got some heavy ps2 horror vibes from this one, so i'm excited for this one

i simply adore when i'm a demon made of glass and pain and yet i must skate, its my favorite thing to be

i am a singular ant walking across a vast corpse

i have been beaten numb by the sheer length of the whole thing, but yeah its good, i'm gonna go watch all of nichijou to recover and then not touch a video game for like 4 months

i decided that i cant just play this, i have to take a sabbatical from the msq and go and do uh, literally all the other content of the game first and level up every job and experience every pre-endwalker thing i can before i can let myself play endwalker so i can

i dont fucking know, have the fullest experience or something? idk dude i really dont. fucking nightmare idea. anyway then elden ring came out and my life has not known peace since so ill get around to playing this in about a decade or so

knew i was in for something special when i looked Up for the first time, incredible expansion

having a good time with this so far, good podcast game, been listening to Friends at the Table's Marielda season during it, though i got to the part in both the game and the show where i had to start paying actual attention to both and i'm a bit sad to say that i can't really do both at the same time anymore, alas

they let the Phantasy Star Online Guy make the awful nightmare video game equilvalent of those algorithmically-generated fever dream children's videos on youtube, and honestly? its kind of a vibe

very sad little game with some great performances, yeah sure dude just fuck me right up

i thought this was gonna be a singularly focused game about Moving Right and having dramatic sword fights, instead it was like, a puzzle platformer or something like Inside or Limbo? idk i checked out immediately after that, not the vibe i was looking for at the time

a text-based strategy sim centered around navigating the complex geopolitical manuverings of a country on the edge of an extremely precarious stability that is beset on all sides by its neighbors and the dominant world powers seeking to engage in ideological proxy wars.
all of which is best informed by a clear understanding of the historical events and relationships that brought said country to its current historical moment, as well as the various institutions that wield its power and how they work, all helpfully catalogued through a heavy in-game codex,

Unfortunately, i only ever boot this up when i'm half asleep at 5 in the fucking morning and can't be bothered to do the reading to actually play this game, which is just some tragic stuff on my part really