I haven’t touched this one in awhile! There wasn’t much time for me to get heavily invested in it this evening, but I did find a couple chests and went up a level. It wasn’t much, but it’s a small bit of progress.
Apparently May is MAYtroidvania! Although, I think I’ve played a lot of Shantae to give myself some leeway to play other genres!
I decided to spend the Sunset part of my evening playing Crash Bandicoot 4, I got it over my vacation from a friend as a present! It runs nicely on my 4K Desktop, still need to try it out on Deck. I had a friend watch me play it, and it does take some getting used to. They changed the game mechanics a bit by adding double jumping and reality phasing.
By equipping a special mask, it allows you to shift between dimensions and access ethereal looking platforms and crates. Part of me always wanted to stand inside of a Nitro box. :v I played a few levels before deciding to call it a night. Let’s see how long I can last on Retro Mode! 😛
Now it’s time for me to crash for realz.
Today was pretty therapeutic! I woke up, made a nice breakfast, animated for a little, gave myself a small spa treatment and came out to a care package from a friend! The weather was also nice today for a change. It felt nice to sit out side, sip a little white tea and enjoy my Steam Deck for a bit. Played a bit of a Pac-Man game, and finished off the evening with a little of Crash on Desktop.
There was a lot of dying involved, despite all the times I said FUCK but I was patient about it. I managed to knock out a couple of levels. This is one of those games I like playing with a controller, even when I’m at my desk. Not all games feel right on a Keyboard and Mouse setup.
We did our Sunday Wonderland romp as per current tradition. Helped some Goblins, and killed some Goblins, found more dice and other huge loot receptacles to destroy. I’m Level 39 with up to 60 backpack slots. This was probably our longest run so far – we played from early evening to twilight, it’s just so magical!… literally! Think I’ll be able to make it till next Sunday for the next part of our journey.
We started our Tiny Tina Wonderweekend a day early! Still playing through sidequests and went down some fun slides. We ended the night by dancing atop a giant flower… seemed like a good idea at the time.
I made my first poll on Mastodon! Since I’ve been getting some engagement over in the land of John Mastodon – I’ve decided to experiment with a bit of a poll. It already has a couple of votes, we’ll see what the final results are tomorrow evening! Giving me enough time to start my weekend!
I don’t get it… I went to bed on time, had a good meal, a hot shower and home spa treatment… and yet I couldn’t get to sleep last night for work. I haven’t even napped yet. I’ve been awake since Wednesday Morning! Hopefully I’ll have better luck tonight. I don’t have the energy to play anything, but I haven’t been tired enough to lie down… until now.
Think I’ll go lay down before I break something.
Well, tomorrow I return to reality… The tea is prepped and my clothes are at the ready! But it was nice to get away from it all for awhile, I needed it. I feel like I have enough energy to make it to the Weekend, which is just a few days away for me. :v
I didn’t go anywhere fancy, and I didn’t even get to finish my games or finish my video! But it was nice to just relax, get some things done around the house and let my body rest a little. I might take some time off again next month, but just a smaller bit. I’ve racked up a lot of time that I haven’t used over the years and my body is telling me to have a little fun!
Upgraded my Backpack SDU tonight for carrying more lootage! They really pour it out of everything in this game.
I have a problem. I want to play games on my 4K Desktop, but when I go through my library my eyes have been landing games that make me think “This would be fun to play on my Steam Deck…” dammit!
One thing I did find interesting about launching Brutal Legend on Steam Deck was that it launched with Proton instead of the native Linux build. For the heck of it I launched the native build, and it seemed alright apart from teleporting NPC’s in a couple of cutscenes, and it was getting a nice solid 30FPS. Not bad I’d say, right? Then I replayed the first chapter again through Proton and there were no teleporting models AND the framerate doubled! Translating it from Direct3D 9 to Vulkan instead of using the native OpenGL build seems to give it a nice boost! Pretty interesting since I’ve played this before under regular Linux desktop, that was quite awhile ago though.
Maybe now I’ll actually finish this title! It supports cloud saves, that seems to be helping me in between devices.