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[Starfield] because Bethesda games are extremely brain-off and mods are finally here.
Also because I don't wanna burn out on [FFXIV] with [Dawntrail] just two weeks away.
Shadow the Hedgehog 👿🦔 did the dark routes and neutral routes, gonna do the hero routes tomorrow probably!
Monster Hunter: World :) Just finished the base game, so I'll be going into Iceborne very soon! Also vibrating out of my physical form at FFXIV/Dawntrail in two weeks x3
The Sexy Brutale
You're lying on the floor in the chapel of a monstrously wealthy gambler's casino-mansion.
You're dead.
A mysterious woman with no skin, all muscle and sinew, bloody hair pooling behind her, touches your mask leaving her bloody handprint across it.
You wake up. She explains that this gift is all she can do for you and hands you a broken gold pocket watch. It can rewind time by a few hours back to 12:00 noon on Saturday over and over and over. She says if you can somehow get the aid of its creator, you may be able to do more. You hear a gunshot in the distance.
You're Lafcaido Boone, the preacher, and you wake up next to a grandfather clock in the lounge in the chapel of a monstrously wealthy gambler's casino-mansion...
The Sexy Brutale is a multiple murder mystery set in an impossibly ostentatious casino-mansion, the eponymous Sexy Brutale. You live out the final 12 hours of a masquerade party where each one of the guests meets a gruesome fate, over and over. In order to unlock more of the casino's secrets and push forward, you'll need to save them and discover the plot behind it all...
I honestly had a lot of fun with this one. The sound design is great, the mansion is a lot of fun to explore and the guests and goons have neat little stories to uncover as you spy on them to try to work out what to do next.
I thought the puzzles were very much on the easy side - the solution is pretty clearly telegraphed by the time you've watched the first loop of each guest's scenario. That's not necessarily bad, it makes it a pretty chill game to play - it's just maybe not going to satisfy if you're looking for a galaxy brain game.
My one real complaint is that I thought the scenarios themselves each felt like they were teaching you about a new mechanic or event, but the finale falls flat in terms of drawing it together, and left me wanting a more satisfying conclusion. But it was still overall enjoyable and I'm glad I finally got around to playing this from my backlog list.
I'm excited to check out the DLC (I know nothing about it and that's how I like it) so I figured I'd make a new character and re-familiarize myself with the game using a build I rarely get to try: knives and parries! And it's a ton of fun!
(...once I got past the frustrating speed bumps of re-learning a bunch of stuff previous Souls games had taught me but which have been deprecated or otherwise changed in a way that obsoletes my muscle memory)
Looking forward to seeing how far blood, knives and magic will get me in the new chapter of this game I really like!
The finale of the Light & Darkness saga was an emotional ending to a story I've been playing for the last decade.
