It can be difficult, but it’s not unfair. I must say that once you get the hang of it it nails the “this game is a joy to play because it flows so well” thing that is incumbent to rhythm games being fun. So you want to keep playing (at least I do; I have 171 hours logged) long enough to get better.

The original game consists of 4 acts with different enemies/aesthetics, the DLC adds a 5th. If you play as the new character, every floor will have one room with 5th act enemies and tiles. Your main cast won’t be seeing those tiles or enemies until they get to act 5 however. There are new items and spells in the…

Played about an hour last night, and while Nocturna is powerful (the weapon she starts with is one of the strongest in the game), I’m sort of unclear on what the benefit of turning into a bat is. You fly, but your attack range is only 1 square and it costs 1/2 heart to change back? Am I missing anything.

Anything crafted by a person (directly or otherwise) will have that person’s notions of “what is normal, acceptable, and desirable” in there somewhere. If you portray anything whatsoever, you’re saying something about it through that portrayal. Even just including something with no intentional commentary on it is…

I’ve been playing a lot of Minesweeper++ mode on Mine of Sight: https://zblip.itch.io/mine-of-sight

My favorite example of “politics are inextricable from games” is how SimCity has very specific ideas (and very American ideas at that) regarding citizen’s feelings towards taxation. You need to provide some reason to not just set the tax rate as high as possible, but that Sim Citizens as far back as 1989 would prefer…

I think insofar as “cheating” has a negative connotation (it’s more loaded than say “exploiting”), it pretty much only applies when there’s some kind of harm being caused to someone. So if it’s a single player game, and whatever you’re doing serves only to enhance your enjoyment of (or minimize your frustration with)…

I don’t know why people feel the need to take a crack at Mass Effect 3's ending every time the series is brought up. Sure, it was controversial, but a lot of us really liked it too (people who like something just don’t tend to throw newsworthy tantrums, though.)

Hmm... not really a fan of “you have 24 hours to watch and once you’re done watching it disappears.” If I start watching a movie and really like it, can I stop midway, and rewind to the beginning so I can invite other people to watch it with me?

Hmm... not really a fan of “you have 24 hours to watch and once you’re done watching it disappears.” If I start…

Fallout 4, in light of its DLC especially, seems less of “dissapointing” and more a game that deserves to be consigned to be quickly forgotten, except in the lessons we can learn from it. As engrossed as people were in it when it first came out, it really didn’t generate much of anything memorable and felt…

Yeah, I get that it’s fine when it makes sense and fits the tone of the work. If something is clearly a romance, then you’d expect it to be steamier than a “band of youngsters travel the kingdom to right wrongs” sort of thing. What’s off-putting is not that there is ostensibly sexy content, but that it’s so…

Personally, I take this sort of thing as a clear signpost that “this is not for you” so I take this is as indication that I should be watching something else where I’m not being actively disinvited. I basically stopped watching anime about 8 or 9 years ago for this reason.

I remember reading the first edition DMG at the age of about 6-7 and coming across the “Harlot Subtable” and concluding, naturally, that a “trull” and a “trollop” are obviously different kinds of trolls, a “streetwalker” was some sort of urban predator, a “saucy tart” was like a street vendor selling pies, a “doxy”…

Unless I missed it, they still haven’t added the ability to block, ignore, or otherwise filter out curators who don’t provide information that the user has deemed useful. I know I would be happy if I never had to see“[Foo] Police”, “Waifu Hunter”, or any of a few gross recidivist nerd icons on Steam ever again.

I feel like the American Experiment has failed. There has never been before as large an electoral gap between every category of people in this country. Urban vs. the Rural, Educated vs. Not, Men vs. Women, Whites vs. PoC, etc.

Realistically either I will be so convinced that I must play this game at the earliest opportunity I don’t even care about reviews, or I’m going to bide my time and read as many opinions that I trust on it that I can and pick it up later when it’s on sale. If I’m content to wait 6-24 months to experience the game, I…

Caring about framerate, resolution, anti-aliasing, and all of those purely mathematical things.

I really wish Steam would take “curation” upon themselves so we didn’t have to rely on various internet mobs to fight it out among themselves.

The problem I have with replaying a lot of these games with choices is that if I know which choice has the best outcome, it’s kind of hard to make the other one. Choices in the first two Mass Effects are actually broken down into numeric values by the third one so you can know, in advance, which is most conducive to…

Well, he’s been a kickstarter stretch goal before, so that might be what is happening here. If it’s a “raise enough money and we’ll hire the writer you all want” then they can’t announce it before the campaign goes live.