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Just a day of gaming with the usual titles of the last few weeks. I'll break it down.

In my recent inclusion of sports games into my regular gaming routine, I added a hockey game, NHL 20 from Game Pass. I was very tempted to add NHLPA '94, also available on Game Pass, but I wanted current players of which I know nothing because I haven't followed hockey since the Flyer's Hextall, Lindros, and the Legion of Doom back in the '90s (or was that the late '80s, I forget now). 

I tried to find some back issues to titles I used to follow but either I couldn't find issue one of their new series or they had so many confusing new series, I gave up and went with something new that intrigued me, and that was Space Bastards. 

So with the mention of Lego games in a post here, I thought I ought to get back to my plan of playing every single Lego game to completion. It's a big task. I have 24 games on my list. Some I've played before but didn't complete like Lego The Hobbit. This one, Lego Star Wars II I've actually finished before but within the Lego Star Wars Complete Saga. I figure, since I somehow own Lego Star Wars II on Xbox One, I'd start (or restart) here. 

I played this last weekend for a rewards quest and quite enjoyed it. I played for a couple of hours, a little past when I got the quest finished. It seems like a 16th or 17th-century setting but with magic and alchemy that actually works. You fight with swords and magic and complete quests that reveal more of the story through dialogs with townspeople some of which you have some choices as to how to respond. 

I'm not much into hunting but I'll try anything for Rewards points on Xbox One. This was a monthly quest to gather 100 of something or other in this game. I could never figure out what I was supposed to gather, but I played until it sprung. 

I looked up games played in the Renaissance and decided on Tennis. The origins of the game extend back into the middle ages, but it's in the 16th century that rackets and the word "tennis" started being used. I used to play a lot of competitive tennis in my teens but now it's just in video games. I picked up this game on Xbox One for free called World of Tennis: Roaring '20s and found it pretty enjoyable, although definitely not as realistic a simulation as Tennis World Tour. 

There will be four comics Wednesdays this month. Sometimes I get something video game related, but even if I don't, comics go in my toy box with games and miniatures; they all seem to go together. So this is what I got today. 

I always mean to play the Assassin's Creed games but I never seem to get to them. Luckily my theme for the month, The Renaissance (16th century), fits with the setting of this game, and I already had it probably as a free download from my Games with Gold membership. 

The First Sakura Wars game to be localized in English in 2010 for the Wii, Sakura Wars: So Long My Love combines tactical turn-based combat, dating sim, and visual novel gameplay elements. You play as male character Shinjiro Taiga who is given the assignment to head a demon battling female warriors/performers called Combat Review in New York City.