I’m working on some plays of other games, so this is going to just be a shorter post just because I’m still here and felt I should write something.
So; I was pretty upset to hear from Nimgimli that Lord of the Rings: War in the North wasn’t actually available in Steam anymore. I probably wouldn’t have gushed about it so much if I’d known. It’s in my Steam library because at some point in the distant past, I bought it or it was part of a bundle or something. I played it a bit a few years back and all the way through just last week. In the interim, it was deleted.
But! It was out for the XBox and the PlayStation 3! So we went looking for it, and found it in a place we hardly ever go, but there they had it, in the case.
Am I going to play it? Again? Unlikely. I do have a genuine PS3 set up next to my desk, but I just did play through it and if I was going to continue, I’d continue on Steam. I just wanted to acknowledge it somehow — collect it. Steam may decide to delete it from my library, but I’ll still be able to play it if I want. I have the disk.
I was pretty excited when I saw that Final Fantasy XII collector’s edition box. I have the game, of course, but not the special edition. Comes with an extra disk with art, interviews, music and stuff — totally cool. When I got it home, I thought I would rip it to the rest of my PCSX2 PS2 library, and so I did. I’ve been working on ripping Kabul’s PS2 collection, so I thought, as long as I had everything set up, that I would go ahead and finish ripping his games.
One of those games was… well, you know what’s coming. In his own defense, he didn’t remember that he’d bought it. So now I can sell mine back to some different retro store, I guess. Don’t need two copies. Let someone else have that fun.
The Switch game was Kasul’s. The game is Livestream 2: Escape from Togaezuka Happy Place. A Japanese game in Cantonese sold in Hong Kong. Although the case is in Chinese, the game itself, being made for an international audience, can be played in English.
The girls are influencers who livestream themselves breaking into abandoned buildings, and this being a Japanese game means they are probably in high school (as, according to anime, once you’re out of high school, you instantly cease to matter. Harsh, but that’s the way it is).
Livestream 2 is described as “…a side scrolling survival action-adventure game in which players must escape from a mysterious mascot in an abandoned shopping mall,” so it has everything, basically. Haunted shopping malls is probably a little redundant, given the current state of the shopping mall industry. “Haunted” is the default condition these days.
Anyway, take a look at my Twitch to see what I am playing these days. We also had a great Game Night tonight I’ll be writing about soon.
