WARMTH LIKE HOME UNAWARES

Soooo I failed at posting once a week :)

I've been obsessively playing Super Mario 3D World on the Switch. But now I'm kinda burned out on it (I did almost everything there is to do in the game) and waiting anxiously for my copy of Harvest Moon: One World to arrive. But it's stuck in shipping purgatory and I have no idea when I'll actually get it. I'm just hoping by Friday, so I don't have to wait through the weekend.

3D World was a ton of fun but the cleanup to get everything in the game is annoying as heck. You have two nearly-impossible courses to play through (seriously, they made them WAY too tough) and then you have to play through every single course in the game -- including those last two!! -- as every character in the game. That's... a lot of tedium and stress. I wanted to 100% the game but I got burned out replaying all the courses with Toad and haven't really gone back to it. But I might do it as something to keep me occupied while I wait for One World.

One World is already a mess. They made a bunch of on-disc DLC and then forgot to lock it, so now people are playing with all the DLC day-one that's supposed to be released slowly over the next two months. Honestly, like most people, I hate the idea of on-disc DLC so I'm kinda glad they goofed. But I feel bad for people who adopt a DLC pet or marry a DLC character and then suddenly get it taken away from them when they "fix" it. Hopefully they'll just accept their wrongs and let the DLC stay released for free, and refund the people who bought the season pass right away. But that's probably not what they will do.

The game was only $50 so I can understand keeping a little bit of extra content behind a paywall for players who want it, allowing players who don't to have the option of a cheaper game without frills. But they also locked the final tool upgrades behind DLC. Something already embedded into the code that cost no extra money to create, locked behind a $3 paywall. Very scummy IMO.

Pioneers of Olive Town is going to have a season of DLC, too. Most likely also on-disc, as it's all seemingly ready and playable. And it's going to cost $20! Though it does add entire new stories and characters into the game... albeit all cameo characters from past games. Not sure if I wanna invest in that or not. But I'm the kind of person who hates feeling like they have an "unfinished" copy of the game. Basically, I'm the people that these grubbers prey on :P

I swapped my computers around again so now I have the crappy one in the kitchen and the good one in the study, which means I can't really play Street Fighter anymore, so that project is on hold. At least I got through the first two games, right...??

Lesse... RetroMania Wrestling came out and it's near impossible to play. Like as in it's just really hard. I lose in the tutorial and stuff lol.

I have just enough money saved up that I can actually afford to get not only SaGa Frontier Remastered and Rune Factory 5 like I wanted to, but I should be able to grab New Pokemon Snap as well! I forget the ALT code for the accent-e so we're just getting plain ol "Pokemon" here.

But yeah all I ever do is update what games I am playing lol.

Maybe tomorrow I will do a little writeup on the marriage candidates from One World and how bored I already am with most of them LMAO.

((Also... I may have gotten my hands on that, uh... leaked tape.. of David Boreanaz... Yowza.))