Metroidvania

She Hated The Darkness

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Made a large amount of progress since last night’s adventures on Steam Deck. I moved along to the living room and played a good few hours on the TV, then eventually on Desktop. Learned a lot of new abilities! I can double jump, glide, dash and deflect… even swim!

But after several hours of adventure, Ori will now be camping in the Misty Woods until I decide to return. I was thinking tomorrow evening of trying to get more relics in Crash Bandicoot Warped, and the next day the Remastered Tomb Raider Trilogy releases! So the next couple days are going to be Playstation vibes! :v

Returning To The Blind Forest

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When I wasn’t Bauldering tonight, I did make sure to set some time aside for my Steam Deck and a bit of metroidvania mayhem. It’s been a couple of years since I tried to play Ori and the Blind Forest, but my skills that I’ve picked up from other Metroidvanias helped me get further than my previous attempts. The hardest part for me was always the beginning of the game, so much raw emotion in that first part. Now that it’s on my Steam Deck I’ll have to make an effort to finish it! So far it’s worked with the other Metroidvanias in my collection. I’m only a couple breaths away from finishing a couple other ones I loaded onto my Deck, why not re-start another?

Can Cross “Defeated Giant Spider” Off My To Do List

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I can’t remember the last time I harnessed the powers of light and dark during my lunch break, but that’s what I did today. This was a game that I started last year but have yet to finish like the many other titles awaiting me on the Backlog Mountains.

For lunch I had a beef and vegetable soup, and a side of Outland with an extra helping of Spider Boss. They call her The Mother of eyes, she for certain was a Mother to defeat. I wasn’t successful during lunch, but I did manage to finish the battle tonight after a nice shower and some tea at my side. Next time I play I’ll have new territory to cover!

I’m thinking for tomorrow evening I’ll take a break from video stuff. I did a lot of that over the weekend to prepare my latest YouTube release, and I’m thinking about finishing up one of the games I’m close to ending.. just need to figure out what one. 😛

Yesterday’s Adventure, Tonight’s Post

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Dust discovers a friendo.

Made it to 80% yesterday! Rescued a friend, found another chest and collected some more keys. I would have played a little more tonight, but it’s been one of those days where I find myself busy from before dawn to after moonrise. I’ll make up for it tomorrow by making time to play something completely different.

Fondling My Deck For An Hour

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Chilled this evening with a little bit of Dust: An Elysian Tail on my Steam Deck. I’m currently sitting at 78% completion. Found a chest, a couple keys and some red moss tonight. Also managed to complete a couple quests, good way to kill an hour.

I haven’t decided if I’m going to upgrade to the new Steam Deck or not; the hardware upgrades are good, but the refresh rate isn’t enough for me to really consider it for that. The only thing that makes it tempting for me is the 1TB edition, and the improved battery power… but with my luck they’ll probably release a 120hz model next year with even better features, like cooling when playing 3D intensive games. When I use my Steam Deck I’m always within an area to charge it when I need to, and with what I’ve played on it I get a gaming laptop’s worth or better in battery power, which is enough for me.

Dusting Off Dust

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Today when I woke up to gray and rainy weather, all warm in nice clean bedding. I opened up my tablet to do some cozy in bed reading, only to find there was no internet. I managed to survive the six hour outage by doing other things. A little more tidying, some animation and even prepping a video.

Other than that I’ve been playing through Dust: An Elysian Tail on my Steam Deck. Started at 68% completion tonight and left it at 72%. Survived a boss battle and found a bunch of keys and several chests that may or may not have contained a bunch of hot dogs, and maybe a blue print (not for making hot dogs). The scenery matched today’s weather, and chillin’ on the Steam Deck brought back old school rainy day Game Boy sessions.

Might have to play a little more under the covers. 🙂 It’s supposed to be pissing down for the next few days, may as well get comfortable with my game collection. 🙂

The Demonic Purging Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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Tonight was another fun evening of playing badass girls in dresses, only tonight it was a Metroidvania kind of evening! I made it through Stage 3, it was actually easier than the previous stage and I made another friend!

So far I’ve done well keeping to my Spooktober themed collection of demons and monsters. I already have a preview of what the next area is going to look like:

Our heroes standing in the middle of a lovely garden.

It looks like I’ll have some gardening to tend to the next time I return. 🙂 I’m thinking of doing some Science tomorrow night. I still have some Portal 2 Halloween maps I want to play through!

I’ve Been Given The Bird

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I somehow managed to get past Chapter 11 during lunch… with a couple minutes to spare! Maybe I play better when I’m timed? Either way I got a couple of achievements, and I just finished up another chapter! I have Goffik Flappy Bird Power to work with now!

I’m three levels away from reaching the end! That will have to wait for another night.  I’ve been grinding this game out the last few nights… time for something else.

Time For A Lil’ Makeover

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Made some changes to the blog tonight! Replaced the RSS plugin that I was using for fetching my Mastodon posts with a more proper plugin, plus I played with the look of the site. I decided to lighten the colors up a bit since we have a Dark Mode to use as an alternative. 🙂 There are a couple more things I’d like to implement and change, but this will do for now.

I did get through another chapter of BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites, been playing it here and there in my spare time. Stopped on Chapter 9 tonight. This has to be one of the hardest Metroidvanias I’ve ever played hands down. I died so many times trying to get past pools of acid without missing platforms. It makes the Shantae series look like child’s play by comparison.

Bloodstained Sunday Open Thread

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Made it to 96% completion in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night! Finished some quests, a couple of Boss Battles. I might actually finish it some time this month! As usual, more pics can be found on the Mastodon!