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Mr. Tako is the story of an octopus and a human/octopus war he does not want to fight in, making this the first video game of any kind I've played where the main character is a conscientious objector. That's interesting!

Unfortunately two things are teamed up against me finishing this game right now:

A - I expected this to be a fairly short, light little snack-game between larger things. It's actually quite large and sprawling, with 50-some collectable hats and 16 multi-level dungeons and lots of overworld-style stages and stuff.

2 - The publisher is kind of a heap of shit and I just don't feel like wrestling with whether it feels okay to play games published by them right now. Maybe later, but right now so many scandals have broken in the games industry that I'm just numb-yet-hypersensitive and prone to steering away from anybody that's obviously a dick.

So, moving on.

It's time to be honest with myself:

These are both very, very good games, worthy of my time and respect, and I got pretty far in both of them, and the only reason I'm not finishing either of them right now is because of the 1600-pound elephant in the room that is City of Heroes.

Croc was a birthday gift from the everpresent Celine and it's a very strong early 3D platformer. The controls are a bit difficult, but I was figuring that out. They just take practice. City of Heroes showed up, I quit practicing.

FF6 I was playing for myself. I have a save with everything done but the Fanatic's Tower and Kefka's Tower. I could probably load it up and blitz Kefka inside five hours. Again, City of Heroes. I haven't touched this in like a month.

Elder Scrolls Online is doing its big dragons and Elseweyr expansion. Neverwinter has a new module out. Everquest 2 I was playing with a dear friend and just fell right out of and I feel deeply ashamed of myself for that. FFXIV is gearing up for an expansion with huge hot lionmen in it.

Here I am, in 2004, playing City of Heroes.

I think I just kicked my entire backlog off the rails.

Oops, but also, yay.

Yeah no.
Total time played 40-some minutes. I'll youtube this.