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Jesus, I'm playing Scooby Doo: Night of 100 Frights, and ir took so looooong to get the game into a playable, not super laggy state. It's slow, but like, I can deal.

Anyway, the game so far definitely feels like it's not taking itself super seriously, which is a plus. There's canned laughter and all that even during simple gameplay. A little annoying, but I can respect the spirit. It feels as campy as Scooby Doo should, haha

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HHHHH, so last night I actually beat the final boss of the game, but I didn’t do it quick enough to earn the gift and good god, I just beat it and it was so fucking hard. Like, luck is such a major factor, and I had to have the exact right equipment, hhhh.

But anyway, I got two new cute outfits for my character, haha.

A cool autumnal look~

And a cute lil maid outfit!

Anyway, I might keep playing the game as other characters just to unlock outfits and stuff, haha. We’ll see.

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I played more Ape Escape and I got pretty far! It’s pretty addicting, haha, even though some of the levels were hard to get the bonus items for. But then I discovered that elemental weapons actually do come into play and there you go! Free gifts!

Also, I finally found a somewhat cute outfit, haha:

It’s ocean themed~

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So I started playing Ape Escape: Pumped and Primed and it’s exactly as fun as I remember, haha. The plot is pretty simple: there’s a tournament going on in this virtual world that involves high-tech gadgets, and you gotta try to win while stopping this evil monkey named Specter from rigging the whole thing in favor of his monkey underlings.

You can choose which character to play as- and most of the main characters are kinda Boring, but I went with the AI girl, and her name is apparently Casi! But I had the option to give her a nickname, so I named her after myself~ She’s really cute and sweet and a little nervous about fighting against others, haha, so she’s really relatable~

Here’s what she looks like:

I also like her kinda “psychic power” theme, haha. Her abilities just look really cool to me, and she floats wherever she goes~

Anyway, my favorite part about the game is the monkey fanclub you can get for doing well, haha. Each event you nail in the tournament gets you a new member, a fan letter, and a gift! And they’re all really interesting~ The gifts can be new weapons, clothes, or even lil monkey friends that I think you can summon at some point, haha. I haven’t found an alternate outfit I like yet- I got a nurse one and one that’s red scorpion themed instead of spider themed- but there’s still a lot of game left to find one!

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So I’m gonna take a break from MGS2 because honestly, I can’t stand the overly long cutscenes. Like, the first time I played the game, I was what, 14? And I was completely new to the franchise, it was a time in my life where the escapism that long cutscenes provided was welcome, but right now, it just gets in the way of the fun of sneaking around. I know everything already, I don’t need to hear it all over again fifty times in a row.

So now I’m gonna take things in a completely different direction and play Ape Escape: Pumped and Primed! I remember it being a simple little contest-type game and one of the characters is this cute AI girl with, like, psychic-type powers if I remember right? So I’m probably gonna play as her~

Uhhhh, once it finishes downloading, at least. It’s supposed to take like an hour, hhhhh

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Hhhhh, this game likes to lay it on thick even when I save. Also, Rose got real sad because Raiden has an empty room??? Like, let him live??? And you shouldn't barge into someone's room like that, he had every right to be angry. Hhhhh, but it's over, I'm FREE

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Otacon is here!!! But also I accidentally triggered more cutscenes, hhhhh, please just let this end, I know what happened in the prologue, I was there

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Oh, the president died but I was too busy reblogging cute art to care, haha. These cutscenes are, hhhhhh, convoluted.

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I'm just gonna make these posts while these long-ass cutscenes play. I got a remote control missile after swimming around for a long while, then I used it to save the president. After whiffing it a couple times, at least.

Then the president grabbed Raiden by the 'nads and was confused by the fact that he's a dude?? Anyway, now he's spouting some nonsense about The Patriots and how they control the country or something. He's just a figurehead, blah blah blah. He wanted power so he worked with the bad guys, blah blah blah. But then he took it back because he realized it would be Bad.

And apparently Solidus Snake was president before or something. He caused MGS1?? I dunno, he was supposed to die after he stopped being president, but he didn't, and now he's causing bullshit with robot kaiju again. I looked at a walkthrough and apparently I gotta rescue Emma next and oh boy, that's gonna be some drama.

Also Big Shell is robot kaiju?? And Raiden sounded dumb by saying "what you say???" exactly like that. I can't keep up with this anymore, hhhhhh.

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So, uhhhhh, I kinda played Metal Gear while I was visiting with my boyfriend and didn’t really record my progress. I lowkey can’t remember much of what happened. I had to go into the middle section of the first strut and find Ames, I think? I also did something with the president. Oh, and I tried getting around guards in a lil box while saying “oh whoopsies, excuse me!”, and now that’s a running joke, haha. 

Ummmm, Ames died, I fought a jet... Snake was there... And a guy pissed on me. Also I slipped on bird shit a lot.

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Oh my god this game. It feels like it was supposed to be a movie, I swear. So many loooooooong cutscenes. And??? The story??? So convoluted. Anyway, let me sum up what I can remember.

So Raiden is at this this place called the Big Shell because a bunch of baddies have the president hostage and are threatening to blow the whole place up. It’s some kind of contamination clean-up facility or something, so it would be bad for it to be destroyed. So after some sneaking, he sees two of the baddies- Vamp who really can’t be described more than his name, and Fortune, some sad chick who can’t die because bullets always go around her.

So then Raiden meets some guy who called himself “””Plisken””” (spoiler: it’s Snake), and then he goes to meet with some bomb expert. But before I get to that, there’s a part where Snake waits on some stairs because he got shot, and I did a roll up the stairs and made him mad because I bothered him, haha, it was funny.

Anyway, Mr. Bomb Expert (Stillman) told me how to defuse the bombs and then Snake came along and blew him cover about being a Navy guy because he couldn’t get the motto right or something. Then Stillman got sad about how he blew up a church a few years ago. Everyone in this game is just Sad for some reason. And it’s always right out of the gate with their introductions too, like please let us get to know the characters before you make them go spouting off their sob stories.

Uhhhh, so I defused the bombs and died many many times in the process. At some point I popped out of a box and kicked a guy into a pool of water, and that’s my only non-required kill so far.

After I defused the bombs, it was revealed that they were really decoys or something. Then Stillman sobbed on about how he faked a leg injury to get out of facing the repercussions for killing so many people. Then he blew up.

Then Fortune came along and was Sad some more. I had this mini battle with her where I basically just hid in a box behind a different box while she used an electro-gun and destroyed the place. Then there was a cutscene where Vamp died and she cried about it because she’s the only one who can’t die apparently. But surprise, Vamp didn’t die. Despite being shot in the head, he literally just laughed it off and said “””I can’t die twice”””.

The guy who planted the bombs then was like “hey, meet me on the helipad”. So I did, and he was up there with a fancy-ass glass of wine, but he sipped it through a goddamn bendy straw??? Then he said something about wanting to be famous for being a bomber. Also, it’s prudent to know that he’s an ugly bald dude in a giant green trench coat with a big green cowl. Because is main mode of moving around was roller skates.

Roller skates.

So then I had this boss battle where I to go around defusing his bombs and shooting him, and I died once because I couldn’t find a bomb, but it wasn’t to hard to do. Then once he died he started laughing because he said he had one more bomb, and that I’d never find it, but like??? It was under his body??? He thought he was so fucking clever, but like, even though I didn’t remember that exact scene, I knew that’s where it was.

Also, Rose was kinda bland and annoying some more. She keeps using Raiden’s real name and calling him when he has important shit to do??? Like I’m trying to defuse bombs, I don’t have time to care about why April 30th is so important, please.

Uhhhh, anyway, I’m tired and I can’t really remember much else. Raiden seems to be about as done with all the bullshit going on as I am, though, so at least I’m not alone in the suffering.

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I played more MGS2 and??? Oh my god, I can’t follow the plot of this game for the life of me.

But first thing’s first, gameplay. I used a wet box to sneak past a couple guards, but I kept getting caught and having to restart. Especially since I got a cold and kept sneezing??? Like I was literally about to knock a guy out and Snake sneezed and alerted the guard, it’s such bullshit. I looked it up and everyone says colds only happen in harder difficulties?? I dunno, but I got past it.

Also, I blew up the ship I was on several times by accident. First time was because I didn’t knock out all the sensors for the bombs, and the second time was because I accidentally shot the bombs head on. Whooooops.

And Otacon kept fucking up proverbs and shit again, and when Snake calmed him out on his bullshit he was basically like “um, no, I’m right, shut up” and Snake actually apologized, pfffft, I can’t believe this ultimate mercenary is whipped by his nerdy best friend.

There was also this one part where I had a shootout with a bunch of guys (it was mandatory), and I felt so bad because I didn’t want to kill them. I tried using my tranq gun instead of the actual one, but it didn’t work, so RIP Russian mercenaries that I had to kill. I know you guys were just doing your best.

Anyway, I finally finished the tutorial part and actually playing the game didn’t take that long, but good GOD did the cutscenes just... Drag on... And it just started with that batshit crazy right out of the gate, like there’s this bad guy, and there’s someone kinda living through him through his arm or something??? And he can take over the whole body because his arm is attached to the guy???And it’s Snake’s brother??? Well, kinda, they’re both clones of some other dude, but look, if I went into detail about this convoluted bullshit, I’d be typing for a year.

Anyway, then some people died and the ship blew up or something, I dunno. I kinda got bored about halfway through and zoned out. The bad guy took off with some robot kaiju and there was a betrayal. Big Things happened, I’m sure. Oh, but there was this one part where someone said to the bad guy “are you gonna sell robot kaiju on the street?” and I’m just??? Baffled by that line??? It’s a giant fucking robot built for war, not some dank kush or whatever the kids inhale these days, you can’t just sell it on the street, like please.

Now I’m at the actual meat of the game where I play as Raiden, but lowkey, I miss Snake and Otacon. Raiden’s cool, but the guy who does his mission briefing is booooring, and Raiden’s girlfriend, Rosemary, is pretty bland too. And she keeps using his real name??? When she was specifically asked to use Raiden??? Like this is an important mission and you’re jeopardizing the safety of the guy who’s actually in there all by himself, please. 

Also, this cutscene just added to the drag because it went into too much detail about what the hell was going on, and it did tutorial stuff that I already knew??? Like??? I know how to use the radar??? I used it for the first section, please just shut the fuck up and let me play game.

By the time I was able to play again, I was dead tired, but it wouldn’t let me fucking save because I needed to progress and reach the cutscene where Rosemary was established, hhhhh. And then right after that I had to hide from guards, and I’m not about to save while I’m in a tense situation like that, thank you.

But one cool thing that did happen is I got to do a name input thing for some dog-tags or something, and I thiiiiink I remember what it’s for, but I’m not entirely sure since the last time I played this was about five or six years ago. But anyway, here’s my MGS2-sona (you can’t stop me from calling it that).

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So I played some MGS2 last night (or this morning?) and beat the first """boss""". Also, I fell down the stairs a couple times because it's funny~ But I stopped playing because I got Super Caught and didn't wanna deal with that. Also, I'm still in the tutorial, so that's fun. Otacon is still a bit of a dumbass whenever I save, but I love him all the same!

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So the game started with a solid 8 minutes of cutscene where the input thing I could """do""" was fuck around during calls and zoom in on Snake's and Otacon's faces. But! It's kinda funny hearing Otacon fuck up proverbs and flounder in trying to justify himself. Also sneaking around is still Hella Fun. Though the game is a little laggy at times.

Also, not gonna lie, I reloaded a save because I got Super Caught and didn't wanna deal with the consequences. But then I successfully got around those troublesome guards, so I count it as a win~

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Uhhhh, I gave up on playing Shark Tale, so now I'm playing Metal Gear Solid 2. Expect me to not retain the story all that much, because good lord. I just like this game for being pretty much all stealth. Plus the batshit insanity is fun too.

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You know, I must’ve played this level at some point when I was younger, but for the life of me,I can’t remember it. And I know I played it because I distinctly remember the next level. So, uh. Yeah.

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This level was easy to do once I figured out a little secret to finish the bonus missions. Nothing much to say.