January 2022 gaming roundup

I keep meaning to do a proper post on all these games, but that would cut into my gaming time, so take this mass post for now. Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi: The only “proper,” non-gacha game I’m playing. Made good progress, too. Just finished the Dying Light Forest, for anyone who has played it. The […]

Happy New Year 2022! + Sorting out gacha games

Happy new year everyone! Can you believe we’re already 10 days into the year? It feels like Christmas was only yesterday, but now it’s already time to go back to school/work. And so another year begins. I had a lot of time to think about gaming over the new year break. Specifically why I’ve moved […]

Major Spoilers for Another Eden – Found out about the Cat beyond Time and Space

I’m still playing the same five games regularly: Rakuen Seikatsu Hitsujimura, Genshin Impact (once a week), Love Nikki, Shining Nikki and Another Eden. Apart from Another Eden, they’re all time-gated in some way or another, which means I can’t play them for very long every day. And Another Eden crashes without fail every ten minutes […]

Another Eden: The Cat beyond Time and Space – Grindier than I’d thought

As I’d thought, there’s always a catch in these supposedly stamina-free mobile RPGs. Another Eden: The Cat beyond Time and Space bills itself as a JRPG that just happens to be on mobile platforms. But you’d be crazy to think you can just zoom from story point to story point freely. I mean you can, […]

Started Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space (very early thoughts)

another eden loading screen

You might look at the dearth of posts on this blog this year and think I’ve quit gaming. Nothing of the sort has happened. It’s just that I’m playing mostly casual browser and gacha games where nothing much happens from day to day. Those games provide a nice dopamine hit when I need it, and […]