Adapted from an in-progress Steam review My first impression, after not quite two hours of gameplay, is that 1348 Ex Voto is nowhere near as bad...
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Trying Some Smaller Games
Four short mini-articles for four short experiences. After bouncing hard off The Outer Worlds 2, I decided to poke at my backlog a bit instead of...
Continue reading...I Gave Up On The Outer Worlds 2
I really, really, really wanted to like The Outer Worlds 2. From the pitch, it sounded like it would be right up my alley. I went...
Continue reading...Act 3 Nearly Broke Me
I am very late to the Baldur’s Gate 3 party, and honestly, this is the one hype train I wish I’d been aboard from the beginning....
Continue reading...I finally finished Baldur’s Gate 3, and wow
Adapted from a reddit post I knew very little about Baldur’s Gate 3 going in, but I liked some of the characters I saw fanart of...
Continue reading...This merge game can fit so many harmful stereotypes in it
Adapted from a thread on Bluesky An aside: I’m calling this a merge game because I’ve heard others call it that. I’ve played a bunch of...
Continue reading...My love-hate relationship with A Song of Ice and Fire
Adapted from a thread on Bluesky I have this complex love-hate relationship with GoT/ASoIaF; I love the characters and some of the worldbuilding, but the brutality...
Continue reading...Reflecting on RWBY Part 3: My Story
This RWBY Retrospective series ended up a lot more drawn-out than I intended, but we’re finally at the end. This one is more personal and perhaps...
Continue reading...Reflecting on RWBY Part 2: Contradictions
How do you even start to talk about RWBY? There’s so much to unpack here. It’s not for no reason that the online discourse on this...
Continue reading...Reflecting on RWBY Part 1: The Rewatch
As usual, I am fashionably late. I started my (re)watch of RWBY shortly after Rooster Teeth announced they were shutting down, but it took me until...
Continue reading...So, the Halo show was cancelled. I’m not sure if I’m surprised by that. On one hand, while I don’t think it was a very good...
Continue reading...The Fallout series is a sequel to the games
…and I kinda wish it wasn’t. I’m deeply divided on the Fallout TV show, because I love it as an adaptation, but I don’t love it...
Continue reading...I’m (still) disappointed by the Halo show
I’m fashionably late to the party, but I can’t not talk about the Halo show. While I was writing this, it was tentatively titled I don’t...
Continue reading...Style, Setting, and Sequels: Musings On John Wick
This is (obviously) not the long-promised “shrinking as a creator” post. I will get to that one, but to open 2024, I wanted to do something...
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