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Sony had the temerity to ask me for feedback on the purchase of another consumer item unrelated to games. I started off with the poetic
statement "I wouldn't even know about the rest of the Sony Electronics
product line if I weren't a Playstation customer" and it just went
downhill from there. To be clear, this is something I committed to
buying before the announcement that they were ending disc game media so
I also exercised my inalienable right to snark in telling them that they already have my money, but now I can't trust them not to lock hardware functionality behind a paywall or a subscription. I'm aware that survey
tools like Qualtrics exist to bolster decisions already made and not to inspire course corrections, so I'm under no delusion that anything I say
to Sony's trusted third party is going to make any difference at all.

Play:
--=--

Sword of the Necromancer Resurrection (PS5) - The highlight of the
weekend. This is a fully 3D-rendered remaster of the original game,
which was a kind of sprite-y dungeon crawler with the kind of indie-game
plot that you've seen a million times before. I never played that
original game partly because of those very thin merits, but this newer
game is quite juicy. It's simple but it's well designed, and it's not overwhelming you with narrative that's irrelevant or play mechanisms
that are too fiddly. I like that the disc comes with the original game
and one of the side chapters.

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (PS5) - Haven't played a whole lot of
it, but I love the wordless character introduction. Our hero Nowa stands
up for the innocent and the downtrodden, and that's all communicated
because he tosses a rock at a bird of prey attempting to hassle a
smaller and weaker songbird. He then gets a Disney princess-styled show
of affection and gratitude from the smaller creature so that he can
wander back out of the field of focus and join the main narrative
already in progress. I'm playing with English voices because I want to
hear all of the stupid accents they used to give each set of characters
proper role shorthand. So it's fascinating to me for all the characters
with Asian names to have American accents, and for the Germanic
Scandi-Nordic names to all be attached to plummy British accents.

Want:
--=--

Railroads Online Pioneer Edition (PS5) - Disc was on sale at VGP. It's
the daddiest of dad games, where you build a model train set and then
show it off to all your pathetic dad gamer friends. Or more likely, play
by yourself because nobody seems to own this game on console.

Bin:
-==-

Nothing game-related.

-KKC, who doesn't trust VPN services.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

Grow Home (PC) - replayed this (having originally played it on PS4),
at least to the basic finish. The whole "low-poly wobbly climbing
robot commandeers giant plant growth spurts to get back to its
spaceship" thing may be the most well-worn of tropes, but I still like
the game even so. :-)

Want:

Having just seen a certain movie, maybe to replay Super Mario Galaxy.

Railroads Online Pioneer Edition (PS5) - Disc was on sale at VGP. It's
the daddiest of dad games, where you build a model train set

I'm torn on whether simulated trains or simulated model trains would
be nerdier. But hopefully a Lego-game version of this gets emulated in
future - with the emulator being in AppImage form and running in a VM, obviously - just to really melt our brains with all the layers of
abstraction. I'm tempted to balance my PC on top of four elephants
standing on an infinite stack of turtles in readiness, but then again,
the tax implications of a housed infinity are probably not great.

Bin:

Nothing.

-Rus.
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