2021 summary
i kinda fell off games for much of the year (read a lot of books tho), but here are some highlights & points of interest, played / watched, roughly in order i came to them
25 Games
after dropping this last summer because of hand pain i finally did crawl back a few weeks after the update and i'm trying to finish my museum although i've let my online subscription lapse so we'll see if i actually bother collecting all the art before i drop it again
this game is pretty good. i find a lot of the reviews on here to have bought into the hype a bit too much, but that's fine. i do like it. playing it alongside policenauts was neat, i think those games have a fair bit to say in conversation with one another (surprise: policenauts does not come off looking great in the comparison).
the most interesting part of my playthrough was a glitch where i experienced a pivotal scene twice in a row, once resulting in a character killing themselves and once where they did not, with a sort of dazed experience afterward where they seemed to both be dead and not dead. i talked a lot about this game with a friend of mine, who told me she kept seeing me as kim and herself as harry. because she hadn't finished the game, i never told her about the way this sequence played out for me before she killed herself.
the most interesting part of my playthrough was a glitch where i experienced a pivotal scene twice in a row, once resulting in a character killing themselves and once where they did not, with a sort of dazed experience afterward where they seemed to both be dead and not dead. i talked a lot about this game with a friend of mine, who told me she kept seeing me as kim and herself as harry. because she hadn't finished the game, i never told her about the way this sequence played out for me before she killed herself.
both this and snatcher have some real fun highs and some real dogshit lows but for better or worse i do think the good stuff lingers more in my memory. also some pretty great songs in both
i replayed this and it's still great. i had a notepad document open for like a month or two with a draft of a review because it bummed me out that the only reviews of it here were middling to negative & it always seems like people's least favorite things about the game are the things that make me like it. but i can't ever seriously review anything i genuinely care about anymore in a way that meets my own standards so eventually i gave up and closed the text doc. i like getting lost in the rain.
still thankful for farm nights
anyway from like july onward i mostly just played picross and watched other people play stuff
i still stand by my review
