December 7-13, 2025
That’s right, last week was my birthday! And also the Game Awards which is almost as important I guess. Expedition 33 won basically everything it was nominated for which I’m happy about. It’s my personal GOTY as well. My brother and I hung out and played a few co-op games together which was a good time. I also bought a few more games to help pad my yearly game spending apparently.
Game Acquisitions
My first purchase of the week was a single game instead of a bundle which is rare for me. I bought The Medium which finally hit my price point. I split the cost with my usual co-op partner and spent the rest of my Steam wallet funds to do it. First on the list of three bundles purchased this week was Fanatical’s Build your own Holiday Bundle (2025) which is their cheapest bundle pricing at 5/$3. The games in this tier at least show some promise, and at $0.60, I’m not out much if it turns out to be a dud. Next up is Humble Bundle’s Award Nomination Bundle. Humble Bundles haven’t been as good as Fanatical’s lately in my opinion because they’re usually too expensive or have too many duplicates of games I already own since they don’t have a pick-and-mix structure like Fanatical. This one came out of nowhere though and has tons of good games at a cheap price. I’m still not interested in three of the games on offer, but the historical low of the other six is way higher than the top tier asking price so I’m more than happy to jump in. Lastly, I picked up a VR bundle which are usually way too expensive to justify compared to flatscreen bundles. Specifically, this was Fanatical’s Build Your own Hyper VR Bundle. The pricing tier is the same as their Platinum Collections which is usually the highest pricing tier I consider at 3/$10, 5/$15, or 7/$20. I went with the five-game option here as well and am really looking forward to RUINSMAGUS and The Light Brigade in particular. Once again, this way undercuts the historical lows for these games.
# of Games: 19
Total Money Spent: $26.60
Price/Game: $1.40
Game Recaps
As the title suggests, I had a variety of games to play this week! Metaphor: ReFantazio is my ongoing single-player game of course, but I played an hour and a half or so of three different games with my brother for my birthday. I decided not to edit and upload the footage since there’s no commentary and I don’t know if or when I’ll be going back to these later to finish them. They were each fun pick-up-and-play games, and we were so close to beating Pizza Possum. You have to beat the game three times in a row though with no checkpoints on the second and third runs which seems overly punishing and repetitive. We made it to two but lost on our third run. Maybe down the line we can revisit it and get that elusive third crown. In Human Fall Flat, we completed the Mansion, Train, Carry, and Mountain levels according to my achievements list. I was enjoying myself, but I’m not sure my brother was. I’ll keep it in the co-op list just in case. In Moving Out, we finished the first area and did the first corporate job in the second. We’re not great at finishing the levels quickly, but at least the requirements for bronze medals are generous so far. Lastly, in Metaphor, I completed the Scoundrel’s Hold, Forsaken Tower, Orbwise Path, and Dragon’s Temple. That last one was a real doozy. I attempted the Spire of Blind Faith as well but didn’t realize I was underleveled and had to leave with my tail tucked. It feels like three days of travel wasted, which sucks. Time (and mana) feel like precious resources in this game, so I’m bummed whenever I feel like I waste them. Oh well, hopefully it gets better. There was a big revelation in the Dragon Temple about the world being set in the far future of Earth after humans were wiped out and the few that are left turning into giant monsters. I saw it coming a while ago, but it was cool seeing the reveal regardless. Here are the latest videos of Metaphor, Monster Prom 2, and Expedition 33 on my YouTube channel and playlists where you can watch everything so far:
TV/Movie Recaps
Here is everything I watched last week:
· Blue Submarine No. 6 Season 1 Episodes 3-4 (complete)
· Record of Lodoss War Season 1 Episodes 1-4 (still watching, show ended)
· The Truman Show
I finished up the super short Blue Submarine anime which left me feeling unsatisfied. What was there was interesting enough (except for some of the monster designs and voices, those could’ve been better). As I feared, it passed way too quickly for me to really care about what was happening. After that, I started my next anime with Record of Lodoss War. So far, it’s filled with poor 90s animation and English voice acting. The Japanese dub might be better but I’m a die-hard dub over sub so I’m powering through with it anyway. I like the world well enough but don’t feel particularly attached to any of the characters. It’s only a 13-episode series with a two-season second series coming next so maybe this first show is just them testing things out. Instead of watching King Kong as my movie for the week like I planned, I ended up watching The Truman Show with my brother. I already knew the “twist” (the movie is 27 years old after all), but I still enjoyed it despite that. It was nice seeing Jim Carrey in a more serious role for a change.
Conclusion/Upcoming
Only two more weekly updates to go in 2025! What a ride it’s been. This was a lighter week this week on account of my birthday and the Game Awards taking up my time. I’m not complaining though, tis the season and all that. It’s even snowing outside as I type this ☺️ It was nice hanging out with my brother, I don’t get to see him enough. Maybe I’ll even do it again this week for Christmas 😉 Other things coming up this week include potentially finishing the first Record of Lodoss War anime and moving on to the next show in the series Chronicles of the Heroic Knight. I’ll probably also get to King Kong this week, all three+ hours of it. More Metaphor is happening of course, and maybe a short game of Monster Prom 2 which I didn’t get to last week. Hopefully more awesome bundles don’t keep coming out for me to spend my money on. Or hopefully they do 👀 Anyway, that’s it from me this week, thanks for reading!
Backlog total: 3,779 (+19)
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