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I guess I don't have one game I'm totally obsessed with right now, so it's jumping around a lot from game to game. This will change on Nov 5 (I think) when Forza Horizon 5 drops. 

Spyro Reignited Trilogy: I completed the first round of freeing 10 stoned dragons in the first game and took the balloon to the new area. In this area, I got stuck trying to glide to a platform where the last frozen dragon of the area was. I kept missing it by a tiny bit. If I didn't get it, I told myself, I might as well stop playing because you need to free all the dragons to move on. I don't know. I stopped for now but I desperately want to finish these three games. 

Baldur's Gate + BG II: I bought this collection with Gamestop bucks after a trade of Xbox 360 games. I played the tutorial mission of BG I. I remember the music clearly (it sounds a lot like the music for the 80s film Conan: The Barabarian) from when I played it on PC, 2004ish. There are a lot of controls to get used to, but I was getting it. Some actions like moving gear from one character to another I had to figure out on my own, but otherwise it wasn't too painful a learning curve. It helped that I was familiar with the 2nd edition DnD rules that underpin the game. This was the version of DnD I played in the 80s. 

Minecraft: I created my own survival world and searched long and hard across two level 3 maps for villages. I initially gave up and picked a harbor to start my own. Then, in exploring some more, I found two villages. So I will be picking up my stuff next time and moving to one of them.

My idea right now is to build a good survival world that is untainted with creative mode and ready for getting achievements (going into creative mode to basically cheat survival mode disables achievements permanently). Later this year, I'm told, there will be a major update and with that, very likely, some new achievements. I will be ready. 

Hover: Games with Gold freebie that is very much like Jet Set Radio. I played online mode. Others entered but I didn't interact with them much except in one race which I lost. I found traversal pretty good but sometimes annoying. You don't really grab edges, or at least when you try and hit "A" to grab you just jump back and away from the edge. Very annoying, but "A" is for jumping really. There isn't really a grab button. So if you miss a jump by a tiny amount, you just fall, which in a race pretty much ends your run. Otherwise, it's not bad at all. 

Phoenix Point: I stumbled across this looking through games in the Xbox store. It's by guys who worked on XCOM and boy is it. It is exactly XCOM but takes place on a resource drained world with enemy mutations instead of pure aliens. I established my first base and first exploratory mission. I'm loving it so far. 

Lego Indiana Jones II: Back to my all-Lego-games run where I left off. I played through the whole of Raiders of the Lost Ark. There are the next three movies of the series in this collection. After this, I have the Lego Harry Potter games to do. 

Peggle 2: Played some more to get more side missions done on the story levels. There are several achievements for numbers of these done. I'm very close to the 120 side missions achievement. 

Children of Morta: Wow. So I played this before and got fed up with the rogue-like elements, i.e. dying a lot. This time I was more patient and it paid off. You don't really die just get taken out of the dungeon when you lose all your health and have to run it again. You keep your XP, gold and special items, so you get more powerful and get farther each time. Also, more story is revealed to you every time you return to your family home after a defeat, keeping you interested to know more. So I spent a good bit of time with this right up until I had to stop for the weekend. It's a beautiful game that's both retro and incredibly detailed and interesting. I saw a physical copy of this at Gamestop too, so if I continue to like it, I may get that. I wish games like Wargroove and Bomber Squad had physical versions. I love them that much. 

That's a week. Halloween next weekend.