Category Archives: PC Gaming

Fair Play

Started the second and final Dark Souls III DLC, “The Ringed City” and it’s pretty amazing so far. If this is really the final series outing, it’s my opinion that it’s going out on a high note, especially once you … Continue reading

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Dark Souls III: Ashes of Ariandel: Stream of Conciousness Edition

I bought the Season Pass for Dark Souls III ages ago, but now that both DLC packs are out it’s time to give them a go.  Naturally enough, Ashes of Ariandel came first. So let’s do this! YAY SNOW! So … Continue reading

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Now I’m REALLY Fishing For Page Views

One of the things that most annoys me about my blogging is that I’m never quite sure how to capitalize post titles – should they just have initial cap, or should they follow normal title capitalization rules, where significant words … Continue reading

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Raiding the Lost Arc(hives)

Backlog reduction project continues. With most everything I play on PC coming from Steam this days, it’s easy to forget that I picked up quite a few indie games on various trips to Japan, which have wound in a box … Continue reading

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Surface Gaming Round 2: Emulation

At some point in the last few years, I decided that I was going to set up a box full of emulators and older games and put it under the living room TV and have access to decades worth of … Continue reading

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Sakura Shrine Girls: The Spirits Are Willing.

One of the first manga series I was introduced to, wayyyyy back in the early 90s, was “Ushio and Tora”, a series about a young lad who is supposed to take over the family shrine and who has to put … Continue reading

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I Kept Waiting For The Shark

Right, then.  Something a little different from the norm to talk about tonight. “One Last Chance” is a bit of an odd duck as visual novels go.  It’s originally in English, features voice acting, has characters who are actually in … Continue reading

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I Was Young, I Needed The Page Views

So I played through The Typing of the Dead: Overkill a couple of nights ago.  I could talk about that.  But, I also see the google search terms that lead people to find this blog… and, well, maybe I should … Continue reading

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I don’t THINK this was intentional

In the last post, I not-so-humbly bragged about beating every Ys Origin boss on the first try.  That did not hold up – even excluding the boss you’re SUPPOSED to lose to, I took a few dirt naps before the … Continue reading

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The Only Hit Point That Matters

So, as I mentioned earlier, I’m following up Ys: The Oath in Felghana with Ys: Origin, a game set 700 years before the first Ys game. I’ve only played about three hours, which has been enough to get past the … Continue reading

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