I thought I’d hate BoTW because I really didn’t like Skyrim (or Oblivion), but I think it’s my favourite game ever. Having said that, I did play through Horizon Zero Dawn this year and also loved that so maybe I just have more patience for RPGs than I did as a teenager.

I’m not a huge gamer, but I’ve played the various open world Bethesda games on PC (Oblivion, Skyrim, and the later Fallout games). I too got a Switch during lockdown (mostly for Animal Crossing, but I also got BotW) and no, BotW isn’t particularly groundbreaking. Like many reviews described it, it was basically Zelda…

I got my Switch with BotW two years after release, and I felt like the last person in the world to play it. I started off dying a whole lot and feeling like I must be the only person who found exploring frustrating - like the game was giving me a gigantic playground with the illusion of freedom, only to knock the…

Finished Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart and got the Platinum trophy. Absolutely loved every second of it. Going to take a game break this weekend because next week has Scarlet Nexus and Mario golf come out and that will be absolutely crazy

On the docket for this weekend:

This article reminds me a lot of that famous NOPE review for Amnesia: Machine For Pigs:

Very into the idea of playing this, very aware that the PS4 version will turn my OG model into a chimney.

The development of RE7 began around the same time PT was released so its inspiration is minimum at best. This though? It leans hard into PT and I love it. The Baby is clearly inspired by the PT fetus but its somehow more fucked up. Its the voice. Its clearly a real baby but the voice is altered juuuuuust enough to be…

I knew the moment I got through that section that “House Beneviento” will forever be on my list of amazing moments in horror games. That baby is just so astonishingly unsettling in a way that I haven’t seen/heard in a good while, and certainly never from a Resident Evil game. Then to follow it up with such a creative…

1) I don’t know what narrow definition of a stereotype you’re using, but that’s not the definition everyone else uses. A stereotype is an oversimplified conception a group of people have regarding a person or concept. They can be “negative”—Mexicans are lazy and wear sombreros!—or “positive”—Asians are good at math…

Mount Eerie, A Crow Looked At Me is a wrenching and heartbreaking album that I could listen to no more than twice. Not that it’s bad, just I don’t have the emotional stamina to make it through it again.

EMA’s Exile in the Outer Ring was fantastic. I wish that album got a bit more attention.

a Steely Dan tontine

Stanley Tucci always saves the day. The man has charisma.

Hahaha he’s definitely no James Joyce! I think he is to me what Louis L’Amour was to my dad. Easy entertainment.

Oh, good one! Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci really elevate that movie above the book.

This is a weird one, but The Devil Wears Prada. The film is sweet fluff and the book is strangely cynical.