End of a chapter

(Happy memorial day to all you yanks out there!) This last month has been somewhat stressful for me as Ive made a big life decision to move in order to be with a fellow mechaphile Ive known for about 3 years now. Its a huge experiment not only to see if I can make an intimate relationship work, but also make it work with a massive handicap, and live on my own after 14 years. I wanna give special thanks, to vermifuge whom without him I wouldn’t have half of what I have today (including this website). The plan was originally to relocate to the state of Missouri in September after I attended this years Reno air races, But it looks like the script has been flipped. I am not leaving California, at least not for a good 5 more years. In leu of that decision I was aggressively house hunting and dealing with certain stresses that made it impossible to work on art over these last 4 weeks. I apologize for not giving you all timely responses and I will work on that more after the move next month.

***Incidentally, There is currently a problem with the website, and I’m looking into hiring someone to maintain it monthly. If you find that you are unable to upload files (users only) then that’s why. I’m going to try to get it fixed after the holiday weekend. ***

*Patreon will not be updated for the month of May as you guys have already noticed due to all this life changing stuff happening. I’ll have something for you in June though.

Finally completed the last chapter in SMT IV: Apocalypse, the sequel to SMT IV. While I’m tempted to give an in depth analysis of the 4rth series as a whole, I found out the hard way that you really should not play 3 of these games in a row. These games are 50+ hours each and are very grindy. So it literally feels like Ive been hardcore playing the same fucking Game for 6 months. I’m burnt out as fuck. What I can say about this title, is the boss designs are just the best. Some of the best yet for the series, making me excited for persona 5 later on next year. The gameplay was streamlined as to cut back on some of the shit that made the first game unnecessarily tedious, I’ll admit I enjoyed the game even if the story wasn’t as good as its previous volume. If this game is a retcon of the previous games ending, then I largely accept the idea that were able to beat down Lucifer and God with the help of Flynn, essentially freeing that dimension from YHVH’s influence. I liked the characters available in this version, but found some of them to be pretty anime tropeish. Reminiscing back to SMT: Strange journey and wishing for a more edgy/gothic story telling experience. Overall the value proposition of this game is pretty high, if you like 60+ hour jpgs with a more adult pokemon, Gods, demons, and the jersey devil spin. Just give yourself a huge break in between or you will be playing these games for months.