Weekly Update 3/19/23

Hey all, a bit of a delayed update with the blog. But I kept myself busy with the stream last night. Maybe Saturday evening isn't the greatest time to write these when that's also the same night I stream... I'll figure something out. In the meantime, here's what's been up lately.

Streams and videos...

I pushed back starting a new stream series a week, and in hindsight I think that was for the best. I wasn't feeling at my a-game with commentary and still a little shook from all the new faces from last week's stream. Despite being a video creator, socialization isn't my strong suite. Doing something more in my element was just what I needed this week. I do plan on trying again next week, though I want to wait before making any promises.

If you missed it, the OG plan was to do a 1st Thru of Kirby's Dreamland 2. It was kind of funny that it dropped shortly after streaming Kirby Dreamland 1 and the lack of Dreamland 2 on NSO was the main thing holding me back from playing Dreamland 3. Never played either Dreamland 2 or 3 before, only seen friends and peers cover it in their own playthrough ages ago. So it'll certainly be an interesting and fun experience.

Oh, I almost forgot I did release a Game N Chill the other day. So if you want to see more of what I've been doing the past month, here you go. Not one of my proudest videos I'll admit. Nothing terrible, but I did dance around some Scarlet and Violet opinions I had. I try to cut out anything that was too negative, but I got a feeling it wasn't enough considering it already got a dislike. That or the title rubbed people the wrong way. I don't know... it was real hard to come up with a title that really fit the commentary of the video for this one...but maybe that was a little too on the nose.

This is kind of what I meant when I said 'It's tough being a Pokemon fan" in the video. There's way too much negativity in the community already, so I hate to add fuel to the fire. But if I'm going to talk about something I'm passionate about, I want to be honest with my feelings. So I'm still struggling to find the middle ground that I'm happy with, that hopefully also makes others happy. Feel free to skip around the Scarlet/Violet stuff, if it bothers you. But I swear it's not as bad as I'm making it out to be and it is only a small portion of the video at most.

I'll through the VOD I did the other day up here as well, if that's more fitting to you.

Golden Sun

Most of my modding work this week has been tinkering away with little random things in Dawn of Djinn Second Mix. Though I did finally actually record that Bilbin tour I keep saying that I was going to do, so enjoy a few minor text edits I made in to reflect the sudden "disappearance" of Bilbin Barricade and a couple other things.

Thankfully I'm not going to be changing every line of dialogue in Golden Sun. But the plan is to at least carry over the majority of text edits I made in Version 1, like changes to books and the cooking easter eggs I sneaked in, along with a little extra new dialogue additions. Main plot won't change from the vanilla GS1. Instead think of these as sort of a side plot I've added to help blend the new features of Dawn of Djinn more naturally into the main game. The biggest example of this is the new NPC I've teased in some previous updates. All I'll say for now is that she is a fellow adventurer who clues you in on Dawn of Djinn additions but knows more than she lets on...

Things have been going a little slower than I thought with Dawn of Djinn as a whole. But mostly because there's more testing and adjusting than I thought, which I don't mind because it'll overall improve the project.

Also been taking feedback here and there whenever I get the chance to receive it. Can't promise I'll implement all feedback but it is in the back of my mind at least. Maybe I should even take notes so I don't forget.

Mis

This week has mostly been Pokemon cards and working on brain babies before jumping back into Sweet Training. I've been jumping between a couple different write-ups including one I'm not revealing until I get further through it, just cause I'm so on and off with these sorts of things.

That being said, one of those write-ups I'll share cause I did recently share something from it on other social media accounts. I've been slowly coming up with and drawing redesign for Golden Sun Dark Dawn characters to go alongside with that reboot idea that was on indefinite hiatus for a bit. First four characters are Matthew, Nowel, Sveta, and Tyrell. But don't fear all OG characters remain playable, including Reif. It'll make more sense once I'm actually ready to share the progress I've made with said write-up.