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What video games are you playing now?

Shining Pearl's release is what finally prompted me to put down Animal Crossing: New Horizons; I'd been working on my island essentially non-stop since the big 2.0 update dropped.

Aside from that, I finally got my Platinum in NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... - shame on those who doubted me! ＼(＾▽＾)／ It involved, among other minor things, clearing all possible endings, grinding to max out every weapon level, catching every type of fish, beating (almost) every boss within a given time limit, and, worst of all, growing and harvesting a bloody Lunar Tear.

Not a difficult Platinum in the grand scheme of things, but that grind for that Lunar Tear was killer. Very monotonous and dull. Luckily literally everything else in this game was entertaining beyond measure and I loved the time I spent with it, so I don't feel like grinding for that Plat trophy was a waste of time. Plus, yay, now I have another mastered game under my belt! Moreover, because I'm apparently a masochist, I also went the extra mile and obtained 100% sidequest completion, but not word completion; I'm not quite that crazy.

After I put down Shining Pearl, it's most likely back onto the Animal Crossing grind whilst I wait for the new Final Fantasy XIV expac, Endwalker, to drop in early December. Then I will be devoting every hour of my waking life to that until I complete it.
 
Brilliant Diamond. I just started, and named the character Link.
 
Castlevania Advance Collection. Still trying to get all the cards in yet another replay of Circle of the Moon, it's starting to get a bit better now though, so now I have a few more to use aside from just Mercury, Salamander, Mandragora, Venus, and Serpent; of course years ago I never really cared for getting most/all of them, but now I'm more determined despite how long it takes lol.

Pokemon Shining Pearl. After a small delay I got my BDSP games this morning finally. Decided to start off with Shining Pearl this time even though Brilliant Diamond will be my main file, mainly cause my favorite Pokemon Glameow is in this version. Not very far currently, just a bit past Jubilife City and making my way to Oreburgh City to get my first badge. My current team right now is Piplup, Shinx, and Starly.

Shin Megami Tensei V. I've had my pre-order of this since it's release, but didn't start playing it until yesterday night since I thought to play it alongside BDSP, but since the latter got delayed till today I was anxious to go ahead and play this. Once again not too far, still in the early area and beat two abscesses, gonna clear a third one sometime a bit later tonight. Also found a few Miman to send back to Gustave, I think it was around 10 so far. My current demons are Pixie (cause she's a classic ofc), Cait Sith, and Mandrake (I also have Slime and Preta, but they're my least favorite demons in the series so meh). As an aside, I named the protagonist after one of my favorite manga/anime character(s) Tetsuya Kuroko, mainly for his color scheme as Nahobino (it's a darker blue than Kuroko's, but his skin tight suit is what seals it for me) and partially for his personality at the start; thinking of going Law in this playthrough cause of that. I was originally going to name him Akemi Nakajima after DDS: Megami Tensei's protagonist, but maybe in another file I will. I wonder if this installment will beat out SMT III: Nocturne as my favorite of the series, I am enjoying it so far and the protag's Japanese VA (of what very little we hear of him) is pretty great so that's a major plus so far.
 
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Still am playing DP to catch Mesprit but it’s hard. I try to use a Quick Ball in P but it won’t work every encounter. Maybe I can find some Heart Scales and have my Crobat learn Mean Look. Though I will train to like Lv. 45-55-ish.

In C, I did get the Item Finder though I picked up items randomly before getting the machine in Burnt Tower. Still am training to Lv. 35 though.
 
Still playing Animal Crossing New Horizons, but I'm afraid I've hit kinda a roadblock from getting to get done what I want to. My storage is full, but I have a large loan to pay-off before I can even get a storage increase. D: So now the new furniture items I get I'm having to throw on the ground... Ugh. I know, buy turnips, but I keep forgetting. So I'm broke and stuck. lol

Also still playing Final Fantasy XIV. Really impressed with how long I've stuck with it this time without getting burnt out. I guess leveling up all kinds of different jobs has kept it from happening. I've almost gotten Dancer to level 80, and am going to work on my first SHB relic weapon once I do, since Dancer doesn't have many glowing weapons outside of that and glowing weapons are of the utmost importance to me! :p I'm a bit nervous about that TBH, I heard some of it requires alliance raids and I... don't like those. Haven't even played SHB's alliance raids yet and heard they are hard, so. Ugh.
 
Taking a bit of a break from the Castlevania Advance Collection so I can progress more into SP and SMTV, though sometime next month I might do another replay of Symphony of the Night; every December I usually replay a Castlevania game around Christmas time, not exactly sure why I started doing that, but I guess it started to become some odd tradition for me lol.

Anyway, got further in Shining Pearl. Beat Roark last night and got the Coal Badge, afterwards I trained my team so now I have Prinplup, Luxio, and Staravia. Earlier today I reached Floaroma Town and beat Team Galactic at the Valley Windworks, also got the free gift Jirachi and Mew afterwards and caught a few more Pokemon to fill out the Pokedex (mainly just Buizel and Shellos west). I decided to put Mew in my team for now, mainly to level it up a bit. Now I'm at Eterna Forest and met Cheryl, thinking of catching a Buneary after I help her leave the forest, then before facing Gardenia I'll try and catch a Ponyta to help out a bit.

Also got a bit further in Shin Megami Tensei V. Last night I cleared away the third abscess and grinded for a bit. Just a bit before getting on the computer, I grinded out some more and completed a few side quests and getting Apsaras from one of them. Afterwards I fused a few demons to get certain specific ones, so now my current demons are Mermaid, Fortuna, and Bicorn; gonna have to grind more levels later on cause another demon I want, Inugami, is somewhat high leveled at 45, so it'll certainly take a while but I'm patient. Then I went ahead and beat the Hydra, he was a bit challenging, but still doable with my current level at 15 and my current demons.
 
All of my gaming time recently has been in Pokemon Shining Pearl, though I did start Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies for a first playthrough right before the game came out because I just felt the AA urge. Made my way through the intro case and the first main story case before Pokemon released.
 
My BDSP copy is on its way.

As for C, I’m thinking of training my team to Lv. 40-45. I can play any games I want to play.
 
Pokemon Shining Pearl. Beat Gardenia and acquired my second badge, before that though I decided to get the item for the underground and do a bit of that first. Caught a few Pokemon, mainly Lickitung, Cherubi, Combee (female, as I want to use Vespiquen on my team for a bit), and Houndoom (which I decided to use instead of Ponyta, since it was female I decided to name her Nitocris after my third favorite Fate character); also found two statues for my base, which are Gliscor and Dusknoir, I just put up the Dusknoir one for now since I want higher chances to come across Ghost types. Currently my team is now Prinplup, Luxio, Staravia, Houndoom, and Vespiquen (temporary, evolved right after clearing the Galactic building). Now that I finished beating Jupiter in Galactic's building, I think tonight I'll explore the Old Chateau in Eterna Forest, mainly to see if the ghosts/portrait with following eyes are there like the originals and to hear the remakes take on the theme.

Shin Megami Tensei V. Last night I fought Nuwa and "beat" her then met her cute partner Shohei, afterwards I reunited with Ichiro and Yuzuru and went back to our Tokyo, only to find out it's actually a fake. Bit of a slow intermission while we were back in school, saw some nasty bullying on a girl then had to talk to Tao about it (as an aside, I don't really like her or her friend Miyazu all that much lol). After that fought the first Lahmu battle at a shrine then had to follow him back to school and clear out any demons we come across, now I'm back in Da'at and had to rescue a few students that were taken. I think either tonight or tomorrow I'll continue on and see which next boss I have to fight, since where I'm at I have a feeling one is coming up. Oh and I'm blind apparently, I can fuse my demons to get Inugami at level 24, not 45 like I thought it said (doesn't help that I was looking at it's darkened portrait instead of the left side of the screen, it's an annoying habit I have), luckily I'm one level away so soon I'll be able to get it.
 
Shining Pearl. Current team is.
Mad Vlad (Crobat)
Jezebel (Mismagius)
Skops (Drapion)
Chelyster (Torterra)

Currently dealing with Fantina's Gym, finishing off all the Gym Trainers first. I love how a lot of the trainers in this Gym outright acknowledge that you're most likely deliberately getting the math questions wrong, just so you can mess with them.
 
Now that's Zelda the wind waker, and ocarina of time...
In fact I had already finish wind waker, but I start again, to have the bonus of different clothes (yes, just for that!)
And I no started yet Ocarina of time, but will in few days.
 
Brilliant Diamond (my double pack came in the mail today).

I sorta missed some info but that’s okay. I chose Piplup.
 
Playing Dragon Quest 6 DS to check out differences with the Super Famicom version and so far it's been pretty much the same. Read counts online that apparently the game was made too easy in the remake, but i have been pretty much struggling in the same areas as i struggled in the original version.

The much better menuing and the party chat system (characters are also given a lot more dialogue lines compared to the original) giving the player characters much needed characterization. Soundtrack is probably my favorite in the series. All of this raised this game from my least favorite in the series to somewhere around the middle.

If anyone is gonna give it a try, play the remake.
 
For C, just am at least trying to reach the 40s. I sorta don’t need to level up to 15. Now BD. My team is sorta okay. I did won but both 2 of my Pokémon fainted for my first Gym. I at least didn’t chose any that are weak/resistible.
 
Pokémon Shield

It’s been awhile since I found the time to play this. Started by redeeming some codes I had been given for shiny Zacian, shiny Celebi, and Zarude, then did some raids and apricorn searching around the Isle of Armor. I caught a Modest Sylveon from a raid (which my new shiny Zacian obliterated handily) and an Adamant Morpeko from the wild in Challenge Beach, so I added those two to my team and began training them up! None of the White Apricorns I gathered today yielded a Fast Ball, unfortunately, so I decided to finally start looking for Galarian Articuno in the Crown Tundra. Before I found it, I caught a wild Mime Jr. with the Modest nature, so I fully evolved her into Mr. Rime! After that, my pursuit of Articuno ensued, and I finally managed to save my game before the point where I could challenge it to battle. After a lot of retries, I finally caught my Galarian Articuno in a Premier Ball! The nature is a completely neutral one, but that can be fixed with a mint some other time.
 
Did you know that attempting to optimise enchantments in Minecraft is willing self-torture? Like, I still really want to get good ranks of protection for my armour, and I'd really like fortune for my pick, but the system is just so obnoxious that I don't really want to do it anymore. I might have to just jump into the Nether and move on before going back to trying to pump up the rarer enchantments.

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: I heard it was good, so when I saw it was marked down in a black friday sale I figured why not. It's not bad. Very chaotic and occasionally difficult to follow, especially given how many things you need to juggle and how many buttons you're holding and micromanaging at a given moment. I feel like I'll probably fall into the motions it expects of me eventually, but so far it's, yeah, chaotic. Anyway we just sold Groot to pay our Nova Corps fine.
 

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