Well, I’m back at it again, a few weeks after posting my last status update. Feels like I always do a mix of can-kicking/gradual progress but well, with everything new to worry about now I’m begrudgingly expecting that to carry onward for a while. Still, I have big things to do and work being done on it, so let’s get into plans for the final month of the year.
Legacy Queue is Surprisingly Traumatic
No no no, I’m not saying having overdue shit for years on end due to me being overbearing in my earlier years (and my dedication to finish everything I owe, even if some other outlets would be content to just pass on a game they couldn’t get to grips with) is the trauma, but uh, I was actually not expecting just how many of the remaining Switch games in my legacy queue are quite depressing/deal with heavy stuff! Disaster Report was already one I was leaning toward a snap judgment on due to various factors, and may end up doing that early Dec, but I honestly jumped ahead to The Missing because it was a puzzle platformer I heard had a great story and I somehow slept on playing when requesting it on a whim about…. shit, six years ago.
Well boy, I forgot how heavy The Missing is, and I think that’s why younger me put the game down and forgot about it for some years. Now that a lot of things have developed since then and some scary times for LGBT people ahead, playing the game is really not making me comfortable. But I get what they’re going for and will push myself a bit further to at least get enough grips with the gameplay. Still, don’t expect me to finish this one for review, even though I typically don’t fully finish the stuff I review anyhow. (unless they’re story based games that hook me, see Worlds End Club) I get a feeling I know where the plot is headed and if I’m right, it’s a thing I don’t need to witness in a video game right now.
But yeah, The Missing is now the first game on the legacy queue to be checked off, and I think Disaster Rerport will be done shortly after. Just the bonkers performance and weirdly goofy themes in a heavy situation is enough for me to feel confident already, but I’m gonna suffer for another hour to make sure the game doesn’t suddenly grip me. I doubt it will.
Deadly Premonition? Uh, that game is strange. I can’t describe it and it was also by the guy behind The Missing! An unintentional White Owls block on the legacy queue. Still, I’ll give it a spin and try to figure it out enough to write a reveiw before the end of the year.
But yeah. That leaves the two biggest games remaining on the Switch Queue; Fata Morgana was always meant to be the game I held for last as I shift towards the PS4 queue due to how huge the game is for a VN, and, unless it somehow sucks, I’m in this for the long haul. That leaves Mary Skelter Finale, a game I feel really bad about as it was a game I felt confident enough to knock out on a train ride in 2021 that I requested it. Still, honesty prevails, and i’ll get it done like I did the first game, despite skipping over that sequel. I’m sure it’ll be fine.
PS4 queue is not getting done before the end of the year. That was obvious for a while and hell, Mary Skelter might not be done before 2025, but the PS4 has been the bane of my queue for years now due to how many stupid long games I requested back to back in a short time during the roughest year of my life. And with me worrying 2025 will be rougher for my mental health, I feel the need to chip away at it somehow. Thus, I’ll be working on that PS4 queue after Mary Skelter barring my system doesn’t crap out on me. No more PS4 games will ever be covered for SFG, as per my plan, so it’ll be a nice way to retire the system when I’m finally done. No interest in a PS5, so that’ll be the end of Sony Coverage when that day comes.
Limited Run Pain
Everything I mentioned in my last LRG article still applies. Cutting and rewording most of the article due to recent events isn’t really fun for me and I still gotta write around it. Hoping to finally get a start this weekend, but it’s becoming incredibly daunting to cover them step by step as I originally planned. Forgive me if I skip months and gaps and forgo Twitter embeds entirely to prevent having anyone look at that hellhole.
Still, LRG’s recent moves, a pretty damning writeup on the CEO from the Ex COO, and recent developments on said ex COO’s company all still make me feel like I can deliver a decent article on why I feel they still have poor QC and need to improve. (even if I will acknowledge a lot of other things did improve, and in fact, you’ll even see me note stuff falling apart and being improved over time!) This is definitely the absolute last Limprint article like this though. I don’t wanna write longform Limprint content. If i ever do again, it’ll be akin to my FPG response article on their dumb blogpost, or me pointing out oddities SLG pulls if they keep on kicking the can. I’d not be shocked though if tariffs are the perfect exit point for some of these companies to pull out of limprint altogether, though, but a lot of companies will be pulling out against their will too, which will suck.
The End of Year Roundup!
It’s December almost, so that means I get to prepare my four article end of year roundup. This time I’m doing things a bit differently though.
Last year, part 1 was reflecting over the past year. That’ll happen this year just fine. Nothing bad about that. But Part 2 has always been ranking the worst games of the year and honestly… I’m kinda sick of that? It sounds like a copout but I have had years where there weren’t that many horridly offensive games, and one where the worst game of the year was just a mediocre indie game. There are definitely games I don’t like and hated this year, but I think if I ranked 10 of em it would drive my mood further down from what it already has been at. So I think this year I’ll just make a list of general 2024 gaming disappointments. It’ll have some games, some industry events, and other general thoughts. Still a ramble that’s a downer, but nothing that’ll make me feel down, if that makes sense.
Then, we get to the list of the best games of 2024! This is always fun to do in my opinion, so I have no problems carrying this on. To end things off, I’ll end the year with the look at the future, teasing some stuff for SFG, (hoping to finally have a very rough WIP of my new logo by then, but no promises, the recent world anxiety delayed me from working on that) and comparing my predictions from last year to what happened! Then, we’ll make new ones that don’t include “I worry the world will end”. I mean, I always worry about that and/or me and my friends dying, but I don’t wanna bring that doomerism to my articles. It’ll be fun!
So yeah, that’s the big update for the month, probably for December too unless some new good development happens. Thank you for sticking by me even in my most anxious times; these next few years will be a wreck on my mental health and 2019 was the worst one by far, and that barely had anything to do with the world political stage!
We must hope and work to make 2025 good.
And we must protect our minority allies at all costs.