Oof. I don't think Overload is on Switch, though there are PS4 and XBOX One ports. Sublevel Zero, however, apparently did make its way over, though. :0
I can't blame you, tbh. Unless a game has a demo or beta of some sort available (or is a Nintendo game tbh), I don't tend to buy at full price too often - and when I do I not infrequently end up regretting it. A lot. Yes, I preordered Cyberpunk. ;_;
(though to be fair I had a better experience than most with regards to bugs and stability)
But yeah, it's worth looking into regardless of the specific timing. Thankfully I don't expect the world to end any time soon. Hopefully.
Two Love Live games, at that! You've got School Idol Festival, which is a pretty straight forward rhythm game, and Allstars which is... more of a rhythm... RPG? At least that's how they describe it. It's newer and looks a lot better, but requires a lot of stat micromanagement in order to get anywhere or do anything. Also only has two lanes which is maybe a little too cut down? >_>;
Personally, I think I prefer Sunshine over the original anime... and I think I've come to appreciate Aquors in general a bit more than µ's overall.
And yeah, there comes a point at which I'm just not able to physically keep up with the endless barrage of notes being flung at me. ;_;
Ugh, no kidding. As much as my forum experiences haven't been the best as of late, overall forums have always been the social medium that I'm most comfortable with, which makes the whole thing slightly awkward... especially given their persistent decline in popularity. Reddit tends to be too impersonal and harshly topical for my taste and I've never really been ethat great at keeping up with chats, which leaves me in a bit on an awkward place, lol.
And that makes a lot of sense tbh. I've ran a couple branch-off forums myself in the past, and there does definitely come a point at times when the tone and tenor of a community bears little resemblance to what it once had. I actually stepped down as an admin at one place that had a few thousand posts per day for that very reason a few years ago for a similar - things had slowly shifted in such a way, both among the community and within the staff that the original spark that had drawn me to the place to begin with had long faded.
West coast reporting in. Northern Oregon, specifically, though I've bounced around a bit and recently returned here from a five year stint in the Seattle region which I was... not... particularly fond of.
And that sounds like a decent enough geographic spread.
On the bright side, your reign over California may well be undisputed if nobody else is over there? Failing that, we could perhaps name you an honorary PNWer.