The Duck Dreams of Foxy the Pirate (Sort of), a Dancing Music Man, and Creatures in the Dark

I’ve been having a decent amount of weird dreams lately, but since I couldn’t remember a lot of details from most of them, I thought I’d summarize a bunch of them in today’s post.  The night of January 26, 2024, I had a dream about this little creature that partly seemed like Stitch from Lilo and Stitch and a Youtooz Foxy the Pirate plush from FNAF (no, this post is not sponsored, it just resembled a Youtooz plush specifically).  The Stitch-Foxy had the power to shoot powerful streams of water from its mouth, but while it wasn’t utilizing this power, lots of water would drip from its mouth in a frothy mess.  It was going up this stairwell, spraying people with this water stream and knocking them back.  Eventually, it reached the top and was then using these nails sticking out of the wall as platforms to nimbly cross over to some window or door or something.

Three Siblings Unite in Greak: Memories of Azur

Greak: Memories of Azur tells the story of three Courine siblings who are split up and must reunite after their land has been ravaged by the Urlag invasion.  This 2D Metroidvania-style game features hand-drawn environments, an epic soundtrack with some strong fantasy vibes, and three playable characters, the youngest sibling, Greak, the middle sibling and sister Adara, and their big brother Raydel.

The Duck Dreams of a FNAF Theme Park

The night of February 27, 2024, I had a dream about a Five Nights at Freddy’s theme park that was opening up.  There was a super long line to get in, and I was going to be among the first groups of people to set foot inside.  The line seemed to stretch for miles, and I remember joking with someone that I had literally convinced myself for a moment that we had been waiting in this line for months rather than hours.  The person just blankly stared at me.

Gravity Rush Makes Me Feel Like a Gravity-Defying Superhero

I’ve played plenty of games where your main character can fly or glide to a limited degree.  I had often thought that it would be pretty cool to play a game where you can fly to your heart’s content.  And that game, dear readers, is Gravity Rush, where you play as a girl named Kat who can shift gravity thanks to her magical starry cat Dusty.  In order to do so, you press R1 to float, then press it again to start flying in your desired direction.  Simply tap L1 to change gravity back to normal.  Admittedly, learning to control Kat properly took me the whole game to master, but that didn’t stop it from being fun.

The Duck Dreams of Searching for Carmelita in a Mysterious House

The night of February 5, 2024, I had a dream where Mother Duck and I bought a weird house.  It was very open on the inside, and my room connected to this big red living room via several glass doors.  I was upset with this layout because, in the event of an intruder, I would have a lot of doors to lock.

Fall of Porcupine: Demo Review

Fall of Porcupine follows the story of a new doctor named Finley at the underfunded St. Ursula’s Hospital in the small town of Porcupine, inhabited only by anthropomorphic animals.  The demo took me about 1.5 hours to complete, and in that time, I mainly focused on treating three patients, hanging out with fellow coworkers Karl (a longtime nurse) and Mia (another new doctor), and hiking in the woods with Finley’s florist friend, Pina.  The game is very heavy on dialogue, but is also interspersed with minigames/puzzles, which ranged from fun to horrible.

Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince Playthrough on Virtual Bastion

Trine 4: The Nightmare Thief follows three characters with unique abilities, Amadeus the wizard, Pontius the knight, and Zoya the thief, who are tasked with searching for Prince Selius, who has the frightening ability to create physical manifestations of his nightmares!  I played the demo a while back, so now it’s time to continue from where we left off.  But in case you missed the demo, you can find it below:

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Episode 2:

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Super Mario Bros Wonder Playthrough on Virtual Bastion

Greetings, folks, I totally forgot to mention this sooner, but Cary has been playing the recently released Super Mario Bros Wonder over on our YouTube channel, a wacky 2D platformer where bizarre things happen whenever you collect a Wonder Flower!  Oh, and Bowser’s apparently a castle now?

Video from YouTube User: Virtual Bastion

The Duck Dreams of a Swimming Green Dragon and a Precarious Hiking Path

The night of November 15, 2023, I had a dream where I was on the side of a mountain at night.  There was this pretty spring of water that flowed into a lower pool with stairs leading down alongside it.  I started heading down the stairs to check it out, but then I remembered that I had forgotten my phone and should probably get it in case any creepy people were out at night.  I started trying to hurry up the stairs, but was unable to move very fast.  The sun started to come up, and I started to hear voices in this open, level area at the top of the stairs and hid behind this random table that was there.  It wasn’t long before I realized that it was now morning, and the talking was from people who had come to visit this hiking path.

Lila’s Sky Ark: Demo Review

Lila’s Sky Ark is an open-world game (with exploration similar to old-school Zelda games) with simple, but vibrant pixel graphics where you’re tasked with saving Lila’s “psychedelic” world from the Conductor’s minions.  During my roughly 40 minutes with the demo, I met some quirky characters, like Lila’s robot dad, Doctor Father Sir, a pessimistic monkey, and a grim reaper-type character named Entropy who apparently loves me as it loves “everything that exchanges energy in the universe”.  Um, thanks?.  Even the item descriptions are rather humorous: “Once upon a time, there was…some stuff.  The end.”