On a few occasions, I’ve seen a meme saying something like “Adult life is just saying ‘But after this week things will hopefully calm down a bit’ until you die”, and honestly, that’s been my life to a T since I wrote my last blog post. I’ve had lots of stuff to do over the last few weeks, and most of it has been fun. That said, every time I think things have calmed down, something new has inevitably turned up. It’s been a relief to have two days where the only important things I’ve had to do outside of work have been sending a few emails.
Things are a bit stressful at the moment. I’m in charge of an event next week, and I always worry too much about things, so part of me is worried it’ll be a complete disaster. Realistically, however, I think things will go well, and I have some great people helping me out. Disaster or success, I’m looking forward to having it over with. I recently handled another event that the attendees loved, but turned out to be far more intense for us organizers than I had thought. That said, I learned from it, and overall, I’m happy with my work.
Things are gonna calm down on that front after next week. At least for a few months. Despite everything happening at once sometimes, I am overall pretty happy with how my life is at the moment, even though I’m hoping for a break soon. Here are a few bullet points of fun stuff from the last few weeks.
I wrote two game reviews! I’ll add them to my review archive later, but right now, you can read my reviews of Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II on Loading.se! They’re two good games in two very different ways, and I recommend them both. I’m currently playing the new Zelda game to review it, and it’s a cute and creative game, but it does have some annoying flaws, both technical and in the game design. It’s good and I recommend it, but it could easily have been much better.
I went to Kulurnatten in Norrköping: A friend of mine lives in Norrköping, and every year, Kulturnatten (literal translation: “The culture night”) takes place there. It’s a night full of art, music and everything else you can expect from such an event, and it was fun! We listened to some nice bands, looked at some nice art and just hung out and had a good time. Norrköping is a beautiful city, as well, and I’m looking forward to going next year.
I started replaying an old… well, “favorite” would be too generous: Now that the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection is finally out and I finally got my copy in the mail, I’ve started replaying the first game. I realized that I had forgotten everything except the broadest strokes… Admittedly, it’s been nine years since I played it, but I remembered the third Ace Attorney game far better, and it had been fourteen years since my last playthrough of it. I think this speaks more to the quality of the games relative to each other than it does to my memory. It’s better than I remembered it being, but I’m also reminded of why I find it to be one of the less good games in the series. It’s still a good game, just not as good as some of the others. I’m curious about playing the second game, though, now that it’s finally officially available in English. I played the demo before the collection launched, and that was very good.
I finished up translations for three games: I can’t say much more about them right now, but I know I’m getting credited for at least one of them. They were all fun projects in different ways, and I hope I can say more about them later. And I look forward to playing them, too!
I’ve had a few Chappell Roan songs stuck in my head for far too long: It feels like everyone’s been talking about Chappell Roan, in both positive and negative terms, for the last few months, so I decided to check some of her stuff out. I think the best way to describe it is “80s pop about being a lesbian”, which isn’t my usual type of music, but it’s not hard to understand why she’s so popular. Her songs are fun and catchy. Perhaps too catchy, because I can’t get them out of my head. I suppose that’s better than embarassing memories and past mistakes, though, so there’s a silver lining.