Still on pace! Barely!
I enjoyed pouring another 70 hours into Fallout 76, and though I don't really feel like doing the season pass stuff (partially because it seems SO demanding of your time and I have a 52-game challenge to complete), I will say that in the end I think it holds up against other modern Fallout games. I do look forward to a return to single-player Fallout that isn't so focused on online events or farming specific spawns/events for loot, but if you wanted to play Fallout 76 as a Fallout 4.5 and ignore the multiplayer stuff for the most part, you totally could.
Neo Cab was short and sweet, and I really need to be playing more of these to stay ahead of schedule. I liked the story, the dialogue was always interesting and very relatable, and the art direction is superb. Definitely recommended. And speaking of visual novel games, Sakura Wars was pretty great too. It's maybe the most anime game I've ever played, so it won't be to everyone's taste; it's maybe a little too anime for me even, especially in the last few episodes of the game. But when the game gets to focus on its characters more and sets aside the main plot for a spell, it really shines. Not sure if I want to go back and crack open my PS2 copy of So Long My Love, but I'd definitely play a sequel to this, even if the Sakura Wars anime was... not great.
July is going to be a difficult month. I have a lot of games on the go, but many of them don't have obvious endpoints. I'd really like to get back into Hardspace: Shipbreaker, but it's hard to decide when I'll be "done" with that game since it's in Early Access and doesn't have a complete campaign yet. Persona Q2 has a defined ending, but it'll probably take 50+ hours to get there. Picross S will probably be similar, if other nonogram games are any indication. Dicey Dungeons is a roguelite, so it could take me another five hours or five hundred. So that makes The Last of Us Part II the game I'm most likely to finish this month.
That said, I have a mountain of short games I can and should be playing, so I might spend some time focusing on those for a bit. Especially as I don't seem to be able to play TLOU2 for more than an hour at a time.
I enjoyed pouring another 70 hours into Fallout 76, and though I don't really feel like doing the season pass stuff (partially because it seems SO demanding of your time and I have a 52-game challenge to complete), I will say that in the end I think it holds up against other modern Fallout games. I do look forward to a return to single-player Fallout that isn't so focused on online events or farming specific spawns/events for loot, but if you wanted to play Fallout 76 as a Fallout 4.5 and ignore the multiplayer stuff for the most part, you totally could.
Neo Cab was short and sweet, and I really need to be playing more of these to stay ahead of schedule. I liked the story, the dialogue was always interesting and very relatable, and the art direction is superb. Definitely recommended. And speaking of visual novel games, Sakura Wars was pretty great too. It's maybe the most anime game I've ever played, so it won't be to everyone's taste; it's maybe a little too anime for me even, especially in the last few episodes of the game. But when the game gets to focus on its characters more and sets aside the main plot for a spell, it really shines. Not sure if I want to go back and crack open my PS2 copy of So Long My Love, but I'd definitely play a sequel to this, even if the Sakura Wars anime was... not great.
July is going to be a difficult month. I have a lot of games on the go, but many of them don't have obvious endpoints. I'd really like to get back into Hardspace: Shipbreaker, but it's hard to decide when I'll be "done" with that game since it's in Early Access and doesn't have a complete campaign yet. Persona Q2 has a defined ending, but it'll probably take 50+ hours to get there. Picross S will probably be similar, if other nonogram games are any indication. Dicey Dungeons is a roguelite, so it could take me another five hours or five hundred. So that makes The Last of Us Part II the game I'm most likely to finish this month.
That said, I have a mountain of short games I can and should be playing, so I might spend some time focusing on those for a bit. Especially as I don't seem to be able to play TLOU2 for more than an hour at a time.