Back from the internet-lacking but festivities-abundant countryside New Year’s Eve with my family and straight into a weekend that almost seamlessly links with the next one into a relative bana- er, bonanza of backlog time, so which playthroughs to invest it in? You’d think over 350 items added last year to Switch library alone would suffice for the answer… yet here I am, with the visibly emptier hobby fund coffers and the first hybrid splurge of 2026 to sort between the benches and the storage space (which also means deciding what already installed stuff to part with for now). A few titles like Pedestrian and Alice Gear may wait alongside Quake II for now, and The Hundred Line beckons but simultaneously scares with its 13-something gigabytes, but that still leaves the gluttony catalysts like Fantasy Life I (I’m tired of manually correcting the last letter’s case😅), Unicorn Overlord, Labyrinth of Zangetsu, the first Quake, Astroneer, Chasm, Slay the Princess, Baba Is You and another dive into the hoard survival genre with the steampunk Luminaria… even My Time At Sandrock is tempting me to go Xenoblade/Atelier/RF/Persona/Tales on its series (if the witnesses of my previous Saturday comments know what I mean), so perhaps a very “gruesome” storage overhaul is in the cards anyway.🙀
Needless to say, none of that means I’ll readily give up on glancing towards the already established playthroughs, especially when the timeframe actually encourages it once in a blue moon. Be it the aforelisted and simultaneously engaged series, relative recents from Remnant, Rogue Legacy 2 and Ghost Trick to Ball x Pit, Railgrade and Gnosia or the proverbial longplays from Forager, Borderlands 2 and BotW/Echoes to First Departure, Danganronpa and GTA Trilogy (and all of that with some Cyberpunk, Palia and Chibi-Robo on NS2), this is guaranteed to be one memorable week. Various handheld stuff like the first Fantasy Life, Neptunia, Xenosaga, FFXIII/XV and Death Stranding isn’t off the table either (unlike the likewise newly procured Edge of Eternity and Elex which look like even bigger tricks to cram on Deck for the time being… but who knows), and I’ve even gone as far as to unshelve and plug in PS4 just in case – Lord knows how long it’s been. Should the stars align, some of this mostly TV-chained library (NFS 2015 and Crew 2, Lies of P and Bloodborne, Sakura Wars and Star Ocean IaF – you name it) might just see some action, too.
Happy New Year, merry Christmas to everyone potentially celebrating in a few days like I do, and here’s to many positive memories and times to decidedly outweigh their opposites.🍻
