The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming

Science, Time Travel, and Cats

It’s been mostly work and hardly any play these last couple of days. So I took a break tonight and played a couple of games! Steam Next Fest is currently going again, and I’ve seen some of my Steam friends playing “Little Kitty, Big City” and I figured why not give it a go? It’s similar to Stray, in the sense that you wander around as a cat. But the aesthetics are more cartoony, and you can interact with humans and have conversations with other animals. Looks like we’ll have another cat game to look forward to next year!

I also had a small itch to return to Portal Reloaded, if only to solve one test chamber. It took me awhile to think about it, but I did manage to make it past the 2nd laser puzzle. Next time I play the game I’ll have to see what Test Chamber 15 has in store for me. I want to finish it one of these days to try out the torturous co-op option! 😛

Open Threads

Evening Open Thread

Not much to write. Had a long day, enjoyed some cherry blossom tea after a long shower to wash away the work. I took another trip down memory lane, transformed two hours of footage into a small Skyrim short that will randomly appear sometime in the not too distant future. It’s nice to be able to fit all of my Skyrim footage onto one hard drive, and even better to shed 36 gigs of it tomorrow! That’ll get me closer to just a terabyte of Skyrim footage. 😛

Gaming

Good Vibe Gaming

Decided to plink away at getting all the special diamonds scattered throughout each level in Sayonara Wild Hearts. It’s one of those things that adds to the replay value, that and the vibin’ beat. I was also vibin’ to Freedom Planet 2 during lunch today. Ever since Saturday all the games I’ve picked to get myself lost in have all had excellent soundtracks, and three out of four of them are indie! 😛

Gaming

We’ve Destroyed Machines Beyond Counting

It’s been awhile since I’ve played NieR Automata. I took a break during my 9S playthrough to play through Replicant when it came out. I’m glad I did, while not a requirement to it does make it easier to spot references in the overall story. Now might be a good time for me to get back into it; the modding community has been adding some fun stuff:

I visited the nexus and found quite a few things that I’ll have to add once I (someday) finish my first playthrough! They’ve added a couple new areas, a bunch of model replacements for weapons, outfits and models. With the right amount of mods I might consider doing a livestream with it! But for now it was fun to hack n slash tonight, and since I’m currently playing as 9S it’s more like hack n slash, and just hacking… I don’t mind playing as 9S, but the hacking games get really repetitive really quickly.

Gaming

Trek to Crashing

Ran into my first hard lock with Trek to Yomi. I was navigating through a burning village and then it slowed to a crawl, and eventually solid. I guess this is why it isn’t verified for Steam Deck yet. Oh well… I guess I won’t be finishing this chapter tonight. I did get an achievement for executing 50 successful counters, so at least I have that going for me.

Gaming

Panzer Dragoon Racing

There was enough me time during lunch today to play a few rounds of Sonic All Stars. Got the C and B Class races taken care of in Panzer Dragoon (Hard Waves). A Class was a pain in the ass, but I did manage to get it tonight on Desktop.

I just happened to win while taking a break from my never ending hunt through endless footage. 😛 It was a nice, small escape for tonight. Now that I’m searching for new content I’ve freed up a little extra game time! 😛 I’ll be pouring over more Borderlands 2 footage tomorrow, only found a small clip for Throwback Thursday tonight, better than nothing I guess! 😛