Sea of Stars is done.

Great combat, great music, great animations, but a passable story and relatively uninteresting characters.

Overall, a solid, retro-style JRPG that wears its influences like a badge of honor, Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG chief among them (but hints of Final Fantasy X, Octopath Traveler, and many more are also seen throughout).

Up next? I still haven't decided.

The Ever-Changing Priority List:

Urgent:
N/A

Priority:
God of War: Ragnarök
Octopath Traveler II
Unicorn Overlord

Rotation:
Paper Mario: The Origami King
Advance Wars
Batman: Arkham City
Golden Sun
Hollow Knight
Kingdom Hearts II
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Pokémon Shield
Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope
World of Final Fantasy

Grab Bag:
Backpack Hero
Bad North
Bloodborne
Elden Ring
It Takes Two (co-op with Lisa)
Limbo
Mega Man X5
No More Heroes III
Tactics Ogre Reborn
Transistor
Untitled Goose Game (co-op with Lisa)

Rebirth is done. Platinum, all upgrades. Those final few combat simulator battles don't mess around. Time to move on to something new, I guess.

Just finished downloading updates for all of my Wii U and 3DS games before the servers are taken down forever (in a matter of hours). End of an era. RIP.

Everything else is on hold.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth begins now.

Finished the original Final Fantasy VII.

Gonna do a playthrough of Remake leading up to Rebirth.

Here we go!

I'm done getting excited for games.

Fuck hype trains.
Fuck over-inflated, spoiler-filled trailers.
Fuck super pretentious developers.
Fuck dumbass award ceremonies.
Fuck games that are broken on launch.
Fuck season passes.
Fuck day one DLC and day one patches.
Fuck microtransactions and lootboxes.

Pre-Home dex is complete and ready to be moved... once I figure out how to use Pokémon Home.

Final Fantasy XVI dlc came out of nowhere. Nice!

Still finishing up my Pokédex and then directly back to the list.

Super Mario RPG is finished. A nice trip down memory lane. Can't wait to play a remastered Thousand-Year Door pretty soon.

Also started Ultra Moon. Gonna rush it a bit, considering I just finished off Ultra Sun.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder had been completed. Excellent game.

The best 2D Super Mario game since Super Mario World? Absolutely. Better than Super Mario World? Absolutely not.

Still, a great game worth playing through if only to see what the next level is gonna throw at you.

Spider-Man 2 has been completed. The MJ missions and most of the sidequests are kinda lame (some are incredibly dumb/boring), and they treated Peter like a bitch. Otherwise, decent game. Not great. The first one was better, but I'm still curious to see how Wolverine and the inevitable Spider-Man 3 turn out.

Now I can dedicate my time to Mario Wonder and finishing my pre-Home pokédex.

Looks like it's time to finish my pre-Home pokédex now that Bank is shutting down. For the foreseeable future, between major releases, I will probably be hunting down pocket monsters.

Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, ODST, Reach, and Halo 4 have been beaten. Reach > ODST > Halo > Halo 3 > Halo 2 > Halo 4.

After almost five years, my copies of Pikmin 3 on the Wii U and Bravely Default on the 3DS have been returned. Better late than never, but I don't think I'll be loaning anything to anyone for a while.

Beat survival mode in Turtles and started a heroic campaign of Halo. Feels like 20 years ago.

Finished story runs in both Diablo II and III. Probably gonna dick around a bit more, and then back to the list.

Pikmin 4 has been completed. Super fun, tons of stuff to do. Kept thinking it was over, nope, have another entire side story to do!

Guess that means it's back to trying to get into Ragnarök.

All boss no-hit run Final Fantasy Mode challenge Complete. All medals of valor acquired. Moving on to other games now. RIP Joshua (and maybe Clive).

Also Pikmin 4 is fun, Ragnarök has terrible writing.

The yearly Summer Slowdown is here. Too much to do, too little time for all of it.