Oh, I was a fool to think I could finish a remix of 5 songs in 2 weeks! It's been 5 weeks and I've finished 4 of the songs to the 5 part orchestral remix. I just need to buckle down and I should be able to finish the last one this week. The problem is that I've been having a serious case of lethargy this past month. I don't feel as motivated to work. I've been skipping going to the gym a lot. And even when playing games, I feel tired. It could be because Summer is approaching and the heat is wearing me out. It could be because I've been conditioned to feel this way since most of my life was spent going to school and studying hard all year long and then always getting ready to relax during Summer Break. It could be that no matter how hard I work right now, there's no guarantee that it'll help me find a job whatsoever. All I know is I don't feel like doing much other than relaxing. It's true that I've been feeling kind of down for the past 2 months or so (not depressed, just down), and I'm not quite sure what the reason is. I just plan on finishing this remix project and try looking for a job once more before going back to more music projects I have lined up. As much as I want to remix more music, I'd really like to do some more composition and create original music. I'm stuck in a place in my life where the path is hazy. I'm not sure what I should do or where it will lead me. I know where I want to go in my career, but I don't know if I'll get what I want out of it seeing how the Videogame industry has drastically changed throughout the past few years. I'm still going to keep at it, though. I can' imagine doing anything else in life and I really do enjoy creating music a lot at the moment.
I haven't really been watching that much animé compared to the previous months as I haven't completed a single series yet. Actually, no. I finished Kiniro Mosaic today!
I've been watching that and Accel World for the past month but have been leisurely watching it during Breakfast or Lunch. Accel World has its moments and it's pretty interesting, but it got to a point in the story where it made me feel angry and frustrated (due to a villain in the story, not because it's bad). I'm almost done with it (5-6 more episodes, I think?) So instead, I've been switching off with Kiniro Mosaic because it's cute and makes me feel happy with each episode. I was a bit sad finishing it today and wanted more.
Looking back at my completed games list, I realized I've been on a rampage since my last post. I've completed 18 games from then till now! X-Blades actually turned out to be really fun and unique and reminded me a bit of Chaos Legion. I've started up Blades of Time right after, but have only completed the first level. Another game I finished was DmC: Devil May Cry for PS3. It was actually a pretty fun game! It was really weird in the beginning because the character designs, the music, the style and dialog wasn't the Devil May Cry I knew and love, but it was one I could tolerate. You get most of your abilities outright near the beginning of the game, yet they were able to keep the game interesting and engaging throughout the play through.
I made the (possibly poor) decision to buy two bad games earlier in the month and suffered through one of them. Day One: Garry's Incident was a notorious title to the community due to the developer's act of trying to shut down a game critic's channel after releasing a negative opinion on the game despite having given the authority to review it by the developer themselves. Well, I played through the game and it truly was as bad as people have said it was. There were tons of glitches and bugs throughout the game. The enemies were numerous and obnoxious. The survival aspects were arbitrary and didn't really add anything fun to the game. And the level design for the middle portion of the game was a monster I had no patience for. How I would break down the game is this: Prologue - Tons of monkeys throwing rocks at you - a large, boring labyrinth you have to navigate - more monkeys with tons of traps everywhere - End. The game is about 3 hours long and had little going for it throughout the play through. The other seemingly bad game I bought was "Depths of Fear :: Knossos". It was an indie game that popped up on the list of new games for Steam and I got curious when it advertised itself for being a First-Person Rogue-like. The game revolves around the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Theseus must go and defeat the 8 guardians before receiving the only sword that could slay the Minotaur. The game is really janky with outdated graphics, inappropriate music that doesn't match the theme of the game, glitches left and right of the game, dumb AI, and a lot of anti-climatic boss battles. Despite all that, I actually ended up having fun with the game. It was hilarious scaling up walls I wasn't supposed to, phasing through buildings on rooftops, and luring every boss into the lava and killing them instantly. The game had a simple concept and it worked out for the game: Go through 3 randomly generated dungeons by grabbing the key and escaping, each level has a guardian that can't be killed until you go into the 4th dungeon of the level where you grab a coin/orb (whatever that golden thing is) before you can fight it (or lure it into the lava where it dies instantly). You do that 8 times and then you fight the Minotaur and then you've beaten the game! It only took me 2.5 hours to beat the game as it got pretty easy once I figured out how the game worked. Honestly, the game had a pretty good presentation. You're in the dark a lot and have to use light to see where you're going, but you also have to put out the light when the guardian is close so that they don't catch you. There's a lot of stealth, running away and trickery involved which I found very interesting. Each guardian is a creature from Greek mythology such as Medusa, the hydra, the griffon, and others. Sneaking, hiding, and running away from the guardians was a thrilling and exciting experience. The game could certainly be infinitely better, but I enjoyed it for what it was and wouldn't mind playing it again for its infinite dungeon mode. Sadly, I think I might have enjoyed it more than Eldritch.
I wasn't planning on buying anymore console games until I finish some more up, but then I saw Zone of the Enders HD collection for $12 or something close to that and couldn't resist. Amazon doesn't offer free shipping unless it's over $35 now, and so I ended up buying 3 games. The other two I got with it was Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Star Ocean: The Last Hope. I played Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance right away and completed it fairly quickly. It was fast-paced, stylish, and was pretty fun despite being so short. On the same day I beat it, I also completed MadWorld for Wii which I've had for a few years now. It was funny that I completed both games on the same day since both games were made by Platinum Games and the protagonist's name for both games was "Jack". MadWorld had some pretty frustrating controls, but I think I had a lot of fun with it. It was hilariously violent that it was almost therapeutic. Other games I've completed are: Rock of Ages, The Typing of the Dead: Overkill, Beatbuddy, Dysfunctional Systems, Akane the Kunoichi, Hard Reset, Iesabel, Symphony, How to Survive, Valdis Story, Ravensword: Shadowlands, and SteamWorld Dig. Some were good, some were bad, most of them I have mixed feelings about.
I guess I'm mainly trying to finish up a lot of steam games so I could delete them and start new ones because I have quite the list of games I'd really like to get around to playing on Steam that I've already bought. There are other games that are taking me quite a while to complete such as Project X Zone for the 3DS. I'm sure that I still have about 20+ hours to go on that game. Whelp, that's it for now. Hopefully I get more things done. If not, I hope June will be a lot of fun for me.
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