Happy New Year 2025! With gaming resolutions I actually mean to achieve this time!

Festive happy new year 2025 with golden confetti, new year 2025

Happy New Year, everyone! I can’t get over how quickly the years are moving these days. At this rate I’ll be retiring next month! I’ve gotta work even harder and save even more. This is what I get for spending my twenties and thirties gaming… This year, for the first time in like 5 years, […]

Beat the “final boss” in Persona 5 Royal! Okay not really, but yeah (endgame spoilers)

By that I’m referring to Yaldabaoth or whatever he calls himself. The god of control that gave us the chance to recite the obligatory “mankind needs no gods” spiel before shooting him in the face with a bigger, badder god of our own. If I’ve learned anything from JRPGs, it’s that anything and everything is […]

Persona 5 Royal, 74 hours in – Okay they’re dumb, but not THAT dumb (late game spoilers)

Since my last post, I’ve been steadily plugging away at Persona 5 Royal and really enjoying the whole “actual game with a beginning and an end” thing. Unless the ending is dreadful, I’ll be quite sorry to see it go. In fact I’ve already added Persona 5 Strikers to my Nintendo wishlist, just waiting for […]

Persona 5 Royal – 44 hours in, tons of fun! (mid-game spoilers)

I’d forgotten how much fun it can be to play a JRPG with an actual start and finish. Persona 5 Royal‘s story is still immature, bordering on the ridiculous, but I keep reminding myself that they’re just kids and then it becomes slightly bearable. For example even a toddler knows better than to get into […]