I would have been playing Picross (PICROSS S NAMCO LEGENDARY edition, to be precise) anyway because it’s one of my favorite game series and a must-buy whenever it comes out, but it didn’t help help that the extra dungeon in Persona 5 Royal is just so boring. I don’t care about any of the added characters or their long drawn-out sob stories, but at the same time I can’t bring myself to drop the game. Urghghhh.

I keep telling myself to just drop it like I’ve done with so many others before, but I’m so close to the end… Gaahhh… And that’s why I’ve been taking refuge in the latest Picross. I know almost none of the Namco characters or games depicted, except Pac-Man, but that has never stopped me before. The only thing that stops me from playing Picross is that Jupiter/Nintendo isn’t releasing them fast enough. You people, don’t you like money?

I’m a bit disgruntled this time because the Mega Picross puzzles are just too easy. I’ve almost finished all of them. And as usual there are only a few Color Picross puzzles even though it’s my favorite mode. They were too easy too. I don’t think it’s because I’ve gotten better at this, because a few weeks ago I was (re-re-re)playing Picross e6 on the 3DS and getting stuck all over the place. I still haven’t finished all the puzzles in that game, and I wonder if I ever will (correction: apparently I’ve finished it before. Which means my skills have declined? Yikes).

So anyway, if I’ve been gone a while, it’s because the third semester in Persona 5 Royal is a boring, bloated mess that is steadily depleting all the goodwill I had built up for the game. I’ve already removed Persona 5 Tactica from my Switch wishlist ‘cos I’m like nah, I don’t wanna deal with these people any more.

That said! I also re-downloaded Another Eden last week and I’m doing the Persona 5 collab again but this time I actually know who all these people are, so that’s kind of cool. I also downloaded an AFK gacha game called Magic Chronicle Isekai RPG because Bluestacks recommended it. I’ve never been this aggressively marketed to in my life, it’s amazing. Pop-ups and sales all over the place and constant roadblocks if you’re not strong enough – which you won’t be, you F2P pig-dog. I’ll talk about it some other time, right now I’m just enjoying it in a perverse kind of way.

I’m planning to take a break from Epic Seven and also force myself to finish P5R this weekend, so I’ll have more time for playing and writing about new games. Here’s hoping I don’t fill the gap with more Picross!