Tomodachi Life may get me to dust off the old Switch for the first time in years.

Stella of the End has been completed. I think that will be my review of Clannad, I enjoyed it enough that I went into another game by the Key.

I think I liked Stella better though. More focused and digestible. But both were excellent.

Crimson Desert is the type of game where you will walk up to a door and go, “huh?” And then you google.

“That’s fucking dumb, how was I to know that the random stone on the ground was to be picked up and put into a basin when all other stones in the game are crafting materials?”

For everything!

@portlandpolice.bsky.social could not figure out how to report these drivers so I’m doing it here. 4th and Burnside, went through red light crossed the bridge heading east. 1:16 pm, April 5th.

I have completed the beast that is Clannad. #exhausted

Wild. 70 hours into Clannad and I finally get the opening credits.

Marathon is 100% style over substance. To the point where, while there’s a lot of substance, it’s hard to see over all obnoxious style.

Clannad without context.

How was the beer?

After reading for 3 hours in a day I often go to bed annoyed that I didn’t read more.

I am in a new round of “what visual novel will win my attention next?”

Current contenders:
Rewrite+
Fate/Hollow Ateraxia
Trails from Zero
Steins;Gate
Dies irea

I’m pushing myself through Rewrite+ the hardest because I’ve yet to finish a Key game despite their pedigree.

Read again as in maybe in 20 years I’ll reread this. It is definitely a marathon.

I have completed Fate/Stay Night.

It took me about a year of off and on reading. I really wish steam deck playtimes weren’t so broken. I know I didn’t beat this in 59 hours.

I would read this again, which I guess makes this a 10 out of 10.

Although I think each route could lose 3 days easily.

I’m so close to finishing Fate/stay night that it’s. All I’ve been reading.

Normally I’d come back to it as a bit of fresh air after reading something terrible because the writing is so good. But now I’m at the point that my completionist tendencies are becoming annoyed that it isn’t done yet.

A dungeons and daddies visual novel would rock.

Rhythm Doctor is a game you play with your eyes closed until 2-2 when you give up in frustration.

Cool music though, at least from the 4 levels I managed to stumble my way through.

Sounds like someone had a fun birthday.

When I play a visual novel without a walkthrough I never end up in a sex scene. I find all the ways to die before I have straight sex in my games. 😅

Don’t tell me a “game out now!” when it’s just early access. That’s not a game, that’s a playable bug test.

The severance paper clip punishment amuses me because I’ve done that job multiple times as a temp and for waaaaaaaay more stacks of paper and it did not traumatize me.

Writers have the weirdest aversion to office work.

I respect the reporter not laughing in derision at being call “piggy”.

Then again, I think if I was in most Trump press conferences I’d be rolling my eyes and laughing constantly.

Beginning of season 2 of severance. I think this show will only work if they never explain anything about the big picture. They can only solve the interpersonal drama.

No explanation will ever trump the imagination of the audience.

Chubby face!

Democratic morals…

Finished Cartagra. My review: it’s bad. Bad writing, bad protagonist, bad mystery, bad resolution. At least it’s short.

Started the acclaimed Kara no Shojo, the sequel series. Holy cow even a couple hours in the bump in quality is insane. Someone must have taken a class or two in between games.

*loose

Well that last one is believable, but it’s like there’s one version of sex in these things, so easily reconciled with just a simple fade to black.

Trans yakuza leader, not once his clothes are off, then he becomes horny housewife. Headstrong time traveling hero, nope, horny housewife. Actress in a Shakespearean play, nope, horny housewife.

You know that these eroge scenes are tacked on in most visual novels because the characters lose all personality once their clothes are off.

I swear, Japan is so odd sometimes.

Japan: all porn is censored.

Also enjoy this visual novel that’s a disturbing murder mystery about a detective chasing a cannibal in the 1950s… not sold? What if the detective had a 14 inch penis and titty fucks most of the cast? Not a comedy. Uncensored.