What's New - Vol. 3

The information here is probably useless, as it is created to help me orgnaize my ideas. However, I would be very glad if it helps someone.

I was buried into games recently. With the help of games, my mind is clearer. Messy thoughts are removed by gaming. It's a good time to go back to the normal life again.

Games

Black Myth: Wukong

As mentioned in the previous post, Black Myth: Wukong released. As a game full of Chinese culture, it was very popular within Chinese. However, as for my personal gaming experience, at least for the first three chapters of the game, it was not good. There are lots of invisible walls in the game scenes. Players are not able to distinguish whether there are pathways or not. The highlight of the game is the art and the boss fight. However, I was not quite interested in these parts. Overall, the game is normal from my perspective.

Splatoon 3

Splatoon 3 launched its final festival. I am a big fan of Splatoon 2. Thus, I was very excited about the event. However, to be honest, I was kind of disappointed. The map of festival scene is great, but the scene of the turf mode is not interesting. I may not purchase Splatoon 4 if the design doesn't get improved.

Metaphor: ReFantazio

It is a new video game released by Atlus, produced by the members who created Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5. I was quite excited about it. There is a demo available now.

However, as my experience of the demo, the game is not as funny as Persona 5. The characters are not as cool as those in Persona 5. And compared to fantasy world, I am more interested in capus life. The story in the beginning is normal. I am not sure how it will develop, but hope it will be interesting.

The metacritic rating is still not revealed yet.

ATRI: My Dear Moments

Emmmmmm, quite normal. The story is stereotypical, and not interesting. It is a story about the relationship between human and robots. So it is easy to get to know that one important topic is whether robots have their own emotion. However, the storytelling is bad. The progress of robots getting their mind is a bit blunt. I don't receommend this visual novel.

Dungeon Village 2

It is a simulation game. Players will act as a cheif of a village, and they need to support adventurers to hunt monsters. The game play is funny. Players build innes, equipment stores, and other entertainment facilities, and then gain $$ from adventurers.

The biggest drawback is that, with the village develops, there will be more and more pop-up windows, which is very disturbing.

I will recommend it to everyone who has nothing to do during travelling. It can be played in mobile phones.

Monster Hunter: World

I was buried into it a lot of time. The experience is very good, except for the end game part. The design of last two monsters, Alatreon, and Fatalis, is terrible. The shot damage and element weakness damaga is quite bad. As a bow hunter, I felt quite uncomfortable. Thus I quitted in the end.

However, I am still looking forward to the next game, Monster Hunter: Wilds, which is about to release next year. The gameplay of bow changes a lot. I hope it is a good change.

Market

The China stock market looks good recently. It surged drastically last week. My dad became irrational and wanted to put lots of money into it. It was a very dangerous behavior.

It is hard to ignore the temptation of a possible gain putting money into surging stocks. However, it is risky. Though the gov announced lots of policies to secure the stock market, the fundamentals of the economy didn't change a lot. The unemployment rate is still high and people don't have enough income to consume.

The happy ending will be that, with the prices of stocks rise, people in China become positive of their future and spend more money. Then the economy goes into a good loop. However, if gov doesn't release stronger policies, I don't think FDI will increase. The surging will not persist for a long period.

Bad ending is more likely to happen if no stronger policies release. Surging doesn't persist, and individual investors in China, will get injured again and don't dare to spend money again. The economy will continue its bad loop.

I hope there will be a better signal for me to put money into China market.