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Games Beaten 

-Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger Ix (Switch)

This game continues the technical excellence of developer Inti Creates. The pixel art is so detailed and the game is tight and responsive to play. Dashing into enemies with the main character, Copen, isn't my favorite variety of 2D action but it does work well. Unlike Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, there are plenty of levels, though the whole game—except the final boss—is quite easy. I am not motivated by scoring better grades on levels, so there is little for me to go back to here. But it was a fun game to blow through.

-Picross: Lord of the Nazarick (Switch)

This is a Picross game developed by Jupiter, so the bones of the game a very solid and there are plenty of puzzles. I always prefer themed Picross games but I don’t actually know anything about the Overlord anime. What I liked about this one, though, is that the puzzles are divided among a group of characters, each with a collection of puzzles from easy to hard.  That way we avoided an endgame slog of all giant puzzles.

Games Bought

After two months of robust game acquisitions, March finally slowed things down. My wife bought Pokémon Pokopia (Switch 2) because she wanted to play it (I don't think she has yet) but one of my kids has put a gob ton of hours into it. Later in the month I had a chance to visit the Limited Run Games retail store in North Carolina and bought a copy of Shinobi: Art of Vengeance (Switch). Other than that there were just the PS5 PS+ games: Slime Rancher 2, which I feel like I will never actually play but looked interesting enough that I grabbed it, and The Elder Scrolls Online Collection: Gold Road. My wife played ESO quite a bit when it first came out. I don't know if she'll ever get back into it but we have this collection now.

Games Being Played

-Donkey Kong Bonanza (Switch 2)

Smashing everything so fun and satisfying!

-Piczle Cross: Rune Factory (Switch)

Gotta have a Picross game to play!

-River City Girls 2 (Switch)

My wife and I had started this last year and finally got back to playing it. I don't think we have too much left to go, as long as we don't get sidetracked.

-Mario Kart World (Switch 2)

Knockout Tour didn't pull me in (so hectic!) but I did really enjoy Grand Prix. I blew through 100cc and felt that was too easy to call it "beaten." 150cc is a much better challenge...but then I started DK Bonanza...

-Destiny 2 (PS5)

The shootin' stuff simulator!