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Every now and then there is an urge to play this GBA game that I got since the last time I’ve been in Ohio. I have missed a few MegaTen games that were actually released in the US at the time I was visiting Ohio so sadly my first experience with the series was DemiKids: Dark Version. this game, along with its White Version counterpart, is in a way a gateway title to draw Pokemon fans to Atlus’ flagship series and it wasn’t that bad. If you had played another game from the series such as Strange Journey or Nocturne you’ll notice a few differences in this GBA title but you can see where the MegaTen roots would be. The reason why I haven’t beaten this game yet is one feature that turned me off: the fusion system. I love fusioning demons whenever I play these games but I suppose I was turned off by the lack of a guide on fusion. In fact I think there isn’t an actual guide in english on DemiKids fusions and everyone else is just as clueless as I am. It gets worse when the order of which demons you select for fusion comes up with a different result when selected in reverse.

So with my 30th birthday passing by I think I can safely say that I feel old, but then my backaches might be caused by sleeping oddly in bed. For my birthday I dined at a couple of restaurants with my folks, though we did a couple because one was off one with the other working that day and vice versa on the next. As for games I actually managed to get two (with 20 of the $25 from one of my aunts and uncles, plus a $10 from the folks, going to my eshop and the remaining $5 going to Steam): Shantae: The Pirates Curse and The Blackwell Legacy. As I have said in the edit of my last blog I couldn’t really beat Fire Emblem Awakening over the weekend because I would be going up against literally armies of game combatants, so I just booted up some games instead of forcing myself to win a lengthy war.

But just for the sake of my 30th birthday:

This weekend has been more productive than usual as far as computer projects go (I have an associates degree saying I’m skilled in the field so I might as well put it to practice). I’ve played around on my laptop out in the living room and managed to get a few service to work with Chromecast through Chrome, except for Hulu because for some reason there is no web function for the device or Chrome. I couldn’t go all out because the app for Chromecast is only compatible for Windows 7 and up, but at least the Googlecast extension made things easy. Another little project I wanted to try was getting Steam Big Screen but since Vista SP2 does not react to Toshiba machines very well that function is kind of out of the question. Another issue that stopped me from playing Steam on the projector TV was trouble finding the VGA cable we had before. So in short Steam TV is on hold.

So GG now stands for GamerGate. The only thing I can say about the movement, regardless what goes on, is that I support the ethics of gaming in general whether or not I’m part of the club. That being said I would like to say that GamerGate has finally gone against me as a gamer by abbreviating the name. Now I have to type out “Good Game” to avoid a bad situation when all I want to do is just play.

Last week was just a taste of things getting crazy before the holiday, and it certainly didn’t help that fused all my personas to the point I needed to fuse new ones for methodical battles again. But now I’m up to pair so far and even started helping some people by posting my PQR (Persona QR) codes on Twitter (which I’ll also post from time to time here if anyone has a copy of Persona Q). While I just went to home as usual Friday afternoon a few things had made my weekend. The first is one of the new 3DS themes: Persona Q.

So, I’ve survived my shift on Black Friday (impressing my coworkers for some reason) and received my copy of Persona Q, at which I told my folks to call for an ambulance if I’m not out of the GameStop in 20 minutes. Now the question is how is the game? Just follow the link here.