I’ve completed the first Palace in Persona 5 Royal. This game is really great! Unfortunately for me, the local library had Kirby and the Forgotten Land for Switch 2 available for checkout, so my Persona playing machine is in the hands of my youngest.

Multiple sittings. We try to play it twice when we can meet up, but even then it’s half a year or more in the adult torture we know as scheduling.

I guess I can focus on being glad Level5 is still kicking. I’m really focused on Layton, though.

Finished FFVII Intergrade! That was much shorter than I expected, but I did put in a vintage one day, 10-hour shift into it. I also played on classic mode which made me enjoy the game a lot more. I loved not feeling the frustration of getting caught in the triangle exclamation point attacks because the game was taking care of that blocking for me.

Started Persona 5 Royal after reading the first few volumes of the manga adaptation. The presentation is so stylish that I felt I had to post again this weekend.

Finished Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade? The title is too much. Part one of the remake is done! Except I unlocked a hard mode I don’t want that is required to see certain parts of the story. I should have gone though it on easy; then I might have the interest in looking for more.

Started the Spring Season of my Microsoft Excel and Kahoot powered baseball game for my students. I printed box scores for the first four games and posted them on the lockers outside of my classroom. I am getting so much joy from the programming involved in transforming mostly random numbers into a baseball game with a story. One of these weeks, I’ll block out the names and post a box score.

Regarding Ticket to Ride Legacy: @slimerancher@lemmy.world asked about the difference between this and the original game, so I wanted to share with y’all what makes it so special. The idea of a legacy game is that choices made in the first (of twelve or so) game you play leads to different outcomes in future games. We are all railroaders looking to make money in the late 1800s but because of the time, in the first three games of the legacy, we are limited to routes from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Over time, you expand the map as the story develops.

Writing about it this much makes me itchy to play more. I don’t want to spoil any more of it, but for those of you just wondering, there’s nothing earth-shattering behind the spoiler tag. If you are already planning on playing, don’t read it!

I think I’ll start the FFVII Interlude with Yuffie tonight!

I was back in Pokotopia. I got to plan on a cloud island with a friend. Then our wives commented how we were playing the same game apart from each other on the same couch (as they both knitted on separate armchairs).

Played season three and four of Ticket to Ride Legacy. It’s really neat to see how the world expands after a game.

And I’m on chapter 15 of FFVII Remake. I watched a play through from ages ago that stopped here due to some copyright issues, so it’s neat to experience the last fourth or fifth of this different familiar story.

Finally, we’re just about to change over in my classroom from a basketball meta-game to a baseball-themed one. The plan is pull Kahoot scores on Wednesday and use those data points to populate six days worth of baseball games. The students drafted their teams Friday and the team captains will select their pitching rotation Monday. I’ll be posting daily standings and statistics for the students to pour over. I hope they dig it as much as they did the weekly brackets that the basketball-theme had.