As we wrap up 2024, let's explore some of South of Midnight's regions—inspired directly by real Southern locale—that you'll be visiting in 2025 🧵:

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Once a boisterous hub for hardwood lumber production, the old Sawmill lies amongst the tall pines of the forested mountainside, seemingly deserted and frozen in time.

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Dark, dank, and desolate, the Abysmal Swamp is home to some unique and hazardous plant life, along with other hidden secrets..

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Nestled at the base of the mountain sits the Bucolic Hills, a lush, pastoral landscape boasting vibrant greenery and a picturesque Victorian summer home.

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Welcome to the Town on the Tapestry, where fantasy and illusion meets desire and truth in this eclectic yet mysterious ward that rests at the ends of reality.

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Through the powerful winds and perilous cliffs of the mountain passage hides The Holler, an isolated community that lives in the shadow of the Witch's Nose atop the mountain's peak.

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If you make your way through the waters of the bayou and around the tall cypress trees, you'll find the Abandoned Cajun community, a series of deserted and dilapidated treehouses and swamp shacks long forgotten by time.

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The Flooded Countryside was once a peaceful farmland landscape, boasting various agricultural industries and a small rural community. But ever since the hurricane ripped through Prospero, the land has been engulfed in dangerous floodwaters filled with debris, toxic sewage, and industrial runoff.

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To be fair, it takes multiple hours to be able to unlock the first achievement in Genshin Impact and it's not even story related so compared to other games, the player count should be way waaaay higher.

Definitely. The game has been holding in the top 40 most played games on Xbox's US rankings since the port released in November, and I suspect it's higher on many other countries' rankings. Alot of the genshin playerbase on all platforms is casual, and casual players don't tend to make TA accounts. It has been estimated by multiple 3rd party trackers that Genshin has 10m+ daily active players across all platforms and regions. 

All in all, I think it was a successful port by Mihoyo, and I fully expect them to bring over their other games like Honkai Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero in the future. Sony's timed exclusivity deal on Honkai still hasn't expired (a Honkai PS trailer from 2 weeks ago had the timed console exclusive text on it), but Zenless was only a 6th month timed console hat by Sony, and 6 months ends tomorrow I believe, so Mihoyo can port it to Xbox whenever they feel like it now.

Completed Crypt of the Serpent King and I enjoyed it more than I expected for a 1€ game. A sequel could be great.

Also completed Indiana Jones, really enjoyed my time with it bit surprising considering I don't care about the Indiana Jones movies.  Just update it a few times for the bug issues (they can be very annoying) and you have a great game :)

My PS5 is envious. It only has a 1TB SSD stick I put in a couple years ago but today my Series X gets a 2TB card. My Xbox had almost run out of space.

MS rewards is so bad now, it constantly pings me as unusual activity for simply reading news like they want me too... they need to adjust their anti-cheat bot or something.