Games, anime, and a love for the obscure and obsolete.
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Eva style title made with https://kychou.net/eva-title/ THE PREMISE In January of this year, I did a two-part retrospective of 2024, where I pondered the backlog as a wizard ponders their orb and then delved into how the past year had changed my relationship with my hobbies, and the time I spend on them . In the blink of an eye, another year is now coming to a close has come to a close. A big 2025…
GRID 2 ! Resident Evil ! Sound Voltex ! And a return to my casual what-I've-been-playing segment Letely... after a break since June. For those who are new, Letely... is my hobby journal where I talk about what I've been reading or playing recently, with a spin of the experimental to keep myself sharp. It lacks the Evergreen tag that marks my more formal, article-style pieces, and is meant to be…
dying a lot makes you think This morning, I woke up with the urge to play a shmup. My eyes glazed over at the thought of committing the time needed to sharpen my skills again in Astebreed , just to finally get that Normal 1CC I’ve been working toward intermittently for the past two-ish years. I was looking for something with a little less commitment that I could attempt repeatedly in short bursts.…
Wait a minute, I'm not supposed to be here! Comiket 106 , held earlier in August (just a couple weeks ago at the time of writing this intro) marked my first Summer Comiket 「夏コミ」 I had the privilege of attending. It was pure happenstance that I found myself in Tokyo during Comiket weekend, and after a quick stop at Akihabara Animate, I managed to get my mitts on a pair of PM Entry tickets for the…
Engine Braking Edition EVERYTHING IS BUSY THERE EXISTS NO TIME BUT THAT WHICH I CREATE I YEARN FOR SLEEP BUT SOMETIMES I YEARN FOR VIDEO GAMES SLIGHTLY MORE the actual intro: behind the scenes Bubsy: a poetic bookend I'll let you in on a little secret: the Bubsy review in May was intended to be the last major evergreen piece for Better Lete Than Never before the summer work bonanza would eat up my…
This piece is a lighthearted retrospective review of Quest: Fantasy Challenge for Questiversary 2025 , with guest commentary from @quest64official Happy Questiversary! Wait, what? It's June 2025, also known as the advent of another Questiversary! In celebration, commemoration, and hopefully not consternation, I've decided to dive into Quest: Fantasy Challenge , a puzzle-action game set in the…
Without a drop of cynicism, I'm blown away that I can broadcast my thoughts to the internet. 「ハイ ハイ ハロー 調子はどう？」「ユー・アー・リスニング・トゥ・レディオ・ハッピー」 The Ramp-Up Mic check's all done. How's everyone doing? I'm taking the opportunity to experiment with each Letely entry, so if the structure seems a little inconsistent, that's totally intentional. I wanna keep everyone guessing. In retrospect, I might have been…
The Legend of the Steam Locomotive Kids crowd around a boxy CRT TV while the parents chatter inconsequential details in the dining room. All attention is on the Super Nintendo and the spunky bobcat that it powers. Onscreen, the next level "The Good, the Bad and the Woolies" is announced, and a wild-west scene with Bubsy atop a classic steam locomotive caboose fades into view. No one in the room…
when I was a little lete As a young child I remember the first time I was put in front of a chessboard that didn't quite look like the uninterrupted rank-and-file grids of western chess. There were no black-and-white spaces. There was a giant "X" where the King and Queen should have gone. And the King and Queen themselves were also nowhere to be found, replaced with flat, wafer-like pieces with…
Style Change Edition Intro Remember Under the Dog , the 2016 anime OVA by Kinema Citrus? It was a crowd-funded project that resulted in a 30-minute anime pilot and the only thing I remember about it was being devastated that the end product felt so dramatically different from the trailer. The story coincidentally takes place in 2025, which is the current year. This isn't going anywhere, by the…
