Ha, well obviously you got a lot of mileage out of your Switch before you moved on in life. Don’t feel bad for your opinion!

To tell you the truth, I felt a definite pang of doubt right after ordering it— console + extra controller + 3 games is a damn lot of money, and do my kids REALLY need more video game time…

I seem to be falling into the same trap that my esteemed colleague Wolfman Jew has mentioned here recently: I’m writing so much (in my case, translating) about video games that I don’t seem to have much time to play:
- Translating the usual slow-but-steady flow of new texts for the French MMORPGs Dofus and Wakfu.

Overall, Wes Anderson is probably too twee for this world, but for this type of animation (I loved The Fantastic Mr. Fox), his style works pretty darn well. Also, that cast list at the end of the trailer is genuinely drool-inducing.

Thanks, man! I hope you like it. I did go back to it recently (I have a physical copy), and... well, it’s always weird to read over my old translations. I can’t really judge my own work too well— I tend to be hypercritical of it— but the source material was a bit rocky in certain places. So far the second book seems…

There is absolutely no doubt (well, for me at least) that it takes a certain number of hours to build up the familiarity with the world to get you to that tipping point. As I mentioned in the Game Revue Club thread, it took me twice as long as your playtime so far to chalk up a single win. So if you haven’t got the…

So how is Crypt of the NecroDancer going?

Should be a good weekend for all things video games (although I will also be busy translating volume 2 of the Legend of Zelda book I told y’all about last year— the publisher, Third Éditions, put out a whole new book just for Breath of the Wild). Here’s what’s on tap:

Ha, I am actually just about to get back to Into the Breach after a break. It’s our discussion game for Game Revue Club v. 57 on Steam, so come on over and share your thoughts if you like. I am obsessed with some other games at the moment, but I still feel the urge to keep trying this same Vek-stomping challenge again…

Thanks! So far my new attempt is going well— I feel more familiar with the game and am playing more often and for longer sessions. This time, I am really focusing on breadth rather than depth at first— just slowly, slowly getting ready for the end game with as much foresight as possible. So, every time some…

For sure— I definitely went into Papers Please with an attitude of, “A bureaucracy simulator can’t possibly be any good except in some weird ironic way, but people say it’s cool so what the hell, this will be silly.” And it turned out that the contrast between the apparent dull meaninglessness of the task, and the…

As far as what I’m actually playing this weekend (aside from more Into the Breach, of course):

What Have You Finished This Week?

I really enjoyed Night in the Woods too. I thought it was going to be just a low-key story about Mae trying to find her footing and return to old friendships in a decaying Rust Belt town, which of course it also was, but I (somehow) had no idea going in that it was going to explore so many issues of mental health and…

Cool, Celeste has been gradually migrating towards the top of my wishlist for “Games of 2018 to check out ASAP even though I am not even 20% of the way through my backlog”. Right after Into the Breach, of course.

Yeah, I am definitely South Park’d out for now, but it was a fun experience, and it would be interesting to see some improvements in the combat. I’ll consider the sequel for a while from now when that price comes down... significantly.

Oof, it didn’t look much like my kind of game anyway but I’m glad I skipped past it in my Steam queue. Bummer.

Ha, sweet. A little distracting gunfire down below, then... GRENADE PARTY. Congrats.

I haven’t gotten too far in Crypt of the NecroDancer, but if I can offer one piece of advice, it’s this: Use the practice area! I forget what it’s called, or whether it needs to be “unlocked” (but even if so, you get it pretty fast), but it’s a room in the hub where you can pick any enemy that you have seen so far and…

What Have You Finished This Week?

My ongoing efforts to defeat my vast backlog are on hold this weekend as I dive Into the Breach (like almost everyone else on my Steam friends list, apparently). I didn’t realize how eagerly I was waiting for this game until I suddenly looked up on Monday morning and saw it was becoming available the next day. I…