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I finished Persona 5! Which was a slog, especially towards the end when I was just so done with random fights against generic enemies. I got my ass literally kicked for cheating on Doctor Takemi (I picked the wrong dialogue choice earlier on and inadvertently ended up dating another girl, so I decided to roll with that since the protag seems pretty assholish anyway) so thank you Persona for there being consequences.

It's just a bit... the plot only just hangs together (the game TELLS you that itself, and dismisses it as being because the plot is manipulated as a game). And what happened to Crow anyway? And why don't I care about most of the characters? Sigh.

Keith's jacket is all made. I should make his belt pouches, whee. While making the jacket I finally saw Anastasia (which was pretty but gave me history-nerd grumpies) and then rewatched Hot Fuzz. I don't know why it doesn't quite work for me any more, but I was left quite unsatisfied.

Our wigs arrive tomorrow! *weak yay* At least that means we get to just focus on the packing of a weekend's orders today.

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We got our gorgeous (and expensive) Black Box edition of Nier Automata yesterday. It comes with a big artbook (which we've not flipped through much in case of potential spoilers), a pretty steelbook case for the game, the soundtrack from the concert in Japan last year, various cosmetic DLC things and a figure of the game's main character 2B.

I've played perhaps an hour of it so far. Pez has played significantly more (because most of today I spent with a migraine in bed as she played). It's beautiful visually, the gameplay really flows well as it goes from genre to genre, and it has -- as one would expect from a sequel to Nier -- a wonderful soundtrack. I can't really talk about the story since I've missed most of it so far but thematically it seems close to the original Nier, meditations on the nature of humanity and consciousness.

Nier is one of my favourite games ever, and likewise for Pez -- it sits in a close second place to The Last Remnant for mutual meaningfulness to us as a couple -- so this game has a lot to live up to. The fact that there's actually a sequel is already a minor miracle. So far Pez seems pleased though, and since she's harder to please than I am, I suspect I'm really going to enjoy this game.

It's a busy month gamewise -- Nier Automata, Mass Effect Andromeda, Persona 5 (which technically releases in April now but still close enough). I'm putting off Andromeda until I see something that makes me more enthused about it, because honestly two big game releases within a month is enough of a money drain. If Nier and Persona both live up to the hype, then combined with FFXV and other recent acclaimed titles like Zelda: Breath of the Wind, The Last Guardian, and Horizon: Zero Dawn it feels like we're in somewhat of a golden age for RPG gaming.

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It's been a peaceful weekend for me.

Pez, meanwhile, has been wrestling with recalcitrant patterns and fabric all weekend to make me a costume for Minami; she was going to make two so we could cosplay together but I think she's sick of this blazer pattern -- she's talking about burning it in a fire, it keeps skipping over steps -- and she isn't up for making another. :D If it had been up to me to make the costume for myself, I'd have gotten too stressed out by the shortness deadline, so she volunteered. I am very very grateful; if it'd been me and this pattern I think I'd have thrown the machine out of the window by this point.

(I am very lucky.)

I played a little more of my second Dragon Age: Inquisition runthrough yesterday and found it... not very exciting to replay so far, but I still only have my starting party so far. I know it'll get significantly less meh once I get to Skyhold etc. It's just... getting there. In the evening I sank back into The Sims and made a pretty and very glass-centric house for my various Rikkai sims to live in. Yagyuu is currently a stand-up comedian because apparently he really wants to be a magician and this is the path you take for that career. Niou, meanwhile, is a dolphin trainer, because why not. Yukimura's a boring salaryman, because that's what he wants (bafflingly). I... probably need more sims for this house tbh. Maybe I'll make a Mizuki.

And then today I uploaded all my tenipuri ficlets/drabbles to one place.

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Atlus made a big Persona announcement so I watched the livestream earlier.

They announced:
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: a Persona 3/Persona 4 crossover game for the 3DS, with chibi art. It looks cute.
Persona 4 Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold: a follow-up to Persona 4 Arena (presumably for ps3/xbox 360, I didn't catch the platform)
Persona 4: Dancing All Night: a dance-based rhythm game for the Vita due out next autumn that has instantly won my utter adoration seriously because dancing Yu omg yes.
and...
Persona 5. Which looks to be red-themed, and has the tagline 'You are a slave. Want emancipation?', and is due out for the PS3 next winter.

I am full of fandom delight and happy here. ~~Also more excuses for PS3 and 3DS purchase!~~

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Nier Automata

pez makes stuff because she's awesome, dragon age inquisition again, the sims again, fic: shots

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