From last year to this year, I played two PC games: Black Myth and WuChang, both downloaded and played on their release days. This would have been hard to imagine five years ago. Back then, I had just finished Monster Hunter: World’s main story using a Windows KVM virtual machine with GPU passthrough. When the Iceborne expansion was released, Proton could already support quite a few older games, but the latest games were difficult to support at launch. I remember it took two to three months after Iceborne’s official PC release before the game could be launched, and there were still some bugs. Moreover, whenever Proton was updated, the game might become unplayable again…

In 2019, to play Monster Hunter XX, I bought a 3DS. From then on, I started buying various devices to play specific games… I formed a PC group for Dragon’s Dogma, bought a PSV for Persona 4 Golden, and got an NSL for Re:Zero. The most expensive one was the Quest2 for Rhythm Heaven. At the end of 19, I planned to record what games I played each year… But fate is not on my side… The pandemic came, and my work suddenly became much more demanding… Playing games had to rely on late-night spending, so I didn’t have the energy to do much reflection, only expressing a little bit of feeling about some games.

Persona is probably the second game series that made me buy a gaming console, initially being brainwashed by the “P5 is the best” meme for a year. Later, I watched Lex’s P4 recommendation video and couldn’t resist buying a PS Vita. If not for P4G later landing on PC, leaving a legacy for Persona across platforms (it did land on PC last year), I might have bought a second-hand PS4 for P5 at some point in the future…

For me, Metroid is a very magical game. Although I know it’s one of the pioneers of the Metroidvania genre, I only played Castlevania when I was young and didn’t have much interest in this series…

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, I didn’t want to work overtime and finished the last two cases of The Great Ace Attorney 2 in one go. The script is not inferior to the Phoenix Wright trilogy, and the second-to-last case, “Future Science and the Return of Souls,” left a deeper impression on me…

Originally planned to grind hard during the Spring Festival… but ended up working overtime most of the time, just finished the expansion now… And foreseeable busy work is coming… Taking advantage of not officially returning to work yet, leaving some memories here…

The romance of a hunter is not just about explosions… but also about damage output!

Obsessed with hunting… neglecting my career…

As expected, just like I bought a tablet and spent two days reading books before starting to play PSP emulators… this time after buying a computer, I didn’t use it for software testing for long either… I immediately started playing Monster Hunter. I even fiddled with how to record video from the client machine on the host… After struggling all day, I finally chose dual-streaming of video and audio… separately through the Looking-Glass and Scream projects to stream video and audio back to the host, and then recorded using OBS on the host. As for why I didn’t record directly on the client machine… that wouldn’t reflect the essence of being a masochist, right!

Here’s a test video of me playing Cherry Fire Dragon without any technical skill:

I have cleared the case in “The Great Ace Attorney”. Personally, I feel that this game is even better than the Phoenix Wright trilogy. Compared to them, this game does not have any supernatural elements, and the part about evidence in the story seems more reasonable (not just moving an item/person out can be used as evidence). Of course, in a game centered on reasoning… I might be overthinking something~

This must be a historic moment!