In my teens I basically quit video games. They were a big part of my childhood—not in any exceptional way, I liked sonic the hedgehog; sometimes I get a little envious of people with gamer parents or gamer siblings who got put on to good games as opposed to me who blindly bought whatever had the famous mascot character on it. I liked games a lot as a kid even though the games I was playing were bad. I had decided video games were less of a priority than drinking vodka cut with orange juice by the river during my teen years and so I kind of fell out of touch with my dear friends like Sonic and the slime from Rocket Slime. Even after I decided to put some of those habits behind me I didn’t really feel the urge to reconnect with video games at any point. It wasn’t until very recently that my grown ass kind of reassessed video games as something super interesting (they are) and worth looking at again.
Over the course of the past few years I’ve been able to play some Games (capital G). I played the first 3 Suikoden games; I love them all like my children. I’ve drug myself through the SMT series (2 is a fave), the same goes for Yakuza (5 is a guilty fav). I’m trying to avoid the instinct of optimizing time/project-ifying what’s supposed to be a hobby, but, in some capacity, as life gets busier bit by bit, I want to keep trying video games and not shelve them like I had in the past: Thus the gaming rationale.

First order of business is The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I’ve had complex feelings about this game for most of my life. As a child I had a copy of Majora’s Mask and I would start the game from scratch, get to the point where you meet the happy mask salesman, freak out and shut off the console because he was scary af, and then repeat the process another day. I bring this up because Twilight Princess had a dark vibe and so when it released I decided for myself that I could not handle All That. I’m not less scared of the scary people in scary games and so Twilight Princess has kind of become this long lost love for me, so I really am looking forward to starting it as of today.
Secondly: The Wheel. Because of a depressive/insomnia-motivated nature I have developed a habit of digging through the pages of Backloggd looking for weird/good games to put on my to do list. It’s a bad habit (1500~ games so far) and if I spent half that time playing games instead I’d probably be happier for it, but that’s why I’m trying to be intentional going forward. I’ve exported the backlog to an internet wheel, I will spin the wheel and then play games that the wheel tells me to; or not—I’m free to have reservations but the goal is to come to some sort of consensus with myself about what I need to be doing next. The wheel will help me..hopefully.

I will try to update, in some sort of capacity, at least once a week, in order to hold myself accountable with gaming. I need gaming ritual, essentially; I need to bake it into my routine because there’s so much I want to know and I don’t want to lose any momentum in this regard so I will game as much as it takes.
Thank You.

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