Cosmic Powers (Day 333)

I have the next three days off and my video card is on its way. Unfortunately, I have no reason to suspect that I'l be receiving it any sooner than Wednesday. That's okay, though. I should still have plenty of time to finish Tales of Destiny and move on to something else. In fact, I might go ahead and do that tonight if I manage to motivate myself enough. I'd also like to make a little more progress on New Mystery of the Emblem but the mission I'm on right now is really difficult. I've been stuck in one spot for probably a week now.

Even though I've been hyper focused on clearing out my backlog lately, that doesn't mean that I haven't considered some new game purchases. Playing all of these RPGs in a row has made me sort of crave something more action-oriented. I think I'd like to eventually purchase Dragon's Crown and Persona 4: Arena. Vanillaware's Muramasa was really enjoyable and Dragon's Crown looks like a lot of fun, especially if I managed to snag a co-op partner. In the case of Arena, I haven't played any fighting games in a really long time and I think I'd like to give it a shot. It helps that it's a spinoff of one of my favorite RPGs of all time.

My friend has already purchased Borderlands 2 for me so I'll definitely be playing that some once my card comes in. Normally I'd be skeptical that I could complete a game like that, but I"m sure playing it cooperatively will be more than enough motivation to power through it. I did enjoy the original Borderlands but I doubt I would have found it engaging enough on my own to play through the whole thing.

Having three games on my radar to play makes me a little itchy because I've made so much progress recently. My aspiration is to get to the point where the only games going into my backlog are new games that I just purchased. It's a difficult task and it will be very time consuming, but my progress so far this year has been really encouraging. I think I've beaten something like seventeen games, some of which where games I'd been meaning to finish for years and years. For the most part it's been really fun revisiting these games and analyzing why I stopped playing them in the first place--as well as writing about what's also very strong about them.

If I could hit 30 games finished this year, that'd be pretty amazing--but that's probably unrealistic. The highest I've ever gotten was 22 and I was probably unemployed for a lot of that year. Then again, I haven't been as determined to eradicate my Backlog in a long time--so we'll see what happens.