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Feb. 19th, 2018 05:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedJust reached level 28 in Wanikani yesterday, but I'm not gonna bother with the lessons right now. By the time I come back to it, I'm bound to forget after only three days of reviewing them, and it would seem more practical to focus my attention on Burning stuff, especially when that's about to begin in nine hours for level 14.
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Recently, I showed Mom an eBay auction for the novel adaptation of Mother 2 to get me for my upcoming birthday. Was originally hoping I could share it with Yoshimizu in lieu of any game footage, but with that cancelled, I proposed she instead get me a new game system.
To start with, I'm more or less in the mood for something new, and thus considering calling Mother 2 off altogether. True, there have been certain games I bought in the past, hoping to recapture my interest in RPGs, only to barely ever play at all, and I've recently been wondering if there's even any point left for me in video games or even fiction in general. However, having launched Game Gourmet only recently is sort of a special occasion in its own right to warrant such a thing now.
That said, what I'm hoping for is more than just about food itself. Here are some criteria I formulated to narrow things down:
1) More than two characters. Eating so many different foods throughout one's journey should be a sort of a social thing. (Earthbound fulfills this to the letter, even when you discount Poo, who barely recovers anything from most foods.)
2) Nothing too lifelike. No Yakuza, no Grand Theft Auto, no Elder Scrolls, etc. (Doesn't have to be animesque, which Earthbound, Buster Buddies, and Paper Mario aren't, although anything butt-ugly like Order Up! is also out.)
3) Variation. In a game like Final Fight or Buster Bros., all food items are set in fixed locations, and the most variation you'll get is who will consume any given thing if you're playing with others. Most RPGs have shops where you can select, and thus randomize, what you buy.
4) Nothing too fast-paced to think even momentarily about what your character eats. (Earthbound's battle system is turn-based, and thus lets you take your time to decide who will eat what on any given turn.)
5) Nothing too social for me. No MMOs, and nothing like Tomodachi Life/Miitopia. I would prefer to keep things simple, and to take my time with making decisions, especially when my methods usually involve rolling dice, which most people would likely find annoying to wait on.
With that, one of the winners was originally Odin Sphere. Even though I already own a Playstation 2 to play that game's original version on, I do understand that that one was upgraded for the Playstation 3, 4, and Vita, and thus suggested a PS4, for which I also had three other games on mind. Mom said she is rather skeptical about spending $300 on a new game system, though, given how poorly things panned out before with the Wii.
Later, though, I had a closer look at that particular game, and it turns out that there are indeed five different characters you play as, but they are mostly restricted each to a specific part of the game. The other three games in question also exist for Windows, and the PS4 itself has already been out for a while and is likely to be retired not too long after the upcoming Playstation 5 comes out. The Nintendo Switch might be a better option, but all I have in mind for that is its upcoming port of The World Ends With You, which has also been released for Android already.
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Recently, I showed Mom an eBay auction for the novel adaptation of Mother 2 to get me for my upcoming birthday. Was originally hoping I could share it with Yoshimizu in lieu of any game footage, but with that cancelled, I proposed she instead get me a new game system.
To start with, I'm more or less in the mood for something new, and thus considering calling Mother 2 off altogether. True, there have been certain games I bought in the past, hoping to recapture my interest in RPGs, only to barely ever play at all, and I've recently been wondering if there's even any point left for me in video games or even fiction in general. However, having launched Game Gourmet only recently is sort of a special occasion in its own right to warrant such a thing now.
That said, what I'm hoping for is more than just about food itself. Here are some criteria I formulated to narrow things down:
1) More than two characters. Eating so many different foods throughout one's journey should be a sort of a social thing. (Earthbound fulfills this to the letter, even when you discount Poo, who barely recovers anything from most foods.)
2) Nothing too lifelike. No Yakuza, no Grand Theft Auto, no Elder Scrolls, etc. (Doesn't have to be animesque, which Earthbound, Buster Buddies, and Paper Mario aren't, although anything butt-ugly like Order Up! is also out.)
3) Variation. In a game like Final Fight or Buster Bros., all food items are set in fixed locations, and the most variation you'll get is who will consume any given thing if you're playing with others. Most RPGs have shops where you can select, and thus randomize, what you buy.
4) Nothing too fast-paced to think even momentarily about what your character eats. (Earthbound's battle system is turn-based, and thus lets you take your time to decide who will eat what on any given turn.)
5) Nothing too social for me. No MMOs, and nothing like Tomodachi Life/Miitopia. I would prefer to keep things simple, and to take my time with making decisions, especially when my methods usually involve rolling dice, which most people would likely find annoying to wait on.
With that, one of the winners was originally Odin Sphere. Even though I already own a Playstation 2 to play that game's original version on, I do understand that that one was upgraded for the Playstation 3, 4, and Vita, and thus suggested a PS4, for which I also had three other games on mind. Mom said she is rather skeptical about spending $300 on a new game system, though, given how poorly things panned out before with the Wii.
Later, though, I had a closer look at that particular game, and it turns out that there are indeed five different characters you play as, but they are mostly restricted each to a specific part of the game. The other three games in question also exist for Windows, and the PS4 itself has already been out for a while and is likely to be retired not too long after the upcoming Playstation 5 comes out. The Nintendo Switch might be a better option, but all I have in mind for that is its upcoming port of The World Ends With You, which has also been released for Android already.