{"id":9123,"date":"2021-08-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9123"},"modified":"2021-07-31T14:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T19:01:40","slug":"monthend-video-game-wrap-up-july-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9123","title":{"rendered":"Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up: July 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">~ Game Over ~<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Doki Doki Literature Club Plus<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; It loses a little bit of its punch once you know all the twists, but still a &#8220;good&#8221; time. The additional content was worth the purchase, and the way that it was made to work on console wasn&#8217;t nearly as janky as I&#8217;d worried it would be, and actually added a lot to the experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Robo Recall<\/strong> (Oculus) &#8211; Finished this one off at long last. That final stage has been outstanding for months now, but I finally did it. It&#8217;s a super fun game, though I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ll go back to complete the extra objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Shutter<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9140\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"9140\">Boop.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ys: Memories of Celceta<\/strong> (PS4) &#8211; One of <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9145\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"9145\">four versions<\/a> of Ys IV, and the most modern. While all the Ys games are fast-paced action RPGs, this one might be the <em>ideal<\/em> fast-paced action RPG. It&#8217;s an absolute joy to play, as movement and combat feel great, and there are <em>so many<\/em> completion percentage trackers. Not to mention that the main gameplay conceit is exploration, which I think is my absolute favourite thing about video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ys: Memories of Celceta<\/strong> (PS4) &#8211; Sometimes you beat a game and then delete it off your console and move on. Sometimes you beat a game and then play the whole thing again on Nightmare mode, because NG+ makes it seem less impossible. And then you keep playing longer still to collect all the trophies. Needless to say, I <em>really like<\/em> Memories of Celceta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pixel Ripped 1995<\/strong> (Oculus) &#8211; A game wherein you are a child playing games within the game. It&#8217;s a great homage to the video games of the early 90s. Also, has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_myP470cD_aKJyiMXVM5VgNG8s0SZHM6yI\">excellent soundtrack<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">~ Progress Notes ~<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Received the harp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Legend of Mana<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; How does one measure progress in this game?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hitman 2<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; 4\/8 locations beaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LISA<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; About 2 hours in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Medium<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; Freed Richard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ Game Over ~ Doki Doki Literature Club Plus (Switch) &#8211; It loses a little bit of its punch once you know all the twists, but still a &#8220;good&#8221; time. The additional content was worth the purchase, and the way that it was made to work on console wasn&#8217;t nearly as janky as I&#8217;d worried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up: July 2021<\/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":[49,20,27,60,6,83,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthend","category-retro-gaming","category-spooky","category-the-sbri","category-video-games","category-vr","category-zelda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123","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=9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9162,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}