Fata Morgana.

Listen, whether you like Visual Novels or not doesn’t matter. But Fata Morgana is just somehow…perfect. Everything is resolved and I don’t feel any need to complain about any aspect of it. It was an experience to play a game that left me with no questions afterwards. It was just a really good story.

Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rails.

Genshin Impact successfully had my attention for over five hundred days. It’s a regularly updated game that can be played entirely F2P, and I love that concept. Anyone who claims that you have to whale to get good at the game is wrong. You just have to play the game and ignore that some Youtubers and Twitch Streamers seem to believe that fake big numbers are the only way to improve in that game. In reality, I’ve watched streamers ignore that, and instead opt to play with their favorite romantic pairing or favorite character because they just enjoy the game more that way.

Honkai Star Rails seems to be a similar concept, however it faces a dilemma where it is a turn-based game and as a result the battle mechanics, so far, have to be more carefully considered. For example, I run a defense-healer-single attack-AOE attack team. So far, I tend to die if I don’t do that. The gameplay is more simplistic than Genshin Impact, but the battles are stronger and tend to take longer. Bright side: because it was recently launched you get a bunch of free pulls! Yeah!

I love visual novels but I’m so bad at playing them. I keep buying them because I love to support the industry, but they tend to be hours and hours long so I don’t finish them, aha.

The last one I played through a route on was “Life After Magic” which is a pretty relatable queer VN about a Sailor Moon expy who dropped out of high school and ended up in a dead-end job, having to reunite with her friends / potential love interests. I’d like to finish this one because I know you can date the villain in one route.

Ooh I didn’t know there was a database for interactive fiction! Thank you!

Oh that sounds like a lot of fun! I didn’t care too much for the building aspect of Minecraft, but I did enjoy the adventures.

Genshin Impact.

Listen. I understand that the entire thing was hyped up upon release. It was, after all, a gamechanger for mobile gacha games. We went from turn-based games to things like Honkai Star Rail and Tower of Fantasy and of course, Genshin Impact. Honkai Impact 3rd existed, but it wasn’t quite the same as these ones.

However. Despite the hype, there was a problem that made me reluctant to play it.

I really suck at gacha games. Every gacha game before then I would drop within what, 6 days? I love the characters, love the story, hate the game.

So imagine my surprise when I logged into my settings the other day and found out that oh, It’s now been over 500 days logged, lmao. I’ve taken breaks from it once in a while, but I haven’t quit it yet. What have I become?

Wait, what? Is that why everyone’s recommending steam deck games? I assumed Steam Deck verified games required something like, an okay GPU. Its actually the voltage? That definitely makes my life easier, lmfao.

Alright so I was a little confused on OpenMW but it appears that it is, in fact, complete enough to play? Nice. I now finally have an excuse to play.

I completely forgot about Daggerfall existing. I’m just reading through the wikipedia article. “Daggerfall consists of 15,000 cities, towns, villages, and dungeons for the character to explore.” I am intimidated, yet intrigued.

Never actually heard of those software until now. I looked it up and found out something about TLP having default settings—does this mean once I install it, I don’t have to touch it again? Or do I have to do something like go into a terminal and install default settings after I install it?

I installed it, I just don’t know what the next step is.

Genshin Impact occasionally has little stealth missions where you have to sneak by guards.

Pain.

The dummy just killed me.

I love it.

Not too too sure if I’d enjoy it, however I might…used to play games like Virtual Villagers when I was a kid, so it might be similar? I’ll look into it!

Have you ever played Deep Sky Derelicts or One Step From Eden? I have those two games in my library from somewhere (I presume Humblebundle) so I’m wondering if those two are good?

Oh dang, yeah, looks great. Thank you so much for the recommendation! Putting it in my wishlist.

Yeah, that’s part of the reason why I didn’t re-install Linux until recently. I would install it every few years, but it was only recently that I decided to keep it.

I didn’t quite know about ProtonDB and what it could do, but I did know that a lot more games are compatible lately so I thought I’d try it out. Linux is doing great it seems!

I saw the fox and let out an an audible “awww” at it. It looks super cute! Putting it in my wishlist.

Oh that’s cool as hell. I think I was aware this existed but never explored it in depth? I’ll look up how to install it right now and see what my options are. I have a decently sized Steam library so this is nice.

Oh! I think I got that game in a bundle a while back actually. I will look into it!

If you let me interact with environment in a way that’s grindy, it brings me personal joy.

Things like mining ore, picking up herbs, so forth. It brings me back to my Runescape days.

Don’t get into the Trails series. Not because it’s not good, but because the grindfest is definitely better suited for when you have a few JRPGs under your belt. If you like Persona 5, I recommend looking around at ATLUS’s other entries. There’s the Digital Devil Saga, Soul Hackers, Devil Survivor, Raidou Kuzunoha, the other Persona series… I really liked Devil Survivor 2 growing up, it was light-hearted in comparison to everything else despite the eldritch gods plot.