Just some short little thoughts and updates on video games this week…
Tales of Arise
I think Tales of Arise is one of my favourite Tales games in a while. The last one I really remember loving quite this much was Vesperia, and I’ve played quite a few others since then. A lot has been said about the considerably darker tone but it’s still got a lot of light-hearted moments. I’m currently at about hour 25 and just met the 4th lord (after an extremely dramatic cutscene). Looking at the How Long to Beat, it seems the average main game + sidequests takes about 52ish hours to beat, so I’m guessing I’m about halfway. Really looking forward to seeing where this one goes!
Final Fantasy XIV
My FC (shoutout to Skynet on Ultros!) got a house and with it, I was able to grab my first apartment! I furnished the HECK out of that thing late one night. I literally went to the marketboard and searched “tonberries”, “moogles”, “cactuars”, “carbuncles”, and “chocobos” and spent over a million gil furnishing my new place in everything that is as cute as can be. I kind of love having this little FC house and a little nook to hang out in when I come and go in the game. It’s so fun!
GB/GBA games coming to Switch?
Everybody and their dog at this point knows about the leak that claims Nintendo is testing out GB/GBA emulation for the Switch. While you can’t expect anything that is leaked, no matter how legit, to come to fruition, I hope against hope that this is announced and released this year. I’d LOVE a way to play GBA games more easy-peasy (and wouldn’t this be a great way to give Mother 3 to the masses without spending too much $$$?). I’m NOT holding my breath but dangit, it would be really super cool – even to play Golden Sun: The Lost Age without having to go out and buy the cart somewhere (or pull my Wii U out from storage…that’d be so much work).
Anyway, that’s your Sunday evening Pando report. Have a great week everyone!