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Oh I'm sure that we can invite everybody to a new event without any
scheduling difficulty whatsoever.

Play:
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Yakuza 5 Remastered (PS4) - Oh crap, I went into the final boss battle
of Saejima's mountain hunting side story without any healing items. I
remember now that I did this last time around on the PS3 version of the
game too and similarly squeaked through by the skin of my teeth. The
notion of representing a really unusual and misunderstood part of
Japan's culture this way is very much in keeping with the rest of the
Yakuza series, in that we're invited to have empathy and understanding
for people who made bad decisions and are now perhaps less trusting or accepting than they would have been beforehand. I'm not saying that I
have a full understanding of isolated people who have to hunt all their
food, but it's not a viewpoint I might have given any consideration
otherwise.

House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn (ARC) - Took the boy bowling this
weekend, and the attached arcade had this lovely thing unexpectedly
featured alongside a number of other light gun games. The idea that the
zombie outbreak is happening at a faux 1920s-themed costume party as a
way of excusing why everyone is dressed like a Gilded Age robber baron
is genius, and giving the two machine gun-wielding protagonists a
romantic tension is something they've never quite pulled off as
successfully in any other game in the series. It's a crime that there is
no home port of this stupid game.

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined (PS5) - Well this is lovely. The English
voice cast has beautifully performed regional British accents
appropriate to the coastal and/or sailing culture that's being depicted,
and the whole thing is charming without tilting all the way over into
twee. I like this a lot more than I thought I would, given that it was
another dumb impulse purchase that threatened to be a new backlog entry.

Want:
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Space Adventure Cobra: The Awakening (PS5) - Delayed by wildfires. The entirety of the American south is on fire and you can smell it every
time you go outside. I wonder if our climate might have changed
drastically in the last 50 years to enable such a thing and if anybody
had noticed.

Bin:
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Nothing game-related

-KKC, who is up too late tonight.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Oh I'm sure that we can invite everybody to a new event without any scheduling difficulty whatsoever.

Well, I imagine one attendee might be otherwise detained.

Play:

Saints Row 4 (PC) - actually did some missions. A few of them more
than once, as I found a really great way to be reminded that the game
doesn't have an auto-save (as it decided to seize up when starting a
mission, and when I restarted I was back where I'd been a good two
hours earlier). After finishing off the remaining story missions too,
I can now get back to the far more important task of randomly
collecting bright shiny things.

House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn (ARC) - Took the boy bowling this
weekend, and the attached arcade had this lovely thing unexpectedly

[...]

successfully in any other game in the series. It's a crime that there is
no home port of this stupid game.

I'm amused and/or depressed to think that the most likely way for this
to happen might be the monkey-paw version, i.e. a mobile port.

Want:

More games to have moments like SR4 has near the end of the story,
which I think can't be properly described in a way which does it
justice without the context of having been playing the game up to that
point (as absurd as it might seem to be saying that of a Saints Row
game). It's a neat moment, anyway.

Bin:

The fairly mediocre boss fight that SR4 then follows that up with.

-Rus.
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