@phbz Not to get too personal, but what was your secret for losing weight over the year? Quarantine and other factors have made it harder to stay as fit as I was when I went out more.

I'll probably start on a new review after my current one is up and able to show for the Community Showcase, but in my free time I'm probably going to get deep into Dragon Quest XI S on PS4. I picked it up originally at launch and hated the music, and didn't like how the Switch one looked when I tried that demo, so this is the best of both worlds for me. Plus they upped the frame rate to be all the smoother, so I'm having a really good time so far. I've been waiting the be able to get sucked into the game for so long now, Christmas seems like the perfect chill and jolly time to do that.

Beyond that though, I still haven't finished Last of Us 2, FFVII Remake, Doom Eternal or a few others, so maybe I'll do a backlog sweep before I settle down into the Dragon Quest world. I just have a bad habit of putting down games that I'm enjoying because I don't want to finish them too fast.

@dipset from what I remember it was specifically the PC version we played on XP. The GameCube or Xbox console versions were altered or different. But it's been some years so I can't be sure.

I generally look to the more positive parts of my experiences, but I remember I got Shrek 2 on PC and played it with a friend and it was a point of clarity where I realized licensed games just generally aren't very fun. Someone else probably dug that game but we were pretty upset by the end.

Having known several people who develop in the industry of games and movies, it's hard to be too critical and just say something is bad, but I can definitely recognize problems that I've gone through personally with both. But what I consider bad isn't what others would necessarily.

Anyone know the name of the song that plays during the intro? I want to hear the whole thing or try out the album

Day 25 - Boss fight that made you quit

Blazing Bull - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

I have one of these for every From Software game. Most recently it's just the miniboss of the fire bull. I always reach one of those points in these games where my skill isn't quite at the place where it should be, but it's more tiring to get back there to try again than anything, so it's just the stopping point. It's the place on the graph where the difficulty of a boss versus my desire to get better to beat it is overtaken by the former. I don't get those fist pumping moments from Souls, but I always hope to. Instead I just get tired, go back to my home screen, and eventually delete the game for something I will actually have fun with.

Day 24 - Game that should be a movie

Twisted Metal

I've been anguishing over this question because every game I come up with sounds like it would make a terrible movie unless it were put into the right hands. Twisted Metal though would be hard to mess up, but would have a decent chance of being pretty good if they do the characters justice. I think of it being sort of a Mad Max car combat movie, but in a more Escape New York stylized setting mixed with something like The Warriors where you have all these branches of messed up people competing for the prize, and and focus on bonds and betrayals in and out of battles. If it ends up bad, it could just be a B-grade car combat movie.

Just a reminder to mark for spoilers. I'm treading super lightly on these hot takes because I haven't finished LOU2.

@e_zed_eh_intern Haha, true enough. That was a gift from my aforementioned girlfriend some years ago that I'm super grateful to have. It happened to be in stock right at the time of my birthday, so I definitely got lucky there.

I picked up Kirby Super Star when my girlfriend was asking about games we could co-op on Super Nintendo, and a repro cart of Terranigma. I'd love to pick up a proper PAL cart sometime but at the moment they're a little out of my price range to add to the collection.