June 29 - July 5, 2025
Slower week than I expected given the three-day weekend. My friend and I hung out this week but didn’t get around to Phantasia. I’ve been too tired from work with the beginning of the fiscal year and all to get much done afterwards so I only managed to get a couple consoles cataloged. More on that in the conclusion section below.
Game Acquisitions
A small selection right now, but I am currently eyeing the July Humble Choice mainly for Rogue Trader and Cat Quest III. I’m also currently looking at Fanatical’s Platinum Collection - Build your own Bundle (July 2025). I’m waiting for a Reddit trade confirmation before jumping in so stay tuned on that. I did pay a dollar for Kaze and the Wild Masks in another Fanatical bundle which seems like a good price for that game. The others were freebies as usual.
# of Games: 4
Total Money Spent: $1.06
Price/Game: $0.27
TV/Movie Recaps
Here is everything I watched this week:
· Tales from the Loop Season 1 Episodes 4-8 (complete)
· Family Guy Season 23 Episode 16 (all caught up, show ongoing)
· Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Season 1 Episodes 1-6 (still watching, show ended)
· Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
I enjoyed Tales from the Loop all the way through. A few plots throughout the season were incorporated into the finale which was nice. It never really dove into what the Loop is or does which was a bummer. I suppose that wasn’t really the point of it all though and just a maguffin for all the weird goings-on for the show. I guess that’s good enough for me. I also watched the second Ghost in the Shell movie and started diving into the show. I’m still very early in the show so I can’t really say anything there yet. The movie was very good. The visuals were even better than the first one. They really went over the top here; I think it rivals any anime that comes out today. This is high praise considering the movie is OVER 20 YEARS OLD. Crazy. It did do the establishing shot thing from the first movie again. I know it was probably just to show off how beautiful the movie is, but it just felt like padding to me. There was an air of pretentiousness with the characters quoting philosophical sayings at each other, and the main character from the first movie didn’t show up until the very end which was disappointing. Other than those minor gripes though, I still had a very good time.
Conclusion/Upcoming
So yeah, not a lot going on this week unfortunately. I was looking forward to Tales of Phantasia, it’s been a few weeks since I’ve played anything. That’s OK though, it gave me that much more time to continue the emulation cataloging. I mentioned in my last post that I had the Sega Saturn, original Game Boy, the NES, and the 3DO coming up. I managed to finish up the Saturn and it seems I was correct. There do appear to be quite a few hidden gems on that system. I finished up the Game Boy too. I added more games from there than I expected. I’m working on the NES now which I thought I was going to have finished already. Slowly but surely. Along with diving into Ghost in the Shell, cataloging will continue to be my main focus for this week. Sorry for the short update, one of these days I’ll get back to gaming for something more substantial. Thanks for reading!
Backlog total: 3,308 (+4)
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