I’m back on my Stardew Valley shit, but I also played the trivia game on the Shrek DVD at like 2:30 am this morning.

Parrying literally everything in Clair Obscur. Parried my way through a late game area and gained 20 levels. Parried 1.3 million HP off a seabound giant that shoots lasers over the course of 20 minutes. Parried a massive face so many times it just fell over and died halfway though it’s HP bar. This is the first game I’ve played where I actually love the parrying.

I’m back on my ps2 arc playing .hack infection and watching the anime at the same time. It’s a cool game! I think it properly simulates what it’s like to play an mmo but offline. I love having to check the bbs in game to get clues and progress the story.

Dwarf Fortress. Outfitting my military in Masterwork steel is quite the annoying and rewarding process.

My friend group is doing a crossplay BG3 campaign. 2 on ps5 (married couple), another xbox, another on pc, and I’m on a mac. It’s beautiful. All games should be this easy to play crossplay

Still chugging along in FF7 Rebirth. I’m at the point where I can leave Cosmo Canyon, but I don’t think I personally can until I finish these quests and side-content lol

I’m back on my monster train addiction. The second one came out and it’s the only thing I want to play

All challenges complete. Jokerless was fun since I had to really focus on my deck. It made the game feel significantly different.

Now I just have to beat every deck on gold stake, and do so with each joker held. That’ll suck since there are consumable ones and I just have to hold them and waste a slot to get the gold stickers

Surely now I won’t get distracted playing Umineko

Nothing right now but I should either get back to yakuza 4 or a bit of disco Elysium for the vibes. I’ve beaten both both revisiting them is nice from time to time especially as I go over any substories or story threads I missed before.

Cavalry girls is honestly such a good game. At its most basic level, the mech combat is fun to control and satisfying. Lots of mechanics, but they do a really good job of introducing them over the course of the campaign, so it’s not too overwhelming and they come in to heighten the core loop as it gets more routine. The mech customization is pretty in-depth and I feel like there’s pretty good opportunity to try out a variety of builds and team compositions. The management layer isn’t spectacular, but it serves to break up gameplay pretty well and there’s a hint of something more to the relatively simple story.

The translation is not good, but excluding a few confusing item descriptions it’s not hard to tell what’s being communicated. There are maybe a few too many things to do in the management layer and I’ve found that there are some things I’ve been able to just ignore.

The character designs and intermittent comic sequences are fucking hilariously boobed up. To the point where it’s more comedic than erotic to me - though I’m pretty sure it’s not supposed to be a parody. Generally the tone of the game is fairly light and slightly humorous despite dealing with rather grim subject matter - although anything particularly awful is generally alluded to rather than confronted directly - and this plus the massive hoonkstangos can be a little dissonant.

All in all I’d recommend it if you’re looking for a twin-stick shooter with character building and light management aspects. It’s pretty cheap and the game shows you what it’s about basically immediately, so it’s worth a tryout if it sounds fun.

Also always interesting to see games out of China and their particular conventions and styles.

1,300 cycles into my current Oxygen Not Included playthrough. Finally got my liquid hydrogen/LOX rockets fueled up, I actually had reservoirs of fuel ready to go for like 200 cycles, but I had to set up clay production at a large enough scale just so I could produce enough ceramic for all the piping. Now I’m sending out missions to set up off-world builds to collect resources I’m low/empty on, like tungsten on the Marshy Asteroid.

I did fuck up Gizmo’s morale, and he started blasting everything with lightning on an emergency return trip from the tungsten project, to the point where I had to lock him in the bathroom until they land so he doesn’t kill himself and Ulti, the pilot.

I’ve been playing a lot of picross. 15 x 15 puzzles are trivial now, but 20 x 20 can be a slog. Waiting for the qualitative jump in my playing soon.

My friend got me into their Factorio server and I mostly just watch them build their incredible machine of train and conveyer, but when I play alone I get to feel my brain wrinkling in effort to try and build a nice efficient factory lol

I understand now what everyone said about it, in hindsight. It’s terrific.

Besides that I got caught up in the Battlefront 2 hype wave and have been enjoying that well enough, especially for a game I got for cheap (free? I cannot really recall)

I’ve also been trying to get some friends to try the demo for the new game Jump Ship which is a pretty slick game that mixes so many influences I love in a specific way that appeals to me: a little bit of Sea of Thieves in the coop ship management, a dash of roguelike by making the ‘jump route’, all playing in a comfy Destiny clone FPS system. Glad people are trying to make the coop spaceship command sim I’ve always wanted but now I need friends to play it

I’m trying to snipe with iron sights in Enlisted. Killing Nazis is fun.