Lately, my husband's sleeping schedule has gotten even wackier than usual, and he's been sleeping when I'd normally be playing Ogre Battle on the PlayStation hooked up to the CRT we have in our bedroom. Rather than going to the trouble of moving the PlayStation to a different CRT, I decided to just take a break from that and get back to my Switch. Honestly, I've been pretty eager to finish off Ogre Battle and do that anyway. Besides, my mom is going to visit soon, staying with us for most of February, and I wasn't planning on playing in our bedroom then either. And at the rate I've been moving through Ogre Battle, I didn't expect to have it beat before her arrival. So maybe in March I'll have it licked. Not that I'm saying I'm not going to touch it until then.
Maybe I'm an oddball, but I'm actually really excited about this Virtual Boy stuff Nintendo is doing on Switch. I already have a real Virtual Boy, but I don't see myself ever acquiring the outrageously expensive titles. With a good number of the expensive titles planned to be available via Switch Online, with an accessory that will hopefully offer an authentic experience, unlike, say, emulating with no 3D effect, I went ahead and signed up for a yearly membership a little over a month ago when the accessories first went on sale (as a Switch Online membership is required to make a purchase). I'll upgrade to the Expansion version when the Virtual Boy games I want to play are actually up, but in the meantime, I figured I should actually make use of this membership. So I installed the Game Boy player and played a little bit of Tetris and the first stage of Castlevania Legends, just to get a feel for it with games I'm already very familiar with. Even without a proper D-pad, it didn't feel too bad. I'd like to eventually get the Switch Online NES controllers and/or SNES controller, but of course, with Nintendo's artificial scarcity tactics, neither are in stock at the moment, and they supposedly sell out quickly whenever they are restocked. I did buy my daughter a Hori controller that has a D-pad, but that only works with the system when docked, and I'm not at all interested in playing Game Boy games that way.
Other than that, I also started up an otome visual novel called Romance MD: Always On Call (cheesy title, but that's never stopped me before, haha). This is my first time playing anything from Voltage, even though they're a major player in the genre. It's certainly lower budget than stuff from Otomate and what have you. No voice acting, meh art, etc., but if the story is good, it's fine. Some of the best visual novels ever made have lousy art because the developer excelled way more in writing than other areas. Meanwhile, there are others that look gorgeous but are dull to read. I'd certainly take the former over the latter. Of all the Voltage games that were ported from mobile to Switch, this is rated highest on VNDB, so hopefully I'll enjoy it well enough.
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