{"id":9534,"date":"2022-01-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9534"},"modified":"2022-01-31T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:00:15","slug":"monthend-video-game-wrap-up-january-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9534","title":{"rendered":"Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up: January 2022"},"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>Kathy Rain: the Director&#8217;s Cut<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; Probably my favourite point-and-click adventure game of all time, and there&#8217;s some tough competition! Features a good story, great characters, very good voice acting, and a complete lack of nonsense puzzle solutions. I think it says a lot that I had watched an LP of this one, yet still felt it necessary to play it myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mega Man X<\/strong> (SNES) &#8211; Tradition demands it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana<\/strong> (PS4) &#8211; This is a Very Good Action RPG. It builds on the foundation laid by SEVEN and Memories of Celceta, and really did a great job of refining what made those games good. It also adds a number of quality-of-life features, a player-controlled camera, and a fishing mini-game! My only major beef is that the broken equipment that powers up for every so many monsters you kill was nerfed in this one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Shining Pearl<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Pok\u00e9dex completed.<\/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>Cyberpunk 2077<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; *shrug emoticon*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Arceus<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Unlocked third area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ Game Over ~ Kathy Rain: the Director&#8217;s Cut (PC) &#8211; Probably my favourite point-and-click adventure game of all time, and there&#8217;s some tough competition! Features a good story, great characters, very good voice acting, and a complete lack of nonsense puzzle solutions. I think it says a lot that I had watched an LP &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up: January 2022<\/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":[13,49,23,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mega-man","category-monthend","category-pokemon","category-retro-gaming","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534","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=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9593,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions\/9593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}