MisterDeutsch

We played the Dixie cards to shreds, so we were glad to find a new way to play.

The years of StreetPass (especially the games like MiiForce) were a wonderful time. It’s the Nintendo I miss most right now.

Mostly Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent here. After the board game convention, I’ve needed a break from anything long form. I still haven’t touched Xenoblade Chronicles X, but I’m hoping to finish chapter 13 this week.

I bought Golden Lap on Steam since the YouTubers I was watching play it aren’t posting fast enough for me to control my purchasing. Fifteen dollars well spent so far. It’s a minimalist F1 management game. I’m a big fan of management simulators; I expect if Football Manager 26 ever comes out, I’ll be posting about that as well.

For board games, I figured this link would best explain my convention: BoardGameGeek, Maxwell’s Dice Tower East ‘25 Plays Highlights include Hot Streak (a degenerate gambling game), Rebel Princess (a Hearts-like trick-taking game), Best Treehouse Ever (a simple building game similar to Castles of Mad King Ludwig), and Twinkle Twinkle (a star-chart making game). Honorable mention to Zoo Vadis, a politics game about becoming the mascot of the zoo. I don’t think I’ll be able to convince my group to play that one, but it’s mostly wheeling and dealing.

I’m at Dice Tower East, a board game convention! I’ll try to post Sunday with a giant list.

I started Xenoblade Chronicles X Chapter 13, Act 3 the day before the convention.

I don’t know if I’ll be playing anything this weekend; we’re days away from my yearly board game convention, Dice Tower East! For five days next week, I’ll be checking board games out of their library, learning dozens of new (to me) rule sets, and easing my ten-year-old into his first gaming convention experience. If I get a chance, I’ll play my favorite game Fog of Love, but I’d need a babysitter to pull that one off.

If I manage to play something besides Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent, I’ll let y'all know.

Jon Watts says the pandemic fatigue made him step back.

I’m off in the wilds of North Carolina, but I did bring the Switch 2. It’s family reunion time so Mario Kart World is getting the most screen time.

Mostly, we’re playing family board games: The Crew (cooperative trick taking) Green Team Wins (“trivia” game where the right answer is what the plurality of players selects) 13 Beavers (a push your luck game that seems like it was created just to hear seven year olds shout “dam”) Flip 7 (another Push Your Luck game that encourages card counting)

I went to see a minor league baseball game last night! That counts as gaming because I bought a replica jersey, I think.

I love the Picross games!

I’m looking forward to (hopefully) the full FF7 trilogy on Switch 2, but for the life of me, I can’t memorize the naming scheme of the parts!

This looks really neat! It’s giving me Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles vibes.

Mario Kart World! A friend showed me his “walking into Super Nintendo World at Epic” video and I realized that what I’ve been calling Mario Kart 8 2 might be attached to a broader naming scheme. Isn’t the next Mario movie called Super Mario World? I ran my first 100 CC race and won by the skin of my teeth. I can’t imagine I’ll find much success in 150 CC.

I have not been back to Xenoblade Chronicles X this week. I finished the first part of chapter 13, but my first full week of summer vacation has been focused on the taxi dad game.

I have spared a lot of time for Picross S 8. It’s such a wonderful way to listen to podcasts for a person who can’t normally multitask. I’m more than half done, but the puzzles I could complete in five minutes or less are in the rear view mirror now.

I checked out Robotics;dash Elite form the library again and gave it about an hour. I LOVE Steins;gate, but it’s been hard getting into other visual novels in the Science Adventure Series. Maybe I’m just not in a reading mood lately.

I checked out It’s A Wonderful World from the library and played it with my older child. It was a little bland and I lost pretty badly (just like the first time I played). I bought a tetromino game called Square One. It was over so quickly and very theme-less. I liked it a little, but I won’t be able to get is to the table again soon, I bet.

Finally, the game getting the most play is Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent. It’s the third anniversary (or maybe 4th), so there’s a lot of new stuff around. I’m still dodging the story for other bits. As long as it’s fun, it’s fine.

I bought this at launch and didn’t open it because it is a game key instead of a game on a cartridge. I’m planning on returning it this weekend and buying it from the eShop when its time to play arrives.

I was so excited to see Urchin Underpass. It reminded me of the early days of Wii U!