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Writing to validate the unhealthy amount of time I spend playing video games. Teaching myself to make them too over at itch, with mixed results.
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Favorite Games

The Binding of Isaac
The Binding of Isaac
Bloodborne
Bloodborne
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
NieR: Automata
NieR: Automata
Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition
Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition

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Total Games Played

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Played in 2024

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Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust

Jul 07

Neon White
Neon White

Jul 02

Hylics
Hylics

Jul 01

Cruelty Squad
Cruelty Squad

Jun 30

The Temple of No
The Temple of No

Apr 27

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I need to bury my parents.
No, you're not allowed. God be with you.
God save good mate o'mine but I need to be off now to bury my parents.
No, I can't let you do that. God smiles on you this day.
Listen here ye olde buddy I need to bury my parents.
Yeah alright fine who cares. God save.
HE'S GOING TO BURY HIS PARENTS! ALARM! GOD STOP HIM!

Between having the most consistently piss-poor game mechanics, characters bugging out of scripted events, broken quest design, ropey ass combat, and the fact that it's made by an actual gamergater... ugh, why even continue this sentence tbh.

It's just Christian Skyrim. And Skyrim had been released 6 times before this mess came out. I was over it by proxy before even booting it up.

Yes, the map is nice, don't @ me holy roman empire

I had a lot of goodwill in the reserves heading into this, being incredibly fond of the team's other works. And as such I'm conflicted about I feel now it's over.
My top line take is that I love everything about this game other than playing it - the characters, story, music, a world that transcends dimensional space... but the experience is marred by hostile design choices and so, so many puzzles that got me riled up by their obtuseness or finicky solutions. Not to mention the backtracking, janky traversal in the overworld, and potential late-game grind if you aren't mindful of the game's primary resource. Also some sections are just agonisingly long.
The writing is again the star of the show here, but for such an explicitly anti-capitalist game, I didn't expect to feel so... alienated, I guess, by the game's design philosophies.

Finishing this game off makes for round 3 in my COVID feverdream binge, and I think it's my contender for GOTY so far. Horny, homoerotic VN and just the snappiest puzzle platforming collide and make for a cocktail that is dangerously "just one more go" and genuinely thrilling and funny in its moment-to-moment execution. I have lots more to say but my brain is melting out of my ears. TBC, I hope