It's monday over here, wich means that it's time for my sunday recap, and it's not going to be as detailed as you could expect.
When i started gaming yesterday i realized i was feeling saturated. To be fair to myself, i've been gaming pretty intensely lately, doing +4h sessions per day at the end of the day, not counting my post-lunch gaming sessions. All in all, i've been gaming more in the last few weeks that i did in the last couple of years, and on top of it all, the last stretch of Cyberpunk 2077 was really intense, taking the ending a whole 5h only because i wasn't able to beat Adam Smasher without being sniped to death by the reinforcements.
Yep, it's safe to say that Cyberpunk 2077 has burned me out. I'm not made for heavy AAA gaming, even though i really enjoyed the experience.
For starters, i woke up and downloaded Alan Wake Remastered, Control Ultimate Edition and Horizon Zero Dawn to my PS5. First game session was Alan Wake Remastered, but i'm stuck at a checkpoint before the gas station and enemies are relentless, so i ended up rage quitting. I think i'll tackle it again after i detox. No, i didn't bother with Control nor Horizon, Alan Wake made me realize that i was indeed burnt out, and you know what that means, right?
Retro gaming time, Baby!!!
Yes, i know myself well enough to know that when i've gotten burnt out by intensive AAA gaming sessions, i need to fall back to my childhood/teenhood games for detoxing, so for the next few weeks - maybe until after the holidays - i'll be playing retro, retro style games or retro remake games that keep the spirit of the originals. Tears of the Kingdom is going to have to wait a little more.
But what else did i do on sunday?
Well, first of all i booted
Pokémon Fire Red on Retroarch and spent an obscene amount of time setting up everything there. Slang shaders don't work properly for some reason and using GLSL shaders means losing performance - not that i need it on PC in the first place, but on my phone it's another story - Also, the SNES controller doesn't have a proper profile and setting it up was a pain. Yes, you guessed it, NOW i'm missing my SN30 pro. Fuck.
Once i finished the set up and made sure to have Syncthing working properly between my phone and my PC, i finally started playing. Don't expect a comprehensive recap this time, but i can tell you this:
- I didn't remember how to get the Iris ticked to access the whole Sevii archipielago, so i spent an ungodly amount of time ignoring the cave where the gem that Celio wanted was hidden in.
- In the meantime, shifted my team a little a had to waste some precious move slots on HMs. ChuPika, Raflessio and ElPreparao are back in, and they're more than 10 levels under the rest of the team, so they're going to be the spearheads in the whole post-game until they're up to snuff.
- The TRash is back. For some reason.
- Found Moltres, fought Moltres, caught Moltres. I still say they missed the chance of putting the legendary birds on the first, second and third islands
- Got the Iris ticket, set sail to Fourth island and was received by asshole rival and the always soothing Johto music. Fuck you asshole rival, you can't appreciate quality, i hope you get a 0 IV magikarp from that egg of yours.
- Turned off the game, as i've had enough for the day since i spent two whole hours going back and forth with the Tri-ticket looking for the gem. I think i hate the boat animation now. No, wait, i actually hate that animation now.
And at night, i grabbed my SNES controller and mindlessly strolled into the SNES app and launched
Yoshi's Island, going through W2 in a single sitting. This is going to be one of my pre-xmas games, and most likely will go through it in the next two weeks. If i'm going to play anything else, it will be decided in the upcoming days.
And... that would be it. Wow, in the end it IS a detailed recap, just not in the usual way.
Okay, back to my fanfic. That love story between a young Belnades and his Fernández vampire hunting partner isn't going to write itself.
