February is already over, and a lot of interesting things happenes during the month. It is the shortest of the year, after all
Podcasts
This month was rather light on podcasting, only listening to 28 hours of podcast episodes, which is less than half compared to January.
- Into The Aether - Same weekly listening as usual! Great things to come such as the PS1 and the PSVita bonues episodes! Some great games talked about here that caught my interest were Danganronpa, Under the Island, and CAIRN.
- Trash Taste - I catched up on a few episodes where they rated the anime taste of their audience, talked about surviving apocalyptic scenarios, and their favorite things of 2025.
- Sir Khan - Listened to some Warhammer 40K lore about the Ultramarines and similar things. Love the audio work on these ones.
- SAYER - Just some episodes I slept to, to be honest.
Gaming
This month I barely touched my Nintendo Switch, with my Anbernic RG35XX SP and my computer taking up most of my gaming time, for once! it’s so weird because it’s the same thing that happened on February of last year!
Completed
- Resident Evil 2 - I didn’t expect for this game to grip me in the way it did, but this classic of survival horror accompanied me during two straight weeks on my commutes to work, and I completed the Leon A and Claire B scenario right on time. The review is up so feel free to check it out! Spoiler: I absolutely loved it and you should give it a try too. This game is so good it may steal a spot on my Top 25, not joking at all, many great mechanics and excellent replay value too.
Started
- Peak - This is a very fun multiplayer game where you cooperate with friends to reach the peak of a mountain! You go through different biomes, find helpful items and try to not die or run out of stamina to keep going! I played with JP for a couple sessions, as well as some friends from Discord.
- Grapple Dog - I had acquired this game last year in the a Humble Bundle and started it on a whim! I’ve done a couple of the worlds already and having a blast. It’s a fun platformer with grappling mechanics, great physics and fun level design.
- Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? - I only really poked a this one for a second, but it’s a tough as nails platformer similar to Ghosts ‘n Goblins.
Ongoing
- CrossCode - On the last day of the month, I played this one for an hour, which amounted to the most played Switch game of the month. I am making progress though and plan to focus more on it during March.
- Ninja Five-O - I completed all of the easy mode of this game, but I want to give it another go in Normal to access 3 levels that are unavailable to me, and see the true ending of it all.
- Final Fantasy VI - I made some more progress of this SNES classic at last, as I continue to find my friends again and plan to fight against the evil Kefka.
- Donkey Kong - Tried this gem of the original Game Boy, considered to be one of the best puzzle platformers of all time.
- Nintendo Switch Sports - I think we played this for like 15 minutes for a bowling match and then ran out of time.
Reading
Maybe it’s only one book, but it’s more reading that in January, which is a win for me. I read 481 pages for 9 hours, 36 minutes.
- Persepolis Rising - Read up to chapter 31, which makes me super happy, as I finally started to recover from the reading slump I was going through. the pace was kind of slow as well, but it is already starting to pick up and I can’t wait to finish it early in March.
Manga
I enjoyed a great new manga this month, and continued on with some serials. The chapters of Planetes are longer than some other weekly manga, which is why the count seems low. In any case, good progress was made.
Started
- Planetes - Read up to chapter 16. I had this one on my TBR list for a long time, and for some reason I finally decided to give it a go. This is a masterpiece, up there with Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou when it comes to thought-provoking—although not as comfy—manga to read and be engulfed by. A great piece of science fiction about the life of crew of space garbage cleaners in their day to day lives.
Ongoing
- Spy x Family - Read up to chapter 129. Just a couple more chapters with a bit of a focus on comedy and action this time around.
- Blue Lock - Read up to chapter 337. The match against France has begun, and it is already shattering the way Blue Lock has worked so far, the french are giving them a run for it, and Isagi has been rather useless so far. I’m really interested to see how our characters evolve from here!
- DanDaDan - Read up to chapter 224. Really enjoying the progress on this one, and the way the new villain is approaching our protagonists is rather smart as well, I’m looking forward for more developemnt of this arc.
Movies / TV Shows / Anime
I didn’t watch any movies or anime, and I can’t really say I watched any TV Shows either. I pretty much just stuck with whatever my parents or grandma (who has been with us for a whole month now) decided to watch in any given time. I guess we watched some Bones, some The Good Doctor and similar dramas, but only during dinner or lunch time, and never really staying until the end.
I did watch a lot of Resident Evil youtube essays though.
Music
I continue to have pretty much the same taste in music as always, but decided to share the top 5 albums of the month this time around. All of them are videogame soundtracks!
- Plants vs Zombies Soundtrack - Laura Shigihara
- Outer Wilds Soundtrack - Andrew Prahlow
- Hyper Light Drifter Soundtrack - Disasterpiece
- Gris Soundtrack - Berlinist
- Minecraft - Volume Alpha - C418
Goals for March
I think it might be cool to share some goals I want to have this month! To fill these a bit more and just have something to look forward to.
- Survive my workmate asking for like 3 weeks of vacation and leaving it all on my hands.
- Finishing Persepolis Rising by the first week of the month.
- Watching a couple of movies, maybe going to the cinema once.
- Listening to some more City Pop again, maybe find a new artist.
- Completing two videogames! I should go back to Silksong, or play a short videogame like Monument Valley 2, I am also curious on Strange Jigsaws, which I bought on a whim on January…
- Finish, maybe, my relisten of Wolf 359, and writing a review or a post about it.
- Finish season 3 of Dungeons and Daddies, since it’s over and I really should go back to it.
Finishing thoughts
This was the first month where I finally had home office from work again after quite a while, I am so happy because not only does it give me a chance to spend my dead time in other fun things, it is just nice to not wake up early just one more day…
I must say, a lot of my time this month was spent scrolling on social, it is one of the reasons I stopped sharing my device usage this past few months, I have really dropped the ball lately and lost control of my screen usage like crazy. I may need a bit of a detox, if I’m honest. Maybe another monthly challenge to consider…
For now, this is it, good bye!
This is day 23 of #100DaysToOffload
