52 FINAL FANTASY - WHISPERWIND COVE, MAGE TOWN

Dear Readers,

It felt good to get back to our airship after leaving Lifespring Grotto. Now it was time to head to Whisperwind Cove.

51 FINAL FANTASY - HIGH HP OMEGA, REACHING LEVEL 99!

Dear Readers,

The remaining boss in Lifespring Grotto was Omega, who seems to be terrifyingly difficult in every Final Fantasy game.

50 FINAL FANTASY - SHINRYU AND ITS SPOILS

Dear Readers,

At the final floor of the Lifespring Grotto, we had a choice between two bosses. Shinryu was the less difficult of the two but it still took long enough.

49 FINAL FANTASY - THE CREEPY LOOKING ATOMOS

Dear Readers,

Somewhere along the way through Lifespring Grotto, we met a mid-dungeon boss. In this case it was the disturbing looking Atomos.

48 FINAL FANTASY - GILGAMESH AND THE MERMAIDS

Dear Readers,

On another floor of the Lifespring Grotto, we met some lovely mermaids! They all lived together on this one floor and were very friendly and chatty.

47 FINAL FANTASY - THE FLOODED VILLAGE

Dear Readers,

Another floor of the Lifespring Grotto was made up of this village, but it was completely flooded and we could only traverse the area by canoe.

1 MAGIC JEWELRY - STACKING BETWEEN TRUMP TOWER AND THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

Dear Readers,

I played a bit of this Columns-like game, which is known as "Jewel Tetris" in the menu of my Mega Joy 2000, which is an NES N64 controller shaped knock-off retro game console I've had since the late 90s.

46 FINAL FANTASY - DISCUSSING PHILOSOPHY WITH SCHOLARS

Dear Readers,

Another cool NPC filled place in the Lifespring Grotto is the library where scholars can be found.

18 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - CURING MORE VILLAGERS, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP AND CHRIS

Dear Readers,

Mop it up as Shy Guy and Chris came to my world to hang out. It had been a while! I continued adding more villagers to our little community.

45 FINAL FANTASY - DARK BAHAMUT'S DRAGON QUOTA

Dear Readers,

In the Lifespring Grotto, we met Dark Bahamut, who gave us a subquest to defeat a certain amount of different types of dragons. We had to do this in order to open the door and progress to the next floor.

1 NEW RALLY-X - CLASSIC NAMCO ON PHONE

Dear Readers,

I decided to play this classic Namco game on my old mobile phone one day while waiting for the bus.

44 FINAL FANTASY - CHATTING WITH DANCING GIRLS

Dear Readers,

There were more fun floors in the Lifespring Grotto where we met dancing girls. They're usually in towns and give you a twirly sprite dance when you speak to them.

1 DUNGEON OF DOOM - MY FIRST RPG!

Dear Readers,

There's more to life than Final Fantasy, so let's talk about the very first RPG I ever played! Before Final Fantasy, Pokémon or Zelda, I played this. I decided to have another go at it recently.

43 FINAL FANTASY - VANISHING TILE CASTLE

Dear Readers,

We came across some interesting floors in Lifespring Grotto. This one was quite different and very taxing!

42 FINAL FANTASY - LIFESPRING GROTTO AND ITS TREASURES

Dear Readers,

With Hellfire Chasm finished off, we pressed on to the next extra dungeon, Lifespring Grotto. For this we had to go back to the regular old sea ship and sail it towards Nerrick's canal, because it was inaccessible otherwise.

41 FINAL FANTASY - SECOND TRIP THROUGH HELLFIRE CHASM

Dear Readers,

There was a second set of bosses for us to fight, so we made another trip through this dungeon.

40 FINAL FANTASY - SCARMIGLIONE AND BARBARICCIA

Dear Readers,

On our first trip through Hellfire Chasm we faced Scarmiglione and Barbariccia as bosses.

39 FINAL FANTASY - A WHOLE NEW WORLD IN HELLFIRE CHASM WITH A NEW AIRSHIP

Dear Readers,

I was surprised and delighted to go to another floor in the extra Hellfire Chasm dungeon to find that it was styled after the world map!

17 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - ANOTHER NETHER ADVENTURE ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

Mop it up as Birdo and I played another session where I focused even more on villagers. We also had another nether adventure.

38 FINAL FANTASY - FINAL FANTASY BECOMES EARTHBOUND! THE NPCS OF HELLFIRE CHASM

Dear Readers,

On one floor of the extra Hellfire Chasm dungeon, there were many non-player characters walking around. It was so weird! It was like something that came out of Moonside!

NBC ELECTORAL COLLEGE USA SIMULATOR 2016 - MOST ADDICTIVE FREE TO PLAY GAME EVER

Dear Readers,

Last night I watched the NBC livestream on YouTube, where they added up projected electoral votes of the US presidential election. Not being American(I'm Irish), I didn't have a vote, so there was no actual gameplay for me, but man it was addictive! It was quite similar to a "Free to play" game.

37 FINAL FANTASY - I WILL NEVER GET USED TO MATOYA'S THEME BEING PLAYED IN A DUNGEON

Dear Readers,

When I think of Matoya's theme, I think of a kindly eccentric witch who lives in a cosy cave with her talking broomsticks. I don't think of a post-game dungeon called Hellfire Chasm!

16 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - NEW NEIGHBOUR VILLAGERS! ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

Been a small while but we're back! Mop it up and I continued the villager restoration project by getting a new neighbour for our butcher!

36 FINAL FANTASY - CONQUERING EARTHGIFT SHRINE

Dear Readers,

The bosses and enemies were quite easy. We were definitely over the recommended level because some of the enemies were running away from us!

35 FINAL FANTASY - RETURN TO EARTHGIFT SHRINE

Dear Readers,

Now for post-game content! We went back to the Earthgift Shrine. The dwarf still recommended against going in. I know we failed last time, but after defeating Chaos there was no stopping us!

34 FINAL FANTASY - FINAL BOSS CHAOS DEFEATED! ENJOYING THE BEAUTIFUL ENDING!

Dear Readers,

The final showdown: Us versus Chaos! In my last playthrough we had some trouble with him, but this time we didn't have nearly as much. Don't get me wrong though, it was still pretty tense and intimidating!

33 FINAL FANTASY - CHAOS SHRINE 2,000 YEARS AGO

Dear Readers,

Chaos Shrine looked a lot more different to us on travelling 2,000 years into the past. It has multiple floors for one thing. On this first floor, there are lots of White Dragons with the troublesome Snowstorm move.

32 FINAL FANTASY - PREPARING FOR CHAOS

Dear Readers,

With all crystals restored, it was now time to prepare for the Chaos Shrine. We travelled around the world, rendezvousing with the sages at Crescent Lake among others.

1 ASTRO WARRIOR - LASER BLASTING THE WAY TO NEBIROS

Dear Readers,

Lots of RPGs and Minecraft lately! Let's play a shmup/stg! I played a bit of this on my SEGA Arcade Gamer Portable.

HALLOWEEN 2016 GOOGLE DOODLE

Dear Readers,

I had a go at this fun little browser game that was on Google's homepage during Halloween. At first I thought it was a nice little cartoon with cute characters, but it's a game too! You play as a kitty wizard who has to wave its wand in specific patterns to stop the ghosts from getting too close. From the looks of things, there are five levels of play. I played with a mouse cursor, but it looks like it was probably made with touchscreens in mind too.