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I didn't play any Yakuza games, but I did watch all three episodes of
the new Amazon show. It's really good! Don't go in expecting a rehash of
the narrative from the games, but something more akin to a remix of a favourite track with more instruments and guest vocalists.

Play:
--=--

Forza Horizon 2 (XSX) - Here we go. So with the later Horizon games I
only got the vague sense that there was some kind of meta-story going
on, and otherwise I was pretty well confused about what was actually happening. Why am I being dumped out of an aeroplane? Why are all the
cars in Australia left-hand drive? Why is there snow? But once I got
Horizon 2 into the machine (and successfully installed from a mostly unblemished disc) I finally got it. The thing being melodramatically
portrayed in all of the other games is sensibly just shown as a bunch of
dudes unloading cars off a boat. Horizon is like a petrolhead
convention, and you have an inside track because you were one of the
lucky sods who had the right insurance coverage to help them transport
the vehicles. Poorly. Through fence posts and shrubbery. Well now I have
four of these games and we'll see if I can find any time to play them
for real.

White Knight Chronicles II (PS3) - What is happening? What button do I
push? Why does it keep asking me if I want to chat with other players
that aren't there? This isn't an MMO. Is this an MMO? It's not! How do I attack? What do all the buttons do? Why are all the buttons chat
buttons? What the hell is going on?

Forza Motorsport 4 (360) - So the Xbox 360 is back in action, after some moderately manic tidying up and the deployment of a wire shelf that
doesn't get in the way of the gigantic cooling fans I rigged up to go
under it. While I was able to get some unique (and non-backward
compatible0 sports games to go again for the first time in a while, this
is the one that I was looking forward to because it's got Top Gear
nonsense in it. It's amazing that the second disc (which has the extra
tracks and other content) only installs 2 GB of data to the hard drive.
What in the world are dev shops doing with all this data they're
storing? It's not, to my eye, making the driving games any more
realistic or less repetitive.

Want:
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Forza Horizon (360) - The original on 360 is on my list to get now.
Ironically I think it's one from the (very short and disappointing) list
of Xbox One S/X Series S/X backward compatibility list, of which I own
almost all of the reasonable titles on disc already. This one doesn't
show up on the secondhand market as often as I'd like, and given how all
the publishers are so risk-averse that they can't even come up with any
new IP anymore, it makes the most sense to get this on disc rather than downloading it. I don't even know that the download is available but for
me it's an irrelevant and unappealing option anyway.

Bin:
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Nothing game-related.

-KKC, who needs some rest.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

Minecraft (Linux) - trial of fishing, trial by fishing, then trial of
chambers. The "Luck of the Sea" enchantment presumably refers only to
bad luck on Java. I also got reacquainted with the joy of expensively
failing to get much of interest from an enchantment table, and did
some mining in the crawling position which has been possible for a
while now. It seems slightly more efficient that way, at least until
you want to come back and realise you'll either need to crawl the
whole way again or mine the blocks above, both of which are usually
slower than simply running back as you could do after more
conventional mining. Nice.

White Knight Chronicles II (PS3) - What is happening? What button do I
push? Why does it keep asking me if I want to chat with other players
that aren't there? This isn't an MMO. Is this an MMO? It's not! How do I attack? What do all the buttons do? Why are all the buttons chat
buttons? What the hell is going on?

To find out, tune in for the next adventure of... Danger Mouse.
I didn't really want to be a narrator, you know. Come to London, they
said. It'll be fun, they said. I don't remember anything about strange
mice and hamsters. Ahem. So yes! Next time. Questions answered, crisis
averted, world saved again.

Want:

Nothing.

Bin:

How excessively long it takes to destroy a baddie generator in a
Minecraft trial chamber, if you decide you don't ever want the
generator to reactivate. It's like mining obsidian with your teeth.

-Rus.
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