read: given a consulting report by Richard Garfield
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I canāt stop thinking about Vangers.
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donāt forget all the times iāve directly shot you with a grenade launcher, resulting in your immediate death
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Please be nice to Troubles, slime!!
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I eagerly await the Richard Garfield + George R R Martin ultimate consulting crossover
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Started playing WarioWare Gold again and noticed I was actually pretty close to unlocking all the bonus gadgets in the gallery that they slowly dole out to you as you earn currency in the micro games.
Right after I crank that digital gumball machine one last time to get the final capsule I need (was a music track from Smooth Moves) a trap door opens, the machine falls in and out pops a new completely new machine that dispenses trading cards. The game informs that my collection is complete but also that Iāve unlocked a deck building card game that you acquire more cards through the new gacha machine (can pay way more for higher chance of rares), has an energy system that restores according to a real world timer and each card can be powered up further by feeding it duplicates. Was honestly pretty funny in the moment.
Like how the game can still surprise me several hours into it.
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Real EDF hours, smash that MFin Like/Murder Your Teammates button.
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I have been playing tons and tons of Brigador of late, and writing a guide (piecemeal) to using the weapons/equipment aimed at shedding light on a some of their subtler aspects.
Have also been playing a bit of M.A.S.S. Builder and messing around with the new accessories system.
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really. The Great Dalmuti is right there
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edit volume warning
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i played oblivion on 360 for around a dozen hours and it started running worse and worse, i forgot that the main development platform for oblivion had that weird caching problem. i switched to pc and tried out the oblivion remastered mod pack. itās actually really good so far! theres too many changes for me to go over them here but it changes the balance of combat to be a bit more challenging, a lot of tweaks to the world itself and just tons of new stuff. i woudlnt recommend it to someone who has never played vanilla before but its a refreshing experience and it really shows how the modding community puts bethesda to shame in terms of ambition and also dedication to fixing bugs, maybe i will post some pics later after i get further into it
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I am playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Years Door and itās breezy. I love the music, mood, visual style and relaxed approach. Itās so gamecubey, in the best way possible (wind waker, sunshine mood). More naif than Nintendoās late approach, much more corporate and schematic in what they do.
Before it, I played;
Odallus The Dark Call: itās very good but not as great as made to be by Hardcoregaming101. I like it more than Curse of the Moon 1/2, itās more serious and āmetroid-liteā. But the level design is not always brilliant.
Rondo of Blood is much better 
More to comeā¦
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So, other games played latelyā¦
Syberia 2: I liked it much less than the first episode. The location are much less surreal, and the thematics revolve too much around finding Syberia and around the old man. By contrast, the first one was much more inventive, the sceneries were telling tales by themselves, and things were oniric/ironic and not just detached āfantasiesā like in the second one.
The puzzles are also much more of a chore in Syberia 2ā¦ to the point that, at about 3/4 of the game, I lost interest in solving them and just found some videos on Youtube.
I played the games in French, while I watched the videos of the last sections in English (I only found those).
The difference in quality is enormous. Syberia in French is witty, Kate is cool and always have some undertones of sarcasm. In english, the tone of the game is lost in translation, the dialogue are tedious and sheās a weird, petulant and boring characterā¦ but, at least this one, is just a localization problem. She is wonderful in the original language.
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Curse of the Moon 2. Itās a game that is manageable for the first 5 stages at veteran difficulty. Than, people like me who are 37 and a tired mind, might decide to lower the difficultz because at times itās a bit too unfair. But I understand itās made to be a challenge to people who like that kind of thing. I am close to finishing Episode Ex (the 3 out of 4 campaignsā¦ which is always the same series of levels, with variations in paths or characters)ā¦ and I am starting to feel some boredom. Again, Itās a punchy game and I kind of like it, but Rondo of Blood and (donāt hate me for this) Shovel Knight are much better games.
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I too am a member of the late 30s tired mind club.
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Tony, I recommend Huntdown. Itās a top-quality linear action game that almost always stays on barely just the right side of the ātoo difficultā line, and also rewards you with the most eye candy in the artwork Iāve ever seen in an indie game
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Thanks! I am getting it on the switch right now Is it a very long game?
By the way, has anybody tried Blazing Chrome? I havenāt found much info on the forum. Being made by the Odallus folks, itās quite promising, although itās a different kind of game (a Contra-like).
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Huntdown is I guess 3-10 hours. (3 hours if you crush it and donāt have to retry much.) I think my first playthrough on normal in co-op was something like 6 hours, and my replay solo on hard was about the same.
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I just got it but I havenāt tried it yet - Iāll report back!
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