Just set foot in the last(?) Palace in Persona 5, and I’m a tad underwhelmed at the last few developments. The extended exposition dump between the last palace and this one really highlights the clunkiness of P5's expository dialogue — the Bad Guy Plan Recap especially felt almost like a satire of the trope. There was…

I actually ended up liking the teacher a bit by the end, but I struggle to see where the character at the end and the character at the beginning meet. There’s just a whole lot of implausibility around that whole storyline.

NA is a great game to play with a little one. Not that challenging, you bypass the AI issue, and you all learn a little!

I’ve been most whole-hogging Persona 5 this week, and managed to make it to the sixth palace. I like to bump up my social links ‘til there’s about a week left, so I’m back in the real world grinding that.

I like that the plot is finally coalescing into something with real momentum — the school festival was pretty…

Not on Spotify.. dammit! That makes it much harder to enjoy on the run.

Well, since I was already listening to Ben Folds and “Paper Bag”, methinks I should check out these Joanna and Vince peoples.

Well, since I was already listening to Ben Folds and “Paper Bag”, methinks I should check out these Joanna and Vince peoples.

Any connoisseur of gaming owes it to themselves to try RE7 in VR. It’s an experience you simply can’t get anywhere else. People think it’s just “Oh, so it’s the 2D version but the TV is up close.” No. It’s more akin to the experience of being in a haunted house where a real woman jumps on you and tries to stab you to…

I advise you to try Resident Evil 7 in VR. Like the fan of spicy food who is finally able to taste the amount of spice that satisfies him without being over the top, that game should provide just the right amount of rapid heart rate, sweats, and taking a breather to steel oneself for walking through a dark doorway.

A later, CD-ROM era homage from an unrelated company. It certainly nails the style, however!

That’s NOT the right way to play? Huh.

Despite as many protests as I can offer to perhaps play Hyrule Warriors or Paper Mario: Color Splash, my son insists on doing the most random things in Smash Brothers whenever possible. Levelling Amiibos up to 50 and pitting them against each other to see ‘who’s strongest’ (surprisingly, the AI is fairly consistent in…

Totally worth it. It certainly does seem overwhelming at that point.. you just have to keep in mind, if the puzzle is simple and there are a lot of them about, then you don’t need outside knowledge to figure it out. So don’t be afraid to ponder it awhile and just walk to another section for a breather if you still…

The old one is the only ‘official’ LucasArts one, but has a small bit of old-school adventure game puzzle design in it.

The modern Telltale ones are all worth playing, IMO, and have reasonable puzzles, but the amount of polish grows strongly with each season. The first one has a couple of dud ‘episodes’, the second has…

Yeah, I think most people ‘nope’ right out before they even get to the dinner scene when it comes to VR, which has really hurt the ability for it to be VR’s ‘killer app’. Frankly, even having beaten the game three times or so, that pre-dinner scene is still pretty stressful.. you never get over someone being in your…

I’m pushing through for now, although I admit my completionism gives me a higher tolerance than most. I always end up liking the Persona games in retrospect, but each one could definitely do with some editing. There are always major, lazy portions to push through between really engaging parts.

I agree exactly with the…

Luckily, the anxiety in RE7 trends steadily downwards as you progress. It never fully goes away, but you get comfortable with enemies and weapons and tactics and gain confidence. Playing the first half or so in VR was probably the most intense gaming experience of my life, but in the second half I was able to relax…

I started WoL but the game seemed pretty basic by the time I got out of the first town, so I’m surprised at you saying it was ‘surprisingly deep’. Do the systems get appreciably more complex as you go on?

Adventure-game-wise, Sam & Max is always a treat.. both the original and the recent new entries were well done. Ditto for pretty much anything Monkey Island.

I actually got a free code for Fractured But Whole, and am looking forward to playing it if I can. I have a fairly new integrated graphics chip which SHOULD work, but apparently atm the PC port is pretty rough with the frame rate even for recommended specs, so I’m waiting around for a patch before I give it a spin.…