BOOTLEG BLOG

Gaming log!

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11/15/2024

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

Love that Spiritomb refers to itself as "we", I love when the canon lore of individual Pokemon actually gets acknowledged. Also the big reveal has finally happend about Primal Dialga and Grovyle's true motive. Grovyle is such a good character.

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10/30/2024

Pokemon Emerald

Ended up restarting my save yet again, I was stuck on the fire gym and I never really wanted to use torchic anyways, so I have a mudkip now.

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10/19/2024

Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X

Hearing Even A Kunoichi Needs Love reminds me of when I was a kid and looked at this song and went "this is so me fr" like yeah girl you having a crush on your friend is equivilant ot a ninja girl falling in love with her target.

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10/09/2024

Stardew Valley

Haven't touched this game in a really long time, my boyfriend and I have picked it back up as a nice game to help us wind down before bed.

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09/23/2024

Psychonauts 2

Been replaying it on the Steam Deck, it feels so fucking nice on it, it feels correct. God I love this game.

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09/11/2024

Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis

I've been waiting so long for this moment, I hate how overpriced the DLC is but hey, my boyfriend bought it not me.

I never played FES so I'm borderline going into this blind, I only know some general concepts and some themes. That's it, I'm so excited.

EPISODE AIGIS SPOILERS

Metis is NOTHING like how I was expecting, I assumed that since she acted as a foil to Aigis she'd be a mindless killing machine, no, she is quite emotive, she is EXTREMELY emotive, obsessive over Aigis. My speculation right now is that Metis IS a part of Aigis, maybe a precursor to the true self shadows in Persona 4 onwards.

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09/06/2024

Wobbledogs

Started messing with our steamdeck and found out the beautiful thing that I can now pet my wobbledogs via the touchscreen, this single handedly will help me through this mental bump

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09/01/2024

08/31/2024

Pokemon Renegade Platinum

Byron was weirdly easy all things considered, yeah 3 of my mon fainted but they were done to pull off a clean switch. But hey, I'll take it.

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08/25/2024

Pokemon Blaze Black

Finally starting this romhack as well, so excited to see that my baby boy Serperior is part dragon in this romhack, he deserves it.

Beat the first gym! Wasn't that hard, but I was extremely shocked by it being a rotation battle, super cool. Won thanks to my panpour named "Shithead" lol, he will not be a final team member.
I did however get Dumpling the Munna, she will be a final team member because Musharna is one of my favorite Pokemon and she is so so underrated.

I now have my next teammate Mareep, named her Dolly, naturally.

And now I have my Roggenrola Zircon!

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08/24/2024

Pokemon Renegade Platinum

Finally beat Riley which was the fight I was stuck on and gave up on originally, this point forward is unknown territority for this rom hack for me.

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08/23/2024

Pokemon Renegade Platinum

Beat Darach and now I'm caught up to where I originally deleted my previous save. My Banette actually was useful this fight which made me happy.

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08/22/2024

Pokemon Renegade Platinum

I FINALLY FUCKING BEAT CRASHER WAKE!!!!!
Through the power of stalling with Azumarill and sweeping with PorygonZ I fucking did it, finally.

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08/18/2024

Soul Sacrifice

I was OBSESSED with this game when I was younger, was my favorite game on the vita. I had a stron fixation on sorcerers at the time so this game wormed it's gross gorey way into my heart. I also guarantee it's what made me fall in love with dark and grotesque fantasy. This game is so so underrated.

I fucking love the sorcerer outfits for the girl, like yeah they have tiddy armor syndrome but like at least they look cool as fuck.

Despite loving it so much I never got that far in it because I just sucked at it, so there's still a lot about it I don't know. With the strong focus on choosing to sacrifice souls to become stronger or to save them I wonder if it'll affect the story at all, we'll have to see.

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08/17/2024

Baldur's Gate 3

Started a new game with my boyfriend. I'm playing a dragonborn barbarian and he's playing a gnome ranger who he plans to multiclass into bard.

Sonic Advance

I find it so funny that Pokemon got so many parents angry over the inclusion of gambling that it stopped being in the games but when Sonic does it no one bats an eye. Anyways the Eggman boss in the casino stage is so weird and I suck at it lol.

Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd

I FINALLY GOT MY PSVITA WORKING AGAIN!!!! I'm so so happy!! I forgot how difficlt this game is honestly.

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08/15/2024

Kind Words 2 Demo

The playtest for Kind Words 2 is now public! I got to play it early but now you can too through the demo! Please please check Kind Words 2 out.

Sonic Advance

I've been looking for this game at every retro game store I've been in and naturally I find it while visiting my family in the retro game store I meant to go to while still living with them and then never did.

Played it a little bit, such a good 2D Sonic game. Must find the rest of them along with Sonic Rush.

I love the sprites in this game so much, Tails looks so so cute.

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08/10/2024

Hypnospace Outlaw

I adore this game conceptually, but my brain is not built for it and it makes me so sad! The game is all about the details and my brain CANNOT focus enough to spot the details, wish I wasn't built wrong so I could truly enjoy the experience that is this game

Wobbledogs

I am so incredibly close to 100%ing this game, I literally just need a dog to lay a dud egg and for one of the dogs to eat it, that's it.

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08/03/2024

Deep Rock Galactic

I finally got it!!! I've been wanting this game for a hot minute and it's on sale for only about 10 dollars so I finally picked it up!

It is super super fun, it feels like Minecraft meets Left 4 Dead meets TF2. I'm definitely gonna play this a lot. I love playing scout the most rn.

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07/26/2024

Wobbledogs

Started a new save with automation on so I could just kinda have it running on my left monitor as I do something else.

Gmod (gm_construct 13 beta)

I found out about this map via YouTube recommended and the moment I found it it was a fucking horror map that's also the beta version of gm_construct I immediately went "oh, oh I need to download this right now and go through it blind"

TW SUICIDE MENTION
Very first thing that happened was I spotted an NPC lady looking terrified so I followed her up a building, watched her throw herself off the building, heard the voice line "I need you" I think? or was it "you need me" I can't remember already, and then I died. Great start

I won't go into much more detail both because my memory is fucky and also because I think more people should play it themselves, Gmod horror is my favorite genre of horror fr.

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07/22/2024

Tomodachi Life

Been playing it on and off, nothing too interesting to comment on yet, I did add Phos from Houseki no Kuni though.

Richard Nixon is now friends with Koishi Komeiji, this game is so serious.

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07/10/2024

Team Fortress 2

WE'RE SO BACK

I finally opened up the game in the first time since the massive bot ban and oh my god it's so nice to play casual again. I've been entirely on the uncletopia servers and as good as they are people can get toxic as FUCK on them.

Played a couple games with friends and it was so fucking fun.

We are so back guys.

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07/04/2024

Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure

SIlly yokai game to desperately not think about the weather :) silly silly Parin with her silly drill weapon.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

Brought my DS to work to play since I had to come early to avoid getting caught in the big storm that came through.

SPOILERS (just in case)

Got to the big dusknoir is the bad guy twist, this point onward is very blurry in my memory outside of the big Dialga fight that's coming up.

This game just makes me so insanely happy, I get so much joy from this game, really kept me sane while hoping I didn't die from a storm.

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07/03/2024

Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure

Such a big comfort game for me, I love how comfy it is and how cute everything is. Great game to turn brain off to.

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06/29/2024

Pocket Dogs

I downloaded a GBA emulator for this

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06/21/2024

Mario Super Sluggers (CPU COMPETITION)

The game before my team lost by 2 points BUT
my team went against my boyfriend's team and WON and that's all I care about.

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06/20/2024

Mario Super Sluggers (CPU COMPETITION)

My team won the one I forgot to log, it was pretty close too.

HOWEVER!!! My team lost against the easily worst team because for SOME REASON team captain Birdo decided she wanted to break my entire teams chemistry and also put the worst possible players on the worst positions.
Gonna have to take Birdo to the back and have a strongly worded talk with her.

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06/18/2024

Starbound

It makes me sad that this game's development was so shady and that the workers behind the game are shitty in general because this is such a big comfort game for me.

It also loves crashing for no reason as of late.

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06/17/2024

Wobbledogs

Just one more achievement left!!!! I'm probably gonna play the game normally for a bit since this last achievement is gonna take a bit of grinding.

Mario Super Sluggers (CPU COMPETITION)

Not technically playing but I wanted to log anyways, a friend of my boyfriend's found a mod for Super Sluggers that lets 2 CPU go against each other, he had me and a bunch of people pick out teams and run it like a real baseball tournament.

My team captain is Birdo (my beloved) and my team is pretty alright considering I have no clue what I'm doing, but of course my bad luck shines through and I go against easily the best team in the group.
Lost my first game but hey, there's hope.

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06/16/2024

Wobbledogs

Only 6 achievements left to go!! I just have to grind out the rest of the flowers, get the rest of the flora, make a space themed room(idk how I haven't done that yet), and a couple other things of hidden achievements. Considering one is named worm and the other is one winged angel I'm pretty sure I know what they are.

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06/15/2024

Sonic Frontiers

Time for my monthly replay of Sonic Frontiers, good for my mental health. Need my monthly dosage of blue hedgehog or else I'll lose my mind.

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06/11/2024

Wobbledogs

Desperately trying to breed a dog with wings, I want one so bad, I'm also trying to 100% the game now so I'm grinding for the plant seeds, which I never see anyone talk about.



I DID IT!!! Look at this fucking freak, his name is Satan.

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06/10/2024

Serial Experiments Lain (PS1)

I find this game weirdly comforting every time I play it, regardless of how dark it really is, I feel comfort.

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06/07/2024

Wobbledog

Genuinely have no clue how this has become my comfort game, I love my weird dogs that have the lifespans of flies. I've also turned on some auto features without it fully being auto so I can do other stuff while it's running.



Little guy :)

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06/03/2024

Tomodachi Life

By pure luck I managed to get my and my boyfriends miis together without any fuckery. Thank god.

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05/23/2024

Pokemon Renegade Platinum

I finally beat Barry's fight in Pastoria City, had to rely on a quick claw to activate so I could take down his extremely fast Staraptor that has a fighting type move, of which both good Pokemon against it I have are weak to.

But of course in Renegade Platinum way, I'm not stuck on the gym, both because of being under-leveled, and also because this rom hack is reaaaaally good at coverage, most mons in this have ice type moves to cover their grass weakness.

Tomodachi Life

Started a new save on Tomodachi Life, love this game to death, please Nintendo make a sequal.

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05/19/2024

Psychonauts 2

I completed every brain completely!!! God I'm so obsessed with this game, I've had the OST stuck in my head all day, I already wanna replay it.

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05/17/2024

Psychonauts 2

I BEAT THE GAME!!!

I desperately neeeed to write an essay on this game, but idk what to focus on, all of it is so so so good. Aaaaa so so good.

I've been slowly trying too 100% the game too.

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05/16/2024

Psychonauts 2

I actually played this last night but I was in such a shit mood I just didn't feel like writing about it.

Ford all fragments spoilers and Bob's brain spoilers

I find Ford so interesting since his character was created when there was so much misinformation and a lot not known about DID, it was still called MPD too.

And though his fragmented mind is portrayed more as a supernatural thing rather than an active disorder I can't help but feel like he lines up a lot with OSDD, I'm no professional and I doubt it was even the intention, that's just what my personal take-away was.

Anyways the reveal that Lucrecia is not only Rax's great aunt, but also that his 'grandma' has been her the entire time and his actual grandma has been dead for awhile was genuinely so fucking insane. Linking Raz even more directly with the psychonauts, and I'm sure this is probably part of why Raz's family hates psychics so much.

Now onto Bob, and holy shit, this one got so much heavier than I expected.

Even if never stated directly verbally, it's clear that Bob is struggling with both alcohol abuse and severe depression due to the loss of Halmut. It is a gutwretching stage and it feels so incredibly real while still balanced with Psychonaut 2's typical silly charm without ever feeling like it's downplaying Bob's pain.

And the fact that the thing that snaps him out of everything is the plant Helmut saying "I didn't actually love him" and him yelling "HELMUT WOULD NEVER SAY THAT" almost made me cry ngl. Their reunion made me so extremely happy. I did spend a solid minute just listening to their back-and-forth and catching up. They need to get Helmut's body back they need to smooch right now right now I LOVE THESE GAY OLD MEN!!!

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05/14/2024

Wobbledogs

Absolutely strange that THIS has become my relaxation game.

Anyways I successfully bred a dog with no front legs, his automatic name was Typical and I think that's perfect.



He's cute in a weird fucked up way.

Psychonauts 2

Psi King's brain spoilers

I completed Ford's hairdresser section with the intention to talk about it after I finished Helmut's section, then I finished Helmut's section and I NEEEEEED TO TALK ABOUT IT FIRST.

First, weirdly good representation of sensory overload, which would definitely fucking happen if you were an isolated conciousness existing in nothingness for 20 years and suddenly you're existing again.
Second, fantastic panic attack representation, the fact that the best ability to use against it is the slow-down ability is perfect.
Third, I AM OBSESSED WITH THE VISUALS, the hippie 60s Beatles inspired vibes are so so so so good, and I haven't talked about this yet but the music BAAAANGS.
Fourth and final, I got so fucking emotional at the end.

If Helmut and Bob don't share a fat kiss by the end of this I WILL CRY, I am obsessed with these gay old men and I haven't even met one of them yet.

Also his last name is fucking FULLBEAR, he is full bear. Gay bear hippie Jack Black, love him.

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05/13/2024

Psychonauts 2

Compton's brain spoilers and bowling fragment of Ford spoilers

I completed both Compton's section and got the bowling fragment of Ford.

Depicting the fear of judgement and failure as a game show has a perfect blend of comedy and empathy that I love. I also adore Compton he's such a little sweety, I love me some old sweaty man anxiety rep.

I'm about 70% sure that Lucrecia IS Maligula, giving Ford a tragic romance which I'm always a fan of.
This game is genuinely so hard to put down, comedy infused with a genuinely interesting story isn't something you see often.

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05/12/2024

Psychonauts 2

I'm finally making progress in this game! And I'm starting to really fall in love with it.
I completed Hollis' section and it was great.

Despite never getting the chance to play the original Psychonauts (as much as I want to, if just because how batshit insane it looks) what really got me interested in this game was the fact that actual psychologists were involved in the making of this game, to make sure all of the psychological stuff was accurate.

Also I adore Milla, so much.

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05/10/2024

Wobbledogs

I found out that there's an auto mode in the game so I decided to try an experiment and left the game running while I was at work, all I came back to was just an empty world, guess it's not that automatic lol.

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05/09/2024

Wobbledogs

I ended up refunding the Sims 3 because I was just not having as much fun as I used to, and I ended up using that money to finally get Wobbledogs!! It's so goofy I'm in love with it, silly guys so so silly.


This is Sidewalk, he is 15 minutes old.

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05/08/2024

Minami Lane

Completed the main game, short but very very sweet, absolutely loved it, new go-to comfort game for me. I'll probably loop back around to it to 100% the game.

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05/07/2024

Sims 3

Recently got the game on steam along side the Pets expantion because I was feeling nostalgic and I had recently played Sims 4 and felt bored really quickly. Though I'm not even sure if I'll be playing Sims 3 for very long, my attention span is too short for games like this now I think.

Animal Crossing: City Folk



I'm very mature.

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04/28/2024

Minami Lane

Grabbed this game on a whim since it's only about 5 USD, it's super relaxing I really like it, highly recommend if you want a chill life sim with very nice music and very cute visuals. I need more games like this.

Pokemon Mysery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

No major game progress I just wanted to say that I brought my DS to work and played on break because I thought it'd be funny.

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04/27/2024

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

FINALLY got passed the Manectric boss, I kept getting bad luck over and over with paralysis and I finally got passed it.

I got Vulpix as my player mon this run and I have a Shinx as my partner since I'm pretty sure that's the only mon I haven't used for a run before. This game has such a special place in my heart, big comfort game.

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04/25/2024

Milk Outside A Bag Of Milk Outside A Bag Of Milk

Finally got all achievements in this VN, genuinely a masterpiece and great depiction of what it's like to suffer from mental illness.

spoilers for Milk Outside A Bag Of Milk, click to read

It's hard to really put into words how much I resonate with this VN, the 2nd death scene in particular feels strangely beautiful and uncomfortably real, seeing the girl falling from her apartment balcony while speaking an online friend that wronged her while speaking like he was never real in the first place made me feel a type of way I can't describe, comfort? disturbed? I don't know.

The ending where she has a dream where she's endlessly texting a pizza delivery number with no real person behind it damn near made me cry if I'm being honest.

Animal Crossing City Folk

New villager has arrived!! Puck, a lazy penguin!! His shirt in the earlier games(or just anything before New Horizons) looks so goofy, it's literally just a black shit with 2 Bs on it. Funny guy.

The Simpsons Hit and Run

Idk what came over me I just had the sudden need to revisit this game, I remember being awful at it as a kid but I also moreso just played it to dick around the world rather than actually completely missions. This game is so silly though, it reminds me that The Simpsons is actually kinda neat.

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04/20/2024

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity

It still makes me so upset that Free Riders sucked so much that it killed any chance for Riders to come back, I adore this racing game duoligy. I genuinely don't understand when people say they don't understand what they're supposed to do when playing it or don't understand it. Though idk if that's a common take anymore

Regardless I lost my save after competely resetting my PC so now I'm going through the story again to unlock everything. I really wanna find people that'd would play this game with me, I need to test my skills.

Sonic The Fighters

Played a bit before my boyfriend left for work, I forgot how fuckin fun this game is, even if it's a little clunky. Plus, it's a fighting game I can be at the same level as with my boyfriend. I'm a Tails main. :)

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04/18/2024

Animal Crossing: City Folk

Redd unlocked!



Funnily enough the fee of signing up made me not able to afford the painting so I didn't even bother checking if it was the real thing or not.

Pokemon Renegade Platinum

Found Crasher Wake and went to fight his gym just to get Barry jumpscared and get my ass kicked, it's always Barry I get stuck at, his team is too good.

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04/17/2024

Animal Crossing: City Folk

Our first villager to move out :( bye bye Drake, will miss you.

In other news I'm finally getting an invite to Redd's, so hopefully I can get my hands on some paintings tomorrow.

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04/16/2024

Pokemon Renegade Platinum

I finally beat Veilstone's Gym Leader Maylene! I was struggling with this gym extremely hard with my team set-up against her's.
The big problem being her Lucario and that the primary Pokemon I had to rely on was my Azumarill, only reason why the Toxicroak wasn't a problem was because of my Glaceon that (for some reason) has extrasensory and could outspeed it.

I ended up stalling out the Lucario with healing items and then my Banette outsped Lucario taking him down.



This is my team btw.

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04/14/2024

SLAY THE PRINCESS

Spoilers ahead! click to read

I went ahead and got The Adversary path and an alternate version of the The Wraith through The Nightmare, honestly really fucking freaky. I'm not sure if all of the protagonist's voices are done by the same guy but if they are he's an insanely good voice actor, the sound of the Voice of the Cold is very unsettling yet oh so perfect.

The theme of The Long Quiet is so hauntingly beautiful, I really love it.

Got to The Tower again, aka the perfect one for people who want a woman that can ruin their life.
Last time I got here I tried resisting, I think I'll go along with it this time.



The Stranger my beloved

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04/13/2024

ANIMAL CROSSING: CITY FOLK
I opened the game to participate in the fishing competition but I admittedly gave up pretty quickly, didn't feel motivated enough, I did finally go see Dr Shrunk though! Love him so much he's so silly, he helped me learn how to express fear.

SLAY THE PRINCESS

Spoilers ahead! click to read

I always try to 100% every visual novel I read, but this one is definitely gonna take awhile, but god I love this VN so much. Last one I got was the spiral vessel, though I don't think I got the perfect path for it, regardless I loved it.

I'm trying to do this without a guide as much as possible, I might pull up a guide once I at least see every vessel. "Through Conflict" was the first ending I got.

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04/12/2024

ANIMAL CROSSING: CITY FOLK
Daily City Folk check! I should probably tell y'all our villagers, currently we have Pate, Mac, Violet, Margie, Curt(one of my boyfriend's favorites), Kiki(one of my favorites), and Bud, I'm definitely forgetting someone but that's the jist

Even though it really doesn't do anything I always find myself going to Brewster's, I just wanna sit and exist in here for a little bit, especially if I can't go out to cafes in real life cuz I gotta save on money.

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04/11/2024

First post on this page! It'll be set up similar to my regular blog but it'll just be about whatever game I'm playing that day that isn't related to an existing log page.

My boyfriend got his hands on a copy of Animal Crossing City Folk and it's genuinely become part of my morning routine. We got Kiki who is one of my favorite villagers ever so I'm extremely happy, now just to hope she never moves out.

The night time music in this game is so nice and nostalgic, the Wii struggles reading the card that we got for it so sadly I can't save the image directly, so here's a photo of my TV trying to capture the magic lol.