🎶When it’s over, That's the time I fall in love again🎶

A few day’s ago, I finished the vidjia game I was so into Ys Origin. Now what? What do I play? First world problems right. I dislike this feeling of, finishing something fun and what to do/play next. There are a few games out there on my wishlist plus all the ones in my backlog. Some of the ones in my backlog I might have played for a while but they didn’t click with me thus, why they’re still part of my backlog unfinished. I revisit them and see if I can click and play them. I remember this happening with ASTRAL CHAIN. It wasn’t until I revisited it that it clicked and boy did I have fun with it.

A few games on my radar at them moment are Morbid: The Seven Acolytes and Star Renegades both on the Switch. They both are indie games, rouge-like. They also look a little difficult and I have been watching YouTube videos on both of them to see how difficult they really are 😅

I don’t want to invest in a game that then I’ll be frustrated playing. Best example of that is Blasphemous, love the game, the lore and the art but man it frustrates the hell out of me. And yet, I do revisit and try again from time to time.

Also I would like to play AC Valhalla but, I don’t know I kinda want to play games on the switch for a bit.

These days I am less and less interested in what used to be my go-to and favorite thing, technology podcasts. I still do listen to a few, like The Rebound, it's a fun and festive one — to me at least. In the end technology podcasts just bored me to death.

What I have been listening to a lot of are music-related podcasts, video games, movies, history, monsters, and mythology. Legends of old and historical tales. Or simply people chatting about stuff, not necessarily technology or any topics specifically but cool stuff that I can relate to.

Mythology and monsters are something that really fascinates me. The fact that these tales of creatures are out there is very interesting to me, same with mythology in general. It is like part of me wishes these creatures and tales were true a hundred percent (some of them), that these beings existed or do exists still.

Podcast Roll

• Chente Ydrach
• Core Intuition
• Don’t Be Crazy
• The Geek Legacy Podcast
• Geek Legacy’s Pixelated Podcast
• Hemispheric Views
• Lex Fridman Podcast
• Lore
• Micro Monday
• Mythical Monsters
• Mythology
• The Nintendo Shack
• PAL KEYS
• Project Human
• Questlove Supreme
• The Liner Project
• The Rebound
• Reply All
• Resistance
• Song Explorer
• Switched on Pop
• Tales
• We Have Concerns

I finished Ys Origin on the Nintendo Switch and what a fantastic game. I gave my first impressions a little bit ago when I first started playing. At the time I was aware of the game having three playable characters, but what I didn’t know was how different each of their stories is. I thought it’d be simply different perspectives of the same story but ultimately the same. Boy was I wrong! There is real character development here, each have their own back story, motivations and struggles. Each character’s story feels like a different game entirely. With Toal’s being my favorite one of the three.

I really enjoyed playing Ys, having finished all three arcs, There’s still some replayability, other modes to play and a “ NewGame+” kind of system. You don’t keep upgrades and abilities but they give you extra ep points that you can use early in the game for some useful upgrades.

Thumbs up 👍🏼 for this game.

From December 7th, Skype will no longer be available at the company. Making Teams our tool for instant messaging (chat) and also for one-to-one calls, file sharing, and team collaboration. I don’t know how I feel about this. Not that Skype was perfect but I got used to its interface. Perhaps because my first messaging tool I’ve ever used was Messenger, and Skype very much resembles that one. Although I think I did use something before Messenger, I think. Teams, it’s weird. I don’t know what it is but I am having a hard time using it.

This is probably just me yelling, “don’t piss on my Cheerios”

Today I went ahead and hanged the pull-up bar from the door frame. Obviously the idea is to start working my way up with the pull-ups there. As I am doing my parallel gripped pull-up, Luna walks by. “Me too papa, me too!”

I had the idea of wrapping her with my legs and do a pull-up while holding her with my legs.

Well….

Nope, I couldn’t move, I just hang there. 😅

And just like that, it is Monday, again, like every week. However, today is a heavier one. After an entire week off, coming back to work seems rough. This is the first time since I had started this job that I have taken time off. Last night I could not sleep, All I was doing was thinking about all the things work-related. I even dreamt about it, and it was awful.

Luckily though, judging by the emails, a lot of my things were taken care of. Things aren’t as bad as I had imagined. I’ve never thought of myself as a control-freak, not sure if my worries stemmed from that or just the fact that this is my first time taking time off on this job.

I have been off from work since the 21st, and I am coming back to work tomorrow (Monday the 30th). I am a little stressed by that, more so than if I’ve only had a 3 day-weekend or something like that. I am expecting a lot of unattended emails and some backlog. Part of me wants to open my work email in mental preparation for what’s coming tomorrow. That or just enjoy my last day off sipping on beer and let feature me worry about all the work stuff.

Ys Origin on the Nintendo Switch

Enter the World of Ys and discover one of the greatest japanese A-RPG of all time.

If I got my facts correctly, this game had been around since 2006 when it originally released, or 2012 when it was initially localised.It is an action-RPG, think of games like Diablo and or Zelda.

I got this game back in October when released and it wasn’t until these past week when I finally got around it. Blame Ghost of Tsushima and Hades. I am somewhat familiar with the Y’s series of games. Possibly my first Y’s game experience was on the PlayStation 2, I think.

When this one was announced I was already sold. I am a sucker for retro style pixel art action-RPG’s and even more so for dungeon crawlers, which is the vibe this game gave me.

So far I got about 13 to 15 hours into this game and I am having a really good time. You start with two playable characters, each with unique skillsets and powers. Actually, there are three different characters but if I remember correctly you need to finish the game with the firs at two in order to unlock the third. The setting is simple, demons are attacking Y’s, there are these twin goddesses that protect Y’s and they have disappeared in this tower and it’s your mission to find them and rescue them.

And of course, there more to it. The entire game is you in this tower going up from floor to floor

The game is not too difficult, although, I am playing on the easiest setting. I am not for a challenge, I am for a good time and the story. Still the more you progress some enemies get a little challenging to beat. Boss fights are fun, they all have an exploit, it’s just a matter of finding it, and once you do, it’s... not quite a peace of cake but neither frustrating.

So far I am really invested in these characters and the story so far. Like in games like Diablo, there is some grinding, mostly in order to level-up and acquiring gems for upgrades but I think you can get by without too much grinding.

I love the pixel art and the music it’s amazing. I am definitely a fan of this game.

If you are into action-RPG’s, dungeon crawlers and pixels, I highly endorse this game 😎

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