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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • So, I’ve already finished the main story for Monkey Ball Banana Mania. I’m still messing with the challanges and special stages, but I’ll soon start my next big RPG: Metaphor.

    As for Monkey Ball, it’s not what I’ve expected. I thought about getting some chill precision based gameplay, but it’s actually quite stressful. Kinda like I’d imagine games like Getting over it, just with really short stages. I got a bit frustrated around when the difficulty spiked, but at some point the game just clicked and grinding stages almost became akin to meditation. I can see myself returning from time to time to improve my times.









  • It’s been about 138h, but I actually finished Witcher 3 + all DLCs this week. I completed every single quest I came across, apart from the two ‘Collect all Gwent cards’ ones. It’s been quite a ride! I’d recommend the game for it’s characters, story telling and moral dilemmas. The gameplay was good too, although even on death march, it was quite easy - of course I was rich and somewhat overleveled from having done everything, so take that with a grain of salt. I finished at lvl 51 with the final quest being marked as lvl 49. Despite other claims, the Switch port was mostly good. Although, halfway through Blood and Wine, about 125h in, the game started to lag in fights with multiple opponents and never stopped doing so. I don’t know what happened, even the big bandit camps didn’t lag much before that.

    Anyways, this weekend I’m going to start another run - this time doing a sign build! Last time I was focused on alchemy and basically only used Quen. There are so many gameplay options I never tried much and - nah, just kidding. I’m playing some Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, actually my first entry in the series, as a sort of palate cleanser and then grab a JRPG from my backlog.