{"id":8114,"date":"2020-02-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8114"},"modified":"2020-02-03T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:19:11","slug":"monthend-video-game-wrap-up-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8114","title":{"rendered":"Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up: January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember back in the day when I used to write a little blurb for each of these? I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to be a regular thing again, but&#8230; Man, I played a large variety of video games in January. Considering that AGDQ sapped up a lot of my free time and school is eating away the rest of it&#8230; You start to realize that most of these games are either very short, or carried over from last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">~ Game Over ~<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mega Man X<\/strong> (SNES) &#8211; The opening video game of the year, as per usual. Short writeup here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mega Man Legends<\/strong> (PS1) &#8211; I really do adore this game. Sadly, every time I go back to replay it, the&#8230; <em>unfortunate<\/em> control scheme gets harder and harder to re-acclimatize to. And the stupid racing game is impossible but <em>I want the Shining Laser.<\/em> Wah wah wah gamer tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Army Men Air Attack<\/strong> (PS1) &#8211; I kind of wish I\u2019d played this back when it was new, as I think I would have really enjoyed it then. Looking at it now, it\u2019s an amusing little curio almost certainly lost to time. What I found most odd about it is that there\u2019s a massive difficulty spike right in the middle of the game. If you can tough it through missions six to nine, it\u2019s smooth sailing to the end. Also the co-pilot voice clips are super repetitive and annoying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Whipseey and the Lost Atlas<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8078\">Wrote a thing.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>JackQuest: The Tale of the Sword<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Writing a thing. (Spoiler: it&#8217;s a very underwhelming metroidvania.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Breath of Fire<\/strong> (SNES) &#8211; Writing a thing? I&#8217;m considering it. If I don&#8217;t&#8230; This is a very early SNES RPG that does some cool things (every character has a unique overworld ability) and some less cool things (bosses have HP bars that straight up lie to you). I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever want to play it again, but I&#8217;m excited to start up BOF2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Threads of Fate<\/strong> (PS1) &#8211; Wrote a couple paragraphs <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8090\">here<\/a>. There are two playable stories, I only played Mint&#8217;s. I didn&#8217;t like it enough to play it through twice. I did watch a speedrun of Rue&#8217;s story and checked out the secret ending on YouTube, so I&#8217;m fully done with this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Shield<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Completed the Galar Pok\u00e9dex (+ Slowpoke).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>198X<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; I suppose it should say &#8220;198X &#8211; Chapter 1&#8221;, but that&#8217;s not how it&#8217;s being sold or marketed, which is somewhat deceptive. But I&#8217;ll forgive it this time because it&#8217;s a neat game. I&#8217;m curious to see where it goes, but I won&#8217;t hold my breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">~ Now Playing ~<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Timesplitters 2<\/strong> (GCN) &#8211; Made it to the Robot Factory level<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ring Fit Adventure<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Nearly done World 15<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pixel Puzzle Collection<\/strong> (iOS) &#8211; 140%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Turok<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Completed up to Level 4 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Picross: Lord of the Nazarick<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Completed the first character<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back in the day when I used to write a little blurb for each of these? I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to be a regular thing again, but&#8230; Man, I played a large variety of video games in January. Considering that AGDQ sapped up a lot of my free time and school is eating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up: January 2020<\/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":[13,10,49,23,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mega-man","category-mobile-games","category-monthend","category-pokemon","category-retro-gaming","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114","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=8114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8121,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions\/8121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}