After finding it very cheap, I decided to give Mafia 3 a go, and as the old travel writing cliché goes, New Bordeaux is a land of contrasts.

The highlighted female character in question has a storyline reason that I won’t spoil that explains why she specifically has the “Allure” command. It’s a better reason than just “she’s a woman, so she must be alluring,” and it gives her a low-fantasy story motivation that usually doesn’t go to female characters.

You’re still a ways from shoes truly dropping, but you’re not far from some real s*** going down. Much like The World Ends With You, this game really fakes you out with how long it’ll actually be and how wild it’ll get.

I had a wonderful networking issue in Splatoon 2 last night. At the very beginning of a Tower Control match in Moray Towers, two members of each team dropped out (like, as we appeared at the start).

Almost at the end of DOOM 2016. It is indeed a great game and one I can see myself replaying quite a few times but the criticism that it becomes nothing but combat loops at the end really is ture. I also am a little bummed at the lack of diversity in level design towards the end. Going to a city called Necropolis in…

Bought Mario Kart 8 Deluxe today. This is my first time with 8, and even within the 2 cups I’ve played I can already feel something special in the air. Shy Guy Mine (?) in particular was just an absolutely gorgeous thrill ride. Since I’ve played it mostly portable it’s also made me oddly appreciate MK7 all the more,…

Things are not much different for me on the game front, other than I bought a nicer computer to play Gwent on, which also allows me to stream all my horrible misplays and mistakes. That’s a positive, I think.

RPG Maker Fes update:

Automata is pretty straightforward right up until that hole you’re hopping into. Things start to ramp up when you get back outta there. Have fun!

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To varying degrees, I shall play Mario + Rabbids, ARMS, Splatoon 2, and Project Octopath Traveller Demo.

Bravely Default/Second are the games that finally brought me back to enjoying jRPGs, thanks to them keeping all the traditional trappings of the genre from back in the day when I loved to play them the most but adding a ton of QoL improvements to the concept of grinding and such in ways that were clever and actually…

Finally, the article is posted! Well I finished Uncharted: The Lost Legacy last week. My one criticism I voiced last week that there weren’t any parts where you feel like you’re playing an action movie were squashed in the last chapter. There were some sections in the final chapters where I felt they added enemies to…

Still grinding away at the Platinum in NieR: Automata. I’ve wrapped up almost all of the sidequests in routes A and B, just a few seem to be eluding my grasp (that titan keeps telling me he needs more time before sending me on his third errand run). I wrapped up the Emil’s Memories/Lunar Tear quest this morning, which…

That octopath game seems like it could easily be part of Square’s Saga series.

I just want to say that throwing shade at those stupid phrases is on fleek. Way to dunk on them.

And then once you heard “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy” by Big and Rich, you knew you had found your genre.

Being able to approach something on your own terms - or rather, it’s own terms - is huge in a way I don’t think gets enough credit, particularly given the internet’s slavish devotion to the backlash/backlash-to-the-backlash circle of life. Preconceptions can’t just be dismissed and context is everything. Being…

I believe it was the icon himself, ZMF, who once referred to Jeffery Dean Morgan as Javier Downey Jr. due to his similar appearances to Bardem and Downey and the run of movies (specifically I think this was in reference to The Losers) where it seemed he took roles those two would have turned down.

Having not really looked at the credits for the film, I assumed from the trailer that the husband was being played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan.