T w e n t y S i d e d
This week is just Balders Gate 3.
Only a bit into act three so far, I don’t think we’ve gotten into the city properly. So far we’ve fought a clown, I angered a genie and got teleported to a jungle full of dinosaurs, and helped solve a murder.
We didn’t actually get that far, because we also started an honor mode playthrough, so no loading if there’s a mess up and if the whole party dies it’s over. To make things easier we’ve kept one party member at camp to resurrect everyone if there’s a party wipeout. It does cost money to res people and it obviously has the drawback of only three characters in a fight instead of four. We’re currently in the underdark, and about to finish the first half of it. The biggest challenge so far was getting to level four. There are a lot of fights that are too dangerous to do at level three on this difficulty, but needed to be done to get that level.
What’s everyone up to this week?
Lost Laughs in Leisure Suit Larry
Why was this classic adventure game so funny in the 80's, and why did it stop being funny?
Civilization VI
I'm a very casual fan of the series, but I gave Civilization VI a look to see what was up with this nuclear war simulator.
Why The Christmas Shopping Season is Worse Every Year
Everyone hates Black Friday sales. Even retailers! So why does it exist?
The Gradient of Plot Holes
Most stories have plot holes. The failure isn't that they exist, it's when you notice them while immersed in the story.
What is Piracy?
It seems like a simple question, but it turns out everyone has a different idea of right and wrong in the digital world.
Still going with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I’m on Act III now, so I can finally reach the new DLC content, but man, I’m seriously underleveled. In my two previous playthroughs whenever I reached this part I could breeze through some of the optional bosses but now they’re kicking my ass. This is probably because I raced through the first two acts, leaving a lot of the optional content behind, so now I’m gonna have to do some of that stuff before. I’m told some of the new fights are a bit brutal, so I don’t want to go there until I reach at least a certain level.
Getting a bit frustrated with Metroid Prime Remastered. I had issues with the 4th title, but it’s clear there’s a lot of design choices made here that have been streamlined there. It’s possible to reach a certain area in this game before you have the necessary powerups, but backtracking through it is nearly impossible, so now I have to take the long route to reach where I was before or else I just cannot proceed. And by God the controls for using the map are impossible to get used to. I feel someone with a normal Switch can have a better time by simply swapping joycons when looking at the map, but I cannot do that with my Switch Lite. I don’t understand why Nintendo couldn’t do a normal map movement for this game. It’s a remaster, not a port. There are a bunch of control options for the actual game, but the map is painfully unintuitive.