Christmas Plans and Mobile Games

[fh14]

So a few days before I decided to suffer through seeing Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, I decided on a whim to try playing the mobile game Hogwarts Mystery again. I tried playing it when it first came out but I got bored pretty fast. This time, however, I've become pretty addicted. Though I am pleased to say that so far I've only spent $10 in mirco-transactions (and one $5 was so I could finish this limited time event that I left until the last minute).

I did too good a job designing my character though, because he every time he smiles he looks like he's about to burst into tears lmao. I'm actually surpised at how much I like the more-or-less paint-by-numbers mobile gameplay and the storyline. I'm only a little bit into year 2 so I'm early days, and I'm excited to meet a whole bunch of characters that other people who play the game really seem to like.

The reason I'm up so late is I just got finished hosting a Christmas party and I had a really good time! There were a couple of friends I hadn't seen in months. It felt like it went by really fast this year though, which is a bummer.

Tomorrow I have to clean and start getting ready for wellfourthings to come and crash on my couch for a week, during which we're going to go see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child over the course of two nights. I'm super excited!

(As an unrelated note, at some point I need to figure out how to reformat the tag page on this blog because I really don't like the one I currently have. ;_;)

Comments

[aeslis]

Oho, the movie's not good? I haven't heard much talk about it, but I'm not particularly interested in going to see it, I must confess.

Also, love your Spice+Wolf icon!

[fh14]

Yeah, the movie is pretty bad. They've discarded some of the previously established continuity, and a lot of the writing seems very hack-y and inconsequential. It's unfortunate.

And thanks! I managed to snag this from an old LJ comm before photobucket decided to stamp its watermark on everything.

[aeslis]

*shakes fist at Photobucket* Why is the internet this way. Why.

Although thankfully, I suppose, I have backups of all the icons I made once upon a time.

Too bad about the movie. I think it would've been smarter to just make one movie, instead of turning it into so many. But hey, what do I know.

[arenee1999]

I've been playing Hogwarts Mystery since the last round of beta testing. There are many things I don't like about the game, but I'm on 4th year now and am determined to see it through.

Crimes of Grindelwald is going to be the first HP movie I won't get to see in theaters, and it's making me sad.

[fh14]

Honestly, good call with the movie. It's really not worth the money, and if you do watch it its better to do it in your living room with a stiff drink to cushion the blow of JKR's narrative sins.

I was never really expecting anything groundbreaking with Hogwarts Mystery so the fact that they managed to make it somewhat coherent with any sense of continuity is enough for me. I am but a simple man living a post-Crime of Grindelwald existance.

[wellfourthings]

This is maybe the most I've ever seen you dislike a single movie, and aren't there going to be like three more? Did they ruin a whole series at once?

[fh14]

Yeah.

Like there are some things they could fix if they retcon/re-contextualize certain things in a very specific things but Crimes of Grindelwald is straight up one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my entire life and I'd be stunned if they managed to dig their way out of this hole.

And the movie is not gonna make it's budget back domestically, so I'd be surprised if Warner Brothers moves forward with the five-film plan unchanged. My hope is that at the very least they'll fire David Yates.

[wellfourthings]

Did it retroactively ruin the first one, too, or can we watch that? 'Cause I've still never seen it.

[fh14]

It retroactively ruins a couple of aspects of the first one, but overall it's still relatively as okay a movie as it was before.

[wellfourthings]

This is really interfering with my efforts to keep the Harry Potter theme alive throughout the week.

[quantumcupcakes]

I was always really sceptical about how they were going to do Fantastic Beasts movies. I adored the first one and I wanted to like Crimes Of Grindlewald but it just fell flat. Very disappointing and I'm almost hoping they don't make more

[fh14]

I mean, they probably will make more because it did well internationally (but it's not gonna make its budget back domestically whomp whomp). My guess is that there will be some major retooling behind the scenes like what happened with the DCEU, and hopefully it'll result in change for the better.