Welcome to March's instalment of my monthly Gaming Check-In, a blog series where I look back over the last calendar month and share some thoughts on what I've been playing. Now that we're more than a quarter of the way through the year, let's look back on how the third month of 2024 unfolded. GAMES IN PROGRESS - FOUR The main game in progress for the month of March was, of course, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth . As I stated in last month's post, this sequel to Final Fantasy VII Remake has been one of my most anticipated releases for a long time, and while I intend to dedicate a full blog post to the game in the future once I've beaten it and had time to process my thoughts, it would be remiss of me not to talk about it at least a little here given how heavily it's featured in my game time this month. I also mentioned in February's Gaming Check-In that I was waiting for my copy FFVII Rebirth to rock up, and unfortunately it took a little longer to arrive than
Welcome to February's instalment of my monthly Gaming Check-In, a blog series where I look back over the last calendar month and share some thoughts on what I've been playing. Here's how the shortest month of 2024 went down for me. GAMES IN PROGRESS - THREE My main game in progress continues to be Pokémon Scarlet on the Switch. I say "main game" as it's the one I'm playing most often, but technically it's still more of a "side game" since I'm only putting time into it as and when instead of making it the focus of my dedicated gaming time. Readers of last month's blog will recall that I was about twenty hours into a second playthrough of Scarlet as an incentive to check out the Hidden Treasure of Area Zero expansion pass, and while I was enjoying the game, I found I wasn't making progress as quickly as I'd have liked, earning only four badges over the course of January. To remedy this, I made the bold decision to start over an