2026 Media Goals Update 2

Well, the good news is I've done a considerable amount more gaming.  The bad news is I'm still not really cracking into my backlog.

Books.  I'm behind on this.  I completely stopped reading on Kindle for a while.  I've been pushing myself really hard in other areas, so I need to take a step back from them and let myself sit and read more.  My Kindle might need a charge.

Visual Novels.  I took a good crack at a BL romance VN, then had to restart my PC, lost my place in the guide I was following, and never went back.  The VN remains unfinished since.  I might need to print out the guides and mark them with a pen or some shit.  Why is this shit so hard for me?

Console Games.  I've played 1 console game, and that was a new release, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.  I spent days making Miis for it, played it for a few days, then realized my gameplay would never be more interesting than other people's, and people have been streaming it, so I just watched theirs instead.  I need to take another crack at this.

Anime/TV.  I haven't finished Winx Club, or Isekai Office Worker, or anything for that matter.  Damn it.  Why is it I can watch hours and hours of Youtube, but not an actual show made for entertainment?  I did talk to my psych about getting more ADHD meds, something I was thinking about 2 months ago.

Live Service Games.  I still login to Aura Kingdom and Hello Kitty Island for the login rewards, but recently I've been doing a lot more questing in Hello Kitty Island again.  Seeing people complain about the game and the new expansion makes me mad because I still think it's all good.  People really don't appreciate all the work the dev team does.

Why I changed my mind on Hello Kitty Island: City Town

Okay, hear me out.  I know I said I wasn't going to buy Hello Kitty Island's new expansion, City Town, because it costs more than Wheatflour Wonderland, until it went on sale, but I've done some serious thinking in the meantime, and I feel in the current cozy game market, Hello Kitty Island Adventure is still significantly more honest, upfront, and reasonably priced than other cozy games being pushed right now.  Sure, there are a lot of free to play games coming out, but listen, the games run on servers, and servers cost money, so they'll get the money out of you one way or another, and I feel that HKIA's competitors are doing so much more deviously.  I feel more comfortable giving my money to Sunblink for solid expansions full of content and costumes, then getting individual outfits sold to me in lucky boxes or whatever.  I still feel that Sunblink is being honest and fair, and they have yet to introduce gambling mechanics and predatory microtransactions.

Could they potentially turn around and introduce gambling mechanics and predatory microtransactions?  Of course, we're in the worst possible timeline.  Everything horrible that can happen, is happening.  But I don't feel that Sunblink has reached that point yet.  Yes, they said they were going to introduce smaller content packs this summer, but I'm not going to judge them until they're out.  I only have a few months to wait.  In the meantime, I'll check out City Town, and judge it on it's own merits.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Review

Tomodachi Life, Living the Dream came out on Thursday.  After 12 years of waiting since the last Tomodachi Life, it's finally here.  I got it on launch day.  And I've played it and watched others play it.  I'm really glad they made it compatible with the Switch 1, because skipping over a whole console would have been pretty mean.  It's probably the last Switch game I'm going to be concerned with, though.

The Mii Creator is very robust, easily double the amount of features the basic Mii creator has, including more noses, eyes, ears, and the introduction of face paint, which people are using for all sorts of cool effects.  In addition, all the base hairs are improved, so imported Miis from your system look nicer too.

Once you have a few Miis, gameplay is surprisingly cozy and cute.  Animations are adorable, interactions are sweet, most Miis get along very well...  It's definitely less chaotic than it's predecessor, which some people like and others don't.  I'm actually okay with it, because I don't want bad things happening to my precious little Miis.

Hello Kitty Island News, and my plans regarding...

Welp, news came out today.  The City Town DLC is gonna be 25$.  That's more than I'm willing to pay, but the base game has gone on sale a few times, so I'm sure the DLC will go on sale too.  I would have bought it in an instant if it was 15$ like Wheatflour Wonderland was, but this price hike is a little to much for me.  

Also, they're gonna start adding paid cosmetic packs this summer.  This isn't surprising, but I'm still disappointed.  When getting cosmetics and furniture is the core gameplay loop, having some for sale is definitely pay to win.  I don't know if I will quit the game entirely, but I will be very reluctant to pay for future content from here on out.

I'm not mad, just disappointed. 

2026 Steam Spring Sale Recap

The Steam Spring Sale ends today, and I thought it'd be fun to recap what I bought and downloaded.  This sale, I was super cheap, and only sprung for cheap, silly games.

Hello Kitty Island: City Town Hype

I still play Hello Kitty Island, every day.  I still have loads of quests to do, because  I'm lazy and just login for the login rewards, do the holiday event, and leave.  I know, I need to fucking play the game.  I also need more ADHD meds.  We'll see what happens first.

Anyways, they finally announced the release date for their next DLC, City Town.  Surprisingly, it's the same day as the Tomodachi Life release.  This seems on purpose, since there will be a good bit of overlap between each game's player base.  There both kinda cozy games, targeting Switch players.   I'm prolly gonna get both, to be honest, but I might wait a while to get City Town, since I still haven't finished base game or Wheatflour Wonderland.  Yeah, I have a lot to get through, so we'll see.  City Town DLC drops on April 16.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream DEMO

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is a game coming out next month that I've wanted for a decade.  It's predecessor, Tomodachi Life on 3DS was loads of fun, but it's biggest setback was inability to make gay couples and queer characters.  Living the dream remedies that with 3 gender options, and romantic orientation options to include any arrangement of those 3 genders.  The 3 genders are male, female, and nonbinary.  Sure, it's not perfect, but it's a huge upgrade from just male and female and all forced to be straight!  My OCs are all gay or bi, and I'm fucking nonbinary, so yay, all good changes for me.