Well, after a packed February, you would think Rants & Raves (and Okays) would take a break but I have no intention to do so. If anything I have even more planned for this month.
I will not lie, I originally planned to pick up a new 'Triple A' game but since I have all these new fighting games to learn, I think that might be put on a backburner for a while. I have decided to go back to the triple A headspace because my last couple of indies were fun but I want a bit more substance.
Dredge was amazing and well deserving of the RAVE it got at the beginning of the month but Pony Island was just OKAY and I also played Doki Doki Literature Club + around the same time I was playing Pony Island and in hindsight, that game would be OKAY as well. As my second visual novel game (the first being Invincible: Presents Atom Eve) and my first real 'dating sim' I had fun with it despite its rather limited format. However the limitation of genre and just general lack of interactivity made me not want to jump back in when I complete one run of it.
For those not in the know, Doki Doki can actually get pretty dark and can be very triggering so keep that in mind but the game tells us this thankfully before starting it so you will know what you are getting yourself into. It also gets kind of fourth wall breaking which is funny because Pony Island also had some fourth wall breaks. However after a couple indie games in a row, I think I need a break.
Originally the plan was to finally get around to playing Marvel's Midnight Suns, a game I had an interest in but waned when I saw the reviews but still wanted to play because its a property (Midnight Suns/ Sons and me go wayyyy back) I like and after the game constantly going on sale I had the opportunity to pick it up for a decent price along with all the DLCs. I will still probably play it later this month.
However right now I am mostly pre-occupied with all the new fighting games I have committed myself too. Of course previous blogs have discussed my journey with Under-Night In-Birth 2 (UNI2) but now we can also add.
Yep, thanks to my incredible wifey, I was able to pick Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (GBVR) whilst it was still on sale to complete my full transition to anime FGC player. I'll save deeper thoughts and chat more about it in my new Learning Leverless blog (coming Tuesday) but so far I am enjoying myself and even better is GBVR is much more compatible with my leverless controller 'MidNite'. This is of course stark contrast to my experience with UNI2 and leverless because I have decided I am going to stick with my arcade stick to play that one. Again, this is a big spoiler for the next Learning Leverless blog so I'll keep it short and save the meat of it for that blog.
Of course, this being a Spectre sponsored blog, we also need to chat about Monk coming to DNF Duel on 14th of this month and from his trailer he actually looks like someone I want to try. Brawler definitely was fun and Battle Mage was kind of meh for me but Monk definitely looks like the type of person I can have fun with and he looks like he might be a boxer too which is interesting.
With that in mind, we also have other blog planned for this month other than the weekly updates of Learning Leverless, I have plans to do another LIST (these will be probably once a month) and of course anything else that catches my fancy will either by PIT STOPs. UPDATES is constantly updated too (imagine that lol) so keep an eye on that if you want to know what's going on.
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