My tablet battery died and I wanted to finish a hell event in Love Nikki, so I installed Bluestacks. Then I was like, since I’m emulating android games anyway… and I reinstalled Epic Seven and Princess Connect Re: Dive. 🙈 After all I said to convince myself not to. Priconne is the same old same old, might uninstall again once the upcoming Christmas bonanza is over. It’s more fun playing with the loads of stamina you get from being away for a while, than with the pitiful drips the game gives you every day.
Epic Seven, though, spoiled me with a ton of goodies for returning players. Between that and the regular rewards, and the new Hunt missions which gave me Sigret and Vivian at long last, and the nerfing of the annoying Episode 3 stages, and the background hunting feature, and the Custom banner which gave me three characters I’d always wanted, I think I’m going to stick around for a while.
I wanted to try the new Octopath Traveler gacha game. Champions of the Continent or whatever it’s called. Unfortunately I could download and install it all right, but it wouldn’t play and none of the fixes I saw online helped either. Guess it will have to wait until/unless I get a better phone.
So far I haven’t felt like installing any of the other games I dropped in the past, like Another Eden or FF Dissidia Opera Omnia. Not that they weren’t good games, but they lack a certain je ne sais quois that would motivate me to play them again. I think it boils down to me not being convinced that they’ve fixed/will ever fix the issues that led me to drop them in the first place.
In other news I’m still playing Shining Nikki, CounterSide and Genshin Impact. Sometimes I want to play more GI, but then I remember how long it takes to load and it’s like blah. I have a great time whenever I do muster the energy to log in, but that hasn’t happened often this month.
As for Xenoblade Chronicles 3… Time to apply the ol’ “It is enough” principle? I still play with my Switch quite a bit, but it’s all Picross all the time. I’ll think about it properly when the World Cup is over and I crave more drama.
That’s enough of an update for one day. See ya!
At that point, you’re just a button press away from a big fat gacha game coming-out, where you proudly admit that they are totally your jam now and that your blog will focus on them from now on 😜
Jokes aside, I love your posts about gacha and browser games. I can feel your passion, and it’s inspiring and emulating; not to mention that I get to play these games vicariously through you 😉
I might very well do that one day. Most gacha games aren’t all that great, but the same goes for most “regular” console/PC games, especially these days. And at least I don’t have to pay anything for the gachas. When I was younger I used to crave variety, but now I’m more drawn to proven quantities because my time and energy is limited. Which means… more gacha games forever!
The custom banner in Epic Seven giving you three characters you’d always wanted is exactly the kind of bait that would hook me too—especially with the background hunting feature making the grind less painful. I’ve been tempted to reinstall just for that Sigret and Vivian combo from the new Hunt missions.
I totally get what you mean about Priconne—the daily stamina drip feels so painfully slow compared to the massive stack you get when returning! But man, Epic Seven really knows how to pull people back in, especially with the background hunting feature and finally getting Sigret and Vivian from those new Hunt missions. Did you ever end up actually downloading the Octopath gacha, or did the cut-off at the end mean you ran out of steam?