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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
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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