escapades of the elusive kat

Sooooo, I got off work after lunch and will "resume" opening on Thursday. Had to get off work early today because my dog Max has diarrhea for the second day in a row. We usually let it run its course when we first see diarrhea and if after a full 24 hours the dog is still on it then we are properly worried. And now it's 48 hours of that too!

Blood test and all and nothing too bad. He has some borderline things, has some things on the low side, but nothing life threatening. Considerably a beautiful blood test result for a 14 year old dog. So, it's the food. Wonder what he ate to give him his bad tummy.

I was trying to finish reading my current book over lunch today but.... I just can't.... this book I'm reading, I just can't get into it. I'm trying not to give it up because I don't want to start the year with a "given up book" so I'm trying to finish it. I chose this book simply because I saw on one of my Goodreads groups that this was their book for January... but... I really can't get immersed in it. I've managed to go over 50% of it, so I will try to finish it. I have the next 5 days off. I should be able to find some time to read it. (I'm also trying to to hook my kindle online because this is a library book that has already been "returned" but because I've kept my kindle offline, I can still read it)

There's also this new (for a while) game on my phone that I've been playing for over a month. Octopath Traveller. I played on the Switch before, so now that it's on the iOS I've migrated... but essentially it's 2 different games... but I managed to gacha draw my favorite character H'aanti, yay!



After dinner and dog walk today, I plan to go have a dander at the "Flower market." These flower markets are only up the week before Chinese New Year and will finish at midnight tomorrow. Usually they sell orchids and those red papers (talismans? Banners?) I don't plan to buy any more flowers (my orchid is sprouting a stem that would flower!) but I wanted to see if there's any new colors out there.

This game totally is a time waster and I've wasted a whole week with it LOL. How can you not love this game? Look at the conversation:

Sahara is simply confident that you will like her wares. Though, in truth, I didn't, LOL. But Sahara will take your money payment.

Timmy and Tommy here talk about their "Fearless Leader" Tom Nook and I just think he is such a capitalist overlord LOL. He forces you to take loans to build a bigger house, even if you say no he will just say it's good and whatnot.... LOL and when they go "Our Fearless Leader" I just think of Kim Jong-Un hahaha
This would have been such a good game to have during my 2-week quarantine back in February, as I could have met up with friends in-game.
There's basically a lot to do everyday. I think the season is going to change in-game on 1-April, so in the online communities they are all raving about having to try to catch all the fish in season, or else wait till December when they spawn again. But I'm just a take-it-easy gungho type of playing right now. I got my doggies on my wall!
Also went out to look at shooting stars. Still couldn't figure out how to "wish" upon a star to gain star fragments.
I forsee that I'm going to waste a good part of April on this game as well... at least until the full game Trial of Mana comes out on 20-something April. Then I'll be playing that game LOL.

Oh oh oh, allow me to geek out a bit! I just saw that they are FINALLY releasing a remake of Seiken Densetsu 3 on the Nintendo Switch! There's supposedly another video with the gameplay, and I'm inclined to think the gameplay in 3D will probably suck (as in lag or have too many animation scenes), however, just for the nostalgic factor, I am geeking out so much! Yippity yay! My dream team is Reize, Hawkeye and Angela, but I always choose Charlotte because for the last character because then you can get her earlier.

And the soundtrack! It brings all those memories back...

As a kid, I took forever to beat this game because
1. Didn't know any Japanese
2. We were only ever allowed to bring the game console out during the summer holidays. Not even on Christmas break! Only during summer holidays. During school time, all gaming consoles had to be locked up. (I say "all gaming consoles... we only had one LOL)
3. Always got stuck in one particular point. Only after a few years that I got through that point (had to wait till night time to go into the black market)

Right... so later this month there's Animal Crossing coming out... and then end of April it's Trials of Mana (can't get this name to stick... it's still Seiken Densetsu 3 to me). Hopefully they will stop at that. I've finally whittled down my earthly possessions so I don't want to just start hoarding stuff again! And I need to budget my time as well!

(now if somewhere somehow they do a Shadow Hearts remake................ too early for that I guess)

I can see myself devoting my life's next 60 hours or so just for this... then it's life back to normal...

I normally wouldn't post games from the Japan iTunes store (when I just did that with Dandy Dungeon LOL, but hey, it's got an international release already!), but I had a bit of time, and I wanted to be more active around here, so... Here's an iOS game. Not a review. Not a walkthrough. Just to tell you how I'm wasting my time lately.

This is Kamitsuri 神つり, God Fishing, or something like that. Here, the official Square Enix page on it.


Well, to put it simply, this is one of those "connect the same colored gemstones to make an attack" sort of puzzle game. Think Tower of Saviors.

To be honest, I'm not sure of the actual story behind it. Too lazy to watch the opening clip. Too lazy to read and decipher all that Japanese. But hey, at least I understood enough, it's set in medieval Japan, with characters pertaining to Japanese spirits and characters (like, the standard Samurai, Ninjas, or spirits like the fox lady, etc, etc....). The artwork is decent, and the OST is great. I love the music in it.
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I think I'm getting better with the games thing as I've slowly trimmed down the games I have on my phone, haha. This time I found something fun! Again, there's no pressure or commitment to this game.


The intro story to this game really had me laughing so much, the whole game seems to just revolve around the cliche of "The Princess gets kidnapped... (again and again and again....)

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Kind of feels like the Princess actually enjoys being kidnapped, LOL

After I went to that Distant Worlds concert in Macau, I felt the sudden rush of all Final Fantasy hoo-haas, so I went to the app store to see what they've got. I know I had previously bought the FF1 and FF2 iOS games (then got stuck somewhere again and forgot about it), and thought I could start playing again.

Instead, I found this!


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Another time waster game, it's good to have to kill time (because honestly, if all you are playing are the 2 default songs, you'd get bored very very soon), like to slip in while waiting for something (I don't know, bank queue? doctor appointment?) I suppose as long as I don't splurge and buy a new music piece then it should be good.

This game I'm wasting my time with has a little more point and target and story than the Kleptocats I wrote about before.

Crusaders' Quest


The graphics are really cute, retro-y like the old 8- or 16- bit RPG games I used to play on the SNES before, and the gameplay is simple enough.

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