the personal blog of the "no longer in their 20s" owner of the above blog, where i:
• play and write about video games (usually old ones i guess but anything goes)
• go thrifting for cool electronics / things that deserve to be tinkered with and fixed
• ignore my unimportant job as much as i can
• melt my brain with the weed (mute "#weed log" to mute me posting while high if you want)
in that order
not really nsfw but no minors please and thank
man, right after i said "the game is just becoming a mash-fest" in the previous post, the cave of wisdom comes up and actually makes valiant attempts at trying to knock me on my ass. and the labyrinth proper even more so! which is good! i like a challenge in my video games! i've played all three mainline tetris the grandmaster games for several years! (and, while i can approach an S9 grade in TGM2+, i'm probably nowhere close to getting a GM grade)
i'm not usually one to drop a game unless i've royally screwed up (softlocked fallout 1 save, i'll restart it eventually) or i reaaaaally do not vibe with it (i can't even think of a recent example for this?). i'll even finish eurojank sludge like indiana jones and the last crusade (genesis) that reminds me of jeremy parish's opening words on kung-fu heroes (NES):
"All video games are worthy of discussion and study, but are all games necessarily worthy of commercial release?
accidentally burying the lead aside, shining in the darkness has entered neither of these camps, and i don't really expect it to. however, the impression of this game that is there was partially self-imposed.
the very last game i finished for 2022 was sword of vermillion for the genesis. on my Patented 7 Point Scale (from 3 to -3, best to worst, i give each number a funny little title but it basically boils down to that) it got a 0. i played it without consulting the internet at all, and it scores mainly due to how absolutely relentlessly cruel it is to the player in it's "story", so much so it wraps around into comedy (without spoiling much, it does at least 3 different rug pull attempts just to fuck with you and how comfortable you think you are in standard RPG progression, and one that involves the titular sword should probably be studied on how fucking stupidly obtuse it is)