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So why is it crashing as if is one?
Unfortunately the debug menu option doesn’t work, and instead it just quits the game. I’ve tried deleting and redownloading, and I get the same error, which means it might be an issue with a locally stored save file or update file or something. Pretty frustrating.
Yes I've watched K-Pop Demon Hunters!
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Fantasy Life I (PS5)
It's been a while since I have played an Animal Crossing/Stardew Valley style cosy game. Fantasy Life I has many different classes from fishing, combat to crafting.Shopping
Added Fantasy Life I & Indiana Jones & the Great Circle.
I spent a bit of time sorting out my PlayStation Library into Subscription, Monthly & Purchased games. Currently sitting at 93 games!
I'll focus on the subscription games before they leave the service.
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A few more titles added to my wish-list in Promise Mascot Agency & Thank Goodness you're here.
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Stick drift, one of my PS5 controllers has started to drift.
Maybe it’s the conversion to the Xbox pad, but APB is incredibly difficult to control. In order to arrest someone you have to have your cursor over them and press the siren, because obviously criminals are only going to pay attention to a police car which is an exact distance away from them. The thing is that the cursor is not at a set distance from your car, but instead varies with the speed you’re going. In order to have enough of a gap between your car and the cursor to be able to arrest someone, you have to be going quite fast, certainly faster than the criminals you are chasing. For littering this isn’t so much of an issue, since you need to signal to them once. By the time you get to chasing down dopers, it’s much more difficult because you have to signal on them three times, meaning you are almost guaranteed to crash; too many crashes and you’re out.
I’ll have to see if there’s an original cabinet next time I go to somewhere like Arcade Club, because the concept of the game – a semi-open world, different criminals to find, extending time through fuel and doughnuts – is quite attractive. It’s just the controls which frustrate.
There is nothing to say about Jupiter’s Picross series that I haven’t already said. There’s not much new here that hasn’t been done before, it’s just more brain-wrinkling and relaxing (at the same time, somehow) picross puzzles.
One thing I would like, perhaps, is fewer of the 5×5, 10×10 and even 15×15 puzzles, and more of the 40×30 ones. There are only a handful here, and you only get them if you have save data from previous games in the series, but I’d love to spend an hour on each of these rather than two or three minutes (or two or three seconds, on 5×5 puzzles) on 20 or 30 smaller ones.
Oh, and S5 has both a toilet and toilet paper pictures. Win.
Unfortunately, my Switch 2 gaming time has been a bit limited because of two things: school holidays necessitating multiple dad-taxi rides for children around the area; and Edward borrowing my console to play Donkey Kong Bananza at every moment. I tried playing Bananza in handheld mode and, while it was still good, I much preferred it on the big TV screen. So, I’m putting that on hold until the children are back at school (with more regular evening clubs), and instead I’ve been taking my 3DS around with me.
I have a lot of 3DS games. At least 70 physical ones (probably more, since I haven’t done a proper audit of the collection for years now), plus probably as many again download-only games. That’s not including the DS library that also runs on the system. As a result, some games have hardly been played at all – Cave Story, for example – and others have been dropped part-way through. Super Mario 3D Land is one of the latter. The save on the cart tells me that I previously had completed the standard levels, and had started the special worlds. I can remember very little of the game, though, so I’ve started again from the beginning, and have had a lot of fun trying to get all three golden coins on each level, and also landing on the top of the flagpole to get a golden flag.
It’s not the most difficult game – I now have 89 lives in reserve, and there have only been a couple of occasions where I’ve repeatedly lost lives – but it’s ideal for portable play in relatively short bursts. I wonder if I will get further than I did before; completing the standard levels feels like it’s not going to be that demanding.
