I had a slightly different read on Mae than you, and I think it’s because I picked up pretty early on the fact that she had some sort of mental breakdown at college. So I went through the entire game feeling she was sympathetic and wondering why a lot of people were treating her like garbage.

Are the “interstitial” portions of KRZ available when you buy the game? I’m looking forward to getting it when I get a Switch, but curious if these pieces are part of the experience, as they seem to add to the overall narrative. Can’t wait to play it from start to finish later this year!

Can’t wait for 8 on the 8th!!

First things first: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the 8th returns next Thursday night! We’re trying a concentrated single hour, so show up on time (8PM Central) and join us for two wheel-only hijinx!

Last week I was talking about Star Trek and Stellaris, and get rather enthusiastic about Elite:Dangerous as well. Sometimes, it feels like I just talk about endless space games on here too much...

The release of a new Kentucky Route Zero interlude is always cause for celebration. This game has never left my personal Top Five since I played the first part quite a few years ago, and I have no doubt that this interlude and Chapter 5 will maintain the quality of previous entries. Can’t wait to re-purchase it on…

I really need to play more games; they’re generally helpful for my mood, and a combination of laziness, depression, and weird emergency work sessions has made it hard to work up much of any energy to do much. Generally, the one I’ve really played has been Fire Emblem Heroes, which is admittedly coming to a point of…

The weirdness of Kentucky Route Zero is something I look forward to if it’s ever released on PS4 in its entirety. I stay away from most discussions around it as I think going in fresh might be the best way to experience this particular game.

There’s a gameological discord? Cool.

Have you played Mighty Gunvolt Burst? It’s a pseudo 8-bit almagamation of Mighty No. 9 and Azure Striker Gunvolt that has one very intersting quirk to it - the ability to customize your bullet patterns. As you earn more points, you can spend them on upgrading your weapon and/or ability to take damage. There is no…

I have been trying to post a response to this about difficulty, accessibility, and my own depression for upwards of an hour, and the page kept freezing, dying, and forcing me to start over whenever I would just scroll up to make sure I had a particular detail right. I joked about it on that Discord page already, but…

Yeah, there are very few sections where you can’t see everything that you need to get through, and even those usually give you enough time to process. They even have sections with those binocular station things so that you can survey the longer challenges. I feel like the atmosphere helps it even more with this. Super…

Yeah, I was so happy when I realized that the whole game acts as a metaphor for her depression and anxiety. There are so many challenges, rooms, and strawberries (especially the latter) that appear, at a glance, to be impossible. “There’s no way,” I would think, before even attempting the challenge. But then, through…

I attempted to switch over to Assist Mode at one point and was greeted by a prompt suggesting that the standard difficulty is recommended for first playthroughs but that this help was here if I really needed it. It seems so obvious in retrospect, but it was in this moment that it really clicked for me that the…

I played Night in the Woods last week and it’s really sticking with me.  At first I was annoyed with Mae’s attitude and wanted to opt out of shoplifting, but once I let my guard down holy shit.  Also I have “Die Anywhere Else” stuck in my head.

Cool take on the Overwatch League. It’s so far from my interests that I doubt I’ll ever check it out (I don’t watch professional sports, I don’t play Overwatch, and I don’t particularly like watching other people play games) but it seems like a really cool evolution for folks who are interested in one of more of those…

The A.V Club

Uh, pretty sure the point was to make a joke about the AV club. A very very standard joke around these parts. Chill.

oh the lengths people will go to avoid having a face-to-face conversation with a human

I wasn’t super impressed by the game at the time, honestly. It was rarely very fun, and as you say it was willfully unpleasant in a way that even the likes of God of War—a similarly amoral, hyperviolent game—was not.