I sold my Series X the other day. Considering Steam Machine/Switch 2 for the next several years.

I think there’s a feeling I/many of us have where we want to experience the true “canon” of excellent art in our lifetimes. The truth is that we all have our own canon of great art that we naturally come across over time and your canon might not include the 1933 classic Duck Soup.

If you call and complain and say you didn’t get a new game, they sometimes comp you $10 iirc

There’s a really cool mission-doling system where you don’t see the seams/icons as much as other similar Ubisoft-style RPGs, but the loop of “bop around, do a thing” is almost exactly the same even 4-5 hours in.

In a world where the former doesn’t exist, the latter is a pretty good choice for a backup (I haven’t seen the new movie yet).

Update: Hades II has continued to get better since I wrote this. Ghost of Yotei was easily one of my most anticipated games of this year, and yet after my kid goes to sleep this is all I’m playing.

"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see

I didn’t get around to playing it but my impression is it’s closer to where it needs to be in the Transformed department but cuts a lot of corners and isn’t exactly in the same league

Loved the demo, easy Day 1 pickup for me. Are you able to say if the song unlocks are going to be a bit easier to get than Remastered? As in, you don’t need to do a single flawless 2-3 hour run to get everything (or at least you can retry if you lose in journey).

And here's a blog I wrote about it: alexculafi.com/f/a-frighten...