#oneaday Day 1063: There

Blue Reflection: Second Light is done! Excellent stuff. Sayonara still holds the "final boss music" trophy, but aside from that, the whole finale was excellent. And that's the last I'm going to say about that for the sake of those who haven't seen that far yet.

This does mean that I'm free to get back to the Atelier MegaFeature as soon as I want, so I've made the executive decision to hold fire on it until the new year. That gives me a bit of time to just chill, do some stuff for Rice, perhaps get ahead of schedule on actually playing Atelier and the opportunity to just… y'know, exist for a bit.

Likewise, Atari A to Z Flashback's last episode will be next week (as in not this coming Saturday, but the one after), and rather than immediately replacing it with something new (that I haven't decided yet — I have a few options waiting in the wings) I'm going to just let that end and start the new thing in the new year. Clean break and all that.

In fact, you might be able to offer some thoughts on the replacement for Atari A to Z Flashback. Again, I'm keen to ensure I don't take on too much at once, so I'm limiting it to just one of these — but there's always the possibility of doing things in "seasons": several weeks of one thing, switch to another thing, switch to another thing and so on. Atari A to Z and Atari ST A to Z will continue for now because I don't think I'll ever run out of stuff for those!

Anyway, these are the things I've been kicking around as possibilities:

• Atari A to Z Anthology (all the 2600 games in the Activision Anthology collection for PS2)

• Intellivision Lives (or some sort of witty name) — the games in the Intellivision Lives compilation for PS2

• Atari Jaguar A to Z (a project with a definite, finite and reachable end)

• Evercade A to Z (definitely something I want to return to)

Feasibly I could incorporate all of the first three into Retro Select, since that covers multiple platforms, but I sort of wanted to make each of those into their own distinct series as I think they sort of "deserve" it. I guess the plus side is that all of them except Evercade A to Z are smaller in scale than Atari A to Z Flashback, so there's no reason I couldn't do each of them in turn.

If you have any particular preferences for what you'd like to see, let me know — otherwise I'll just inevitably make some sort of hasty decision in the New Year and ponder if I made the right choice for a few months 🙂