I’m playing Pictologica Final Fantasy on my phone via a 3DS emulator, fan translation.

I’m on a journey to play and finish as many obscure final fantasy related games as I can. I’ve also recently played final fantasy legends, and Chocobo Land of Dice (fan translation of the GBA game)

Pictologica is just a nice little puzzle game to kill time on my phone.

I’m playing a few casual couch co-op games with my partner and our neighbours.

Overcooked, Out of Space, and Moving Out.

Up to four players. They involve a lot of communication, team work, and frustration. Lots of fun.

Middle Earth Shadow of War.

Finished Shadow of Mordor and figured I’d move on. I think I’m having more fun in War.

The level design is much more creative. In War it felt like a mostly open sandbox with a few notable areas. In Shadow it feels like every inch is designed with intent. Especially with how much height some areas have. It’s not a homogeneous wasteland or field, it’s large set pieces.

The skill tree feels a bit better too. In War you just slowly activate every skill and end up quite over powered. In Shadow you have to pick and choose which ones to activate.

The enemies feel a bit better too. There’s a lot more interaction with captains, which are much more creative with better dialogue.

I liked 4 the best. The original 3 were too difficult for me; I much preferred parasite Eve compared to them.

I love the Matrix. I will always be open to more franchise content, but I am unsure if anyone will have anything as good as the original trilogy and accompanying media from the early 2000s.

Who’s getting exploited? Kiss has always grabbed for any cash opportunity that came up with no regard to their reputation.