Thank you

I definitely enjoy whodunnit, both in book and video game form.

I read the first book of the Ender’s Game series and enjoyed it (I also had the luck of being completely unspoiled about the ending); Dune has been on my to-read pile for some time, I’ll wait for a weekend where I have literally nothing else to do to enjoy it.

I know of Goodreads, and I mostly use it to keep track of my backlog, a bit like this site, than for anything else.

The Switch and Valkyria Chronicles 4 both come from a clearance sale at a shop that was closing down. I had been thinking about getting a Switch mostly because I’m looking forward to Bravely Default 2 — although I won’t be rushing out to get it as soon as it’s released, I’ll wait at least until summer, when I’ll have the time. Other games I’m thinking of playing on it are Super Mario Odyssey and Octopath Traveler, maybe some other RPGs and, why not, I’ll catch up on some last gen games that I missed.

Enjoy your games then. Right now I don’t have a computer powerful enough to run most Steam or Gog games, so I had to put most of them on hold (I tried and it looks like it can only play the older Ys games without stuttering or crashing, so maybe I just found the excuse to go and get through them), so for the moment I’m holding back from checking sales and Humble Bundle. Maybe in a few months.

Sadly so. As a translator I can work from home, so thankfully and luckily I didn’t have too many problems on that front, but I know people who were hit pretty badly by the lockdowns. Hopefully from now on things will be looking up.

Right now I’m going through my book backlog too, mostly detective and mystery novels when I want to wind down, and science fiction of various degrees of seriousness and cheesiness depending on my mood.

I managed to get a Switch for cheap, which opens me to temptation to many of the games on there. To balance that out, in a way, I currently don’t have a computer strong enough to run anything too complex. For the moment I’m keeping busy with Valkyria Chronicles 4, it’s always a fun time. Compared to the first it’s a bit easier early on, but from what I’ve heard the NG+ gets tougher.

It's been quite a hectic couple of years for me as well, though surprisingly 2019 more than 2020 - if anything, in the last few months I did manage to settle a few things and put some order in my life; my family is doing well too overall.

Right now I'm kicking back and enjoying the fact things seem to have finally slowed down a bit, and I'm taking my time playing some games and reading. I'm going through some stuff in my backlog, and playing a couple games I've been meaning to try for some time.

And you? Did you play something interesting lately?

Hey there, it's been a while How are things?

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