Went back in to Demon's Souls last night for some new-game-plussing with a replenished online service for the first time in months. Was in a rare, surprisingly cocky mood, basically wandering around in the Diggerland level in body form just begging for some sod to invade me...no doubt emboldened by recent game completion.
And whaddya know, some sly old sod did invade me.
So, being a chivalrous fellow, I awaited them in a large spacious room for them to make the first move, which they happily embraced. We danced the game of the footsies and after a few circles around each other, it was clear this person was not up to the task. As their health started getting dangerously low, they begun to run away, I assumed to heal safely, so ran after them with magic wand in hand. Except they never did heal, instead they ran straight to the nearest cliff edge and lept right off, like the sniveling yellow-belly coward they truly are! RETURN from whence forth and finish what you started, you poltroonish milksop!
Frustratingly never got another invasion after that too, for some reason. This remains unfinished business!
Normally Middle English(or Ye Olde Time English, as some would call it) doesn't work for me but in this case it was quite fitting and amusing. Well done good sir.
In other news,
Yeah, I think I'm maybe halfway done with
Majora's Mask. I don't think anything in the game has been too difficult once I've upgraded my health by finding a bunch of heart pieces and I haven't died to any of the bosses yet(I've fallen down a pit in some of the dungeons). Most of the issues so far as trying to get time sensative things done in a 3 day loop before i have to reset. Notably, getting the Pimp(sorry, Gilded) sword is kind of a pain. You need to unfreeze the fire at the blacksmiths(either by killing the goat boss and melting the snow nearby or using something hot to melt the ice), pay them to temper your sword(which leaves you without a sword while they do it), come back the next sunrise, and then give them to gold dust to render the changes permenant to keep it from reverting with the next loop. Of course, getting the gold dust is a whole other adventure with itself because you have to go to the now unfrozen cave in goron town, get a big powder keg from the big goron, run the keg all the way over to the blocked entrance on the next screen(which is farther then it sounds) before it explodes, and then win the race to get the gold dust. Oh, and you need to have the forge forged and ready to insert gold dust on day two or else you're SOL. There's a lot of moving parts here and i had to do some of it again because i Started the process on day 2 which meant they couldn't do the sword for me in time. OTOH, I found out once you blow up the bolder once, you can just take the damn keg next time in your inventory and then set it where you want to detonate it, which is much easier. I still have to do the race like 4 times to win though.
So annoying side quest is annoying but at least I got my golden pimp sword. I also did the Ranch missions, one of which involved fighting aliens, which is weird but oddly a lot of fun. And then doing a milk run after that which involved fighting off bandits to get a cow mask(It does not turn you into a Cow the way the Goron and Deku masks turn you into a Goron and Deku, though that would be pretty wierd). There's still some outstanding side quests(like the bomb game and the deku game and the sword game and the swamp archery game) but I can do those anytime. I think I'm pretty much done with the mountains for a bit and can move onto the ocean.
This game is weirdly fascinating despite how annoying it can be at times. Especially thinking about how everything I do to help is gonna get undone the next time I rewind and I don't think I can save everyone even on the final loop. Poor Romani will still get abducted every night i don't go to the ranch to fight the aliens, the gorons will freeze, the poor monkey and princess will be trapped in the swamp, etc. OTOH, I'll go play the games, win the big prize and at the end of the day I get to keep the prize while all the money I paid them to play ends up being worthless to them because the loop resets anyway and presumably they all die after I rewind the clock. And I hope this doesn't create a new timeline every time I restart the loop but then again I'm pretty sure every new timeline is annihilated anyway considering the moon apparently doesn't spare anyone when it lands. Sorry, just musing over this. I don't think it was meant to be this deep but it oddly offers a lot to ponder. It feels oddly existential for a game made in a year out of recycled assets, while also being quite silly at times.
