Adventures Elsewhere — April 2020

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Adventures Elsewhere collects our reviews, guest posts, articles, and other content we've spread across the Internet recently! See what we've been up in our other projects. :D

KJ

➝ I wrote up an extensive (and spoiler-filled) post on Horizon Zero Dawn, which I finally played last month.

Susan

➝ This month's Lesbrary review is Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell. It's such a fantastic story about loving people who aren't necessarily good for you and the ripple effects that Laura Dean's push and pull has on the protagonist's social circle.

➝ Kodansha was selling the first volumes of most of their series for 99p in April! As that's 270 books, give or take, I was at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books with suggestions for where to start!

➝ Reaction shots!

• The Phantom of the Opera is somehow weirder than I expected and I have so many questions.


• I chatted about Digimon Adventures, Murder by Numbers, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and The Invisible Man — In order that is: my very first fandom, Phoenix Wright but with nonograms, that game where you owe a raccoon a lot of money, and a very well-made two-hour anxiety attack. [Caution warning for the Invisible Man: abuse, stalking, gaslighting, sectioning].


• It's so weird to go back to my initial post on Dragon Quest Builders 2, because I was very confident in my lack of emotional investment! My main frustration with Moonbrooke was that nobody wanted to help me build! And then whoops, turns out that I was incredibly emotionally invested in the amnesiac sealed evil in a can after all. (Spoilers through to the end of Moonbrooke.)


• Fate/Stay Night Heaven's Feel I: Presage Flower is part one of an OVA adaptation of Sakura's route in the Fate/Stay Night game, and is exceptionally "Type-Moon means never having to say you're kidding."


• Final Fantasy VII Remake — It turns out that I have a lot more feelings about this than I anticipated, especially considering that I'm still not sure I didn't dream the whole thing.


• I reached chapter 115 of The Promised Neverland and had to capslock a little bit.