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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 37 – 06/02/22 – 294 Days, 13 Hours, 10 Minutes and 21 Seconds to go…
Day 37 was to be an exciting day. To come within arms reach of the surface yesterday was exhilarating and I was itching to make it all the way outside this time, not to mention finally realising the long term goal of building a bed for Monty. With unfettered access to well and those living…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 36 – 05/02/22 – 304 Days, 23 Hours, 2 Minutes and 35 Seconds to go…
After seemingly two weeks of non-stop annoyance and failed ideas, we had finally overcome both the mushrooms and the darkness, and could continue to explore the upper kingdom. Just how far would we reach? There was only one way to find out… It had been more than a minute since I felt quite so enthused…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 35 – 04/02/22 – 305 Days, 18 Hours and 50 Seconds to go…
After a terribly frustrating day yesterday, I really struggled for enthusiasm on Day 35, almost deciding not to play at all. But just like in the movies, when our hero is feeling down and out -with nowhere to turn- a stroke of pure luck changed everything… I reluctantly picked up my Switch to check in…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 34 – 03/02/22 – 306 Days and 6 Seconds to go…
So, after a three day hiatus from the mountain and my shadey friend, it was finally time to get back to it and see if my plan of leaving Monty in loneliness was successful. Sadly, what I found was more frustrating than the wait itself… Today is the day! I snatched up my Switch and…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 33 – 02/02/22 – Less than 307 Days to go…
Yesterday was the first day I was actually a little thankful of having to leave Monty to his own devices – I had an incredibly busy day at the day job and then things took off at the VGamingNews offices in the evening too! (Keep your eyes here for a tonne of new reviews in…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 32 – 01/02/22 – Less than 308 Days to go…
Another day of leaving Monty on his own again yesterday… and I might have screwed it up by going on autopilot for a minute… 😳 Getting home after work and pulling out my Switch before starting on dinner, I accidentally clicked on The Longing without thinking! I panicked and shut the game down before the…
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Gang Beasts
Have you ever taken two jelly babies out of the packet and smashed them against one-another, acting out a fight between the gelatinous warriors until the loser is sacrificed to eternal slumber in your belly as a punishment for his ineptitude? Of course you have, because it’s an entirely normal thing to do, and in…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 31 – 31/01/22 – Less than 309 Days to go…
Yesterday was the first day in a month that I didn’t check in with Monty and it felt incredibly strange. Obviously there’s nothing at all for me to write about today, except to say that I’m sure hoping that this plan isn’t in vain and that Monty doesn’t get grouchy at being left alone for…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 30 – 30/01/22 – 310 Days, 14 Hours, 17 Minutes and 21 Seconds to go…
As I put my part-baked theory to the test, there was little chance that I could look to achieve much on Day 30. It all hinged on whether Monty had become lonely enough to have become invisible to the darkness, but after just one night alone in the dark, I feared I was jumping the…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 29 – 29/01/22 – 312 Days, 5 Hours, 8 Minutes and 3 Seconds to go…
Day 29 was an incredibly brief affair indeed – another very busy day in real life meant that I couldn’t spend much time with Monty again, but I was beginning to think that that might not have been a bad thing after all… I rejoined Monty and found that he had polished off the book…
