Rituals in the Dark

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Friendship is a difficult thing. Growing up I didn’t really have any friends to speak of – and I was desperate to keep the ones I thought I had, to the point that I basically let them walk all over me – and as an adult I don’t have any friends either, something that both relieves and bothers me in equal measure. But one thing I have had more than my share of in my life is people who lie to me, speak to me only when it is convenient for them, and generally make me wonder why I even bother at all.

…ugh, let’s talk about this, before that becomes several paragraphs and I go off into a tirade about how much I hate people in general.

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Is It Wrong To Try And Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? Familiar Myth Infinite Combate

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Christ almighty, that’s one hell of a title…

OK, so the main reason I don’t watch much anime these days is because it’s used as a promotional tool for ongoing light novels and manga, and never its own thing. I don’t want to be forced to go to another medium to get the rest of the story, and I HATE when things just end. Anime isn’t treated with the respect it deserves these days, and I’m pretty fed up with it.

…and yet despite this I still keep buying and playing anime games for some reason.

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Nexomon: Extinction

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At the time of writing this, I am 30 years old. Like what I imagine to be the vast majority of milennials who still play video games – and a fair few who don’t, or even those who never did – I grew up with Pokemon. I harbour no delusions that Pokemon owns the monster-catching genre, or that the genre even originated with it (that dubious honour actually belongs to Dragon Quest V, a fact that the Pokemon fandom would do well to remember whenever the word “Pokeclone” escapes their collective lips…) but I will acknowledge that it is very difficult for any franchise to compete with it…even if there hasn’t been a good Pokemon game since Platinum. Yes, you read that right.

Anyway, let’s talk about Nexomon. I really want to talk about Nexomon.

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The Fairy’s Song

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Approximately 3 years ago now, when I was just getting into playing games on a laptop with my shiny new Acer Predator 15, Steam recommended a game called Asphyxia by ebihime. The art style looked appealing and it sounded like my kind of thing, so I bought it and gave it a try. I was moderately impressed! Curious to see what else they’d released, I tried Sweetest Monster next, and…oh my god. Oh my GOD. There are no words. There really aren’t.

Fast-forward to present day, and I’ve made it a point of buying all of ebi’s VNs as they’ve released, although I have yet to read many of them. But this one looked like it was worth reading immediately, and after Higurashi, something lighter sounded like the thing.

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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

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Here’s a fun little story about me that nobody who might be reading this will be interested in: I used to find Law to be one of the most boring subjects imaginable. I hated the very thought of watching a legal drama, and waaay back when these games were first released, I thought they’d be the most tediously boring games imaginable…much like the Professor Layton games were. Then I did Law as part of my University Degree and I very nearly transitioned to a Law degree at the end of my first year because I enjoyed it so much. Thanks to my postgraduate I’m actually qualified to be an Expert Witness!

Needless to say, after I revised my stance on the world of law, I gave these games a go.

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Disgaea 1 Complete

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One thing I am very big on in video games is the concept of reward being proportionate to the amount of effort you put into something. I have given up on more than one game and passed on plenty more because the amount of time and energy you have to spend doing something isn’t worth the effort. It took me the better part of four years to complete my Guild Card in Monster Hunter Generations/Ultimate because grinding monsters for crowns is the most unrewarding thing imaginable, and I have never even considered competitive play in Pokemon.

Enter Disgaea, the franchise that rewards me with billions of damage for hundreds of hours.

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Monster Hunter World

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I said right at the start of the year that I found Monster Hunter World extremely unsatisfying for a number of reasons, and replaying it now, I still think those reasons are all still very valid. But I have an odd masochistic streak in me sometimes – I often second-guess myself, or think that a single unpleasant experience is magnified in my memory, and it’s not THAT bad in reality. So if I replay it with that in mind, I’ll enjoy it a lot more.

…I really need to stop doing this.

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