Unsurprisingly, this was the beginning of a new-yet-familiar obsession with the Pokémon HOME Pokédex.
Route 1 Revisited
Phantom Thief Nikki
The exploration in Infinity Nikki is the closest any of these never-ending games has come to stealing my heart. If only we could wish all the FOMO-inducing stuff out of existence…
Together
Co-op with Val has come a long way, I'd say. From sliding down snowy mountains as a wolf cub and deer in Blanc, to endure-and-surviving the waves of buffed-up spiders, goblins, ghosts, and skeletons in the dungeons of Children of Morta.
We're tough as nails now.
City-State Blues
I really wish they’d called it Dragon Age: Exodus. Both for consistency, and as a foreigner.
Ico
Between the Astro Bot cameos and Ueda's new teaser giving me the shivers… the new year found me dusting off a PS3 and revisiting the castle in the mist, once again.
Christmas Cloud
After a month-long vacation in the US… we're finally back home! Val put up our Christmas tree in record time, and this Cloud amiibo she got for me on the trip is the perfect symbol for this year, apparently coming to an end soon.
Liberty City
Our new recruits from New York!
The Beach Episode
What can I say?World in a Memory hits like a truck, and the beautiful XP-era mapping, once again… does too ✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡˚.
Old Game, New Game
This year I plan to extend Modric's contract for as long as I can in Career Mode, and that would be enough.
It’s funny, but in my head there’s this very nostalgic association between FIFA 2005 and RPG Maker XP that’s kind of being mirrored today with FC 25 and RPG Maker MZ. And if I could speak to that adolescent self of mine, suffering through the post-Makélélé era in front of the TV, I would definitely tease Lisboa 2014… and I would tell him not to give up on spriting just yet.
Harrowmont vs. Bhelen
Long before the Underground, the Depths, and the Underdark… I first had to stumble around in the Deep Roads. Revisiting Dragon Age: Origins has brought back everything: the multiple days of struggle in caves and tunnels, the non-stop combat encounters, and how my 2009 computer was barely holding together during the whole dwarven plot.
But it also reminded me of the lore, and why Orzammar stayed on my mind for so long. This time, with Shale!
P.S. I need to play a dwarf noble someday.