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…

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:

This is a very distinctive game with stunning visuals. It’s a strategy game wrapped in an ARPG skin. The story narrative is a bit like Souls games (if you don’t explore the hidden information, you won’t know what it’s about). I remember this being the first game I bought on Steam when the region was just opened (it took a few days to arrive), and that’s how I started following the development team. Later, I also completed Bastion and later Pyre (I haven’t opened Pyre yet…).