Finished Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown. Overall, IMO, it occupies the same space the series did: mostly good, if a bit uneven at times.

For a Choices Matter VN, I'd give it 8/10. The quests are short, but they do a pretty good job of customizing the later choices based on your earlier ones.

For Voyager rep, I'd go 9/10. I'd have loved more voice work, and content for a few more specific episodes, but what's there is good. The writers did a particularly admirable (ha!) job of capturing Janeway — I never felt frustrated or railroaded by her choices.

For gameplay, I'd say more like 5/10. Even on Story Mode, the resource management got a bit annoying. A small handful of the quests were very poorly designed. And the save system is ... not great.

That poor save management means I wouldn't go for the platinum trophy, but I enjoyed my playthrough. And it's expensive for what you get. But overall it's decent.

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I've been playing through Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown and it's ... not awful?

It is, to be brutally honest, just a high-budget VN (Visual Novel). The UX is a little sketch here and there. The characters have that same uncanny valley white-label feel of the Avengers game which flopped a few years back. The economics are mildly annoying. It's expensive for what you get.

But overall, it feels like Voyager. Or, at least, a love letter from some hard-core Voyager fans. So if you don't mind a little fanon with your canon, you could do worse.

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Finally got my hands on a copy of the Wingspan Americas expansion and it's so much fun. Definitely a brain teaser at the beginning because there are so many moving parts, but the hummingbirds are both powerful and flexible. I even logged a personal best on our second game!

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Finished Pokémon Legends: Arceus (to Cresselia we kneel) and defrosted the freezer. And it's still only 10 in the morning!  

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My track record of keeping up with social networks is getting worse and worse...

Anyway, I started playing #SakuraWars 2! Happy to hang out with this lovely cast again, even though Soletta's "Italian" accent is killing me.

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After a no-fun morning of job hunting, I took a gaming break to reset. It really helped!

I played through I Want To Fly by Raharabin: https://raharabin.itch.io/i-want-to-fly

It's a sweet story about a young woman with social anxiety and ADHD who dreams of flying gliders. Takes about 90 minutes to read through and is just heartwarming.

Also available on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1489810/I_Want_to_Fly/ (Despite the "unknown compatibility" warning, it played just fine on my SteamDeck.)

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Halfway through #ValkyrieProfile and so far it's living up the high expectations. First chapter or so was a little touch and go, but once things click into place, they click hard.

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Spent an hour on, like, figuring out what to do at the second #ValkyrieProfile boss. It was clear I needed bows but had none and the short bow I supposedly found earlier was gone (broken?). In the end I found the menu option Divine Item allows you to craft gear at a save point. This was exhausting, lol.

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