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So, turns out getting really into MGQ: Paradox, a game designed from the ground up to take months to go through, has had a negative effect on my ability to actually complete anything. Who knew?

So here's a different game, of a much more manageable length.
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With Fantasy Maiden Wars having left me in a Touhou mood, clearly I was going to keep playing Touhou fangames. Here's another of the better-known ones, a successor to the old Touhou Puppet Play (aka Touhoumon) ROM hacks.
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Way back in the day I used to read the pioneering (not a suggestion that it might even remotely measure up to my current standards) webcomic Bob and George, one of the first to use repurposed and edited sprites from classic video games (Mega Man in its case) to tell its story. One of the more interesting original characters it had wasn't actually created by the author: this character, Ran, was instead designed by a forum user (also known as Ran) and appeared in a few different comics made by people on the site's forums as well as Bob and George itself. Ran's gimmick was that he was created on a shoestring budget out of, and I quote, "cheap communist parts" that not only left him so weak literally any impact would kill him, but were so cheap in fact that building a system to make a replacement body and transfer his consciousness to it every time something killed him was cheaper than fixing that problem. So you'd get a lot of gags about him dying to extremely comically harmless things (which were so common that they were old hat by the time the main comic's author got permission to use him), along with the odd bit about how bizarrely difficult he was to kill for someone who died to everything you can think of and everything you can't think of.

Wind I Creator's main conceit is basically the same idea as that.
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We finally got a port of the last major game still stuck on Wii U. What is it that made Xenoblade Chronicles X such a hotly desired rerelease?

There's something about this planet, I guess.
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