Rundown (11/12/2023) Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works is Done!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works is Done!
- TSF Showcase 2023-37 The Legend of Zelda: Tale of the Fourth Goddess by Unknown Creator
- Nintendo’s Quest For Another Billion Dollars… (Nintendo Announces Live-Action Legend of Zelda Movie)
- A Preemptive Musing About the Inevitable GTA VI Reveal (Grand Theft Auto VI Will Be Revealed Soon)
- Surprise! Steam Deck 1.5, Bitches! (Steam Deck OLED Model Announced)
Rundown (4/23/2023) Spreadsheets Infinitum
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Hyper-Fix The Problems!
- The Hedgehog Snatched Up An Angry Bird (Sega Sammy Acquired Rovio for $773.8 Million)
- Didn’t I Already Talk About This A Year Ago? (Epic Games Acquires Brazilian Mobile Developer Aquiris)
- The Trains Are Under New Management! (Focus Entertainment Acquires Dovetail Games)
- Walk The Fire With A Fiancé (Sony Acquires Firewalk Studio)
- CyberConnect2: A Retrospective For Context (CyberConnect2 Montreal is Shutting Down in July 2023)
Rundown (4/09/2023) Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works Resumed
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Version 3 of My Dreams
- Doink Has Been Devolved! (Devolver Acquired Doinksoft)
- The Saudis Snatched Scopely! (Savvy Games Group Acquires Scopely)
- Natalie Remembered The ‘Desktops Are Dead’ Argument (This Has Nothing to Do With the News, and Is Just a Ramble)
- Natalie Remembered The Gamification Predictions (Again, More Completely Unrelated Rambles!)
Rundown (1/29/2023) Dragalia Lives
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Dragalia Lost Private Server is LIVE!
- Natalie FINALLY Partakes in The Wizard Game Discourse (The Futility of Fighting The Powerful With Consumer Action)
- The Call to Ban Pedo Comics! (Natalie Rambles About the Sexualization of Minors – Extension 2023-01)
- Roiland Schmoiland, Who Needs ‘Em? (Justin Roiland Is Being Removed From Various Projects)
- Proletariat CEO Felt BETRAYED When Workers Tried Unionizing (Proletariat Unionization Has Been Withdrawn)
- One Look Rush; Two Word Crush (Tango Gameworks Announces and Releases Hi-Fi Rush)
Rundown (11/20-11/26) Student Transfer Version 7.0 is Out!!!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Student Transfer V7 is Good; Review Coming Before December 7th
- These Wolves Ain’t Rebels No More! (NetEase Invests in Polish Studio Rebel Wolves)
- The ‘Kdicarus’ Will Rise Again (Masahiro Sakurai Teases Kid Icarus: Uprising Port)
- There Is No Such Thing as a ‘Hybrid Home Console Handheld’ (Natalie Complains About the Switch’s Classification for the nth Time)
- More Like T.E.X.T. Troopers (E.X. Troopers Has Been Fan Translated)
- AI-licia Erotica (Alicia’s The Great Shift TG Captions is Back!)
- Video Deliberations (Should Natalie Start Recording Gameplay and Making Videos?)
- End & Updates: Goodbye Dragalia Lost…
Rundown (10/16-10/22) Press-Switch v0.6a Is Out & Student Transfer v7.0 Is Coming Next Month
Wherein I discuss: The Next Releases of two DOPE TSF VNs. My disastrous Q4 2022 schedule. The 2022 Bayonetta controversy. And the return of Silent Hill.
(more…)Rundown (9/25-10/01) Dope Skinsuit Comic. BIG Inspiration. Inferior Official Distribution.
Wherein I discuss: A sick skinsuit TSF comic. The end of ownership. Saudi Arabia’s continued influence over Gamindustri. Atlus trying to double-kill their own games. The re;birth of E3. The racist tendencies of one of the most lucrative games of the modern era. A peashy PC port. And the end of a non-subscription streaming service.
(more…)Rundown (9/04-9/10) We Mustn’t Let Dragalia Be Lost!
Wherein I discuss: My Dragalia Lost archival efforts. Tencent gobbling up IPs for China. A showcase from a company I couldn’t care less about. And the long-lived queen.
(more…)Rundown (8/28-9/03) Cute Oppressed Lady Of Uniquely Remedial Styles
Wherein I discuss: The next maiden in the DOPE TSF canon. The (partial) acquisition of Souls. The resurgence of an investment laid in the sand 3.5 years ago. Further Payments and Quibbles. A glorious gacha gutting. The Date of Death of Dragalia. And some pedantic Pokémon prattle.
(more…)Rundown (7/24-7/30) Dragalia is Done
Wherein I discuss the end of Dragalia Lost, a potential PlayStation Purchase, a rocky remake, a boy’s club becoming a real company, and a hoax by a bunch of wasteful modders.
(more…)Rundown (3/27-4/02) Oh Snap, Son! It’s Tax Season HARDCORE!
Wherein I discuss the Nigma Box 5 Year Plan, The PlayStation Plus-ersing, a delay to a delay, the end of an electronic era, the dastardly fools day, and how Dragalia really can’t be dead, guys!
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Rundown (12/19-12/25) Decentralize the W3.B Into the Metaverse for Phat Dochy
Wherein I discuss the latest race for the future, one final acquisition flurry to cap off 2021, China ruining Christmas, and why mobile live services should not demand ALL my attention during the holidays!
(more…)Natalie Rambles About Dragalia Lost: 2021 Remix – Ch 5: Petty Quibbles and Miscellaneous Desires
Because while I love this game, there are a litany of little things that have been chipping away at my very soul!
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Natalie Rambles About Dragalia Lost: 2021 Remix – Ch 2: Play and Progression
Because when you engage with a live service, extensive tutorialization and external information gathering is a necessity to ensure an even remotely optimal play experience.
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Rundown (9/19-9/25) Natalie Is Incompetent — Never Trust Her
Wherein I discuss how I cannot complete a simple child-level task, a potential revival of a niche game series nobody actually cares about, a faux celebration by barons of incalculable greed, the Kotick-Epstein Connection, and a Semi-Dope Nintendo Direct.
(more…)Rundown (7/25-7/31) TSF Series & Scribble Hub Are Go!
Wherein I discuss the completion of a duo of long-standing tasks, the unlife of live services, and how the games industry is full of abuse and other terrible things.
(more…)Rundown (3/28-4/03) Nat The Auto-Maniac
Wherein I discuss my destructive habits, the death of art, growing spheres of influence, a Sony game coming to Game Pass, a fallen fighter returning to the ring, and one of Platinum’s undead gacha game!
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Rundown (11/29-12/05) Pokémon’s Pedantic Problems
Wherein I discuss the mobile live service market, a rudimenary remaster, and a positively perplexing platform paradigm.
(more…)Rundown (10/18-10/24) Spoopy Scares!
Wherein I discuss my disinterest in horror, a time-limited localization, and my favorite mobage.
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Natalie Rambles About Dragalia Lost – Chapter 5: Love, Loss, and Gripes
Because when you pour 1,000 hours into something, your thoughts on it become all kinda of mixed and muddled!
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Rundown (7/12-7/19) 500 Summons for an SSR Waifu
Wherein I discuss why I should never gamble with legal tender, sexual misconduct amidst the largest game publisher in the world, a deadly representational misstep, and Paper Mario making me sad.
(more…)Rundown (5/10-5/16) Gacha Sin
Wherein I discuss an impure purchase, getting older all the time, feeling younger in my mind, the next step in video game graphics, a Nintendo surprise unfolded before our very eyes, a repackaged rendition of veggie-based RTS, and the ghost ninja samurai game.
(more…)Rundown (4/26-5/02) Empty My Wallet For an SSR Waifu
Wherein I discuss my Gleo thirst, the most brutal of us, Viking assassins, and how Japanese work culture has been adversely affected by the global pandemic due to a separation between work and home.
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Rundown (11/24-11/30) Fast Game BlazerZ
Wherein I discuss Pokémon FOMO, a new VVVenture, a return to the lunar landscape of yore, and the boy rocking up my dragon mobage of choice.
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Rundown (10/20-10/26) Double the Stamina, Half the Fun
Wherein I discuss the spookiest part of my favorite live service, the continuation of the saga of true love, the struggles of localizing niche hentai games, and the 76th fumble.
Natalie Rambles About Gacha Games
Because crack is wack, coke ain’t woke, ya don’t need weed, and generally speaking drugs are for thugs. But indulging in regulated vices is good for the economy and government, so gamble to your heart’s content!
Rundown (04/22-04/28) Degeneracy All The Way!
If it is not obvious by now, while I do portray and present myself as a calm and rational member of society who wishes to help and assist others whenever possible, I actually consider myself to be something of a degenerate. I adore things that I genuinely know “normal people” who view as unacceptable, and while I know well enough to keep these things out of regular conversation, I just cannot help myself and get genuinely giddy when I find something incredibly messed up. Whether it be a story about murderous trans-dimensional flesh monsters, a show wherein a woman is forced to eat an omelet filled with feces, poop, and semen, or this awful censored header image, which you can find by digging through the archives on ONAT’s Patreon.
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