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Dark Moon was cracking but I’m not sure how it would hold up going back to it after 3.

Played some PS4 for the first time since November - opted for Jedi: Fallen Order and will push to finish it next weekend and if I have some free time as my wife has started Links Awakening and it looks like my Switch time is reduced. I still have a few PS4 games I want to finish to see the generation out - so I’m hoping the sales continue till pay day.

My father in law let me borrow that book and it is indeed awesome. just finished Warriors of the Storm and after deciding both Odyssey and War and Peace will be my summer books I’m deciding between Flame Bearer or something else from my bookshelf.

More Links Awakening. Completed Catfish Maw - which involved an awful lot of wandering around very lost. I’m still massively enjoying the game and despite the dungeons remaining similar (I think), it’s still a wonderful game.

I’ve played a bit more Link’s Awakening today, beating the Angler dungeon. It’s a really charming game - and the Zelda loop (the older style) is so satisfying to play. I'm aiming to see the game through in the next two weeks and then I think I’ll put all my attention into Hades. I struggle with having more than one game on the go at a time and with Dark Souls and Zelda, I’m at capacity.

Surely this will miss the mark of what made the original interesting. Namely, the dynamic of being a young professional woman in 90s New York. I say that like my wife won’t want to watch it....so it’ll be on.

So...killed the Blacksmith next to Darkroot. It was an accident and then a reaction. Here’s hoping by 6+ Claymore can carry me for a while until I work out what to do.

I loved Doom so much, bar a few harder parts - it was a joy. I need to buy Eternal soon. I’ve played some more Dark Souls remastered (farming to get the Crest of Artorias) and some Rocket League. Playing the board game Pandemic later tonight so probably no more games until tomorrow.

I’ve beaten Quelaag. No shame but I was going to use the summon Mildred...and noticed that there were some player summons available. Suffice to say, I took her on with three other characters which made me feel more like the weak kid that kicks someone on the ground after the bullies have done the hard work, but the boss is done! Now to get back to Firelink Shrine, level up some more, upgrade my Claymore and then I’m trying to decide between a return to Darkroot and the door, or Sen’s fortress.

England back to full lockdown - including schools. I had a wonderful one day back teaching this year.

E.V Rieu for Penguin.

I bought three months of Nintendo Online as I ended up with some money back from buying the Switch. I can’t say I’ve used it extensively but the SNES VC is decent, though I think I’m correct in saying you don’t need it for Rocket League (though if you do - it would be an essential).

We watched the three part mini-series Black Narcissus. The BBC secures content that you could argue is the highest quality of any broadcaster. This series does not he’ll that argument. 3/10 - maybe a bit more - but it just didn’t work well.

So, I have a good 7 books or so that I have available to read at the moment. After reading Troy however, I’ve decided to buy Homer’s Odyssey to read the first great work of Western writing - so that’s something. I was also impressed my Father in Law was reading a 1200 page Proust novel, so to compete I’ve bought War and Peace, which I didn’t realise was 1700+ pages. So that’ll be interesting to see if I can finish it, or you know, read it in general.

As the ‘alternative’ they are doing fantastically well as everyone’s other console. I’d also hate to see the battery life on a handheld that’s on par with a PS5.

Question for the board - which is the better game: Dark Souls Remastered or Demon’s Souls (PS5)?

I’m a fan of physical media but I also tend to share with friends and trade in games a lot. There’s something almost annoying about completing a single player game (bought digitally) that I now have forever, but don’t want - RDR2, God of War and others are games I’m only interested in the once - but I went for convenience over my usual preference (mostly so I can buy at midnight and I can surprise my wife with a new game in the morning).

Boring stuff really. Cardio for at least 90 minutes and strength 30 minutes per week. Aim to reduce the amount of printing that I do at work - a by-product of being more organised and working a bit more at school, to enjoy life a bit more outside of it. Pass my teacher probation year with satisfactory or good.

I want to buy Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Spider-Man, Control and Doom Eternal on the PS4. On Switch, Luigi's Mansion 3, Fire Emblem, Smash, Astral Chain and a steady stream of Indie games to play. Also I would like a Pro Controller so I can play some games on the television without being hampered by the joy cons - which I neither hate nor love. Possibly Crash and Spyro as I’ve never played any of the games before and they’d suit handheld play.

I'm sure that I’ve read the author has no interest in finishing the series. In the last 10 days I’ve finished 11.23.63, Mark. Plan. Teach, Troy and now on to Warriors of the Storm. Reading books is such a privilege and so wonderful I can’t understand why more people don’t make the time to read.

I’ll ask her to reply later on.

Speaking for my wife (and without asking her) it would be a tie between Ocarina of Time, Witcher 3 and Skyrim.

Found a shortcut to get from the bonfire in the depths to the bottom, so at least the boss won’t be as bad as last time I played (and found no shortcut and gave up). Also more Rocket League which has hit the point now where I’m frequently playing people much better than I am - which happens every time I get back into it - proceeded by me uninstalling the game as it stops being fun. Update: that’s one dead Gaping Dragon thanks to realising you can have two summons and just spam fire and run and chop. Just had a look at Blighttown and was killed by a thing with a club, so I’ll give that more consideration later. Some time later: at the first bonfire in Blighttown and just wandering around, killing things and getting killed. There’s a barbarian and a ghoul at a cave that I’ve died at twice that I sense is the route I want to take, so I’ll give that a go later.

Three dungeons down in Links Awakening, a +5 Claymore harvested to go to the Depths with and a few rounds of Rocket League under my belt. The Switch has really got me back into a gaming mood and I look forward to that inventive going back to the PS4. I am debating whether I want to buy a Switch Pro Controller for Dark Souls and maybe some future gaming.

Soul: 9/10 - just what is needed at this time of the year and at this point in history.