- Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon (Anime). Yep. Still good. Yippee! Now the ending is here. It's nice.
- Metallic Rouge (Anime). The animation, character designs, and music are really good here. But the plot is kinda thin and lacking, especially in episode one. Hopefully it gets better as things go on. But the rest of it is strong enough to carry it anyways.
- Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime). Halfway through season 2 and it's pretty fun. Sometimes it can be lacking or disappointing, story wise, but everything else carries it. The characters are interesting to the point where it's frustrating when they get sidelened, and the action is a fireworks factory. You can't argue with a fireworks factory of action. Probably not my favorite shonen thing, but it's a satisfying, surprising, and sometimes frustrating ride. It's understandably popular for a reason.
- Blue Exorcist (Anime Season 3). They finally got to the Illuminati arc! I've been waiting for this! I looks nice... But I'll wait longer and binge it or something. Nice to see it happen though.
- The Witch and the Beast(Anime). A Really lacking adaptation of a really good manga. Serviceable at best, but maybe things will improve in later episodes (again, but with more desperation this time.)
- Baldur's Gate 3. I got it as a gift?? Neat. Now begins a thousand hours of slow, immaculate choice paralysis. It's good. Hard to believe that this finally came out after those initial previews all those years ago. And that it runs decent on the Steam Deck. Just don't think too much about the way hair looks sometimes. It's fine. It really does run surprisingly great otherwise.
- Marvel's Midnight Suns (the game). Probably the most solid comic book based game in a long while. (Or at least one that isn't Spider-Man or Injustice, I guess.) Obviously the battles are a light XCOM based thing, but more forgiving and with a little deck building. But also you spend a lot of downtime time in a hub area, having your Original Character interact with these comic book characters. Again, it's probably the most solid super hero comic based games in a while. At least as far as AAA games goes. It helps that it's not trying to be specifically an Avengers branded experience, and that it's not trying so hard to emulate the movies... Except Tony Stark. His voice actors will forever have to sound like RDJ, even if it's more distracting than anything.
- Granblue Fantasy: Relink (Demo). Also hard to believe that it's finally here. Big money anime fantasy action RPG with some Monster Hunter DNA. It's solid, but will probably be slept on, especially outside of Japan. But either way, I'm lad that this and GBVS are things, and that Cygames is trying so hard with them.
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Demo). A really solid 2D action game. Classic Prince of Persia isSo Back. And it's Metroid Dread (lock) flavored. I'm here for it. And thankfully it's about as solid as I was hoping. It's simply good. For the demo, I accidentally sped my way to the boss room early, ending the experience before I got the most out of it. Which was funny. No clue if there's more to it, but the game should be out now or soon enough, so I'll save my energy for the full release. I've been waiting for another decent Metroidvania or whatever you wanna argue the genre should be called. Some kinda action explorer... Yeah, no answer is really satisfying.