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Persona 5 Royal review

Posted on by Shawshank

So last week or the week before, I beat another game. About a month or two earlier, Crystal was watching a SwitchUp video on YouTube, and they were talking about JRPGs, and mentioned that Persona 5 Royal had been released on the Switch for a while. And said if you have never played one of the best JRPGs ever, you should, and that it was on sale.

Spoiler Alert: it wasn’t, but Crystal found a work around to a place that did offer it for sale. So after it downloaded and I was at work, Crystal started playing, so she could experience the opening by herself without trying to ignore it while I was playing beside her.

I believe the next day I played it for the first time. Let me say this: this game is amazing. I found it to have a bit of a learning curve. So much so in fact, I’m really enjoying my 2nd play through more than the original play through.

This game has a mix of life sim, and turn based combat. It’s crazy how well they blend together. You have to learn how to balance “work” (combat and dungeons) to “home” (school, part time jobs, hanging out with friends). It’s a delicate balance that you have to find very quickly.

Almost immediately, after completing the game, I started a second play through. The game does reward you for playing again, which is new to me, but I like how they do it.

Spoiler alert: the last nine photos are end game, before the system stopped allowing me to take screenshots.

Lockup Library game score: 9/10

Link, Link – the blood moon is rising

Posted on by Shawshank

I finally moved closer to end game. I finished all the regional quests to find Zelda. Then there was some more Princess sightings at Hyrule castle.

I did all that, and got to fight more Phantom Gannon’s. then I was treated to some pretty nice cut-scenes.

I’m posting this mostly for the chance to post these pictures. Otherwise no one would see them. Course posting them here, no one will see them.

I don’t want to finish the game.

But the next Zelda game comes out at the end of this week.

Just over 12 hours in – No Man’s Sky

Posted on by Shawshank

Hey hey video game nerds. I’ve found a game that took my mind away from TotK. You see, I’m 90% of the way to end game on it. I just have one temple to go, and then if I wanted, I could battle Ganon. But, I have no real want to beat the game. BotW totally lost its replay value when I defeated Ganon. You’re just transported back to your last save point, and it was like the big battle never happened.

That kind of annoyed me, and I pretty much never really picked up the game again. I don’t want that with TotK. So technically if I never beat it, I’ll never have that disappointment. Right? Anyways, that’s my logic.

So last Saturday, I took it upon myself to buy No Man’s Sky – henceforth known as NMS. Besides it was like 50% off or something like that. So while I waited for it to download, I turned on TotK. I futzed around until the download was complete. So probably only like 15 minutes or so.

So lemme tell you – I’m just over 12 hours in, and I have no clue what I’m doing. But I have realized that I’m a pretty good ship-to-ship fighter. I picked up the wrong thing on the wrong planet, and I had the robot police after me. The Sentinals. I fought them on the planet, and into space. It got to the point that I was like 5 star wanted, but they just kept coming. I think with the advice of Crystal, I ran to a near by space station. That did the trick.

A couple of nights ago, I finally pulled the trigger on a new ship. It’s a little faster and has more storage than my old one, aptly named star spooge. Just before I swindled an innocent alien out of their space ship, I’ll pull all the modifications out of it, and traded ships, with a few units tossed their way as well.

This ship without the modifications on it is better than my old ship. Sure it’s a class C, but a lot of the modifications already in it were class S (which is the best), and with the ones I installed, made it a really good sleeper. It’s deadly and fast.

I still have no idea what I’m doing.

Finally!

Posted on by Shawshank

So the middle of last week or so, after weeks of trying, I finally did it! I was finally in the right place at the right time to be able to climb up on to the light dragon. As I landed on it, I quickly passed by all the ??? On the back of him. I ran up to the head, dropped a weapon so I’d have an open slot for the Master Sword.

As soon as I grabbed the hilt, the dragon went crazy – shaking his head in order to try and shake me loose. It didn’t work. I had read that if you could get in the dragon, you’d need a minimum of 2 circles of stamina. I have three, so I knew I’d be ok.

After a wicked cool cut scene, I had the Master Sword. I didn’t even need to drop the other weapon, the Master Sword created its own weapon slot. Damn, I had dropped a pretty good weapon too!