Ugh. 9 days since last blog? Not cool. I didn’t intend for this happen. Just like it was easy to keep blogging every day (even if I had nothing particularly notable to talk about) when I had momentum behind it’s become all too easy to be swept up in the momentum of inaction. Hopefully that changes today.
So, what’s been going on? Well, for starters the new game from Sucker Punch came out. GHOST OF TSUSHIMA. I’d been eagerly awaiting this game since I first saw it announced at E3 2017 (I think it was 2017? the year when herded a bunch of games journalists through a weird stage show with folk music..). Now I’m deep into the game and I’m absolutely loving it. It’s the most I’ve enjoyed a game in a while. It’s exactly the kind of game I wanted at this time. It’s not ambitious or ground-breaking in ANY way. It does precisely NOTHING new and pretty much lives by a design philosophy that peaked around the time of something like Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood… BUT, it feels like the most perfectly executed version of “one of those” I’ve ever played. It’s a big open world, scavenger hunty collectathon checklist, but with a good story AND a feudal Japan samurai setting. It’s pretty much crack to me. I’ve probably played close to 15 hours and am still fairly early in the story since I’m just spending all my time exploring the map and doing side quests. I am so happy it turned out how I hoped.
Ok. Let’s agree to meet back here again tomorrow and I can talk about books or something.
Currently Reading: FEAST FOR CROWS, George R.R. Martin
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