Here's a new (hopefully) weekly post on the blog; the Fatman's Gaming week. While I don't buy new games EVERY week (usually), I play games every week of the year. This week wasn't a big week but because of my addiction, I made it a big week.
I took part in GameStop's usual Buy 2 Get 1 Free during the first week of the year. I've been on a Switch kick lately, mostly in part to Smash Bros, and I've gone in great lengths to increase my library, both physically and digitally. Before December started, I only owned The End Is Nigh and The World Ends With You physically and a few digital titles. I now own way too many titles to play. Anyway, I bought Runner 3, Sushi Striker and Moonlighter, which I also bought on PS4 when it first came out.
Sushi Striker is a fun hybrid but I can see myself forgetting about it in the weeks to come. Puzzle games aren't really my jam but the RPGness of it and a good sale made me bite. I got three hours in this week alone. Runner 3 is the first in the series that I've played. I just wanted a simple platformer to play in short bursts when I don't have hours and hours to game. I got through the first world and the first three impossible levels. This is good practice for whenever Super Meat Boy Forever releases in April. Moonlighter was one of my favorite games in 2018. The maintenance of your shop mixed with rouge lite action RPG gameplay made for a fun and addictive loop of gameplay. There were plenty of times with the PS4 version where I would say, let's do one more dungeon trek and be done for the day, then I would find amazing new expensive loot, sell it and have enough money for upgrades to my shop or new weapons or armor. The cycle would continue and I would lose hours upon hours in the game. I never finished the PS4 version and since I haven't played the game is months, I thought it would be time to give it a go again. I was right. It fits in perfectly with the Switch's library and even better on the go. I've stayed up way too late a few times this week due to the addictive cycle, playing while watching Games Done Quick.
Thursday night, I realized that the next week of gaming is jampacked with releases, including the Onimusha remaster, a new indie RPG based with a battle system similar to Shadow Hearts called YIIK: A Post Modern RPG and the next game in the No More Heroes series but don't call it No More Heroes 3. I had to make the decision to trade some games in to cover all the releases, especially with the back to back combo of Resident Evil 2 and Kingdom Hearts III coming Royal Rumble weekend. That included trading in some games I didn't finish like Shadow of the Tomb Raider. I was able to get $151 in credit from Amazon, which I used $100 of that for eShop credit, which I used to pay for No More Heroes, Onimusha and Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom, because why not add another Switch game to my incredible backlog? I basically had enough coins to buy YIIK, only using 63 cents of my remaining balance to pay for it. That's all next week though!
There was still one major game to be released on January 11th and I'm not talking about New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe. Tales of Vesperia finally got a remaster version 10 years after its original release. I got it in the summer of 2009 so I haven't played it since then. Vesperia is easily my favorite Tales game of all time. It's the one I've given the most time to. Though playing nearly all the Tales games that have released in the US, Vesperia is the one I feel most attached to throughout the whole series. The great main character, the amazing battle system, all the extra content, it's a RPG fan's dream. I put 4 hours into it on Friday night into Saturday morning and I fell in love all over again. I don't think I'll be able to beat it before KH3 releases but I will definitely go back to finish it.
Next week, I juggle Tales, Onimusha, YIIK and No More Heroes. Onimusha and NMH won't be long games. Onimusha should only last 8 hours, NMH, 10, if that. YIIK's an indie RPG so I'm guessing 20 hours. Vesperia already got me for 80+ hours a decade ago and with the new content, it will get me for more a decade later. Join me next Saturday to see how I handle it all. Spoilers; it probably won't end well. Good news is that I'll be able to play them all at midnight as they're all pre-installed on the system. Gotta love digital games! See you next week!
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