April has felt like it's been a colossally shit month. Nothing bad has happened, but my brain has just been all over the place for at least a third of it, and it's kind of ruined how good I felt at the beginning of the month. I'm starting to feel better now, but for whatever reason, the last couple of weekends at work have absolutely wiped me out.
I've got an extra day off this week, so hopefully that will help a bit *cautiously crosses fingers*
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Vidya game updates:
# I was doing A Thing in P5S, but I have abandoned it because, frankly, it was pretty danged tedious, and I couldn't be bothered. But then I couldn't decide what game to play instead. More on that in a minute.
# I have watched both Aoife and Johnny play a game (but not together) called Weird West. It should be exactly up my alley, but for some reason I don't think I'll ever want to play it. But it was interesting to have a look at.
# I also watched Aoife play a game called Cat Cafe Manager, which looks cute a f, and is set in video game Wales! (The main character's grandma is called Nain, which is the North Walian for, uh, grandmother, and also there's characters called Gruff and Arwel).
The controls seem very finicky, however, and I'm not great at resource management games, so I would probably not play that, either.
# And then I watched my new favourite streamer play a point and click game called Later, Alligator, which is HECKING ADORABLE I LOVE IT. It's about an alligator called Pat, who is basically scared of everything, and isn't the sharpest tool in the box. He's ADORABLE. I MEAN LOOK AT HIMB!
(OMG and the track titles on the soundtrack are AWESOME!)
# Also I mentioned it on one of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lassarina's What Are You Playing? Wednesday posts, but didn't mention it here, but I also watched the same person play Buddy Simulator 1984, and oh wow, that was An Experience.
# So yeah, I left the house yesterday, intending to play Okami in the evening when I got home, because I've never beaten it (and I have the HD version for my PS4). Except I went in CEX to look for DA:I, since I knew they had a copy in there and IDK, I just wanted to play it but not lug out the 360 to do so*. Also the PS4 has the better graphics and more save slots, and also I could play Trespasser if I wanted to**.
Anyway, for whatever reason, DA:I was not there, so I bought Slay the Spire instead. I've seen it mentioned with regard to Inscryption, so figured it was a card game (it is), but wasn't 100% sure if I wanted to play it or not. But I got a second hand physical copy, so thought if I didn't like it, I could get rid again.
Except.
I do like it. I can see why it's so addictive as a format. And I find it passes the time without me wondering what time it is (something that was happening on the regular with P5S once I'd beaten it - I wasn't bored as such, but I wasn't as engaged as I had been).
I like that it's easy to get the hang of, and you don't feel like you're bashing your head against a brick wall. I got past the first boss on my first run, which I didn't think would happen, but then was killed by random enemies on the second (I think), but it didn't feel like the game had it in for me. The furthest I've got so far is the second boss, and I got him to under half health before he did me in, and I'm pretty pleased with that!
So I'll probably be playing that for the foreseeable, or until I decide to play something else!
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*Also I don't know if they ever patched that crash that happens when you talk to Cullen, but also I don't want that. I don't like it when my console crashes *side eyes Bethesda*
**I know it's been exty years, but I am STILL fucked off that Bioware did that. EDIT FOR CLARITY: I mean that they didn't release all the DLC on the 360/PS3. Which wouldn't have annoyed me so much if they'd stuck to their original plan of just releasing DA:I on PS4/Xbone. I'm glad I got to play it on my 360 but also *shakes tiny fists at Bioware* [/edit]
I've got an extra day off this week, so hopefully that will help a bit *cautiously crosses fingers*
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Vidya game updates:
# I was doing A Thing in P5S, but I have abandoned it because, frankly, it was pretty danged tedious, and I couldn't be bothered. But then I couldn't decide what game to play instead. More on that in a minute.
# I have watched both Aoife and Johnny play a game (but not together) called Weird West. It should be exactly up my alley, but for some reason I don't think I'll ever want to play it. But it was interesting to have a look at.
# I also watched Aoife play a game called Cat Cafe Manager, which looks cute a f, and is set in video game Wales! (The main character's grandma is called Nain, which is the North Walian for, uh, grandmother, and also there's characters called Gruff and Arwel).
The controls seem very finicky, however, and I'm not great at resource management games, so I would probably not play that, either.
# And then I watched my new favourite streamer play a point and click game called Later, Alligator, which is HECKING ADORABLE I LOVE IT. It's about an alligator called Pat, who is basically scared of everything, and isn't the sharpest tool in the box. He's ADORABLE. I MEAN LOOK AT HIMB!
(OMG and the track titles on the soundtrack are AWESOME!)
# Also I mentioned it on one of
lassarina's What Are You Playing? Wednesday posts, but didn't mention it here, but I also watched the same person play Buddy Simulator 1984, and oh wow, that was An Experience.# So yeah, I left the house yesterday, intending to play Okami in the evening when I got home, because I've never beaten it (and I have the HD version for my PS4). Except I went in CEX to look for DA:I, since I knew they had a copy in there and IDK, I just wanted to play it but not lug out the 360 to do so*. Also the PS4 has the better graphics and more save slots, and also I could play Trespasser if I wanted to**.
Anyway, for whatever reason, DA:I was not there, so I bought Slay the Spire instead. I've seen it mentioned with regard to Inscryption, so figured it was a card game (it is), but wasn't 100% sure if I wanted to play it or not. But I got a second hand physical copy, so thought if I didn't like it, I could get rid again.
Except.
I do like it. I can see why it's so addictive as a format. And I find it passes the time without me wondering what time it is (something that was happening on the regular with P5S once I'd beaten it - I wasn't bored as such, but I wasn't as engaged as I had been).
I like that it's easy to get the hang of, and you don't feel like you're bashing your head against a brick wall. I got past the first boss on my first run, which I didn't think would happen, but then was killed by random enemies on the second (I think), but it didn't feel like the game had it in for me. The furthest I've got so far is the second boss, and I got him to under half health before he did me in, and I'm pretty pleased with that!
So I'll probably be playing that for the foreseeable, or until I decide to play something else!
~
*Also I don't know if they ever patched that crash that happens when you talk to Cullen, but also I don't want that. I don't like it when my console crashes *side eyes Bethesda*
**I know it's been exty years, but I am STILL fucked off that Bioware did that. EDIT FOR CLARITY: I mean that they didn't release all the DLC on the 360/PS3. Which wouldn't have annoyed me so much if they'd stuck to their original plan of just releasing DA:I on PS4/Xbone. I'm glad I got to play it on my 360 but also *shakes tiny fists at Bioware* [/edit]
