The internet went a little nuts today because apparently the Switch successor has been pushed back to 2025.  I doubt I’ll be anywhere near to done with my backlog by then, so it seems fine to me.

Honestly, the system keeps selling, and more importantly keeps selling copies of Mario Kart 8, so I’m not surprised Nintendo is riding this gravy train for as long as possible.  If I were a multinational video game company and had the option of writing a game in 2014 and then selling it at full price for eleven years, I would 100% do that.

But I am not a multinational video game company, so I guess I will keep punching a clock every day to make money that can be given to aforementioned companies.

Like Shift Up, whose Stellar Blade I have already preordered based almost entirely on the fun I have had with their mobile title, “Nikke: Goddess of Victory”.

I don’t know much about Stellar Blade except that it’s a post-apocalyptic 3rd-person action melee combat game with 150% of your daily recommended serving of butts, which is completely different from their post-apocalyptic gacha cover shooter with 150% of your daily recommended serving of butts.

Speaking of which, I crossed a major milestone in Nikke today, finally beating chapter 20.   This is a notoriously difficult chapter, but I got through it with One Simple Trick.  Grinding!

My squad, bravely running away from fiery annihilation

The last few story chapters had some pretty steep increases in team power requirements mid-chapter, so my policy starting with chapter 19 has been to grind up until my team is at least 20k power over the recommended for the first fight in the chapter, then do everything at once.  It’s worked out so far.

There was a ramp up in difficulty over the course of the chapter, but I still made it to  20-31 comfortably in the blue when it comes to recommended power, and not having to fight with a power deficit meant that my team made short work of the boss.

Speaking of, the boss is a pretty bitchin’ two-headed dragon, though in true oh-Korea-what-will-we-do-with-you fashion she’s a two-headed dragon who is also a super hot conventionally attractive woman.

Also she loses a head when she’s not a dragon?  That must be very confusing.

Maybe she’s just piloting the dragon, which honestly makes more sense.

Apparently once you beat the fight you can unlock the boss as a playable character through the game’s Liberation system, but I’m mid-unlock on Guilty so it will be a while before I can do that.

I’m somewhat surprised you get her for free through Liberation, instead of being yet another limited gacha unit designed to suck your wallet dry.  I’m not going to say that Shift Up is any sort of saint in that regard – they certainly aren’t! – but they could certainly have been greedier here.

Speaking of units designed to suck your wallet dry, however…

One of the nice things about doing all of chapter 20 in one sitting, as well as quite a bit of chapter 5 hard mode, is that I managed to scrape together enough gems for Just One More 10-pull and Maid Privaty finally came home.  I did not have many gems saved up before this event started and I was being very firm on not spending any money so this was a happy surprise.

Yes, technically she’s not a limited unit and will be available via the regular recruit system starting next patch… but trying to target any specific character or alternate version of a character in that is madness.