This is possibly the first year in a long time where the beginning of the year has so many videogame releases that I actually care about. Everything's been a lot better ever since I was relieved from my 9 weeks of ailments throughout November, December, and early January. I'm back to feeling as normal as I can possibly be, though I'm still careful of what I eat and do each day. I've been still keeping up with exercise, trying to sleep earlier (kind of failing on that aspect), and avoiding spicy food. I took the time in January to recuperate and to catch up on finishing games. Out of all the games I finished the past 2 months, Bravely Default is the one to mention. I borrowed it from my sister a year ago and spent 30 hours on it before I got distracted by other games. The past few months, I kept playing it again off and on until I spent another 30 hours on it and got to the end. Bravely Default gives me hope for future turn-based JRPGs and shows that they can still be modern, relevant, and a lot of fun in this day and age. To avoid any spoilers, I won't go into detail on it right now, but I might want to rant on it sometime soon. I really enjoyed the game but was a bit put off by the last half of the game.
The past two months have been kind of crazy, filled with game releases, events, and deals. The Steam Winter Sales ended early January, Amazon holds a special "get 20% off Pre-order or newly released games for Prime users", Final Fantasy Explorers released, Blade & Soul releases in the West (FINALLY!), Bayonetta and Corrin is released on Smash Bros., a Steam Lunar New Year's Sale lasted for a week, Project x Zone 2 releases, Fire Emblem Fates releases, and there's still more on the way with Black Desert Online, The Division, Senran Kagura Estival Versus, Trillion: god of Destruction, MegaTagmention Blanc vs. Zombies, Pokken Tournament, and Hyrule Warriors: Legends all releasing the following 2 months. Do you know what else recently released?
I've been eagerly waiting for the release of Street Fighter V ever since I found out they added Karin Kanzuki, the one and only character I really wanted to have return to the series. I was super excited when they said they were releasing it 12 hours earlier so that we can play it the night before. I spent half an hour to an hour just trying to register and log into the servers. After getting in and getting kicked off the servers numerous times, I tried playing with a friend online with the private lobby system called "Battle Lounge". Not only did it not work, but it would kick me off the server every time I tried to join or host a room. The next day, I tried playing through all the mini-story modes as I repeatedly got kicked off the servers. I tried playing online with my friend again that night and it still didn't work. The third day was when things got really bad. The night before, they said they made a hotfix to the battle lounge and servers so people should have a more stable connection to the servers and be able to play with their friends. Not only did it not fix battle lounge, but I was also getting kicked off the servers every 3-5 minutes and taking 5-7 minutes just to reconnect. That problem has persisted throughout the week and now I don't even play it because I really can't. I can play story mode and survival offline if I wanted to, but I won't be rewarded with fight money which is needed later on to buy characters, outfits, and extra content. I have played offline a few times in training just to get a better understanding of the game's mechanics, but there's little point in practicing for too long when I can't even play with anyone. I've tried connecting to ranked matches and have successfully played through 2 matches online with both of them not registering to the servers when finished and kicking me offline right afterwards. To put it simply, Street Fighter V has not been working as intended for the past week and I have pretty much given up hope until they can get it properly working. Not only can I not join private matches and stay logged into the servers, but the graphics are so intense that I have to set everything to low, direct input isn't compatible so I can't even use my fightstick, 3rd party programs doesn't work or doesn't work well to make the controller work, there isn't an arcade mode, and keyboard doesn't work when I have my gamepad (which works for the game because it has Xinput) plugged in so I can't even play 2-player versus. From what I actually got to play so far, I love Street Fighter V. But there are so many problems with it right now that it isn't worth all the effort I'm trying to put into playing it.
Aside from the myriad of games available and becoming available for me to play right now, I've gotten back into working on my music projects. I've begun a large number of projects I want to do this year and hope that I can work more efficiently and produce more work. I've uploaded The Guardian Legend Remix Project that I worked on last year:
After resting up in January, I immediately started working again starting February and have finished one remix so far. I'm already a bit done with the planning phase of the 2nd remix I'm working on and am already thinking ahead on what other projects I can work on. It's been a rather exciting 1.5 months in videogames so far so it's been a bit more difficult than usual to stay focused on work. But I suppose I'm just as excited to get some more work out there.
I also want to mention that it's been a year since the passing of Monty Oum. Rooster Teeth finished up season 3 of RWBY and I believe is the end of the series. I had always planned on watching it once it had finished up entirely so I could binge on it rather than constantly waiting for another episode once I caught up. I'm still saddened by his passing at such a young age, but I'm at least happy he was able to create something as amazing as RWBY to share with us before he left us.
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