After reading the news about Destiny of Spirits, I feel like a small part of me just died.
I've been playing this game for over a year now and it was by far the most addictive game I've ever played. I would wake up in the morning and no matter how tired I was, it would take me 5 seconds at most to wake up and to start playing this game. It wasn't because it was so amazing, but because you could only fight a raid boss 5 times and needed to defeat x raid bosses in x days to get x reward. So, I basically spent every hour that I was not asleep or at work, playing this game as long as I was allowed to fight raid bosses or my spirits/creatures were not recovering.
I owe a great deal to this game for getting me through my PhD, giving me the motivation to wake up, and for being such a huge part of my life for a little over a year. Whenever I wanted to have an actual short- 2minute break, I could always fight as spirit and rest my brain for a bit. It was the thing I would play every day when I was in bed till I'd fall asleep.
I ended up clocking 2099 hours after just a year of playing and, as I mentioned before, I like short/8-hour-at-most games. So I have no idea how this game won me over. It is almost the only game I played since last March.
Which brings me to my next point. This game ending in a few months is really bad for many gamers and especially the developers, but for me, in a way, it could be a blessing in disguise. I had tons of fun and I didn't feel like playing anything else. Now I'll get to experience many games that I bought over the years, yes including Persona 4 Golden, which grew on me the last couple of times I played it.
Still have this weird pain in my stomach after coming back from work, turning it on and reading the message the sent us. I hope this feeling goes away, because right now it sucks more than words can describe.
