I promised all of you a quicker update in June, so let’s get the ball rolling with this month’s update free of any mobile gaming related content. If you’re into that stuff, please check out April and May’s blog.
Let’s start off with some personal news. As you can see in the chart above, the number of new Covid cases in California has significantly dropped since I last talked about it back in my December 2020 blog. For those of you curious or need a refresher on what I said about the subject, please go back and listen to that particular audio blog. In any case it has been declared by the governor that June 15th will be when everything will return back to “mostly” normal for businesses and the public.
Although I am very happy to finally be able to do the things I want to do without must restriction, I want to take a moment to talk about a growing issue in California that was already there before any of the Covid stuff came to pass. Since I don’t like to talk about drama or rather unpleasant things on my blog too much, I will simply ask of you to either Google or search on YouTube the term “Venice Beach Homeless” to see what I’m talking about. In a nutshell this problem was already a severe one all the way back at the end of 2019, and was going to be at the forefront of politics during the time. Unfortunately 2020 came and derailed the entire world and this issue was put “on hold” until things settled down. So even though life may be coming back to normal for most folks in the country, those of us who live in Los Angeles County (like myself) will be going back to the “abnormal”; hence the title of this month’s post.
On a quick side note, me and my wife are now fully vaccinated and ready to move on with our lives. We hope that the world starts opening up again and I can travel without much incident than usual. For those of you who are waiting to be vaccinated or planning on getting one; be mindful of that 2nd dose. I had a lot of bravado taking my 1st one without much incident (I had no side effects) and thought the entire process was going to be a cakewalk. But once I got my 2nd dose; let’s just say I haven’t been that sick in over 7 years! This coming from a rather healthy individual who can run a sub 6 minute mile on demand.
Moving onto less heavy topics, if you’ve ever visited my site in the past you know that I’m a sucker for easy going travel videos. Specifically I really enjoy the type with minimal editing, narration and music. So I was extremely happy to find another YouTube channel that caters to my specific tastes and wanted to share the love with you folks. Bonus points are awarded to this YouTube channel in that it deals with locations that aren’t just in Japan; a heavy focus on many of my previous recommendations. There are a lot of cool looking places the world over, and I didn’t want to over emphasize Asia too much in my recommendations. It’s not that Asia isn’t cool, it’s just that it can become boring if that’s all you ever see. In any case, I hope you enjoy the content as much as I do, and always a friendly reminder for everyone out there to take some time out of your day to relax and take notice of the little things in life.
I personally feel this game that I’m about to talk about needs no introduction. I also forget that the world is a very large place, and a lot of you who are reading this blog may have not even known that this game exists. In any case, Princess & Conquest is an early access game that’s in development and is quite frankly one of the better “ecchi” or “hentai” games to be worked on in the last couple of years; at least in my opinion.
I’m not a pop culture historian (or anything similar to such), but I can tell you that the entire game’s premise was pretty much created by a singular image meme. The idea was that a knight runs into a tower to save a princess, but in the process ends up rescuing a kobold instead. This is implied to be ambiguous for many reasons, but at the end of the day we jokingly assume the knight is sex craved and rescuing “anything” that will return the favor is good enough for him. From this spawned an entire game and world with it, full of colorful lore and characters.
As a reminder I’m always a fan of talking about the more esoteric things out there. Princess & Conquest is an extreme rarity because it’s a heavily adult orientated game that doesn’t forget its suppose to be a game at its core. A lot of similar projects out there boil down to being “complicated porn delivery systems” that frustrate the player since it doesn’t really know what it’s trying to do. Like many curious folks out there who tried Princess & Conquest for the first time, we came for the porn - but stayed for the gameplay and world building. If you like art that combines cute and sexy at the same time, a traditional leveling rpg system and a very enduring world filled with all types of funny characters, I would highly suggest you give Princess & Conquest a try. It’s constantly being updated by its developers (with frequent communication) and has a load of content even though it’s still considered in development. Better yet you can download the public version for absolutely free by clicking the image above or this link here.
Let’s close out this month’s update with a game release stated for June 24th world wide. The game is called “Legend of Mana” and is actually a remaster of the original version that was on the Playstation 1. I won’t go much into the details of the game since they are readily available online, but I will say that it was a part of my childhood growing up and I do have fond memories of it. If you’re running dry on things to do for the month or have a few bucks burning a hole in your pocket - it might be worth checking out. It’s going to be available for multiple platforms, including Steam on PC and the Nintendo Swtich.
That’s it for this month folks, hope you all stay safe as always!