Ever since coming home from the hospital, I’ve been relying on old games to bring me comfort. I still dip into Cozy Grove (Spry Fox) on the daily, but there’s not much to do. I really appreciate that they add new content every season and a season-appropriate festival every quarter. I’m eager to see what they do for Christmas, which should be in a week or two. Other than that, though, there really isn’t much to do. Yes, I can capture the new insects and fish, but that’s not really an incentive to play more of the game. I’m not mad about it, to be clear. I’ve been playing the game for eight months, which is good value! And it’s so cute, I don’t mind that there isn’t much to do any longer. I love that there are new outfits for each festival, which gives me one reason to visit during the fests.
Another game that is a comfort to me is Dark Souls III. It’s my favorite game of all time and I’ve played it dozens of times (I’m counting each NG plus cycle as another time playing it). It’s the first game I thought of trying to play once I was conscious again. I was nervous booting it up because I didn’t know what I would do if I couldn’t play it any longer. I think it was a week or so after returning home? Maybe two? Time is fuzzy at this point. This was the first game I tried after coming home from the hospital. To my relief, it was just as instinctual as it had been before. I kept it easy–killing scrubs outside Firelink Shrine–and I actually had tears in my eyes because it feltso good.
Now, I’m up to NG++ and about halfway through the game When I did the second DLC in NG+, there were summons for three of the four bosses. For the first boss, I used the two NPC summons and rocked it fairly easily. Which was funny because I had dragged my feet before doing this boss. I really hate this particular boss because there are two phases and the second phase is a whole different boss. It’s just long and tedious, much like all the fights of this DLC. Except the Halflight, Spear of the Church, which is the boss fight in which the boss can be a human player. This is my least-favorite boss in the whole series because I suck at PVP. The fact that it’s not optional makes it even worse.