Got to play some more Final Fantasy 7 Remake and some Elden Ring this weekend. I'm really loving FF7R so far, I just completed the game up through the motorcycle part, which was awesome and ridiculous in the best ways. I love how just about every aspect of this game takes the original carefully into consideration. There's a ton of little details that pay tribute to the original, while modernizing things and improving obvious limits that the original had.
As for Elden Ring, still making steady progress. I'm now level 30, and yesterday I beat a Minor Erdtree, which was a really fun fight. Just about every bit of damage I took felt like it was entirely my fault, in that I either got greedy dealing damage, or didn't read the dodge timing correctly. Boss fights where it feels like I am in control like that are the best. I also fought a shadow looking guy in one of the little dungeons after taking out a bunch of skeletons. These little dungeons have been fun, all of the ones I've ran though have been relatively short, and the boss fights are challenging enough but doable. I did find one of those ring looking areas that have Onyx from Pokemon's cousin all over the place, in which you sit on the teleporter and go to a fight. Don't know what those are called, I haven't been looking anything up. I'm sure it's on the map, but didn't pay that much attention. Anyways, this one had a slower moving character that did ice damage. Wasn't doing a ton of damage, but got to the second phase and got destroyed by a crazy ice attack. Decided I'd come back and try again. I'm now in some mine full of Big Bird/Muppet looking horrorshows, but they're pretty easy to kill so I'm going to explore here a bit.
