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Kazriko's Dive

September-November 2014 Multimedia Completion

Wow, I spaced this thing out for 3 months. Guess I was too busy. Books: N/a Games: September: 61. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (PS3) Very interesting game, worth playing. 62. Infamous: First Light (PS4) A worthy addition to the series. I enjoyed it however brief it was. 63. Hohokum (PS4) Very interesting. Very little storyline, but interesting. 64. Serena (Linux) Also for PC. About an hour long adventure game where you mostly just poke around trying to find new dialog on all the random objects around you.

August 2014 Multimedia Completion

Books:Didn’t do much reading this month, aside from RSS feeds. Games: 53. Tiny and Big: Grampa’s Leftovers (Linux) Finished. it was pretty short, but entertaining. Though, I kept thinking it was the last battle, then being disappointed when there was more to play. 54. Gone Home (Linux) A bit buggy, though new drivers helped this a bit. interesting to explore and listen to music. 55. Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii). Will probably end up on my top 10 rpgs ever.

July 2014 Multimedia Completion

Books: 13. Quantum Vibe Volume 1. and 14. Quantum Vibe Volume 2. This is just a great book all around. It’s a bit on the preachy side, but still a great old-fashioned scifi romp. 15. The Hook. I’m not sure what the point of this was. 16. Roswell, Texas. A bit of a wish fulfillment nightmare scenario. 17. Escape from Terra. Really good, even though it kind of ends in the middle.

June 2014 Multimedia Completion

Books: 12. A Mad Tea Party. Kickstarter is like Christmas scattered throughout the year. You get a random package without remembering that you ordered it months ago on kickstarter. In any case, this one was really quite good.  Games: 45. Walking Dead S1E4. Seemed really long, but was interesting. The ending was pretty brutal. 46. Entwined. Short, a bit challenging. 47. Walking Dead S1E5. So few survivors, especially from the initial group… Next up is 400 days I guess.

May 2014 Multimedia Completion

Books: None Games: 37. Octodad: Dadliest Catch (PS4) Pretty fun little game, the last level is really tricky though. 38. Hatsune Miku: Diva F (PSVita) I didn’t expect to enjoy the game, much less find any music I liked, but there were a few good songs in there, including the excellent Tengaku.  39. Night of the Rabbit (PC) AGH. This game has everything I hate about PC gaming. It works great for the first 4/5ths, then becomes an unstable, crashy mess in the last 1/5th.

April 2014 Multimedia Completion

Books: 11. The Martian. Excellent book. Everyone with any science knowledge should pick it up. Everyone else too if they can tolerate a little bit of science/engineering talk. Games: 25. Kings Quest 3 (PC/Dos) More entertaining than the last one, but the time limits can get a bit annoying. 25.1. Fez 100% (PSVita) Managed to get all the items. 26. Walking Dead S1E1. (PSVita) A bit intense. Tough for me to go through without wanting to second and third guess everything I do.

March 2014 Multimedia Completion

Books: None Games: 9. Odin Sphere (PS2) Excellent ending, the way it pulls in the menuing system as part of the story. 10. Ibb and Obb (PS3) I am disappointed. It didn’t give me the single player completion trophy even though I finished it all single player. :( 11. Sparkle (PSVita) IHTFG. 12. Muramasa: Genroku Legends: Fishy Tales of the Nekomata. (PSVita) Nice short little addon to Muramasa. 13. Megaman Legends 2 (PS1).

February 2014 Multimedia Completion

Books: 5. The Road to Oz. Not particularly remarkable? 6. The Emerald City of Oz. Reminds me of all those other authors who got tired of their universes they created and wanted to go on to something else, and futilely tried to write a final story… 7. The Well of Ascension. Decided to read something a bit more … well written? Mature? Interesting? Than the Oz books. It was quite good, and really makes me want to go buy the 3rd book right now… 8.

January 2014 Multimedia Completion

Books: 1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Interesting how different it is from the movie… Almost like a different story entirely. I like the book ending better. 2. The Marvelous Land of Oz. A couple of characters come back, most are new.  3. Ozma of Oz. They just keep adding characters… 4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. This thing retcons the crud out of the prior books just to allow the Wizard back into the story without him being a criminal… And it’s not really a very good book.

December 2013 Multimedia Completion

Books: none Games: 66. Knack (PS4) Quite a challenging little game. A bit of variety. It’s a lot of fun to see tiny gradual increases lead to a character that dwarfs enemies that used to seem huge. 67. Proteus (PSVita) Not much to say about this one, really. It’s really not a challenge at all to reach the end of it. 68. Flying Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims HD (PSVita) Enjoyable for the most part.