{"id":5513,"date":"2016-01-01T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2015-12-31T10:14:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T15:14:01","slug":"monthend-video-game-wrap-up-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5513","title":{"rendered":"Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up \u2013 December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December&#8230; the month of getting free money and then blowing it all on digital video games.<\/p>\n<p>Because there are excellent sales after Xmas, you see. Not&#8230; not because I&#8217;m irresponsible or anything like that. Perish the thought.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~ Game Over ~<\/h2>\n<p><strong>A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; An action platformer wherein you are a robot who\u00a0shoots up\u00a0other robots and then gains a new weapon after defeating a boss. Yeah that sounds like something I&#8217;d like.\u00a0It&#8217;s only five stages long, and the controls are just a little bit off, but I had fun. Maybe even enough to buy the expansion&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~ Now Playing ~<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Xenoblade Chronicles X<\/strong> (Wii U) &#8211; Basically the last game I would ever need if I still had anything resembling an attention span. The single-player component is massive beyond belief, and then there&#8217;s an online multiplayer mode that could theoretically make it last forever (or at least until Nintendo scuttles the servers).\u00a0 On Chapter 9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zelda: Tri Force Heroes<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; Honestly, I had no real intention of ever getting this game, even though the demo was a hoot. But then Santa brought it for me and I&#8217;ve been having a grand old time with<em> online multiplayer Zelda<\/em>. Never thought I&#8217;d write that sentence. Haven&#8217;t gotten too far yet though, only up to the second world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Xenoblade Chronicles 3D<\/strong>\u00a0(3DS) &#8211; Since I can&#8217;t play X on my lunch break or on the bus, I&#8217;ve decided to go back to the &#8220;next best&#8221; thing. You know, because I sunk 20 hours into it and then totally blew it off for something more shiny. It&#8217;s also a really good game, though\u00a0bittersweet, as it reminds me of when I moved into my house. Reached Alcamoth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Picross<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; It would be the ultimate picross game, if it weren&#8217;t bogged down with the meanest F2P systems ever. But I just gave in and bought it out, so I don&#8217;t really have to deal with that. There are a metric buttload of puzzles, but only about half of the current Pok\u00e9mon are present, so I&#8217;m already frothing for a sequel. Completed all normal puzzles, now working on the Alt-World mega puzzles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Splatoon<\/strong> (Wii U) &#8211; There were two Splatfests this month, but I didn&#8217;t participate in the first because I was far to enthralled with XCX. I did spend some non-Splatfest time with it as well, trying out new guns (I had grown very attached to my <a href=\"http:\/\/splatoon.wikia.com\/wiki\/N-ZAP_'89\">N-Zap &#8217;89<\/a>) and clearing the third &#8220;world&#8221; of the single-player mode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>X-COM: Enemy Within<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; Going back to this masterpiece to see what the expansion added was a little jarring at first, because I opted to play on Normal instead of Easy. But then I gained the ability to turn my guys into mech-riding cyborgs, and all was good. Except for the enemies that turn invisible. Nuts to those guys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Super Smash Bros 4<\/strong> (WiiU\/3DS) &#8211; Hadn&#8217;t played much of it recently, and then Cloud (yes, <em>that<\/em> Cloud)\u00a0happened. Also I am so pumped for Februrary, as I really can&#8217;t wait for Corrin and Bayonetta to join the fight. Corrin in particular looks like she could be my new main.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bravely Default<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; It just goes on and on forever. I hit a pretty solid wall (superboss) near the end of Chapter 6, and then Xenoblade and Picross took over my life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fallout 4<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; I only got but a brief taste of this one, but it left a lingering desire on my tongue. I love how the world is made of all these bright pastel colours instead of the usual drab greys and browns. The live-action intro is wonderful. However, the overall voice acting quality seems to have taken a hit since New Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December&#8230; the month of getting free money and then blowing it all on digital video games. Because there are excellent sales after Xmas, you see. Not&#8230; not because I&#8217;m irresponsible or anything like that. Perish the thought. ~ Game Over ~ A.R.E.S. 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