Video Games

Hey, hope you’ve been doing well. Didn’t play a ton this week but I do have a couple interesting things to talk about. This week I… Started: Digimon Story Time Stranger: I’ve been recommended this game by three separate friends in the last week so I downloaded the demo and played for a short time. Seems quite promising. I was a Pokémon kid through and through and never really interacted with Digimon until much later, so the franchise has always had a certain mystique and allure to it. It’s like this strange alternate universe where the cute elemental animals that I grew up with were replaced with robot dinosaurs and anime girls with guns. Playing this reminded me that I never actually finished the previous game in the series, Cyber Sleuth, so I think I’ll try and finish that first before diving into this one. ...

Good evening, hope you had a great weekend! I’m planning to do weekly or bi-weekly reports on the games I’ve played this week with a short “first impressions” or status update for each. Deeper analyses/rants will be reserved for their own posts. Not sure how to format it yet so we’ll probably see big changes going forward. Anyway, This week I… Started: Trepang2: A visceral, blisteringly fast-paced FPS where you play as an escaped [prisoner? supersoldier? research subject? all of the above? not sure yet] with the ability to slow time or turn invisible for short durations. Gunplay is flashy and kinetic (though I haven’t quite worked on how the recoil works), movement is fast and smooth and flows beautifully into the shooting and melee combat. Enemies erupt into comical amounts of blood and gore. Lots of explosions. I’ve only played the first two missions so far but will definitely be playing more. ...