{"id":7879,"date":"2018-12-31T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7879"},"modified":"2018-12-31T00:13:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T05:13:40","slug":"7879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7879","title":{"rendered":"Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up : December 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~Game Over~<\/h2>\n<p><b>Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Pikachu!<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Switch) &#8211; I don\u2019t like the EXP distribution changes, because it makes trainer battles feel pointless, but other than that? Muah! *Italian chef kiss* <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Super Smash Bros Ultimate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Switch) &#8211; Much like how the Switch is what the Wii U should have been, this game is exactly what Smash for Wii U should have been. It\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so good<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>GRIS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Switch) &#8211; I\u2019ve played pretentious indie platformers before, but never one anywhere near as pretty as GRIS. The beautiful, watercolor worlds are reason enough to give this one a go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Iconoclasts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (PS4) &#8211; A Metroidvania that I\u2019ve been longing to play for some time. It\u2019s V Good, but a little bit too focused on story. The final boss is completely bonkers in all the best ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Burly Men at Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (PS4) &#8211; A cute storybook-like game. Takes about 10 minutes to play through any given story path, and roughly 2 hours to find all possible permutations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Switch) &#8211; Horror puzzle-platformer where you\u2019re looking for a lost girl and solve puzzles by dismembering your character. Yikes!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Deltarune<\/b> (PC) &#8211; The first chapter of the follow-up to Undertale. So far, so good? Gameplay is similar, though slightly more complex. The music is equally as fantastic as Undertale\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><b>Chasm<\/b> (Switch) &#8211; An Igavania styled game, but apparently with a\u00a0somewhat randomized world layout to spice up replays. It\u2019s very good and I&#8217;ll probably\u00a0run it at least a couple more times.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>~Now Playing~<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><b>Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Switch) &#8211; Played a bunch to clear all low-rank single player quests and make an armor set strong enough to survive G-rank Valstrax.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Monster Hunter World<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (PS4) &#8211; I logged on to play a bit during the Winter Star Festival because the unique layered armor set was just too cute to pass up! Gonna be wearing that forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Super Smash Bros<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (N64) &#8211; Needed a classic Smash fix. I had to work very hard to finally unlock Ness, because Smash 64 is kind of hard to play when you\u2019re used to the newer ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Star Ocean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SNES) &#8211; I don\u2019t like that the arena doesn\u2019t let you go back to rounds you won. It eliminates the potential for easy grinding! Also, my kingdom to be able to respec skill points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A Robot Named Fight! <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Switch) &#8211; It\u2019s a Super Metroid clone but filtered through a roguelike. Replaying Hollow Knight probably would have better slaked my thirst for proper \u2018troiding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Runner3<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Switch) &#8211; I ached for this since before the Switch came out, but then it turned out to be a little mediocre. So I waited for a balance patch and a 66%-off sale. Well worth the wait!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Shut Eye<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Switch) &#8211; A FNAF-like with no challenge outside the fact that your meters drop faster and faster as you make your way through the nights. Becomes basically impossible on Night 7.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~Game Over~ Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Pikachu! (Switch) &#8211; I don\u2019t like the EXP distribution changes, because it makes trainer battles feel pointless, but other than that? Muah! *Italian chef kiss* Super Smash Bros Ultimate (Switch) &#8211; Much like how the Switch is what the Wii U should have been, this game is exactly what Smash &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up : December 2018<\/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":[32,49,23,20,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monster-hunter","category-monthend","category-pokemon","category-retro-gaming","category-spooky","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879","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=7879"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7885,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions\/7885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}