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I've had a long month of obligation and service to others and I'd like
to just sit and play games without being interrupted every ten minutes, please.

Play:
--=--

Yakuza Kiwami 3/Dark ties (PS5) - Technically I finished Dark Ties on
Friday but that's the weekend so it still counts. The story they tell
about Mine (the antagonist of the Yakuza 3 narrative) is kind of weird
in that it's not really necessary, but it's also a really odd way of
rebooting the continuity. Mild spoiler, this game is meant to be the
jumping off point for a possible reboot of the whole series to focus on
the Daidoji Faction organisation that was introduced in LAD Gaiden (The
Man Who Erased His Name) a year or two ago. Mine's story is interesting
but not really essential, and I'm more interested in the effect he had
on Daigo Dojima and holding off what we understand now is the inevitable decline of the Tojo Clan. This half of the combined game release is
otherwise pretty fun and plenty goofy, especially if you enjoyed the
side characters that you remember from the original Yakuza 3 release.
Mild spoiler, you should play this game first to get a minigame bonus in Yakuza Kiwami 3.

Kiwami 3 is pretty controversial in that they cut a lot of the content
from the original game to make room for a bunch of new stuff. I'm only
in Chapter 3 right now but I'm maxing out all of the "optional" side
content where I can because it's just so engaging. The biker gang side
story feels like a lazy ripoff of the Yakuza Pirate in Hawaii ship
combat until you see that the fighting is done Dynasty Warriors-style,
with a bunch of interconnected rooms where you have big lopsided multicharacter brawls going on. It's actually really entertaining to go
out into Okinawa and recruit otherwise milquetoast-looking ladies who
turn out to have been hellions in their youth, or schoolgirls who have
some special combat prowess. At a certain point you can recruit one of
the homonid sheep from Yakuza: Like a Dragon and a bunch of other named characters from previous games too. I'm really enjoying the orphanage missions, which play out as optional content also for anybody who
doesn't want to bother. That's clearly a mistake though because you get
lots of income and combat bonuses out of bonding with each child
individually. This is, in my view, the necessary part of the game
revision in that each of the eight children gets a story beat and a plot
all onto themselves, with echoing themes of humility and growth driving
each narrative. I particularly liked learning about Izumi and Koji, who
each have ambitions that got short shrift in the original game.

Want:
--=--

R-type Tactics 1+2 Cosmos (PS5) - Delayed to the end of March now. This
stupid remaster has been cooking for easily the better part of three
years, and my memory is that it was supposed to hit retail in 2024. I'm
ready to break out the PSP UMD disc at this point just so I remember how
to play when the new release finally gets into my hands.

Bin:
-==-

Nothing gaming-related.

-KKC, who has some other preordered games to enjoy soon, hopefully.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

Outrun 2006 (PC) - cleared a few times. I'd like to say that I also
configured my new controller to work on this, but the truth is I just
played it on keyboard again like some sort of prehistoric
cave-dweller. Which is so unlike me.

Picross e6 (3DS) - more of this.

Yakuza Kiwami 3/Dark ties (PS5) [...] At a certain point you can
recruit one of the homonid sheep from Yakuza: Like a Dragon

I think I must have missed that mission.

Want:

Once Upon a Katamari (PC) - I get the impression that this one might
not exactly be universally liked, but time-travelling Katamari action
sounds like a decent enough idea in principle.

Bin:

Nothing.

-Rus.
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In article <ji1nR.5933$lrmf.5731@usenetxs.com>,
Russell Marks <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

Yakuza Kiwami 3/Dark ties (PS5) [...] At a certain point you can
recruit one of the homonid sheep from Yakuza: Like a Dragon

I think I must have missed that mission.

On the east end of Yokohama there's a dilapidated old cinema not far
from Chinatown where they show oddball films that are implied to be
terribly boring. The minigame there is for Kasuga (and sometimes a
friend) to stay awake through the whole film, and this is symbolised by
the presence of men in dapper suits and sheep heads who attempt to lull
Kasuga to slumber through backhanded means. We never saw a female
version of the sheep people things until Yakuza Kiwami 3 though.

-KKC, who wishes he could explain that funnier.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Russell Marks <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

Yakuza Kiwami 3/Dark ties (PS5) [...] At a certain point you can
recruit one of the homonid sheep from Yakuza: Like a Dragon

I think I must have missed that mission.

On the east end of Yokohama there's a dilapidated old cinema not far
from Chinatown where they show oddball films that are implied to be
terribly boring. The minigame there is for Kasuga (and sometimes a
friend) to stay awake through the whole film, and this is symbolised by
the presence of men in dapper suits and sheep heads who attempt to lull Kasuga to slumber through backhanded means. We never saw a female
version of the sheep people things until Yakuza Kiwami 3 though.

Surely ewe can't be serious.

I have to admit, my lack of recognition previously was playing with
the typo, via the idea that you could have been inadvertently
suggesting a specific and somehow obvious sexual orientation for the
human sheep. Rather than just pointing out their manhood, so to speak.

No, on second thoughts, let's not go there. It is a silly place.

-Rus.
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In article <5_lnR.12046$PVX.4592@usenetxs.com>,
Russell Marks <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Russell Marks <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

Yakuza Kiwami 3/Dark ties (PS5) [...] At a certain point you can
recruit one of the homonid sheep from Yakuza: Like a Dragon

I think I must have missed that mission.

On the east end of Yokohama there's a dilapidated old cinema not far
from Chinatown where they show oddball films that are implied to be
terribly boring. The minigame there is for Kasuga (and sometimes a
friend) to stay awake through the whole film, and this is symbolised by
the presence of men in dapper suits and sheep heads who attempt to lull
Kasuga to slumber through backhanded means. We never saw a female
version of the sheep people things until Yakuza Kiwami 3 though.

Surely ewe can't be serious.

I have to admit, my lack of recognition previously was playing with
the typo, via the idea that you could have been inadvertently
suggesting a specific and somehow obvious sexual orientation for the
human sheep. Rather than just pointing out their manhood, so to speak.

Now that you've accused me of spelling something wrong I see that there
is a denotation worthy of splitting hairs here. 'Homonid' is a correct spelling but refers strictly to primate taxonomy rather than parallel physiological development or similarities. So I should properly have
used 'humanoid' as you were likely expecting as that would have been a
more correct way of saying 'human-shaped sheep'.

No, on second thoughts, let's not go there. It is a silly place.

I'm sure there's gay sheep. I'm dead sure there's a Steam game with gay
sheep.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4081220/Sheep__Love/

There we go.

-KKC, who hasn't had enough to eat today.


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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Now that you've accused me of spelling something wrong I see that there
is a denotation worthy of splitting hairs here. 'Homonid' is a correct spelling but refers strictly to primate taxonomy rather than parallel physiological development or similarities. So I should properly have
used 'humanoid' as you were likely expecting as that would have been a
more correct way of saying 'human-shaped sheep'.

I can only sheepishly admit I was thinking of Alien Hominid. :-)

-Rus.
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