The title is a bit misleading as pressure now is nothing compared to when I was in school or working. It's just time constraints here and there with everything I'm in I suppose. With a progress report on my New Year's Resolution, I have only completed 1 artwork and I only finished my first music project 2 nights ago. On the bright side, that first music project was an original track for Camera Obscura. And speaking of Camera Obscura, we have a demo now! For completed games, I'm up to 21 right now. So pressure #1, I don't have nearly enough music projects and art projects down as I had hoped so far. I plan to turn this around by having "Music March" and "Art April" and putting effort into my work. Pressure #2: I still have to build my portfolio and that takes time out of my day. I'm also not 100% complete with Camera Obscura so I have to balance my work around that as well. Pressure #3 is that Spring is approaching which means I have to start sending out resumés again to try to get a job. Job offers are slim, hire rates and narrow, and my patience with applying to dozens of studios with not even a reply is rather low now. It'd be nice to land an honest to goodness position in composing and producing music for a game I know that people will play: something I can be proud of. As much as I enjoy doing music for indie games like I am now, it's not promising me any employment and there's not income. Pressure #4: My grandma got in an accident recently and is injured but okay. Still, it makes me worried and uneasy which isn't a good mental state for me to be in when working. Finally, pressure #5: a pressure that isn't a problem at all and one I can enjoy: Too many games!
Despite completing 21 games thus far, I still have an enormous back-log of games to go through and new ones are coming out! Metal Gear Rising: Revengence and Crysis 3 just came out, but I definitely have to wait for those as I have close to 15 unfinished PS3 games not counting fighting games (if I include those, I think it's up to 20). Still, it's hard to resist new games and games on sale. This past weekend, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was a free weekend game on Steam and was on sale for $40. I've tried ignoring Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 as best as I can since Black Ops 1 disappointed me. But given the chance to play multiplayer, I really enjoyed it and ended up buying it yesterday. I'm getting worse with each passing Call of Duty game, possibly because the game is becoming more balanced and require a lot more skill. It's a good thing though, the game should be more fair and rely more on skill than the ability to exploit easy kills. I haven't tried campaign yet, but one of the main reasons why I bought it so I'll eventually check it out. Then last week, I was talking to one of my friends who worked at Atlus and he said he was able to get Atlus games cheaper for me if I wanted to buy them. Etrian Odyssey IV for the 3DS comes out tomorrow and even though I had a really rough time with the first game, I gave the 4th one a try since there was a demo. I loved the music (Yuzo Koshiro!!!) and graphics as well as the much improved menus and faster combat system. And so, I asked for a copy of that as well as trying to get "Code of Princess" (3DS) in which I love the music and art style for it as well. Both are going to be shipped out tomorrow, so I'll be able to play it sometime this week. I only have 1 uncompleted 3DS game at the moment, so I don't feel too bad about getting 2 more at the moment. But the one 3DS game I'm playing right now is "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D" so that might take a bit of time. I'm gonna try to rush through it this week. With that, there are a few more games coming out soon that is pressure me to complete more games. Castlevania for the 3DS is out early March while Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate comes out mid-March. I had the opportunity to play MH3U demo and really liked it. I need a game that can last me a long time that I can keep going back to and I think MH3U might be that game. BlazBlue: CS2 and Tetris 3DS are okay in that category, but I guess I want more of an Action-RPG sort of game for that and Heroes of Ruin had lost its flame after one completion. Besides that, there's games like Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires (PS3), Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm (PC), Pandora's Tower (Wii) and Project X Zone (3DS) coming out this year. Sure, I want to play more games this year; however, I want to spend less money than I did last year buying games.
On an ending note, I finished watching Season 2 of K-On and really enjoyed it a lot. The last official episode made me cry. A lot of the songs in season 2 were boring and forgettable unfortunately, but one song really stood out:
With K-On season 2 done, I went back to Sword Art Online...or so I say. I have yet to actually watch a single episode ever since I finished K-On, possibly because of I how busy I got with working on that song on Camera Obscura. Animé hasn't been my forté, but it's something I still try to follow and watch when I can. I think it's really good for my mental state of mind since it helps me relax and makes me happy. Still, I gotta be pumped up for work in the next few months.
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