Mamoulian War

Few years ago, I have bought second hand PS Vita TV, just to play Tales of Hearts R, just to be discouraged about the bad localization, and Vita TV having some stupid ass HDCP DRM which does not allow streaming the game (I solved the latter, still hate the former). This weekend I decided to give it another try. I got through my issues with localization, and slowly starting to get into the game, despite being clumsy playing it. You can feel, that the controls were made for handheld Vita, so there are some shortcomings when playing with the controller. Yesterday, I have defeated the first boss. Pretty easy and straightforward fight, he just hit like a truck. Anyway, I still have issues with the localization, despite not understanding Japanese. The worst culprits are, when the party talks for 20 or more seconds, but the English text is just few words. All other Tales games, even the older lower budget games tried as much as possible that this would not be a case, even though the localization was not 100% true to original. Not in this game... And this can ruin my immersion...

As another big surprise, Star Ocean 2 R and Star Ocean 6 arrived on GOG. https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260728_launch_star_ocean

I will recommend you to check some let’s plays, after it gets released. I really do not remember the specific combat, as it is more than 20 years, when I played it. All I remember from that game is, that I pretty much liked it at that time, and I would swear, that it was turn based combat reactive to attacks opportunity. But as I said, after more than 20 years, my memory might be a little bit off.

As Humanoid said, it is a re-release with all bad stuff fixed. As far as I remember, the game got more hate than it deserved when it was released, mostly due to technical issues. It was the first D&D 3E game on the market, and it was turn based, I actually liked the way, how the combat and the movement around the battlefield was implemented, but I have never gone through more than few areas. If all the bug of the original build could be fixed, it might not be a bad game to pass time. More details on GOG store-page: GOG.comPool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth DrannorAn unspeakable, ANCIENT EVIL has REAWAKENED, rendering EVERYTHING it touches UNDEAD 

Goal nr.5/2026 achieved: July 21, 17:45 – After short vacation, I've decided to play another game from Hero of the Kingdom series. Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2 from GOG. This time, the hero was a princess. When compared to previous games, I put my enjoyment of it in between part III and Lost Tales 1. From start it was on the level of first Lost Tales, but soon, it slowly started to show its flaws. The quests seemed to me to have a little bit less of variety, and also I find the writing to be the weakest in the series so far. On the other hand, there was absolutely no grind, and I had to start shop runs for money only in the last hour of the game, after encountering the first undead. Up until then, the money and items, which I've found during the course of the game, were enough for moving forward through the story without any worry. So after 6 hours, I've unlocked all achievements and defeated another villain.

From my experience, Japanese companies are more akin into shutting down mobile games, than Western. Star Trek Timelines, which I "play" without spending a single dime, is running for 10+ years already.

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is going in the thirds season already. 12 new fighters in total will be released this year.

I had the same impression from the video as you. And as a long time player of PF/SF who uses Archives for a long time, and who had purchased a lot of stuff just to have it accessible on paper as well, I am more inclined to agree with him, that the removal of license from Archives might be contraproductive, as I feel the pain, every time, when I want to crossreferece all the stuff I need in my paper stuff, whenever I am not able to get online to search what I need on the Archives.

Time to download all of my 1E Books again. Just in case...

Sony (the gaming one) is no longer japanese company. They moved their HQ long tome ago to USA. Even PS5 was released in the west first last generation. 🤷‍♂️ And their games are also primarily targeting the western audience 🤷‍♂️

And another summer giveaway on GOG. Silence. https://www.gog.com/en/game/silence

Goal nr. 4/2026 achieved. July 4, 15:15 – After few breaks in-between playing Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales from GOG, I have finally finished it 3 months after the first launch. It was my first and blind playthrough, which I have finished with unlock of all except two achievements, and which took me about 48 hours to play. I have to say, I am pleasantly surprised, how much I have enjoyed this game, despite it being a deckbuilder, which is a genre, which I usually avoid. The main reason would be tons of choice of consequences, which were sometimes very hard to choose from and the consequences which I choose were sometimes pretty damning. All I can do now, is just hope, that CD Project will one day decide to make at least one more Witcher Tale, because there are very few games with such rich C&C gameplay.

Nexus Jupiter Incident for free on GOG for 2 more days GOG.comNexus: The Jupiter IncidentAt the dawn of the 22nd century the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar s

Sony announces going digital only in 2028 on the same day as they announce turing of digital store for PS3 and Vita, and few days after they removed from PS users libraries all movies from StudioCanal. 🤦‍♂️ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07/sony-will-stop-making-physical-copies-of-playstation-games-in-2028/

I have never played the first game, but as far as I understand, she, like the heroine of first game is an android (someone correct me if I am wrong). In other news, first modern FF in pixel art releasing soon.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/remothered_broken_porcelain On giveaway for 24 hours.

Well as a guy with ugric and slavic ancestors, as soon as I received the mail, I knew, that there will be crazy backlash from it. Although as much as some people love to point fingers of blame, these runes are part of our ancient history and have been misused by neo-nazi propaganda. Removing these symbols from proto-slavic history because of these "modern" connections is stupid, and it can be seen as erasure of our ancient cultural heritage. Some people who have absolutely nothing with neo-nazis are still using these symbols around here, as much as some hinduists are still using swastikas. Shall we point fingers at them as well? That being said, one of the runes posted was the rune used by SS units, and one of them is used by russian neo-nazi battalion Rusich, which is actively brutalizing and killing ukrainian civilians... This should never gone through the approval process. So GOG ****ed up on that...

Play indies

Trials of Mana and Legend of Mana released on GOG!!! https://www.gog.com/en/news/the_legendary_mana_series_arrives_on_gog_alongside_the_firstever_square_enix_jrpg_sale GOG is lately on fire, with adding new SE games to their catalogue! I just wish a day would be 48 hours long, as I never played the Mana series, but absolutely no time atm

Finally back to Thronebreaker: Witcher Tales after two months long break from gaming. With the small exception of one short weekend adventure with Hero of the Kingdom. Still on the second map. Few of the puzzle fights have been really hard to crack. But I was having fun with gaming again. Hopefully, I will have at least hour or two more to spare this week to finish Aedir and move to another land.

Goal nr. 3/2026 May 4, 23:00 – Having no mood for games in the last 6 weeks, I stumbled upon Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 1 on sale at GOG, and decided to find out if easygoing game like this one, will bring back that lost mood. And I think it was a good choice. As the three previous games in the series, it was again chill experience, although a little bit shorter. After a little bit over 5 hours, I have already found the main villain and unlocked all achievements in the game. This part of the series went back again to the way, how the materials and quests have been handled in the second part. Some busywork was still present when getting closer to the game finale, but the grind as experienced in the third game completely disappeared.