Persona 5 is a great pick. I had the game for two years before getting into it last weekend, and its loop of daily life, obligation, and routine is weirdly comforting right now. Hell, I can even empathize with Joker as he practically feels under quarantine the first twenty hours of the game....

Yeah, I wouldn’t play KRZ high. With a drink or a little edge taken off (even just by playing late at night) works well though!

Hmm, where have I heard that before...

A lot of people in our always-on tech-driven modern world have either forgotten how to wait or never really learned. I’m betting I’m older than most on Kotaku (37) and grew up in a pre-internet (and certainly pre-smartphone) era, when forcible waiting was much more prevalent, where if you were trying to remember what…

I’m in, though certainly on “wimp mode” (lights on, sound a bit low). I really enjoy the mythology of the Amnesia games more than anything else, and this looks like it might scratch that Egyptian/North African horror vibe that *checks notes* Eternal Darkness was the last to do? I’m sure other games covered it, but…

“Oh wow a new FPS, neat!”

<reads it being team-based>

Is... is there actually demand for a touch screen interface for these games? It looks incredibly cumbersome and I can’t imagine using these controls for any game reliant on timing.

Regurgitating Fox talking points is more like it. It’s amazing how well the GOP + Fox have succeeded in arming their viewers the way the PR department of a company arms execs to respond to disparaging news.

I’m so thrilled that Act V is finally here and that it comes out tomorrow. KRZ has been part of a 7 year life journey for me: I moved in with my SO, we got a dog, I got a new job, we got engaged, we got married, I got laid off, we got a cat, I published a book, we moved, I took a new full-time gig...

No thanks. Played through DE and greatly enjoyed it, failures and all, but I see no reason to have even more paths unavailable due to a higher failure rate. The idea of upgrading more quickly is interesting as I wanted to explore some of the “voices” of skills, but this just sounds... unfun.

Ditto. I acknowledge that as a 37-year-old, I absolutely have a fondness for anime from the 80s/90s era, but there is something so (literally) handcrafted about the art that gets me every time I see it (these days usually as part of a MV during karaoke). The “flatter” feel of newer animation makes it feel sterile to…

Interesting. I like thinking of it as a manager -esque game, though as someone who does plenty of management in his day-to-day, that could be part of why I shied away from it...

I still need to pick this up again. Grabbed it for the PS4 a few months ago and was just overwhelmed from the onset and set it back down. I’m not a huge city-builder type, but something about the premise and the style of Frostpunk made me want to get it. I wish it were a little less real time a la Civ 5.

Ahem, no Kentucky Route Zero Act 5 / TV Edition?

Also, this train sometimes eats other trains to gain their power.

Generally I don’t think much about which writers are writing which pieces, but in this case I’ve got to say that Joshua had a number of interesting, stand out articles. The Legend of Mana one, the Vagrant Story one, the Witcher song one, and many others--I’m not sure if he was being assigned these angles or generated…

I’d be curious to hear you explain more because I personally didn’t get that feeling from the Ashray Maze. I’ll say that it is one of the more action-y set pieces so maybe that’s what you mean by the “gamer bro” thing, and I will also say I got hung up in one or two spots which snagged the flow for me, but generally…

I have been checking almost daily for updates on Act 5 since 2017, when Cardboard Computer made some (vague) announcement that KRZ would be wrapping up soon.

36 / 64 = 56%

I gotta say, I’m so glad I gave up Destiny. When I was deep into it, it was life but after taking a hiatus and looking at it with fresh eyes and seeing just byzantine everything was... I realized how much of a full-time job it was to enjoy.