I streamed yesterday, and my good pal Chris joined in. It was a successful stream — we both had a lot of fun. I haven’t figured out how to share my gameplay privately with Chris with audio, but he could at least watch what I was doing while we talked, and it’s so much easier to keep talking while playing when there’s someone else there to interact with.
During the stream, I concentrated on playing Toaplan games from the upcoming Toaplan Arcade 3 and 4 cartridges for Evercade. There are some real bangers among these, but as with most Toaplan games, they’re very hard! I reached an actual blockade in Dogyuun, which uses checkpoints, but we managed to clear the entirety of Fixeight and Snow Bros. 2 with judicious credit-feeding, both of which were a lot of fun.
I have the next couple of days off work so I think I’m going to take Sunday entirely for myself, perhaps to start having a look at 1000xRESIST, which a few people have recommended to me recently. I don’t really know much about this game, but what little I’ve seen certainly seems to be intriguing, so I’m looking forward to checking it out. It’s unfortunate there doesn’t appear to be a physical release at present, so I’m going to nab the Steam version; there are rumours that there might be a physical Switch version at some point, but nothing concrete as yet.
Anyway, things are OK right now. If you were wondering about progress on the whole “eating well” thing, I’m 11 pounds down on when I started, which is good… what was less good was the amount of weight I’d put on after our week’s holiday away, but at least that’s coming off again now! We’ve had a few days of feeling a bit “eh” about dieting this week, but we’re getting properly back into the swing of things on Monday. Sometimes you just need to get urges and cravings out of your system to continue being productive.
Oh, I know what else I need to do today. I need to write about Death Mark II, which I finished yesterday. More details will be forthcoming over on MoeGamer, but suffice to say for now that the entire Spirit Hunter series is absolutely magnificent, and anyone the slightest bit interested in top-quality, genuinely intelligent horror should definitely check all three games out. But like I say, I will talk more about the details over on MoeGamer.
In fact, I’m off to go do that right now. Ta-ta. If you missed the stream yesterday, here’s an archive for you to watch!
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