What a week it’s been. Again.

I recently bought Control on sale and was super enthusiastic to start it. The brutalist architecture aesthetic and Twin Peaks-y discomfiting, but clinical supernaturalism really spoke my language.

I’m still trying to fulfill my quarantine pledge of playing every game in my backlog for at least 5 minutes. It’s not gone super well, partially because I’m still heavily distracted by our local gaming groups private Minecraft server. I know son_limey played that game to death 5 or so years back and I never understood…

Finished off MGS4 last week. Someone much cleverer and better at writing than me could probably do a thinkpiece about how it demonstrates the difference between story and plot, due to it having a great story but a plot that’s completely incomprehensible. Like, was it Liquid’s plan all along to destroy the Patriots…

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I’ve been dipping into a lot of things. Notably I broke out the Wii U and played a bit of Breath of the Wild. I’ve made some progress in the Gerudo desert and managed to solve a couple shrines while I was out there. Just still awesome.

Still going through Nioh 2 at a leisurely pace. I’ve just passed the midway point in story missions. And to my surprise, I even experienced a touching moment. The story and characters are non-existant so that one scene was a nice surprise (Oda Nobunaga of course). I do love the faux-history in Nioh 2. That one battle…

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Jumping between Persona 5 Royal, Animal Crossing, and FFVII this weekend. So far just a few hours in FFVII is INCREDIBLE. I really hope FF16 feels this huge and imaginative. It’s made with so much love for the original too.

I’ll be keeping my head down and ignoring this for the next few months, at least until PS5 or it comes to PC. A couple of years ago I chased the $199 PS4 Spider-Man bundle to the ends of the earth and ended up getting an Xbox One with a Gamepass deal. I couldn’t be happier with the value I’ve gotten out of it,…

A few months late to the party, I’m playing through AI: The Somnium Files. It’s such a fascinatingly weird game, full of jarring tonal shifts and very contrived plot elements, but also boasting some truly incredible twists and written with a dose of sincerity that keeps the experience from feeling luridly…

I never actually got into the original Plutonia- it seemed the difficulty was really jammed up from the start (you run into chaingunners and Revenants and Mancubi on like the first map) and ammo was a problem, and playing it on even the lowest difficulty didn’t seem to do much. 

I picked up Fire Emblem: Three Houses. I’d never played a Fire Emblem game but wanted to get into something strategic and turn based, and so far it’s interesting. So far the game is as much about running little sidequests and talking to all students and so on as it is about combat, but I enjoy both parts. I’m running…

I figure I’ll eventually play FF7R, when it’s on something else. I can’t quite justify a new console purchase just now. It’s not like most games I’m avoiding, where I’m try to do a media blackout so I can be surprised by the plot. It’s more like, I don’t want to be ruined on good ways to handle individual bosses, or…

The original FF7 is one of my lifetime favourites, and admittedly a lot of that comes down to when I played it. I was still a kid, and I still remember the magazine advertisement that made it look like this ridiculously epic adventure. A friend lent me his copy on the last day of school before the Summer holiday, and…

Warframe: Operation Scarlet Spear

I have never played a FF game, but I must admit that I am curious. Curious enough to spend money on a game, somthing I did only once last year - for Total War Three Kingdoms? Maybe.

You’ve got me thoroughly hyped on this remake, though I’m afraid I’ll be waiting to play it as I just picked up the RE3Make last week (sorry Square-Enix, but Capcom will forever be my #1 1990s developer). I’ve heard very intriguing things about its plot, but it’s the promise of a tightly designed living space - a la…

Postcards from Doom 2 is my new Death Thrash Metal band name album title.

I actually loved the appearance of the Mario fire bars. Doom Eternal is even more unapologetic than its predecessor about being A Video Game; it’s extremely self-aware and that helps place the more “serious” stuff as being, still, OTT video game goofiness.