November 30 - December 6, 2025
With Thanksgiving behind us, I had another co-op gaming session with Monster Prom 2. There was tons of Metaphor: ReFantazio gaming of course, and a surprisingly good value bundle purchase. Let’s get into it.
Game Acquisitions
To kick off their BundleFestive event, Fanatical revealed their newest Build your own Killer Bundle. Their Killer Bundles used to be some of the best they offered, but lately they’ve been making the bundles way too big and expensive with too many repeats for bundle buyers like me. To celebrate their 1500th bundle (apparently), this seemed to be a welcome return to form. The games were only $1 each if you bought at least 10 of them. That beats the historical low buy a lot for basically everything offered, and I had no issue finding 10 to add to cart. I managed to hold off on their other BundleFestive offerings, despite there being a couple games in each that looked appealing. I also chose not to redeem the December Humble Choice. I’m interested in Nine Sols, but it’s still on Game Pass so I’m going to try to play it on there sometime next year. The other games were freebies or generous giveaways from Sobequ on HLTB.
# of Games: 16
Total Money Spent: $10.09
Price/Game: $0.63
Game Recaps
My friend and I finished one full game of Monster Prom 2 instead of just the medium game we played last time. We both made the mistake of picking the same animal at the beginning of the game as the last time, which apparently dictates which love interest shows up the most. As a result, Joy kept showing up for me and Damien for my friend even though that’s who we went with already. As a result, I ended up not getting a date to the meteor shower, although my friend managed to romance Calculester. I think after this we’re just gonna try a couple of short games to get other endings and call it there. Not a bad game, but not a lot of depth either. I made a ton of progress in Metaphor: ReFantazio though. I completed the Grand Trad Mausoleum, Tomb of Lament, Abandoned Tomb, and Charadrius dungeons. I also maxed out my first social link with Strohl! Now I’m on Virga Island and am about to start doing more requests from there. Here’s the latest public video for both games as well as Expedition 33 which is still slowly becoming available. I’ve also linked the playlists if you want to catch up on everything.
TV/Movie Recaps
Here is everything I watched last week:
· Berserk 2016 Season 2 Episodes 9-12 (complete)
· Star Wars Visions Season 3 Episodes 1-9 (complete)
· Blue Submarine No. 6 Season 1 Episodes 1-2 (still watching, show ended)
· The Accountant 2
Almost three TV show completions last week! That might be a new record. Granted, I was at the end of Berserk already and Star Wars Visions and Blue Submarine No. 6 are short watches but still. Berserk ended on a cliffhanger as I feared, so I’ll have to read the manga if I want to experience more of the story. Star Wars Visions season 3 thankfully went back to the roots of season 1 by having a different anime studio working on each episode. It was good for the most part, although I wasn’t a fan of the last episode and some of the voice acting throughout could’ve been better. I suspect it will be a controversial season. The third episode titled The Ninth Jedi is getting its own spinoff though so that’s pretty cool. Blue Submarine No. 6 is fine so far, although I can already tell it’s gonna come and go without much fanfare. I just don’t think four episodes is enough time to establish the world and characters as well as introduce and wrap up the plot. I guess I’ll find out the day this post goes up since I should have it finished by then. The Accountant 2 was alright but not nearly as good as the first one. I’m bummed they killed off J.K. Simmons at the very beginning and Anna Kendrick didn’t reprise her role. It felt like a missed opportunity there. I don’t know how I feel about them essentially weaponizing Autism with the kids and can’t tell if it's in poor taste or not. I’ll leave that up to someone else to decide.
Conclusion/Upcoming
Overall, this was a pretty good week in gaming and TV. Metaphor: ReFantazio continues to be an enjoyable time. I think I’ve finally gotten a good grasp on how everything works. I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the calendar system since it feels like I’m rushing sometimes, but there’s no denying that it seems to keep the pace up for the plot.
For next week, I’m diving headfirst in the Record of Lodoss War anime. Like Berserk and Blue Submarine No. 6, it’s an anime I discovered while researching retro games to add to my backlog. I’ll also be watching Peter Jackson’s King Kong Movie, all 3+ hours of it 🫠I’m hoping to get a short game of Monster Prom 2 in with some new characters but if not, it’ll just be more Metaphor. That’s all for now, thanks for reading!
Backlog total: 3,760 (+19)
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