{"id":9873,"date":"2022-08-31T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9873"},"modified":"2022-08-31T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:48:51","slug":"monthend-video-game-wrap-up-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9873","title":{"rendered":"Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up: August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">~ Game Over ~<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Cleared all the story missions. While the Sunbreak expansion does seem a little bit light on content for the price, at least I know there are at least two more major (and free!) updates on the way. Moved onto grinding anomaly quests now, and I feel like that could honestly last a very long time if there weren&#8217;t so many other games to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Subnautica<\/strong> (PS5) &#8211; Still not a perfect experience, but significantly more stable than when I played the PS4 version last year. It didn&#8217;t crash even once this time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Whisperwind<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; Indie spook-&#8217;em-up that is mostly walking, with some very basic puzzles. Got all four endings in well under an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cat Quest II<\/strong> (PS4) &#8211; Been wanting to play this since I finished <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8122\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"8122\">the first game<\/a>, and only recently did it go on sale cheap enough for me to pull the trigger. I think it&#8217;s literally just a bigger version of the original, but also you can now play as a dog! It&#8217;s pretty vapid, honestly, but I got at least $6 worth of enjoyment from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Submersed<\/strong> (PS4) &#8211; Indie survival horror that tasks you with discovering the mystery of a derelict marine biology compound of some description. Controls are poor, the translation could have used a proofreader, and it generally lacks polish. So it&#8217;s the perfect game for a YouTube let&#8217;s play video!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">~ Progress Notes ~<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Xenoblade Chronicles 3<\/strong> (Switch) &#8211; Chapter 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mercenary Kings<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; Sergeant rank<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Final Fantasy III<\/strong> (DS) &#8211; Obtained the Invincible<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hitman II (2018)<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; Goofin&#8217; in Mumbai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ Game Over ~ Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak (Switch) &#8211; Cleared all the story missions. While the Sunbreak expansion does seem a little bit light on content for the price, at least I know there are at least two more major (and free!) updates on the way. Moved onto grinding anomaly quests now, and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up: August 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":[36,32,49,20,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-fantasy","category-monster-hunter","category-monthend","category-retro-gaming","category-spooky","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873","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=9873"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9900,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions\/9900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}