I recently started playing Baldur’s Gate 3 and while I like it thus far, it hasn’t succeeded in holding my attention as well as Divinity Original Sin 2 did. It probably will once I’m further into the game. I’m just not in the mood for it yet, I guess. Maybe it’s because all the sunny weather we’re having, I don’t know. What also isn’t helping is the fact that the PS5 is currently being hogged by my daughter for her second playthrough of Hogwarts Legacy. Once that’s out of her system, she’ll probably go back to playing the Sims and I can proceed with BG3.

In the mean time, I find myself playing Final Fantasy VI on the SNES Classic, where it’s called Final Fantasy III still.

Every once every three year or so, I get the JRPG-bug. I’m not very big into JRPGs. I’ve played EarthBound, first when the SNES Classic came out and soon after did a complete playthrough on the Wii U. I enjoyed it, but thought it overstayed it’s welcome a little bit. After that I played Chrono Trigger on the 2DS. I liked that more than EarthBound.

Before that it was Wyvern Tales, which I still haven’t completed yet, because my Lynx broke down. I now have a working Lynx II again, but Wyvern Tales won’t work on it and it has the barely readable original screen in it.

In the 2000’s I played some more obscure mobile games for my Palm and Pocket PC devices. I still regret not buying a boxed copy of Kyle’s Quest from Ebay years ago. I’m still searching for the name of the game that I used to play on me Pocket PC.

I’ve never played a Final Fantasy game before in my life. I know about them of course, but was never very interested into them. I don’t like anime and I thought they were a lot more anime than what they appear to be. Now that I’m playing FFVI, I’ve started doing research into the Final Fantasy series. Maybe JRPGs will be my next obsession, although if many best of lists must be believed I have already played some of the best the genre has to offer with FFVI, CT and EB. I do have a physical copy of Octopath Traveller II in my PS4 collection, so that will be a likely contender for my next JRPG after FFVI. Maybe I’ll just buy the new book from Bitmap Books and let reading that satisfy my taste for the genre.

I’ll continue with a journal of sorts of the game. I’ve played the first part that’s also mentioned in the manual (of which I would like a physical copy by the way.) After that part we’re searching for Terra. We’ve used Figaro Castle to get to Kohlingen. There we learned something about Locke’s past with Rachel, who’s still asleep in the basement of an old man. We should let it transport us to Jidoor next.