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well the good news is Corrin is only really related to Azura. (and of course her/his sister that is a cute little dragon)

Finished another 2 games.

Gothic

Oh boy, this did not age well. If someone's unfamiliar with the series - it's basically German TES. The first two competed with Morrowind and the third one came out shortly after Oblivion. You play as the nameless hero and are thrown into a prison colony surrounded by a barrier. And then stuff happens. I'm not going to go into details, because I mostly want to criticise the game

So, as I've said around the time Piranha Bytes was promoting Elex, there's almost no women in this world. I actually said none in G1, but there's 6 (someone counted it as being 5,9% of all named characters). They are all in night gowns and all say the line "you're not allowed to talk to us." They either fan one of two maniacal strongmen or clean the floor.

There's also Mud, who's an annoying NPC the game encourages you to kill. He makes comments about being there (i.e. a prison colony) because he "likes animals" and he tells the male hero to rest in his bed (together) and to go to "talk or...something"... Yep. And because everyone in the camp hates him, you get no punishment for killing him. Weirdly, Gothic 2 also has a gay subplot, but it's not negative this time. But I'll have to replay it to see it again.

The series is significant for one other reason - Gothic influenced Witcher a lot. A lot of people from TW worked on localising the Gothic games and the money from the sales made Witcher possible. Quite notably, they liked the defined voiced male protagonist. They mostly took from it mechanics like NPCs and monsters having daily routines and such, but you see the less positive aspects as well, including "kill the gay deviant," and "look at the half-naked ladies."

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Dreamfall The Longest Journey

I finally replayed this and can move to Chapters (yay). It's a sequel to TLJ, you play as Zoë, Kian, and April, investigating the mystery that spans two worlds. It's a 3D adventure game from 2006, and I'm surprised at how well it aged.

The story is great, the characters fleshed out. The puzzles are pretty simple, so don't expect a challenge. TLJ was more demanding in that aspect. There are 3 negative things about it. Combat is terrible. I don't know, what they were thinking, but it's really stiff and annoying. You'll want to avoid it, and thankfully you can in many situations. Second, the face models and animations range from someone like Zoë

to something like this

But the game is otherwise pretty, especially given its age

And the third minus is voice acting. They have some awesome VAs, but it's incredibly inconsistent. You can have characters like Zoë or Crow, who sound really great, and then there's Kian, whose delivery is wooden, or Na'ane, who sounds like she was doing this first time and was recorded with a cellphone mic. There's also the issue of a very big VA turnover between games. Even Zoë got a different VA, which will be hard for me to get used to, I like her a lot. But Kian got an upgrade to Nick Boulton, so I'll take it

Lastly, there's this little gem. The game has some surprising funny moments


So I recommend it. TLJ was a pain to play, but Dreamfall didn't really cause issues. Just watch a video summarising TLJ's story.

Picked up no mans sky. Liking it so far, feels like you can pick it up for a little break and get some stuff done. My kinda game right now.

So I managed to get Mega Man X Collection 1+2 for ps4. I haven't played it yet though, but I plan to get into it soon!

I'm almost done with Mega Man X1 (7 more games to go after that so much mega man!) Um, I am experiencing the screen glitch I saw other people complaining about on gamefaqs though.

For whatever reason sometimes the screen starts glitching and it won't stop bouncing/flickering till I change the settings on the tv (doesn't seem to matter which setting I change even) then it'll be fine for an hour or so...but then it'll eventually happen again till I switch settings again. I hope that gets patched soon whatever the hell it is. lol

My toon stopped to admire some argonian stripper hehe
In other news finally got myself a gaming laptop, my ass is grateful

Still stuck on cheesey romance apps. Been saving screen shots like crazy to show my guy them later given that he was really eyeing some of the boys the app had to offer. It's really oddly fun that him and I can bond over cute boys together like that.

He's more than a little gay lol