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I played a little bit more Blue Dragon today. Sometimes it feels like it should be called Blue Wagon because it can be a labor of tedious searching of furniture and fighting off minor monster encounters. But it’s not as bad as Suikoden IV, which made me quit it was so annoying; plagued as it was with random encounters that interrupted the flow of play.

I took in a lot of media in the last few days. I watched my rare home dvd, Minecrafted until inevitable doom, got super excited for Wolfenstein II, and played an epic session of Blue Dragon on XBO.

Here's some of what stood out for me in Nintendo's E3 showcase. 

I saw lots of interesting stuff. I really love the art style of games like Shadow of the Colossus and Monster Hunter. It’s different than anything I saw in the Microsoft presentation and that’s what I’m looking for on my PS4, unique games, especially in a more eastern art style.

I just watched Microsoft's E3 Press Conference. There are a lot of interesting games coming out soon. One I really liked was Metro Exodus, such cool graphics and such amazing detail in the world and in the actions of your character. His gun jams, he pulls the crossbow bolt he just shot out of the monster his killed and reloads it in his crossbow. The creature animations are frighteningly realistic. I’m excited to check that one out.

I finished RiME, at least the story today. Total time to end credits was 5 ½ hours. I really only had one moment that made me think twice about continuing. I had to run from this giant bird and couldn’t get to a safe area in time. I must’ve replayed it a dozen times before my character kicked into overdrive and actually ran hard. You mostly trot around when you move with the analog stick and as long as you don’t stop you start to run a little faster. I couldn’t get that to kick in for me in this one specific spot and it nearly stopped me from continuing. I somehow got it, though. The rest of the game presented me with no serious problems. The puzzles weren’t that hard.

I just got a handful of hours in today as I was out most of the day shooting photos with Mark. I played a bit of Minecraft as RiME installed, but it is only a 4GB game, so it installed quickly. Then I played it the rest of the time.

Over the week I completed my Ender Dragon Quest in Minecraft. Then I kept playing, sometimes on my own, sometimes with Mark, until I got really tired of it. Now I have my rental game, RiME, and will start that sometime this weekend.

These are the Skylanders SWAP Force Earth element figures I own minus some variants. These are all the ones shown on the poster that comes with the game.

The other day I decided I’d role-play Minecraft: XBO Edition. I decided I’d act as Conan and try to do as he would. I tried to find a skin to download but there wasn’t one for that character.