Weekly Game Update: May 10th - May 17th, 2022

So last week I was planning on maybe starting something else, but nope! Busy week and didn’t have a lot of energy to do much more than Pokemon Picross most of the time (not sure how I played 13 hours though??). Still, I did make some good progress into Ys IX! Also I got COVID so yay… I’m doing fine thanks to the power of medicine, but I’m still pretty out of it.

What Happened This Week?

New Games:
Fairy Tale (PS4)
Tomb Raider Legend (PS3)
Tomb Raider Anniversary (PS3) *
Tomb Raider Underworld (PS3) **
Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 (PS4)

* Already own on Steam (doesn’t work well there though…)
** Already beat on Wii (probably will give it a replay though)

Started:
Nothing!

Finished:
Also nothing!

Current Games:
Pokemon Picross (3DS) - 56:54 (+13:34)
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox (PS4) - 9:59 (+8:02)

Progress Updates

Pokemon Picross

I’ve finished up all of the Normal puzzles and challenges, finally! Really dislike having to wait for random Pokemon spawns… Currently I’m still working my way through the Alt World Puzzles. There’s about 30 Areas in the game, and I’m currently on Area 20. Definitely not bothering with many of the challenges now, as some of them have a strict time limit that I really can’t handle in these more difficult style of puzzles. Still, getting close to finishing all of them!

Ys IX: Monstrum Nox

I’m currently on Chapter 4 and my prayers have been answered! Well most of them anyway lol. Game is still pretty gray and more gray, BUT everything else has been a lot better. We’ve got some engaging things going on with the plot, more character interaction, and a better balance between story and gameplay. What’s even better for me is that while the defend-type missions are still a thing, they thankfully don’t happen as frequently as they did previously. Also they now open up new areas, and since I like exploring new areas, it’s a much better incentive for me to do them than just “here’s a defned mission! hope you like it!”. Still getting used to the controls though lol.

Anyway, enjoying this a lot more now! Hopefully I can get some more play time in with COVID brain ._.

Backlog Update

Backlog: 974 (prev 975)
Time to beat: 678 days, 1 hour (prev 676 days)

So not sure what happened here because the backlog definitely wasn’t supposed to go down this time lol. Maybe I found some duplicates and removed them? Hard to say for sure, so whatever I guess lol.

That’s all the updates for this week! Hopefully I kick COVID’s butt and continue to play games next week :)