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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • It looks like a lot of the complaining is about how it’s not like Patapon?

    Most of it, but not all of it.

    I played a little bit of the demo and was excited for a Patapon clone but it felt…off?

    My main issues with it:

    • Moving your own character does not really add anything to the game
    • It’s really easy for the music to sound off-beat by narrowly missing the timing
    • The metronome was replaced by a fixed Guitar Hero-like note display
    • There is too much going on at times, mostly due to the more complex art style
    • The beat between enemies and yourself does not match, making it impossible to counter some attacks
    • You cannot cancel the beat by failing on purpose; If you fail, you have to wait until you can input the next command

    I really hope they can improve things but right now I don’t really enjoy it.






  • They went pretty fast with performance improvements after launch and the first major update. There was a larger gap with the last update because they bought their publishing rights back and had to wait for all the legal stuff to settle.

    So far they had one large update which added end-game content and another large update with a major balancing overhaul, which also reset character progress.

    HLTB currently sets the game at 12.5 hours for the main story and 24 hours for main + side quests.

    I’m planning to play it once co-op releases, the game seems to be in a good state and has enough content for me.





  • Balcony solar panels are dirt cheap, you can get them for 200-300€, including the micro inverter. You usually do not have batteries in these setups, you just use up the generated power while it is available by moving things like the dishwasher and dryer to that time.

    To give some actual numbers, I pay 0.22€ per kWh right now. In the last 30 days (Apr 21 - May 20) the balcony solar panels generated 74.11kWh. The month was fairly average with an even mixture of sunny days and rainy days.

    Assuming you can use up the 800W of peak power, you will have saved around 16€ in just those 30 days. I don’t have full data for the year yet since I only got mine a few months back but my current estimation is that it will have paid for itself after 2-4 years.