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I really appreciate your descriptions on visual novels. Your posts have become like a to-do list for me (in a good way).

I’m back to Xenoblade Chronicles X, Chapter 13, Act 3. My desire to 100% stuff is working hard against my desire to get this game out of my Switch 2.

I’ve been playing more Golden Lap. I have the two best drivers now, so the races are less frantic and more anti-climactic. I’m looking forward to a restart, but also worried that restarting will kill my interest in the game.

I’ve been “playing” CivIdle now that it is out on MacOS. It helps scratch the itch of civilization since I can’t run Civ VII on my computer and won’t buy it for Switch 2.

And I have leveled up Cecil of FFIV fame to maximum in Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent. He’s so cool it almost makes we want to clear more story content (but I doubt I will).

With my school year starting up in August, I’m trying to avoid buying anything new, but I am aware that I have a lot of podcasts to catch up on and I’ve nearly completed Picross S8. So maybe next weekend I’ll be telling y’all about another picross purchase.

Regarding Golden Lap, the death of drivers is something in the game’s sales pitch: this is F1 in the 1970’s, a dangerous time without a lot of safety precautions. It was still surprising, but I’ve moved on. I stopped popping the champagne corks when I make top 3, though.

I’ll be the positive on this one. It’s a daily brain training type game that mentioned its DLC once in game and then moved on. My ten year old and I played day one and two side by side and enjoyed both days. I don’t think it is worth the extra money for unlimited play, but if my child hadn’t discovered Minecraft already, I could see him playing with these puzzles for an hour at a time while we grocery shop or wait at a doctor’s office.

The plush making is gatcha, though. Luckily, I don’t care which Pokemon I make (unless there’s a Rockruff and I don’t get it. I’ll change my opinion about the game on a fine if I don’t get my Rockruff).

Edit: I tried it on iOS. I’d imagine the Switch version is unlimited daily puzzles. The “extra money for unlimited play” I mentioned is the same as the Switch cost.

I had an incident just like this with my grandmother/not my grandmother around the time I read this strip in the newspaper. It’s really terrifying to lose your responsible adult under ten.

My love of card games comes from long form games like Rummy and Euchre (sp?), so Phase10 is a game I enjoy. However, the game itself never finished. I think my record is getting to phase seven before we quit. But then again, I’ve only ever played it two-player.

Golden Lap is fun! I played it last night and ended with my main driver for the last two seasons crashing when I didn’t even push him to race faster and my second driver running out of fuel on the last lap. Then after the race, the game announced that my driver had died. Yikes.

Now I’m out of the running for the championship this year, out a top five driver, and out of enthusiasm to play for today. The things Golden Lap needs most in my opinion:

Randomized drivers, engineers, and crew chiefs (when I start a new game, I know that Levi March and Moretti will be on the podium every race. At a certain point, the only hope is to do well enough to hire one of those two)

Multi-player (I have not been taking races seriously since I hired the aforementioned Moretti and still finding top three every time. I want my friends playing so that there’s bragging rights of some kinds involved)

Overall, it’s definitely worth its full price of $15 USD for me. Maybe I need to make a randomization mod for the game to fix the first of my problems.

This weekend is a board game meetup with fellow teachers. I’m bringing 7 Wonders, Flip 7, Make It Happen, and The Crew. There are more in my pile to bring, but if I can’t remember them now, they might not be good enough to bring!

I saw postings for Unciv and Fheroes2 elsewhere on Lemmy, so I tried both out. Unciv is a free, open-source software take on Civilization VI. I got bored of it quickly with the nostalgia of the other game calling me. Fheroes2 uses the original game files of Heroes of Might and Magic 2 to make the thirty year old game playable on Linux and MacOS. I have the difficulty all the way down and I still can’t manage it! But I’ve spent a lot of time on it.

I beat Dicey Dungeons! I think I’d beaten it before on my Mac, but I’d been playing it on Apple Arcade and saw how near to the end I was. What a great experience that game is! I love luck-based games that are built around manipulating your choices.

I now have Final Fantasy IV’s Cecil as a character in Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent. The side story that introduces him fills me with such joy with its sprite work and music!

And finally, Golden Lap. I’m enjoying the F1 management game, but I haven’t had much chance to play it with all this other gaming going on. Maybe Sunday.

We played the Dixie cards to shreds, so we were glad to find a new way to play.

The years of StreetPass (especially the games like MiiForce) were a wonderful time. It’s the Nintendo I miss most right now.

Mostly Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent here. After the board game convention, I’ve needed a break from anything long form. I still haven’t touched Xenoblade Chronicles X, but I’m hoping to finish chapter 13 this week.

I bought Golden Lap on Steam since the YouTubers I was watching play it aren’t posting fast enough for me to control my purchasing. Fifteen dollars well spent so far. It’s a minimalist F1 management game. I’m a big fan of management simulators; I expect if Football Manager 26 ever comes out, I’ll be posting about that as well.

For board games, I figured this link would best explain my convention: BoardGameGeek, Maxwell’s Dice Tower East ‘25 Plays Highlights include Hot Streak (a degenerate gambling game), Rebel Princess (a Hearts-like trick-taking game), Best Treehouse Ever (a simple building game similar to Castles of Mad King Ludwig), and Twinkle Twinkle (a star-chart making game). Honorable mention to Zoo Vadis, a politics game about becoming the mascot of the zoo. I don’t think I’ll be able to convince my group to play that one, but it’s mostly wheeling and dealing.

I’m at Dice Tower East, a board game convention! I’ll try to post Sunday with a giant list.

I started Xenoblade Chronicles X Chapter 13, Act 3 the day before the convention.

I don’t know if I’ll be playing anything this weekend; we’re days away from my yearly board game convention, Dice Tower East! For five days next week, I’ll be checking board games out of their library, learning dozens of new (to me) rule sets, and easing my ten-year-old into his first gaming convention experience. If I get a chance, I’ll play my favorite game Fog of Love, but I’d need a babysitter to pull that one off.

If I manage to play something besides Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent, I’ll let y'all know.

Jon Watts says the pandemic fatigue made him step back.

I’m off in the wilds of North Carolina, but I did bring the Switch 2. It’s family reunion time so Mario Kart World is getting the most screen time.

Mostly, we’re playing family board games: The Crew (cooperative trick taking) Green Team Wins (“trivia” game where the right answer is what the plurality of players selects) 13 Beavers (a push your luck game that seems like it was created just to hear seven year olds shout “dam”) Flip 7 (another Push Your Luck game that encourages card counting)

I went to see a minor league baseball game last night! That counts as gaming because I bought a replica jersey, I think.

I love the Picross games!

I’m looking forward to (hopefully) the full FF7 trilogy on Switch 2, but for the life of me, I can’t memorize the naming scheme of the parts!

This looks really neat! It’s giving me Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles vibes.

Mario Kart World! A friend showed me his “walking into Super Nintendo World at Epic” video and I realized that what I’ve been calling Mario Kart 8 2 might be attached to a broader naming scheme. Isn’t the next Mario movie called Super Mario World? I ran my first 100 CC race and won by the skin of my teeth. I can’t imagine I’ll find much success in 150 CC.

I have not been back to Xenoblade Chronicles X this week. I finished the first part of chapter 13, but my first full week of summer vacation has been focused on the taxi dad game.

I have spared a lot of time for Picross S 8. It’s such a wonderful way to listen to podcasts for a person who can’t normally multitask. I’m more than half done, but the puzzles I could complete in five minutes or less are in the rear view mirror now.

I checked out Robotics;dash Elite form the library again and gave it about an hour. I LOVE Steins;gate, but it’s been hard getting into other visual novels in the Science Adventure Series. Maybe I’m just not in a reading mood lately.

I checked out It’s A Wonderful World from the library and played it with my older child. It was a little bland and I lost pretty badly (just like the first time I played). I bought a tetromino game called Square One. It was over so quickly and very theme-less. I liked it a little, but I won’t be able to get is to the table again soon, I bet.

Finally, the game getting the most play is Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent. It’s the third anniversary (or maybe 4th), so there’s a lot of new stuff around. I’m still dodging the story for other bits. As long as it’s fun, it’s fine.

I bought this at launch and didn’t open it because it is a game key instead of a game on a cartridge. I’m planning on returning it this weekend and buying it from the eShop when its time to play arrives.

I was so excited to see Urchin Underpass. It reminded me of the early days of Wii U!

It was never too frustrating to fail in multiplayer for me except for the cooperative modes. Salmon run was way too stressful for me because I felt like anytime I ended up with a sniper rifle, I was letting my team down.

In the normal matches, there’s almost always something to do. I hope you’ll give them a try and just ink what you can. Remember that ground is what scores points, not splats.