Deep Fear and Backloggery

I purchased a white Sega Saturn with a new PSU that works in the UK. I also grabbed a Saroo card so I could load all of my ISO's on to it. It runs great, everything is super fast, I'm very impressed. 

I've mucked about a bit, and I'm playing through Deep Fear for the first time. It's... not so great. It has a very Resident Evil 1 vibe to it, but just not as good. I've had monsters spawn and attack me as soon as I went through a door, a boss drop down directly in front of me just off camera... it's.. yeah, not great. I did have to escape a sinking submarine which was fun, but then I died before I could reach a save point afterwards. It came out six or so months after Resident Evil 2. It has it's moments so I'll keep on playing it and see how I get on.

The new Backloggery site is not to my liking. I do not like the layout, or the look. It looks dreadful. I know they put a lot of work into it, but the design is so dreary and off putting, it has no charm whatsoever.

Anyway, it's a bit of a moaning post, Deep Fear is still fun despite it's flaws and we'll see how Backloggery turns out.

Baldur's Gate III / CyberPunk / Theatrhythm

Baldur's Gate III finally comes out this August. I need to crack on with replaying Baldur's Gate II.

I'm not sure what to do with CyberPunk, I just can't seem to get into it. Part of that could be that I'm playing it on PS5, where the text is super small and you can't plug in a mouse and keyboard. I might just sell it and try the PC version in 5 years or something. I won't be buying a PC that can play it for some time.

There's a lot coming out at the moment that I'm interested in. I didn't get round to buying the newest Fire Emblem or Yakuza but did pick up the latest Theatrhythm which is fun. I went for the Switch version for the option of mobile play, but I've only played it on the TV so far.

Alundra

This game really caught my eye back in the day. Psygnosis took out a two page advert in Total PlayStation and the artwork just wowed me. The art style, music and dark story, filled with tragedy, despair and desperate attempts at holding on to hope really struck me. I've always had a soft spot for it.

I never beat it though; Alundra is one of the hardest RPGs I have ever played, far too difficult for my 13/14 year old brain at the time. Even now it's brutally hard. Puzzles can span multiple screens, involve timers and absolute jank top down 2D perspective platforming as well as respawning enemies.  The game is genuinely too hard for its own good, I can't imagine many people ever completed it.

Still, it pulls me back in. I love the game world and want to finally see it through. I need to see what happens in this story.

PS5 is Very Impressive

 Yeah it's made a good first impression. Astro's Playroom was absolutely fantastic and I'm loving Miles Morales. The pad is a step up from last generation and I love that you can play just about any PS4 game on it.

Formatting your HDD

 I somehow managed to format my 2TB HDD instead of the 128GB flash drive I was looking to use. I want to give myself a massive slap right now. 20 years of curated roms, isos, emulators and videos gone in an instant. And yes, I can use recovery software, and I am, but it's not as easy as clicking 'undo'. It was stupid and while I do have a 1TB HDD with some of the files on it, I haven't used that drive since 2014 at the earliest.

I suppose its time I looked into a backup option, more to protect against my own stupidity than anything else. It's be nice to have something setup that I can connect to using any device int he house and stream movies/music from tbh.

I'm going to look into it.

PS5

 It's almost here. I have the disc version pre-ordered. I don't have any games pre-ordered but I will be picking up Miles Morales. 

I'm hesitant to start any new games now since it comes out so soon. I did pick up a copy of Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise to play on it. Hopefully the backwards compatability holds up and its not in that 1% of games that don't work.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers

Nintendo have a bit of an Atlus sale going on via the EU eShop so I picked this up for practically nothing. I briefly searched eBay and said nah, I'm good going digital here. Strangley, the game seems to be dpad only which I don't think I've ever seen before with a 3DS game.