217;s Adventure<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; It&#8217;s Kirby&#8217;s Adventure. I play through this at least once every year. One of my favourite games of all time.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~ Now Playing ~<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Balloon Fight<\/strong> (NES) &#8211; Spent a few nights with Balloon Fight to honour the memory of Iwata. Got new high scores on both modes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fallout: New Vegas<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; These (modern) Fallout games are so great. I could just wander around the wastes for hours and not get bored. Except that I can&#8217;t because there are so many things that can kill me with ease. But someday, I will have a decent gun. And then&#8230; then, I will have my revenge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earthbound Beginnings<\/strong> (WiiU) &#8211; As much as I love Earthbound, I feel totally lukewarm about Beginnings. It&#8217;s not a bad game by any stretch, but it&#8217;s hard to fully appreciate it after playing the timeless sequel. It&#8217;s still pretty interesting from a historical standpoint, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Xenoblade Chronicles 3D<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; I sometimes wish the real world had a soundtrack like the one in this game. It&#8217;s just so gosh darn pretty!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drakengard<\/strong> (PS2) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/lparchive.org\/Drakengard\/\">I&#8217;ve read the LP<\/a>. I know what it is and what happens. But I just had to play it for myself. Just one of those things that are so mind-boggling that you need to experience them first-hand, you know?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Alpha Sapphire<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; I decided to go back and clean up the post-game stuff. I hate that I have seemingly outgrown Pok\u00e9mon. Maybe I just spent too many hours with Pok\u00e9mon Y? Because I got pretty deeply invested in that one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clicker Heroes<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; I probably shouldn&#8217;t count this any more. Even though it gets about as much attention from me as the rest of the list combined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bit Boy Arcade<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; I can&#8217;t even describe how weird this game is. I imagine that it must be what a bad acid trip is like. Also the gameplay is middling arcadey fare, but it says &#8220;arcade&#8221; right there in the title. I guess I can&#8217;t really complain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finding that I\u00a0spend a lot less time playing video games than I did only a few months ago. Maybe I&#8217;m growing up finally? Nah. Just keeping busy with other things. Though somehow the Now Playing list still seems to go on forever. 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