Hello! Been a while since I last posted here. I actually wanted to post sooner, but Cohost was getting understandably slammed the last few times I hopped on so I decided to hold off. I just joined Hive Social with the same at as I have here with no caps so, justinmikos. Give me a follow if you are on there! It seems promising as a true Twitter replacement and lot of cool gaming people made the jump already.
Had a lot of fun gaming stuff to talk about in the past ten days. First, I finally downloaded all of the remaining 3DS DLC I wanted. This was a longer task than you might expect since all 3DS DLC is on a store inside the game itself and every game handles it a bit differently. Some were thankfully a main menu option while others forced you to play anywhere from 15 minutes to two to three hours to unlock the store. Some DLC was also just straight up gone at this point which was sad and heartbreaking for the longer commitments. Most of it available for purchase that I had left wasn't terribly interesting ultimately, so I mostly claimed the free stuff. There was some good stuff that was free though like more difficulty options and Monster Hunter in particular had pages upon pages of free missions and items to claim. I'm now fully ready for when the 3DS and Wii U shops close down so that's good.
While I waited for Pokemon to come out, I ran through a handful of short games I had put off this year like Elechead, Blossom Tales II, Lunistice, TMNT Shredder's Revenge, and Long Live The Queen. I liked all five and recommend all of them, though ideally you want friends to play with for TMNT. I'll give a brief one sentence review of each. Elechead is a cool puzzle 2D platformer where you play as a robot that can electrify platforms by throwing his head around that really tightly explores this mechanic. Blossom Tales II is a much more confident Zelda A Link To The Past styled game than its predecessor with more engaging puzzles and level design. Lunistice, my favorite of the five here, is an awesome $5 3D platformer with an amazing sense of flow backed by creative levels and energy. TMNT Shredder's Revenge may be more simple than Scott Pilgrim, but the graphics and music and unique boss battles for each level give it a ton of charm. Long Live The Queen is a really cool Princess Maker-like game where you manage your stats and mood in a variety of fields (court manners, economics, military, magic etc.) to overcome a variety of challenges to ascend the throne and has an interesting, complex spread of outcomes.
This post is getting long, so I'll quickly mention I started a replay of the Metroid Prime Trilogy collection in honor of Prime's 20th anniversary. I finished up Prime already, it's a timeless masterpiece, and I'll write about it in depth another time. Talk to y'all soon and hope you are all doing well :)