I underestimated John Johanas. I knew he had a sense of style and humor from the Evil Within DLC & sequel, but I would never have expected him to shadow drop a motherfucking character action rhythm game styled after Jet Set Radio. I NEEEED IT!
The Gamemaker's Notebook is a nice podcast. Usually hosted by Ted Price, the CEO of Insomniac, it's a series of down-to-earth interview with devs. It feels so sane compared to our usual view into the industry. The Ukraine episode was really good.
Disco Elysium Log #2: The investigation began in earnest as I took in the hood and its people. I successfully pilfered funds from the bourgeoisie, had a mental breakdown about women in front of a child, aced some boulé and punched the shit out that kid.
Disco Elysium Log #1: I successfully got my tie and made it all the way to Kim's motorcar without harmful incidents. I might even find my way home. Not sure if Physical Instrument or Half Light are going to cost me my nose first though.
Being halfway through the games, I think I can succintly describe the Utawarerumono formula as: Lorebombs, warcrimes, booze, food talk, more booze and waifus dumber than the sacks of bricks they can easily carry for reasons too complicated for a Qpost.
Today's achievement was getting my dad through the first world of Overcooked. If that game ain't designed by Satan, I don't know what is. It's like running a FFXIV raid where you need to do eachother's skill rotations. Would recommend.
Starting up the second Utawarerumono game has been interesting. It does that Japanese thing where it replicates aspects of the first game in a way that feels like a reboot/remake, despite being a seemingly distant sequel. I think I'm more into this one.
It was bound to happen eventually. My backlog-shrinking streak came to an end in 2022 and it instead grew by 15. I beat less games (thanks to P5R & Elden Ring) and bought a lot more to justify the PS5. So now it sits at 75 in total. Time to get to it!
Start the fight with full DT, Spam Meteor 2 until it drains to stunlock, always jump away from the combos, taunt at every single opportunity to generate 3 full meters, pray the Summoned Swords don't go in a cross then go near him to cancel while...
I tried the style switching mod for Devil May Cry 3. It feels so wrong yet so right to SWORDTRICKSWORDROYALGUNSLINGERTRICKSWORDMASTER in that game. Makes Royal Guard a lot more inviting as well. Didn't stop me from eating shit once more though.
I still don't know how to get a summary thing, but I dumped like 340 hours into Elden Ring, so that's obviously on top followed by Persona 5 Royal, Forbidden West and Ragnarok. So many long games this year. My backlog is in shambles.
Oh wow, Forspoken just took a bunch of powers from inFAMOUS: Second Son. I approve. The demo felt like the fever dream of an 11-year-old girl in 2002 fantasizing about the future of video games.