Yeah, that’s certainly what make the genre so well-suited to my playing habits, too. (The same is true for THPS: or can pick it up whenever you want, and you’re all but guaranteed to make a bit of progress, beating a goal here or there, or just to have fun.) It’s also why I play significantly more since I got a Switch…

The older (and the dad-ier) I get, the more I think that the “endless game”-thing seems a bit like a wish made on a monkey’s paw. When I was a child, I couldn’t imagine anything better than an endless novel (I thought I had upon finishing “Lord of The Rings”, before I encountered “The Wheel of Time). Now I’m at a…

Funny that ESPN Winter X Games Snowboarding got such bad repp. I didn’t own a PS2 until the PS3 came out, but I played it on PC. Extensively. I think it’s the same phenomenon that repeated itself many years later when Steep came out: Both games were often dismissed by people who were looking for... louder,…

I’d argue that there is an even better reason to have nothing but contempt for that movie: The 1987 NES game that it inspired. That must have been one of the most frustrating experiences I had had up to that point in my life. (I was a child, mind you.) About 5 minutes into the game, you have to land your plane on a…

The lockdown (here in Switzerland) has been a strange experience, pop culture-wise. I mean, I have complaint for years about how streaming services around here are really not great for anybody having a taste a bit more varied than “A smattering of blockbusters that Netflix could liberate from the entagled web of…

There was a mini-sale on the Nintendo Shop two weeks back, and it helped getting closer to the plan I had made for my Switch when I bought it last Christmas: transforming it into the most convenient way to play my library of beloved indie games from the last years. I still have a somewhat uneasy feeling when I’m…

I completely agree. Albeit I was possibly even more mesmerized when watching the opening of Hou’s “Millenium Mambo”. I remember an honest-to-god feeling that what I was observing was the apex of human beauty.

Good question! First of all, I wouldn’t think of it as a “demo”; even though you get a good impression of the artstyle and how the game uses somewhat limited interactivity to tell its story, the mood is different from Night In The Woods proper. Both try to stretch somewhat between a sort of twee quirkiness and…

Normally, I would be playing The Longest Night, the free Night in The Woods-spin off that is actually significantly better than the main game. I very much plan to make playing its 2 or so hours a Winter solstice’s tradition (it’s honestly one of my favourite games of the past few years). But since my PC is temporarily…

PS To be honest, it’s also one of my favourites games of 2018 because it’s one the few games from 2018 that I actually played this year. After my travels in 2017, which put much distance between me and gaming as a hobby, I spent most of 2018 catching up: I saw two main-endings of Nier: Automata, played and finished The…

I liked „Where The Water Tastes Like Wine“ because it’s an exciting scavenger hunt for people who are deeply in love with folklore, made by people deeply in love with folklore.

2018 has been a weird year for me, gaming-wise. The lead already says that 2018 is a rather ‘business-as-usual-ly’ year compared to 2017, so that certainly plays its part. As does the fact that the Gameological Society is what it is post-Kinja — I hadn’t realised just how much sharing my thoughts with this excellent…

I do agree somewhat. I wonder if the best way to do remakes wouldn’t be to treat them like a Director’s Cut, with the original creator(s) on board. The end result would still be a different version and not just ‘the last word on it’ (as are director’s cuts). But by having the original creators decide on what they…

On it’s own, the PS4 is an easy recommendation in this console circle for the reasons Dave laid out. However, one thing that is sadly lacking from it is backwards compability. Microsoft provides that to an ever increasing degree. So, it’s PS4, but if you have XBOX 360 games per chance, the X-Bone might be a reasonable…

I hadn’t heard from the game before I read this comment, but what you’re saying is what I wanted to say, too. It’s especially impressive compared to the Bloodstained trailer above, which does not exactly look cheap, but jarring — as if they had felt an obligation to be more ‘modern’, but had no idea how to make that…

They are slow (make that veeeery slow), but pretty steady, though, aren’t they? There are really no signs pointing to KR0 being vaporware. Rather, it’s a pretty sure bet that they’ll round it up in 2018 (I don’t think they would have gotten that Switch deal otherwise.) Also, with each part being of that quality, the…

Oh, wow, I haven’t logged in into Kinja in so long that I didn’t remember that <i>those</> parentheses are not the way it’s done around here anymore. Sorry for the ugliness of my post — I assure you, it’s only skin-deep, or something like that.

I can’t say that I’m excited for too many of the games on that list (<i>KR0</i>, though!!!), but that’s not on the writers, it’s on me. I didn’t play too many games on 2017, so there are a lot I’m still looking forward too — <i>Nier</i> first among them, and I still have a bunch waiting in my backlog that I…

so many extraordinarily well-aged classics

Oh, it works now with Firefox, too? Thanks for the heads up! I have been waiting for this — I was surprised to find out to what degree I was unable to put up with the new comment system. (That’s why I hardly bothered to log in over the last few months.) Let’s hope that this will bring me back — I actually missed being…