Free controller, paid for games, home alone - W29

What happened between July 15 to 21, 2025. I got a free NitroDeck for my Switch, some games I bought and pre-orderd arrived too, and other things.

Hey, a new week is upon us, and I have managed to do quite a bit of stuff. As always, it went faster than I expected, but it wasn’t too fast either. Pretty alright I’d say.

  • šŸŽ® My CRKD NitroDeck arrived! So far so good! It’s quite chonky but also pretty comfortable, I like the feel of the buttons and I used it quite a bit to play Breath of The Wild on the go. It definitely became part of my Switch whenever I bring it to my work commute.
  • šŸ“¦ On Thursday, some videogames I ordered from Play Asia finally showed up, after a couple of weeks. I ordered Signalis, a survival horror inspired by the PS1 style of the original Resident Evil trilogy, Parasite Eve and Silent Hill. But the reason I ordered at all was The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, a videogame that I’ve heard a lot of praise for, mixing visual novel with tactics rpg elements and a really ambitious story with 100 endings, of various quality. Once again I had to visit the post office in person to pick up these games because the mailer couldn’t find my house. They asked for my ID and I didn’t have it, but I had a pdf scan and thankfully that worked, I’m glad, because it would’ve been a pain to not be able to get it until the next day.
  • šŸ“¦ On Saturday, some videogames I pre-ordered last year finally arrived from Limited Run Games. I’m talking about Yakuza Kiwami and Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. I am looking forward to playing both, at some point when I actually chew through my Nintendo Switch backlog…
  • šŸ›ļø This week there was a huge sale going on that made it so the Nintendo Switch 2 was almost the same price as the US, which is already quite expensive, but yeah the tax in my country is painful and the main thing keeping me from buying. Even so, I managed to hold on and didn’t make yet another unnecessary purchase!
  • šŸŽ‰ I was home alone throughout the weekend, which was pretty fun. That’s how I managed to play a bunch of The Hundred Line (see gaming section!), but I also have to admit I struggled with making proper, healthy food. Still alive though.
  • šŸ§‘ā€šŸ’» I was meaning to participate in game jam, but I failed, gaming, work and procrastination, yay.
  • šŸ’Ŗ Went to the gym last week once, and today I went too! I plan to go tomorrow as well, and try to keep it up for the rest of the year, if everything goes well. Gotta take care of what I eat as well.
  • 🧪 I was invited by someone on Discord to join some Nintendo playtesting thing and it should be up soon enough, I literally know nothing about it, but I am kind of interested on checking it out, just to see what’s up.

Gaming

  • The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - This game took over my life in a pretty similar way to what 1000xRESIST achieved, with the extra advantage of me being home alone, it just was doomed to happen. Besides, I felt guilty about buying it when I shouldn’t buy games, so I started it almost immediately and… this is pretty good! It’s tactics, it’s a visual novel, it’s point and click, but more than all, it was a huge project that became the last hope for its development team. The game really brings up a very interesting story, and there are apparently 100 endings to experience! We’ll see how it goes. I am halfway through my first ā€œrouteā€ and I am enjoying the intrigue and the gameplay quite a bit. I already played 21 hours in a weekend…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild - Of course that Zelda is still out there, I stopped playing it in the weekend, but I still achieved quite a bit! I finally beat the last Divine Beast and I am now ready to go to Hyrule Castle. However I am exploring other areas and trying to recover all of my memories first.
  • Portal 2 (Multiplayer) - I played a few levels of the co-op mode and learning some of the mechanics of this game. I really need to play the original though, and the campaign of this one, some day…

Reading

  • Nemesis Games - Up to chapter 18. Glad I read a couple of chapters of this, going well!
  • Blue Lock - Up to chapter 264. Turns out that this match is kind of hype, oops.

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