September 21-27, 2025
Didn’t get to Tales of Phantasia this week but made a decent amount of progress with emulation testing. This will be a shorter update as a result.
Game Acquisitions
I made another purchase this week, it was Fanatical’s cheapest bundle offering of 5/$3. I technically got six games since one of them was a dual pack so a really good value overall. Little Witch in the Woods was yet another Steam family purchase along with Arcade Spirits (they’ve been buying a lot lately!) and it looks super cute. The rest were giveaways as usual.
# of Games: 10
Total Money Spent: $3
Price/Game: $0.30
I had a very productive testing weekend. A lot of JRPG series here. Before my emulation research I had never heard of any of these except Dark Cloud and Parasite Eve and now I’m really looking forward to games like Arc the Lad and Jeanne d’Arc. I was enjoying Jade Cocoon 2 also while testing, may have gotten carried away by putting over an hour into it 😅
TV/Movie Recaps
Here is everything I watched this week:
· Pokémon Concierge Season 1 Episodes 1-8 (complete)
· My Little Pony: Make Your Mark Season 3 Episodes 3-4 (complete)
· LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy Season 2 Episodes 1-4 (complete)
· Marvel’s Zombies Season 1 Episode 1 (still watching, show ended)
· Happy Gilmore
A lot of short series this week, and a movie rewatch with Happy Gilmore. I don’t think I’ve seen that movie since I was a teenager though, so it’s been quite a while. Pokémon Concierge was absolutely adorable, and I encourage any Pokémon fan to go out and watch it. LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy Season 2 was basically more “Fun Cameos: The Show” which was fine but not a lot of substance there. Still funny at times so a mild recommendation for Star Wars fans. My Little Pony: Make Your Mark officially marks (😜) the end of the 3D portion of the show, now I only have the 2D portion Tell Your Tale left. It was abruptly canceled but the fans dug up the rest of the episodes ranging from mostly done to animatics only, so it’ll be a weird ending. The “finale” (episode 3) was alright, although it still doesn’t hold a candle to Friendship is Magic. The “Christmas special” (episode 4) introduced a new setting and villain which I happen to know will be a reoccurring character in Tell Your Tale. We’ll see if she ends up being more compelling than an evil alicorn.
Conclusion/Upcoming
Another slow week this week, just slowly whittling away at this emulation thing. I was at 382 lines and am sitting at 369 now. I did end up redeeming four months of PC Game Pass, but they came as codes that don’t expire until a year from now or later so no rush there. There are rumors that the ability to redeem Game Pass directly with Microsoft Rewards points is going away at the end of the month in favor of just buying Xbox gift cards which will make everything more expensive. As a result, I decided to cash in the points I accumulated just in case. Hopefully this doesn’t derail my plans just as I started getting in the groove of earning points. I think Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will be my first game on the platform; I really don’t want to miss that before it leaves the service.
Plans for next week will include more short shows and the Happy Gilmore sequel. I’ve got Alien: Earth, Futurama, and Marvel’s Zombies coming up next which will probably take more than a week to get through. On the gaming front, it’s probably going to be the usual with possible Phantasia and more emulation stuff. Now that I’ve got the Game Pass codes ready to go, it is making me want to actually start playing games again. I might bite the bullet sometime soon. Anyway, that’s all for now. Thanks for reading!
Backlog total: 3,606 (+32)
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