Dark Souls: Remastered – Part 2 (and 2.5)
One of the issues I was concerned about starting this series is the fact that it is only entertaining to watch someone fail a certain segment of a game for so long. For a...
Category: Dark Souls
Dark Souls: Remastered – Part 1
Look, I don’t want to brag or anything – but this is the second whole week that I’ve kept to my whole ‘playing to a schedule‘ thing. To be sure, last week ran into...
Dark Souls: Remastered – Getting Setup
Just a few days ago I was thinking out loud about playing to a schedule. And my bemusement/jealousy of those that can do it consistently. I toyed with the idea of picking up some...
Five Favourite Game Series
Krikket posted on her five favourite game series after seeing a tweet doing the rounds asking the same. She thought it a great blog post prompt — and so do I. Except even after...
Difficulty of a Different Kind
Frostilyte has written a plea for games to consider using a difficulty system more akin to Slay the Spire’s. By which he means a fairly granular and layered difficulty system. When you complete the...
Remnant vs. Dark Souls
Remnant: From the Ashes is commonly described as ‘Dark Souls with Guns’ which isn’t entirely unfair. It shares the bonfire mechanic (now Crystals) where if you rest all enemies in the area respawns, with...
My Favourites of the Passing Decade
These games of the year and decade lists started coming out quite early, and it really stressed me out! THERE WERE STILL MORE GAMES TO RELEASE! And alright, alright — as it turned out,...
When First Impressions Don’t Last
It doesn’t happen incredibly frequently, but it’s happened often enough that I’m absolutely convinced that it’s a ‘thing’. Over the last few days I’ve had it happen with two games in quick succession which...
