The Lore Depository

Your Name. (2016) review

November 23, 2025 | Reading time: ~1 minute

Your Name. is a beautiful film. It starts off as a sort of Freaky Friday situation where the two main characters, a boy, Taki, from Tokyo, and Mtsuha, a girl from a rural village, wake up on random days having switched bodies. It quickly turns into a deeply emotional look at teenage life and that...

Silk Road review

November 22, 2025 | Reading time: 2 minutes

After finishing ilium I needed a palate cleanser, so I went back to what's probably my favorite genre: historical fiction. Colin Falconer and Silk Road have been on my list for a while.

Thoughts on the Ocrtopath Traveler 0 Demo

November 16, 2025 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Earlier this year I played through Octopath Traveler 2 and really enjoyed my time with it. I liked the art style, most of the characters, the fast and strategic battle system, and the actions you could take outside of battles to gain items and skills.

Ultra Hat Dimension

November 10, 2025 | Reading time: ~1 minute

Ultra Hat Dimension is a colorful puzzle game about finding the correct path to get a key to unlock the exist to each room. It's cute, but didn't really grip me.

A Wave of Lights

November 9, 2025 | Reading time: ~1 minute

Cute little VN/kinetic novel about dealing with anxiety, growing up, and finding your way in life.

Anodyne

November 9, 2025 | Reading time: ~1 minute

Anodyne is an indie 2D Zelda-like game that's been around for a while. I remember it getting some hype in the early days of indie games on Steam, and it's been in my library for over a decade, but I've never tried it till now.

About

My name's Mike, and this is the Lore Depository - my spot online where I can write out my thoughts on games, books, tech, movies, and anything else I find interesting.

My biggest project is my Game Library Project. I have a ton of games collected throughout the years, and have barely played any of them. Check out the linked post to learn more about the project, and click here to be taken to the category page where you can see all my posts for the project.

Another project I'm working on is my Pokemon Living Dex Challenge, where I try to obtain one of each available Pokemon and transfer them into Pokemon Home.

Yet another project I'm working on is my Old School RuneScape "Completionist" Quest, where I'm attempting to max out all skills and see everything the game has to offer as a completely new player.

Other content comes mainly in 3 forms:
• Reviews, where I post longer-form review writeups
• Thoughts, short & quick first impressions posts
• Guides, detailed how-tos and walkthroughs

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