Review of 2021 pt3.

 So for the final part of the round up of the year. You know the deal, it's all the stuff I've forgotten over the past two posts and its also any books, films, online vids or games which I can shoehorn in.

Books.

Been going through the Hardy boys back catalogue now, for the past two years. We have Flickering Torch to upload tomorrow. btw. But I've been consistently surprised on how good the original stories are. Where its a sly paeon to mental health in Secret of the Caves to some weird cross dressing Chinese in Footprints under the window. There's been something to give food for thought. 

Also new Jack Reacher, Better off Dead isn't all that sadly, will have to see if it gets better.

Gaming.

Have recently gotten me a cheap Switch lite. It has a Euro Charger and a whopping 128gb card in it. So how I got it so cheap, hell knows. All I can say is, I'm now playing current era games. 

My current 3 faves are. 

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. 

Imagine Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons. Now cut down all your crop choices to just growing rice. In obsessive detail. The other half is a platform beat em up, where you wail on various woodland creatures. But it's mainly rice cultivation and talking with the various humans you are exiled on this god forsaken island with.

The best part is the end of year one where everyone brings in the rice harvest and sings a traditional folk song to do so. Spine tingling stuff.

Suikoden: Tsugumareshi no ki. PSP

Konami's last ever Suikoden, on the PSP. It allows you some brief time travel in a select area back 100 years via a magic tree. You cannot leave the area and are reliant on your ancestors to deliver the messages and deliver the tree saplings. Apart from that its good. A good B tier PSP RPG. Makes you wonder what else is on their list.

Cave Story. PSP homebrew.

Had to rebuild my SD card interface as the original cracked and the SD card got corrupted. So this and a few other gems were downloaded. It's been on a few systems, but the PSP version is actually a pretty nice port. Its a platform run n gun style game, where you have to rescue the cute Mimigas and have to stop a bad guy from turning the world to shit. Via berserk red flowers. 

Finally a little Youtube to calm my soul.

The only thing I can recommend is a 40 minute deep dive into Trackers and the MOD community. Seriously fuck Fl studio and the likes. This is still how you make music.