...This gives me 2012 Youtube vibes omg!!

My computer’s mainboard had a shortage.
It gives me more time to explore Spyro again, but heck, I miss Genshin Impact and TrackMania in my life right now…

Hey there! I haven't messaged anyone on this site in a while either
Congrats on getting married and I hope you've been doing well these past few years!

Hello all! *Group hug* I am in fact still alive and I just finished all the work to update my page.

Initial reasons why I stopped updating my page ~3 years ago were:
1. me returning to my GF and later getting engaged to her, meaning less time for stuff like this;
2. my fear of getting the dreaded Bak'laag badge. I was not being honest about the games I newly purchased and left many aside or just nulled them when I shouldn't have. Ever since, I have learnt that honesty is a key attitude for a human, and that I should really show it towards those close to me, having followed my page and interacted with me over years.
How my progress stands right now is the accurate I can get it according to my definitions for mobile games etc. which you can also check out in my About Me.

On my page, you'll see the following changes in effect:
- Since I am a German living in Germany, all the regional game titles (this especially affects Pokémon and all the weird stuff on game magazine disks) are regional again, instead of my desperate attempts to make them international. More precisely, I will enter the game title just like it says on the cover. This does include a weird example with Pokémon Brilliant Diamond too, which I actually bought from France.
- If a game is in the main console category, I have a physical copy of it or I installed it from a CD or DVD; if it's in "... Downloads", it's only a digital copy.
- Anything marked as ownership "Other" is actually owned by my fiancée. Thus, in the case of cartridges, she has my save data; in the case of PC games, she has the original installation disks which I used to install the game locally. If we ever live together, I'll make sure to change it to "Household".

With all that off my chest, I hope you haven't forgotten about me, and I am looking forward to hearing from you all again!

Ah, good to hear. And yes, EoS is absolutely worth it. That game's ending always has me tearing up, just like Mother 3. I won't say much more than that, but if a game is able to make me, who rarely feels any sort of super strong emotion from entertainment, tear up, then that is a mark of a truly wonderful game to me.

The difficulty is a bit weird, yeah. I remember it went up and down for the whole game, like it couldn't decide if it wanted to be an easy game or an hard one. It mostly depends by the Pokémon in the dungeon, of course, but in Gates and Explorers I barely had any problems after one specific dungeon or boss that annoyed me a lot. Maybe I didn't grind enough?
I specifically remember that boss you mentioned and his dungeon, they were the most annoying part of the game. I hate those Helioptiles that just use Discharge and can hit you from the other side of the room. My partner was Water-type and fell to critical health every time he got hit by Discharge. The other annoying parts for me were the dungeons you traverse as you're fleeing from your hometown and the Beheeyems and everything about Salamence.
You are basically supposed to bring yourself and the partner to every dungeon you enter, otherwise the parts of the story in which you're forced to use them become a living hell... not just because of what happened in the story, I mean.
I don't remember exactly what happens in the story at that point, but yeah, something bad is going to happen to them and countless other Pokémon, and if I recall correctly you're close to reaching that point.
I haven't played a Rescue Team game so I can't compare it to Super. Man, I really should buy Blue Rescue Team from eBay or something... Anyway, I do agree that Super is a bit underrated; most of the fanbase seem to not like it very much. My main gripe with the game is that it starts extremely slowly, even more so than the other games. Really wish that there were a bit less hand-holding. I'm in the huge minority, I know, but I actually really liked the Connection Orb system, and wish it returned if they'll ever make a PMD5 (I have a feeling that they won't). I prefer it to recruiting in the previous 3 games because it's not random, basically, and it's much quicker to get 700+ Pokémon with this than to recruit them in dungeons, one by one. Negative recruitment rates tick me off every time I think about them.

What's your thoughts on Super Mystery Dungeon so far? I personally have mixed feelings about it, on one hand, it's way better than Gates to Infinity. On the other hand, I didn't like it as much as Red/Blue Rescue Team or the Explorers games. I haven't really bothered with it much after my first playthrough, but since it's been a few years, I may give it a shot again eventually just to see if maybe I'd like it more now.

Oooh, you're playing PMD4? That's a great game, let me know how you're liking it so far.
Completely unrelated, but I see Explorers of Sky in your Memory Card. You should play that game when you find free time for it. I've played through Explorers of Darkness recently and I've loved its story and characters, and Sky is basically the same game, but with better post-game, part of which isn't available in my version.

Well, that's good news for me! My copy of Bowser's Inside Story has finally returned from borrowing hell after two and a half years! I never thought I'd ever get it back.
Gives me the chance to replay this amazing video game... one day.

I thought Angry Birds 2 would be done at Level 500 because I couldn't see more levels than that, everything after that was covered in a fog of war. Quick , I thought.
Well, I was damn wrong about that. At this point of writing, there's 1900!!! levels. And constant updates provide constant more levels. Your bird score multiplier can go up to 140 and more. I'm sitting at a laughable 15 to 25 right now. Constant updates provide constant additional bird levels. As Britains would say: it's like painting the Forth Bridge!

My criteria for mobile games state that I should complete the main objective at least once. The objective would be to clear all levels. Not going to happen in a million years. Because of that, there is no "credits" to the game either. Once you retrieve the eggs from a Boss Pig, the next one instantly takes them away again (I want cutscene gameplay!!!!1111!!!).
So, I had two choices: either make the game a , or make it a earlier than intended by myself.
Originally, at the time of its release, the game had a mere 200 levels. I've long passed this mark, which would sorta qualify for a . Also speaking for a , I've just come in 1st place in the Legendary League, the highest league that the Arena has to offer. On the other side, with the constant updates which push the true ending further and further away, a would be justified, too.

I've finally decided to make it a , despite a small stomachache doing so.