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Sure is a whole lot of not killing Chaos going on around here. Better fix that.

Got the Demon's Souls platinum. It wasn't as much of a grind as DS3 but it still confirmed to me that Demon's Souls is tied with DS2 as my least favorite From game. World tendency is such a frustrating, inconvenient mechanic to deal with and character tendency even more so. There are certain items you HAVE to get that are only available at white tendency and the ONLY way to get white tendency is by killing invaders, which means once again I had to rely on a Discord server. Thankfully there was a guy in there who was super helpful at getting my tendency where it needed to be in a matter of minutes when it probably would have taken many hours otherwise. What a bro. Even then, this platinum was painful to get because NG+ in Demon's Souls is waaaay harder than in any other From game. Usually even with powered up enemies you can curbstomp the first few sections of the game until they start to catch up to you a bit, but in this one the very first enemies in the game can kill you in one or two hits and it only gets worse from there. The difficulty spikes up so dramatically that I briefly considered just giving up on the platinum entirely, but I persevered. I did, however, resort to using cheap methods to kill the bosses because of this game's other major problem, that being a severe lack of shortcuts. I fucking hate running through an entire level again just to get another shot at the boss, and I really wish Bluepoint had added more shortcuts as a QoL update to the remake even if it wouldn't be completely faithful to the original. After having to replay the same level over and over I didn't feel bad at all about resorting to poisoning most of the bosses and letting them die on their own because I damn sure wasn't going to run through it all again. I'm willing to help out with anyone else who is going for the platinum but I don't know if I'm going to play this again just for the sake of it. Elden Ring may make Dark Souls look dated but it just completely shits all over Demon's Souls.

Started Death's Door last night. I'm only about an hour in but so far so good. It seems a bit more combat focused than Tunic, which is a nice change of pace. One gripe I do have, and this is likely specific to the Switch (when handheld)....the HD rumble is an absolute nightmare. I'm trying to play this thing with a sleeping baby in the room and every single time I die, or engage the enemy I got this bone shaking rumble out of the Switch, and there's no option to disable it in the game itself, so I've had to do it at a system level. Not the end of the world, but certainly annoying.

That's... the most Kojima thing ever. I love this man lol.

I Am Dead. It just wasn't grabbing me, which is a shame because I usually connect with these games. The game doesn't have the strongest start in the world (far too much talking for my liking, especially in a game like this). I may return to it, I may not.