The kid made me download Planet Crafter on GamePass. It's one of those low-budget "dropped in a desolate landscape with nothing but your wits and an unreasonably deep crafting tree" survival games, which I've never gotten into previously (I liked No Man's Sky before it went this direction) but I've been completely sucked into it this time. There are loads of QoL things that annoy the shit out of me (not being able to stack resources in your inventory slots), but not enough to stop playing.
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Quite keen to get Splatoon Raiders, but not sure I can justify it right now.
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The old job, as it turns out. I evaded a round of layoffs, but realised that I can never trust any of the leadership team again, so I've found another role and will be starting there at the beginning of September.
I loved Unicorn Overlord, despite its atrocious title. The combination RTS/Fire Emblem battles, powered by the Gambits system from FFXII, could maybe have been more challenging—hardcore gamers might find it a bit on the easy side— but it was better than 13 Sentinels' brainless combat at least, even if I don't recall ever feeling overly pressured in the main campaign.
From memory its anime outfits aren't so bad, either.
Gut reactions: Case is too old, Molly's glasses look goofy, and there's a lot more daytime in there than I expected.
I really hope it's good, but I'm genuinely not sure the book can be adapted in a way that is going to be both faithful to the themes and identity of the novel and relevant to a modern audience.
There might have been more to SoS' combat if I'd been playing on a higher difficulty. It does have some interesting stuff with damage types—there are "locks" that appear (with a countdown) when an enemy is building up to a big attack; if you break them all, the event is stunned and loses that action, but often there's no way to fully break it in the time limit.
I would need to replay Chained Echoes for a fair comparison, though—it's not on Gamepass any more, but I'm not sure I want to spend £20+ on it when I'm pretty sure I finished it already.
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