Another month has quickly gone by and we're at the last week of September. My sister was able to come back for a few days to celebrate our mom's birthday together earlier this month, and it's the first time she's been back home for 2.5 years. I was happy to see her after so long.
I still spent most of this month practicing piano, exercising, and trying to get better at Guilty Gear Strive. I'm struggling with piano as I'm learning very slowly and not finding enough time in the day to practice as much as I'd like to. Exercising has been okay, but my weight has been going up and down between 137 lbs to 142 lbs since we're eating out a bit more now that we're vaccinated and also because my sleep schedule has been pushed late again (currently trying to fix it once again). I often feel tired throughout the day because I can't sleep at night but am still trying to wake up earlier so that I'll feel more tired by night time. As for Guilty Gear Strive, I think I've made some breakthroughs that I can be proud of, but playing a bit more ranked online recently has proved to me just how inexperienced I am and how much more I have to learn (and yet I've already put in over 270+ hours...). I think I should focus on more piano and being mindful about my sleep schedule in the month of October. Trying to do anything else productive might be difficult as Melty Blood Type Lumina releases this Thursday and Back 4 Blood releases next week.
And now, I'd like to talk about the Nintendo Direct as I feel like I haven't been talking about videogames much this year. It'll be nice to talk about future releases and things I'm looking forward to. The Nintendo Switch has gotten a lot of great releases that I haven't picked up and played yet (they're rarely on discount and I also don't have enough time for them), but they teased a bunch of new games coming out in the next year that I know I'll be eventually picking up.
Capcom teases a massive expansion to Monster Hunter Rise. While it's cool to see more content coming to Rise, I'm still waiting for it to release on Steam PC first. I just hope I have a new PC before then because my current one was barely handling Monster Hunter World.
Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars is Yoko Taro's newest game. Keiichi Okabe is also composing the music for this game which is incentive enough for me to pick it up. While card games are generally a genre I don't look much into, I like the new trend of single-player focused RPG-aspect card games that have been made the past half decade and am willing to try this one out as well.
More content is coming to Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, but I haven't even picked up the game yet. There have been so many Zelda games coming out the past few years that I haven't been able to keep up with them.
Chocobo GP looks so cute! I hope it comes to Steam PC so I can convince my non-Switch owning friends to pick it up as well.
Then they announce that the final Smash Bros. presentation will be streamed two weeks later as to not get people excited and disappointed for the new Kirby game they were about to reveal. It's unfortunate that it's another early stream (7AM PT on Oct. 5th), but I'll definitely wake up for it. It makes me a bit nervous on who the last character could possibly be. By this point, they would have to reveal Master Chief from Halo to get a large positive response from the community. I'm still hoping Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden gets in, but I also don't see him being entirely well received by the Smash community. I guess I'll find out in a week.
I wasn't expecting a new Kirby game, and I was certainly not expecting it to be a 3D open-world game set in a post-apocalyptic world of our own modern environment. It's just so wild and weird, but I like what I see so far.
More content is coming to Mario Golf: Super Rush. I was interested in picking up the game, but haven't found the right time for it since I've been constantly digging through backlogged games.
Triangle Strategy had a bit more to show this time around and it's looking great. I still have so many games like it that I haven't gotten around to playing or finishing yet that I'm probably not going to pick it up at launch.
Metroid Dread is looking great and I'm pretty interested in playing it now. But it's releasing at a time where I'm already spending a lot of money and probably have most of that time occupied already to be able to even play this game. I'll definitely be playing it one day, but sadly not at launch.
Nintendo Online is finally adding N64 games to play on the Switch as well as Sega Genesis games. I was excited at first since I haven't played a lot of N64 games, but then I realized it was going to be sold as an expansion pack. Depending on the price and the timing, I might consider it since I want to try playing through some of those N64 games.
I've been seeing leaks of Castlevania Advance Collection for months now and have been wondering when it'll be out. I was super happy to find out that it was releasing later that day and on Steam PC. I never actually beat Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance so I'm keen on picking it up and playing through them again and actually finishing them all the way through. As mentioned many times, it's out at a poor time and I'm tempted to get it knowing that I may not have enough time to play it. For now, I'm holding off on purchasing it until I finish some more games.
ActRaiser Renaissance was the highlight of the Direct for me. When the map zoom of the original appeared, I was already shocked to see ActRaiser in any form and thought it might be porting the original to the Switch. But when that map transitioned to one with modern looking graphics, I lost my mind. I started jumping up and down in my seat and screaming from the pure joy and excitement that ActRaiser was getting remade. Then I saw the gameplay and was a bit turned off by the graphics and animation. They look like they came from the Playstation 1 era. What was even more surprising was the game was releasing later that day. I looked up gameplay and saw that combat was a little different with a bit more depth as well as the God Phase having a tower-defense like gameplay much like the ActRaiser inspired game SolSeraph had in their game. I really want to play the game, but perhaps not at $30 and at this time. So I will have to sadly wait until a later date before I can find the time to play it.
A quick look at upcoming games sped through and it covered a lot of games previously announced. I'm looking forward to Shin Megami Tensei V and Rune Factory 5.
We've known about the Mario movie for a while now, but they didn't reveal the voice actors until this Direct. The idea of a Mario movie already has me skeptical, but the surprising and weird cast of celebrities voicing the Mario crew has me even more worried.
Details of Splatoon 3 were shown and while it doesn't make me super excited, I am looking forward to eventually playing it. I haven't even finished the expansion campaign on 2 yet.
And then finally, after 4 years of waiting, we get a glimpse of Bayonetta 3. It was already leaked before the Direct that it might have a mention during Nintendo's Direct and that the release date would be in 2022. Despite that, I didn't know it was the trailer for Bayonetta 3 when it was revealing "the last game of the direct". It was a good trailer because it kept me guessing. You have dudes in military gear shooting at a large monster that doesn't look quite angelic in a modern looking city. Thoughts were swimming in my head: "Viewtiful Joe? Earth Defense Force? Xenoblade Chronicles?" And then I remembered the leak and realized "oh, this is Bayonetta 3!" But then I saw the dog suit and thought I was being played and it was actually a sequel for Astral Chain. But then Witch Time happens and you see Bayonetta's reflection on the blade. Bayonetta looks great and her new abilities are wild! I still have my pre-order from 4 years ago and am ready to play it whenever it releases next year.
Over all, it was a pretty good Nintendo Direct Presentation and there's a lot to look forward to for the Nintendo Switch. I'll probably be making another post next week after the Smash Bros. Presentation.
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