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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 28 – 28/01/22 – 320 Days, 1 Hour, 4 Minutes and 45 Seconds to go…
While the events of yesterday had shaken me a little, they had certainly injected some excitement into my play after a week or so of struggling with the same old problem. Despite a renewed vigour about my explorations below the mountain, I had a lot of real-world commitments on Day 28, so I thought I’d…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 27 – 27/01/22 – 326 Days, 18 Hours, 8 Minutes and 3 Seconds to go…
With ideas running short and my patience almost entirely depleted, Day 27 felt like a pivotal moment in my time beneath the mountain. Another failure today and I just knew that I’d struggle to muster up the encouragement to keep coming back for more punishment for a while and I might need a break from…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 26 – 26/01/22 – 330 Days, 14 Hours, 51 Minutes and 42 Seconds…
With only one task one my mind and the rest of the kingdom all but forgotten, Day 26 was a pretty black and white day. It would be boom or bust. Success or failure. Win or lose. The entire length of my play session depended on what happened in the [mushroom cave] – I had…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 25 – 25/01/22 – 335 Days, 21 Hours, 43 Minutes and 30 Seconds to go…
Day 25 was a very busy one for real-life Drew, and so I barely had a moment to spare for Monty until really rather late in the evening. As such, I only managed a few short minutes with him, but did get chance to check up on the mushroom trampoline and see how things were…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 24 – 24/01/22 – 343 Days, 21 hours, 45 Minutes and 43 Seconds to go…
Whilst I’m confident that I’m on the right path, Day 24 was not the day that I overcame the sizable hurdle of the [tall ledge]. I still need to show a little more patience before we’re able to clamber our way into exploration, but there was a breakthrough on an entirely different front… one with…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 23 – 23/01/22 – 346 Days, 9 Hours, 47 Minutes and 10 Seconds to go…
Day 23 came with a major breakthrough! Did I see it all the way to fruition? No. But I realised something very important and it steered me to make a decision that I know will pay off and allow me to progress. I only feel stupid for not realising it sooner…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 22 – 22/01/22 – 347 Days, 5 Hours, 49 Minutes and 59 Seconds to go…
I didn’t spend Day 22 how I had expected at all but I made sure to make good use of my time. More and more I’m having my patience tested beneath the mountain, and I realise now (all too late), that I need to have Monty spend more nights at home in order to move…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 21 – 21/01/22 – 347 Days, 10 Hours, 20 Minutes and 22 Seconds to go…
Due to a day spent catching up with friends who I’d planned to see before Christmas but couldn’t due to a COVID scare, Day 21’s write up is a little late. Carrying straight on under here is Day 22 as well, since I have both sessions ‘in the bank’. I had a discovery on Day…
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The Longing-ist Playthrough: Day 20 – 20/01/22 – 349 Days, 8 Hours, 58 Minutes and 45 Seconds to go…
It’s hard to believe that in a play session that saw me start and end in the middle of nowhere, that I could have both a bitter disappointment and a huge vote of confidence. Almost all of my play time was spent walking around with Monty, but when we briefly stood still – oh boy.
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Beat the Backlog

Drew makes a pledge to finally churn through all the Switch games he’s bought and never played – take a look at how he’s doing so far!
