It was an absolutely miserable morning today, with torrential downpours. Not an environment particularly conducive to getting up and trying to be productive.
Still, it's brightened up a bit now, and I'm in a reasonable mood today. I'm not crippled with agonising pain like I was yesterday morning, I lost 3.5lb in the first week of Slimming World (a little less than I hoped based on past experience, but still a good result!) and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is out today.
I wrote a little about my thoughts on the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate over on MoeGamer the other day, so check that out if you want to know a bit more; I won't reiterate what I said there save for the fact that I'm looking forward to trying the new game, and feel like the more substantial single-player content is going to keep me interested in it for a lot longer than previous installments.
Last night, aside from the great weigh-in, was spent re-acquainting myself with Atelier Rorona via its recent "DX" release on Nintendo Switch. I was fortunate enough to acquire review codes for the whole Arland trilogy, so now I'm intending to cover those in January. I know I said a little while back that I wouldn't be doing a whole series in one go again, but… well, I just got £80 worth of free games on the understanding that I'd write about them, so I better write about them!
Besides, I'm already familiar with Rorona from playing its two previous releases, the games themselves aren't super-long for a single playthrough, and if necessary they're ripe for further exploration in my New Game Plus series of videos, where I take on various titles' postgame content. Well, currently just Project Zero's postgame content, but that's the long-term intention anyway.
I've been meaning to write about the Arland games in one form or another since their PS3 release, so it's nice to finally have a good reason and incentive to. Plus I get to have them in pleasingly "complete" editions on a handheld system — the only thing I'm a bit sad about is the fact they have no physical releases, but at least I have the original PS3 games boxed. And you never know, maybe Limited Run Games or some such boutique publisher will end up putting out a proper physical version at some point in the future. You never know!
Rorona is a game that is special to me, but it's hard to say exactly why. I just really like its "comfy", pleasant nature; it's a pleasure to play, and all its characters are just a delight to hang out with. That said, it also has a few bittersweet memories attached to it; it was one of the last games I covered at USgamer, and a title that I clashed with my "replacement" Bob Mackey over, because Bob Mackey is a massive bellend who thinks a game having cute girls in it is "creepy". But fuck him. Positivity! Breathe.
Anyway. I just have to survive the usual Friday tedium until this afternoon, when I can go home and enjoy being bad at Super Smash Bros. once again. I'm looking forward to exploring the new game, and no doubt there'll be some videos and/or some articles on the subject in the near future, so please look forward to that!
I hope you have a good Friday!
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