June 8-14, 2025
Once again, just as it looked like I wouldn’t get gaming time in, my friend came to the rescue on Saturday for more Phantasia (and other stuff). My emulation cataloging is coming along very slowly but surely. I decided to expand my horizons a bit from just Nintendo and PlayStation consoles. They’ll still be the vast majority, but I wanted to see if there are any exclusive games on more obscure consoles that are worth playing. Somehow my first stop landed on the Nokia N-Gage of all things. Not a huge library, but there were a few turn-based strategy games that looked intriguing, and a 3D version of Snake! I’ve got that emulator and the games set up and ready to go.
Game Acquisitions
Only a single game this week, that’s a first 😮 I’m not even sure it’s a game I’ll be interested in as I’m not usually a fan of puzzle games, but this one is co-op focused, and everything is better with friends. And of course, free as usual.
# of Games: 1
Total Money Spent: $0
Price/Game: $0
Game Recaps
Several more hours of Phantasia were played! We’re nearly 30 hours in now and just got to the start of The Valhalla War. Along the way, we also fought some basilisks, met the Elven chief Brambald, mended a couple more pact rings, and fought our way through the Zodiac Tower to make a pact with Luna, the Spirit of the Moon. Things are really heating up now. Check out our playthrough below! These videos will be going up June 30th-July 4th as I continue my daily uploads to catch up from my Game Pass binge last month.
TV/Movie Recaps
Here is everything I watched this week:
· The Last of Us Season 2 Episodes 3-7 (all caught up, show ongoing)
· Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 Episode 1 (still watching, show ongoing)
· My Little Pony: Make Your Mark Season 2 Episode 7 (still watching, show ended)
· The Boondock Saints
Just as I suspected, The Last of Us continues to be a depressing show (but so good!). It didn’t differ from the game as much as I thought it would, apart from expanding more on the characters. I’m wary of season 3 given how season 2 ended and how the game goes. It was cool going back to the world of Daredevil, it’s been so many years since I watched the Netflix shows. They really crammed a lot into the first episode. Even My Little Pony had some decent story development in the season 2 finale. Only two more short seasons there and then everything else are short 2D YouTube videos. It’s a shame the show got canceled the way it did. The Boondock Saints was a recent addition to my movie list, and it yet again pushed back my Ghost in the Shell deep dive. That’s OK though, it was a good movie despite a couple little nitpicks I have with the plot.
Conclusion/Upcoming
Things are getting intense in Tales of Phantasia. Luckily, I think we’re a tad overleveled at the moment so haven’t had too much difficulty. I’m curious how this next section will go. It’s gonna be weird being able to see enemies in the overworld instead of just stumbling into them. I bet it’s going to be another maze; the game seems very fond of them. On the emulation front, I’ve finished adding DS, 3DS, GameCube, and PS1 games to my list. I’m almost done with PS2 games which I think has the biggest library. My other consoles to go through after that originally included the PS3, PSP, Vita, SNES, N64, Switch, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance. After some more research, I’ve decided to look into the 3DO, TurboGrafx-16, all major Sega consoles, NES, Game Boy, OG Xbox, and Xbox 360. I don’t expect to find much on the older consoles, they’re either archaic, arcadey, or have had their most noteworthy games re-released on later platforms. The Xbox and Xbox 360 are also notoriously difficult to emulate so I’m not sure I’ll find anything worth playing that will work but we’ll see. Like I said earlier, slowly but surely!
For this week, I plan on watching through all of Daredevil, then maybe some Tales from the Loop if I still have time. I also just added another movie to my list to watch next, 11:14. I know nothing about it, but my friend recommended it to me. Surely, I’ll finally be starting Ghost in the Shell next week, right? Speaking of, I found out there are three older Ghost in the Shell games released on older PlayStation consoles during my emulation research. I added them to my list, I may have to move those higher up in my upcoming games list. No gaming planned this week, but I do have Thursday off work for Juneteenth so hopefully I can make some good emulation progress. That’s all for now, thanks for reading!
Backlog total: 3,290 (+1)
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