State of the Blog: Where have I been?

You may have noticed, but I have been on hiatus over the past several months, for which I apologize profusely. I wanted to thank those who continue to stop by and catch up on my posts. I started this blog back in spring of 2019 and I was writing so much, so frequently, that eventually I hit burnout about two months after my PAX West trip last year.

In addition, my hobby interests have turned away from gaming and writing to other things for a time, namely Tarot (the happy fault of Sayonara Wild Hearts), drawing, and online community building. I tend to go through periods of “hobby rotation” where I’m really into one thing or another for a half year or so and then move to something else, eventually circling back to an intense focus on gaming. I do plan on writing more in the future when the burnout wears off.

It would warm my heart to see some of you on Instagram in the mean time. I’ve included a few of my art posts from Instagram between paragraphs below for anyone interested. 🙂

Since you last heard from me I’ve mostly been playing Dead by Daylight on PC with friends when I do game. I did play and finish Pokemon Shield, which was fun but too easy, per the usual for Pokemon games, and at the middle point of the story, the game was completely and clearly a rush job, which was rather disappointing. When the DLC releases, I will move my collection over via Pokemon HOME and likely start breeding competitive Pokemon again. I have both a massive IV breeding collection as well as a hefty competitive-grade shiny collection, so I very much look forward to seeing those on the Switch!

During autumn I put a lot of time into the Digimon Cyber Sleuth port for the Switch, which is what I WISH Pokemon could be like, a more mature experience following it’s audience as they age. I started writing a post about it, though never finished it. Here’s the beginning of that review for those curious:

“I need to talk about Digimon, the other beloved ‘mon of my life. Digimon Cyber Sleuth Complete Edition released last week on the Switch recently and goodness gracious is it good! This is everything I ever wanted in a Digimon game, everything I’ve wanted in a Pokémon game for that matter, and the Switch port is simply flawless. Game industry take note, THIS is what a Switch port should look like. It’s smooth and clean, functions perfectly, and has no bugs to speak of, with high quality graphics. The only thing it’s missing is an English dub, but I can live with that. Cyber Sleuth takes place in its own Digimon universe that reminds me the of the meta narrative found in the Digimon Tamers TV series.”

I’m also digging back into Fire Emblem Three Houses, starting with the Ashen Wolves DLC and a Golden Deer play through. Next up on my hype list is Animal Crossing New Horizons, and I want to do a village life “in character” diary if I can. I hope to find some motivation to start blogging again with Animal Crossing, but I don’t want to force it or it will make the writing fatigue come right back.

Thank you for supporting Backlog Crusader and for bearing with me! I appreciate all of my readers very much. If you would like to stay in touch with me, please feel free to visit either of the Discord servers I admin where you will find me in the chat daily. 🙂

Love,

Angie