Posted in PWB April (Fools) edition 2025
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Avowed - this feels almost like a remake of Morrowind, with its amiable NPCs and weird fixation with mushrooms, but it's very enjoyable. It's like it's pretending to be an open world game but actually you're quite carefully led through the story, it means it's very well paced and the characters have far more to say about events than they normally do in games of this type. It looks spectacular too. My only issue is that the horribly complex character and inventory screens seem to have come from a different game entirely to the breezy adventuring that makes up the bulk of Avowed.
Stardew Valley - I think this is meant to be a chilled, relaxing kind of game but my gamer brain can't stop aggressively trying to min/max everything and as such I'm finding it quite stressful, wondering if I'm doing it "right" or letting opportunities slip by with every passing day. Broadly I have no idea what I'm doing. I like it though, it's like someone took the hundreds of Harvest Moon games that are all slightly unsatisfying for various different reasons and simply made one really good one.
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Assassin's Creed: Shadows has been getting some actual decent feedback from players and doesn't appear to have launched in a totally broken state, so it's only the knowledge that these games always drop in price really fast that's preventing me from picking this up right now.
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I managed to get 1000/1000 achievements for Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii which is the first game I've done that for in a long while (and the first Yakuza game too). Pleased with that, but there's nothing more to be done there.
Donald Trump - why won't he just fucking die already? Honestly.
Separate note on schools - sorry to hear about your woes, Bri, I really hope you get this sorted soon. My son was bullied to shit in the last couple of years of primary school (smart kid being picked on by the local knuckleheads, basically, plus a nice dose of racism thrown in) and we were actually glad that Covid lockdowns saved him from the last few months of what had become an entirely miserable experience. We were lucky enough to be able to put him into a private school, not something we'd ever thought we'd do and it's wiped us out financially but it's been exactly the supportive environment he needed. I appreciate that's probably not an option for you but do you have the opportunity to look at different schools? They do still vary enormously in terms of the support they provide, and a different environment may be good for your kid. Regardless, as MPH says, 13/14 is pretty much the peak of school misery years and it does get better, honestly.