#SlazoCollection Day 551. Zorua plushie! It's always interesting seeing which Pokémon in each gen end up becoming the most popular, and I didn't necessarily have Zorua (and Zoroark) down for that, despite their movie. Definitely a cute design though, would love to have one in my squad one game.
#SlazoCollection Day 550. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call! It amazes me to this day how Square Enix haven’t done more games around their music. Like if they made one on Dragon Quest and… huh? Japan only? Oh for fucks sake.
#SlazoCollection Day 549. Makoto Niijima Nendoroid! The Queen of the Phantom Thieves once more, because just a Popup Parade wasn’t enough. Though this reminds me, it would be nice to get some more Persona 4 figures at some point, barely got any of that game’s cast…
come on man.
Sorry, you right, where is SMT Space Yukiko the game, still never found that one (Strange Journey? I think?)
#SlazoCollection Day 548. Soul Hackers 2! Sometimes Atlus games just seem to slip under the radar for me. If there hadn’t been a random event dedicated to this game during E3 season a few years back, I’d have had no clue it existed. Also, curious they abandoned the SMT branding for this one.
Finished Frieren vol 14! Frieren's at its weakest the closer it gets to more traditional shounen, but at least it lets us see some faces that haven't been in the series for a while. Crazy that this is the *only* volume that'll be out this year though, vol 15 isn't until January 2027...
#SlazoCollection Day 547. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse! I loved getting to see this in cinemas, so the BluRay was a must. Deepened my love for Miles and Gwen, plus introduced a bunch of new Spideys to enjoy. And, y’know, brilliant writing, gorgeous animation etc. Shame they never made a sequel.
Async Archipelago schenanigans continue! Can I finally finish one of my five games in the pool? Let's rack up checks and BKs live on www.twitch.tv/slazoking
#SlazoCollection Day 546. Destiny 2! The bizarre ballad of Destiny 2. Solid at launch though a step behind Taken King, and then… made all the exact same mistakes as the original’s first year. And slowly lost the plot, leading to content vaulting which killed off any interest I had in it for good.
#SlazoCollection Day 545. The Master! A tennis book, of course I have tennis books, and of course it's on Roger Federer, the best to ever do it. Looking forward to getting the Nadal one later this year too.
#SlazoCollection Day 544. Rune Factory 4 Special! Apparently I hadn’t done a Rune Factory game yet, so here we are. I own a version of most of the RF games, though in news that likely won’t shock you, I’ve not played any of them…
#SlazoCollection Day 543. Dragon Zentreya plushie! Zen’s had a fair few looks by this point, but her classic dragon one has always remained my fave, and I’ll never say no to yet another awesome plushie.
Did the thing about the games. Might have different answers if I spent like a day on this, but this feels like a good representation of what I've played over the last... 25+ years dear god
#SlazoCollection Day 542. Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection 1987 - 2012! Kept you waiting, huh? This was my first proper experience of Metal Gear though, including such classics as “oh shit they recognised my footprints” and fumbling through the digital box art and manuals.
#SlazoCollection Day 541. Tomo Aizawa Nendoroid! Always happy to pick up Tomo-chan merch, it remains of the best romcoms and manga we’ve done on Trash Manga Friends over the years, in part thanks to said strong lead female Tomo.
Oh lord what have we done. 8 people, 28 games, one big Async Archipelago, including yours truly playing Mario 64, Sunshine, Jak, Ratchet and Wind Waker! We kickoff the nightmare now live on www.twitch.tv/slazoking
The fun and/or horror of being a year behind in my slow journey to catch up on WWE is something else. Like, watching the absolute train wreck of a Wrestlemania build from the outside is just... what the hell even happened...
#SlazoCollection Day 540. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers! I always forget how many SMT spinoffs there are, and how many of them came out for Nintendo's handhelds over the years. Could easily spend an eternity just playing DS/3DS JRPGs...
Since the current plan is to kick off an Async Archipelago with friends this evening, no stream this afternoon. Should instead be live probably around 7pm.
#SlazoCollection Day 539. Wobbuffet plushie! One of those Pokémon the anime has given me such a fondness of. Though Wobb came in clutch for me back in Stadium 2, finally getting me past my existential nightmare of the Poké Cup Master Ball difficulty, which I'll be forever grateful for.
Finished Apothecary Diaries vol 8! Yeah, it definitely feels like we've gotten more monologuely, mainly because it's become far more episodic, sometimes even multiple "episodes" in one chapter, with Maomao expositing the whole way. The resolution (for now) of Lakan's story was nice though.
#SlazoCollection Day 538. Pac 'N Roll! You'd think ball rolling games would work well on the DS with a sort of touchscreen trackerball control scheme, but for whatever reason, they never did. I recall Pac-Man's attempt came out better than the DS Super Monkey Ball... but not by much.
#SlazoCollection Day 537. Crunchyroll Essential Anime! Bought before(?) Crunchyroll completely shat the bed, I’d wanted an X Anime To Watch book and this was that. The choices are mostly obvious, but at least it isn’t riddled with whatever modern rubbish they were trying to push at the time.
#SlazoCollection Day 536. Catherine! While I have always fancied myself as good at platformers and puzzlers, Catherine was one brain leap too far for me at the time. That and I found the game to have a really icky vibe. Maybe I'd be better at it nowadays, but don't know if I'll ever go back.
#SlazoCollection Day 535. VTuber keyrings! One of the artists I follow released these a while back, and with them being most of my faves, I had to pick up the set. Though I’ve still yet to actually use them as keyrings since I don’t want to lose or damage them, haha.
#SlazoCollection Day 534. The Diofield Chronicle! Another of those weird Square Enix games where they were experimenting with a bunch of new IPs, though unlike some of the others this didn’t really make any impact. Though I’d argue this at least has a better name than “Triangle Strategy”…
Holy moly we actually finished an Archipelago game in like 5 hours, it's an Easter miracle!
Finding things in all the wrong places!
Yet another 7-way Archipelago Multiworld Randomizer!
This time, I'm playing #MediEvil (PS1), so come watch the madness on www.twitch.tv/bersekrer
Join us for another special Saturday stream, with another Archipelago randomiser with friends! www.twitch.tv/wcreaf
With @bersekrer.bsky.social playing Medievil and showing all our screens, www.twitch.tv/bersekrer
And @slazo.bsky.social playing Mario Kart Double Dash www.twitch.tv/slazoking