BOOTLEG BLOG

Gaming log!

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04/02/2025

Tomodachi Life

Lain and Zakuro are now friends, this is a joyous day, maybe they could fix each other.

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03/22/2025

Haven

My boyfriend recently grabbed this game during the steam sale, we've both had our eyes on it for a minute, it's basically a co-op game built for couples. The controls are a little wonky but I feel like it's charm and character carries it a lot, it's extremely cute.

YIIK: A Post-modern RPG

SPOILERS

Got to the part where it asks you for the smartest person you know, the coolest girl (specifically) you know, and your polar opposite, really intrigued to know where that's going.

Also, slight speculation, I think Michael might be the 'true' protagonist if that makes any sense, like he'll end up doing the most actual leading and such, this is mostly coming from the fact that he's front and center in the I.V art work.

"I considered myself spmething of a philosopher in college" I'm sure you did Alex.

Oh I really like Vella, she should kick the shit out of Alex more.

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03/21/2025

YIIK: A Post-modern RPG

Starting to get into the meat of the plot, so I'm gonna start tagging spoilers.

SPOILERS

Michael introduction, everytime I see him I think of Jerma. Very intrigued by The Camera tho, weird fucking creature, also the implication that there's even more missing persons.

Alex's monologues are so funny to me as a visual novel fan, bc in a VN these lengthy monologues would feel completely normal, but in both the context of this game and how Alex, is, they feel so pretentious (positive)

Alex would do so well as a denpa visual novel protagonist, dare I say, YIIK is denpa.

Oh hey look, it's Sammy getting kidnapped! Yeah I kinda already know about this, Alex being an unreliable narrator, he most likely was never a witness to Sammy's kidnapping, his egotistical ass probably just daydreamed it.

ooo dream 1, I wonder if these are gonna influence Alex's weird narrative.

EVERY FUCKING TIME ALEX JUST THE SPRITE WHERE HIS HANDS ARE ON HIS HEAD I LAUGH ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS "I'M YIIKING OUT"

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03/20/2025

YIIK: A Post-modern RPG

We begin

I honestly felt so fucking lost at first, honestly thinking I was missing something, but no, this is just how it starts, I love it.

THIS IS ALL SO WEIRD I'M IN LOVE WITH THIS

From what I read online the original version of the game still exists in the files, so I'll probably play that once I'm done with this.

There being a content warning for racial inequality makes me super fucking intrigued, they're gonna talk about some heavy shit here.

Oh my god Alex's inner monologue is so obnoxious, and I mean this as a positive. Alex would've done numbers on 2015 Tumblr.

"a sinner... a saint... no... none of those... you're a gamer" I FEAR THIS GAME MAY BE PEAK

I was so fucking excited to continue this game after coming home from work, genuinely haven't had a game do that to me in awhile.

It honestly feels like this game was probably just, played by the wrong audience, not everyone can enjoy a story with an absolutely hateable protagonist and that's fine but it doesn't feel nearly as much as an inherent flaw as people claimed it was.

Also, love Sammy, she's so fucking weird.

Sticky Business

Comfy game!!!!! This is 100% gonna be a steam deck game, I love it a lot, very very cute.

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03/07/2025

Flesh, Blood & Concrete

Oh fuck yeah this is a Bootlegcore game. I randomly found it through a video essay, saw one singular frame, and without a second thought I immediately looked it up and downloaded it.

The art of the characters is so cute while the enviroments are so unsettlingly realistic, crusty poorly taken care of apartment complexes, mysterious stains.

Got the true ending first try, definitely gonna come back and get the rest of them and decode this, I admittedly kinda rushed through it because I was super excited to find something new. Fucking beautiful game.

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02/27/2025

Blade & Soul NEO

Was super excited when I heard that Blade and Soul was getting a major update/reboot, this was my first big MMO I was into, and uh, oh god, oh god it's so poorly optimized. I would normally just blame my shitty PC but FFXIV looks infinitely better and runs perfectly on my shitty PC.

The voice actors that were replaced sound infinitely better though! I'll give them that, tbf I didn't play very far in, only like an hour worth, because it was running so so poorly.

Halo Reach

Forgot to log this one, but my boyfriend and I have been replaying the Halo campeigns, I love Reach's story so much, feels so incredibly grounded yet dark.

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02/22/2025

Pokemon Emerald Imperium

I'm really liking this romhack so far, it's a bit frustrating as it feels like the other trainers just know shit that they shouldn't like what item you're holding. I chose Popplio as my starter :)

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02/18/2025

Skyrim

I finally decided to give Skyrim a shot last night and, oh my god, I get it, I get why this game is so popular, this is like Baldur's Gate tier of meeting expectations. Rough around the edges but amazing for the time and so incredibly fun to make builds.

I went with a male Argonian (naturally, reptillian races my beloved) though I specifically chose male since I, really don't like how female Argonians looks.

I'm going for a generale magic build focused into destruction magic and illusion magic.

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02/15/2025

Exist-Archive

I've owned this game for awhile, got it when I first got my PSVITA too, but I never got farther than the first chapter. The Vita and the PSP have so many little hidden RPG gems on them I wanna play more.

I love the art style for this game, also Mayura is fucking adorable.

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02/11/2025

Pokemon Renegade Platinum

Beat Candice! Probably the easiest gym in this romhack ngl, though my Luxray did kinda prove her worth in this gym battle with her coverage, maybe I won't remove her from my team afterall

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02/10/2025

Tomodachi Life

Love Tomodachi Life for giving me moments like the very moment Riamu decided to become an idol while talking to Zakuro from Subahibi.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team

Through all of the Mystery Dungeon games I've ever played, I have never gotten a cubone on my Pokemon test, but I did this time, this is a genuinely magical experience, I'm so used to either getting a grass starter or skitty.
I ended up going with a Treeko as my partner mon.

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02/09/2025

Animal Crossing: New Horizon

The daily grind. I'm gonna try to finally unlock Brewster, he's easily my favorite Animal Crossing character I require him on the island.

Kirby's Dream Course

First time actually playing this game, so cute as Kirby should be, shockingly easy to get hyper-competitive in.

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02/08/2025

Animal Crossing: New Horizon

Had a strong craving to pick my switch up again, I should seriously put this game back into my morning routine.

Mario 64 (Switch Online Port)

I find it so funny how bad I am at this game, I've been so hardwired to watching experts play this game that me, someone who did not grow up with this game and didn't play it til young adulthood, struggling with the most basic parts of this game, I find it funny. The game is a solid classic tho.

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01/23/2025

Final Fantasy 7

Finally got properly introduced to Aerith and she is ADORABLE!!

I can see exactly why people fell head over heels for Tifa and Aerith honestly, they're both so sweet.

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01/20/2025

Final Fantasy 7

While looking at my boyfriend's family's old PS3 that he thought was broken we found out that there's a downloaded copy of Final Fantasy 7, since I've been wanting to go through a bunch of the Final Fantasy games I started it up for funsies.

I'm only just out of the opening section of the game (after you committing a casual act of aggresive protest that media is masking as terrorism hey that's funny) and I'm actually already really enjoying myself.

As far as I knew, Cloud was a completely silent protagonist in the original, but he seems to actually have a character here.

Also Tifa is very cute.

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01/16/2025

Wobbledogs

This is driving me slowly insane, I know what I'm missing, the dud egg thing, but I haven't been able to spawn any on the file that's almost complete, my dogs are too healthy lol