December 21-27, 2025
That’s right, this is the last weekly update for my blog. After posting every week in 2025, it’s time to move on. I want to thank everyone who took the time to read these posts this year. There were some fun moments, but the time I put into my blog far outweighed the enjoyment I got out of it. Maybe if there was more community engagement, I would be motivated to continue. As it stands though, I feel like I’ve been writing into the void, so I think it’s time to move on. This won’t be my last post; I still have the December monthly and 2025 year in review posts coming in a few days. Let’s get started one last time with my acquisitions from the past week.
Game Acquisitions
Two weeks in a row without spending anything on games. I’m nailing the holiday anti-consumerism! That doesn’t mean I didn’t get any freebies though. Sorry We’re Closed looks like a fun neon horror experience that was given away on Epic. Saga of the Moon Priestess was given away on itch.io and looks like a cool short retro RPG throwback. THOTH was won in a Reddit contest and could be an enjoyable co-op title if I find someone to play with. The four retro titles are part of the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection which was recently given away for free on Stove. Most of the titles that are part of the collection don’t appeal to me, but these four at least look like they could be a good time so I added them individually.
# of Games: 7
Total Money Spent: $0
Price/Game: $0
Game Recaps
Not a bad playtime for having only played four days. This is all from Sunday-Wednesday as I was busy the remainder of the week. As I suspected, the fight with Louis at the Royal Capital was not the final battle. Right before I was about to defeat him, he used dark magic to turn me into a human temporarily to scare everyone into dropping their support for me and endorsing him instead. We escaped and have been rebuilding our strength and reputation since then. I also made it back to the Elda village and found out the truth behind their tribe and the world as a whole. I even learned that the protagonist was the idealized form of the prince I’ve been working to save created from magla (magic) and have since merged with his body to become the prince. That one I didn’t see coming. I just completed all of the requests available except for the dragon trials and final boss so now I need to debate what I’m gonna do with the limited time I have left. I really want to raise my attributes to max out my bonds, but I don’t know if I have enough time to do it. It’s gonna be a close one! Anyway, here are the latest public videos from my playthroughs and playlists if you wanna catch up on everything.
TV/Movie Recaps
Here is everything I watched last week:
· Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight Season 1 Episodes 2-15 (still watching, show ended)
· Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
I think I’m enjoying Chronicles of the Heroic Knight more than the original series. It’s easier for me to follow at least. Some of the voice acting is still not great and the animation looks basically the same, but the characters are more interesting and the story mostly makes sense. I’m not a big Mission Impossible fan, but it’s one of those cases where I’ve watched all the previous movies, so I feel obligated to watch this one. It is the next to last installment after all, so I’m almost done. It was an enjoyable, high-production action flick which was my expectation. I feel like I would’ve liked it more if I remembered literally any of the lore, but just like Fast and Furious, it’s been around for so long that there’s way too much to keep track of for me to care anymore. Even still, I would recommend it to any action movie fans.
Conclusion/Upcoming
Once again, thank you to everyone who took the time to read my gaming progress this year. It’s unfortunate that the year I started a gaming blog was the year I had the lowest amount of completions on record. There were a number of factors for this including the return to office, taking time to blog, editing every gameplay recording to restart my gaming channel, and taking a break of several months to start my unexpected emulation journey. I only paused when I learned about Microsoft Rewards earning enough for me to subscribe to PC Game Pass indefinitely free of charge so that is my main focus. I’ll get back to it when that is no longer the case. For this week, I’m planning on finishing up the Record of Lodoss War anime and then watching the last of Stranger Things. I’ll also be finishing up Mission Impossible with The Final Reckoning. On the gaming front, it’s looking like I’ll once again be focusing only on Metaphor: ReFantazio. I didn’t get to Monster Camp last week and it’s looking like I won’t be playing it this week either. I really wanted to finish up Metaphor before the end of the year, but that is looking less and less likely. Since this will be my last post of 2025, I want to wish you all a happy new year! I’ll be back next with my December monthly followed by the 2025 annual. Thanks for reading!
Backlog total: 3,795 (+8)
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