A Not-So-Impressive Odyssey

Day 372

I briefly considered passing out before writing this entry but a surge of energy provided by funny cat pictures on Reddit has convinced me otherwise. I have returned from Elizabethtown and have driven somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 miles today. This is no small feat for me because I don't drive long distances. I drive to work and I drive home from work. Sometimes I will go to Walmart. Otherwise, I don't drive much of anywhere at all. There was a time in my life where I would drive to the houses of friends, but these still weren't very out of the way. These amounted to a few extra miles at most.

I realize that for most people driving to a town 63 miles away is not a big deal and I would be quick to agree that it's not a big deal for most people. I'm not most people though and I have a pretty serious driving phobia. I'm proud of what I've accomplished today, regardless of how mundane it might appear from the outside. Having said that, I'm stupidly exhausted because of how little sleep I got last night. At the very least I can say I abandoned the idea of pulling an all-nighter (thank goodness) but it's still very likely I got less than three hours of sleep total. It's not much, but it's surprising how much good just a little sleep can do compared to none at all.

Thankfully, I have tomorrow off. This should give me more than enough time to relax tonight and hopefully get some sleep. I'm determined to make some more progress on Gungnir tonight because I feel like I'm having a hard time advancing in that game. After playing Dissidia 012 and Divinity back to back, I'm hungry for a game that just yields to my demands. Gungnir may not be that game, to be honest. I'm having a hard time getting a hang of the mechanics and so far it's been a very challenging and punishing game. I've had to restart each of the missions I've played since returning to the game at least a couple times.

The only other two PSP titles left to complete after Gungnir are Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions. The latter should be child's play for me because I've played the original so many times before. Normally I think I'd do some kind of special playthrough to make the game more challenging, but I think in this particular instance I might just field the most ridiculously powerful team I can think of .I might even use Orlandu for once if I'm feeling particularly vengeful.

I'm not too sure about Innocent Sin. The first Persona remake on PSP was reasonably challenging, but not unreasonably so. I imagine the level of difficulty is probably about the same, but the Shin Megami Tensei games are generally fairly difficult, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if it ended up being quite the challenge in the latter stages of the game.