{"id":6639,"date":"2017-05-01T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2017-04-30T22:18:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T03:18:11","slug":"monthend-video-game-wrap-up-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6639","title":{"rendered":"Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up \u2013 April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~ Game Over ~<\/h2>\n<p><strong>NieR: Automata<\/strong> (PS4) &#8211; Finished up and got that sweet platinum trophy. Loved every minute of it. I laughed, I cried (multiple times), and I have to say it&#8217;s a worthy follow-up to one of my favourites.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/images\/nieradone.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>PaRappa the Rapper Remastered<\/strong> (PS4) &#8211; Yeah, I <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6643\">bashed my head<\/a> against this wall long enough to get to the end, but I doubt I will ever truly understand how to play well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blaster Master Zero<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6657\">What a stellar game!<\/a> The original Blaster Master is much too hard for me, so this reboot was a very nice way to appreciate the game without all the headaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Unfinished Swan<\/strong> (PS4) &#8211; A weird little first-person adventure game that is constantly playing with how you get around its world. <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6691\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wonder Boy: The Dragon&#8217;s Trap<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211;\u00a0Beautiful remake of a\u00a0TG-16\u00a0platformer that I didn&#8217;t realize that I already own on Wii Virtual Console. Oh well! It&#8217;s definitely worth buying again!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pic-A-Pix Color<\/strong> (WiiU) &#8211; Honestly, I&#8217;m as surprised as you are that I&#8217;m playing a Wii U game. But then again, it&#8217;s picross, so maybe not. Also it&#8217;s crossbuy with 3DS, so I&#8217;ll likely play it again soon!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~ Now Playing ~<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Final Fantasy Explorers<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; Not quite as Monster Hunter-like as I want, but it&#8217;s still a pretty fun monster\/loot\/gear cycle. In particular, I enjoy beefing up spells to make them utterly broken.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Has-Been Heroes<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Easily as frustrating as PaRappa, but the randomness of it allows for occasional runs when you can win battles\u00a0and feel unstoppable. At least until a boss appears.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Typeshift<\/strong> (iOS) &#8211; A simple spelling game that is much more enthralling than any other mobile game before it. Still, probably won&#8217;t spend money on the expansion puzzles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>King of Fighters &#8217;98<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; I felt that I needed a fighting game to tide me over until Pocket Rumble. Though holy crap I forgot how brutal arcade fighters are.\u00a0Ryan needs practice badly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; This is how I spend my weekends now. Sometimes unintentionally! But that&#8217;s okay, because it&#8217;s <em>so good<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snake Pass<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211;\u00a0Its beautiful graphics and music are just a cover for the very difficult gameplay of trying to play a platformer as a snake the moves (generally) like a snake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trailer Park Boys: Greasy Money<\/strong> (iOS) &#8211; Just what I need in my life: another clicker\/idle game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stardew Valley<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; I can&#8217;t help but wonder how anyone would ever finish all the Community Centre bundles without a wiki\/guide. Good thing this game didn&#8217;t exist before the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ Game Over ~ NieR: Automata (PS4) &#8211; Finished up and got that sweet platinum trophy. Loved every minute of it. I laughed, I cried (multiple times), and I have to say it&#8217;s a worthy follow-up to one of my favourites. PaRappa the Rapper Remastered (PS4) &#8211; Yeah, I bashed my head against this wall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up \u2013 April 2017<\/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":[36,10,49,15,20,52,58,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-fantasy","category-mobile-games","category-monthend","category-plastic-guitars","category-retro-gaming","category-spelling","category-trailer-park-boys","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","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=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6730,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions\/6730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}