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So, last week I talked about how RE9 felt like 2 games superglued together. Since then I’ve played through the game 3 more times in the hunt for the platinum trophy and I am fully committing to what I wrote before. Leon’s sections of the game are an action-packed blast akin to RE2make and REm4ke. It still keeps the weird particularities of Resident Evil games’ identity but isn’t exactly hard. Grace’s sections are scary and have you feeling underprepared and nervous at all times. It’s a very entertaining, though messy experience.

I’m basically bedridden with the man flu right now and don’t have much else I want to discuss, so I will instead ask you all a question. What’s you’re favorite 7 out of 10 game? Like, you know it’s objectively not great but you still love it anyway for whatever reason.

Ethan Rodgers

This “review” will be spoiler free for Resident Evil Requiem.

I rarely preorder games anymore. I’ve learned to wait to see if a game turns out to be a disaster or if I lose interest. My backlog is big enough. I don’t need to add to it and waste money at the same time. On this particular release I deviated from that path for Resident Evil: Requiem because I’ve grown very attached to the series in the recent past. Also the few trailers I ended up seeing sold me on it. Now that I’ve gotten the game and gotten through to the end of it, I’m left conflicted. I enjoyed my time, but was the game actually good or do I just love the IP?

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “I Can’t Decide If I Like Resident Evil 9”

Ethan Rodgers

So, my friends and I have been waiting for the newest “last” Terraria update to come out and it finally arrived. The timing was terrible, though. We all had our own fixations and real life fun things keeping us busy so we didn’t get the opportunity to play together until this week. Now having had some experience with my buddies and on my own solo worlds, I have to say it has really taken me back.

When Terraria first came out in 2011 I was in college. I was with my ex. I was just getting into PC gaming after building a PC with a friend. I was living with my parents but spending as little time at home as possible because that life was hell. I had no money. I had no job. I had no life, really. Now, 15 years later I have an incredible wife, new friends, new hobbies and interests. I don’t have much in common with my past self. I don’t like my past self. And yet Terraria takes me back in time to the simple pleasures of watching some good background content on YouTube or Netflix and spending hours mining away. It’s incredibly fun visiting a classic that happens to be one of my favorite games of all time and still having some of that wonder of new things in the game to discover.

In my DLC article recently I discussed the current trend of Indie games being supported long after the normal lifespan of your average game and Terraria is a perfect example. It’s 15 years later and they still haven’t stopped cranking out free content for us. There have been multiple “final” updates that get followed up with more additions. It’s not just regular content updates either. The game has had tons of quality of life improvements too. Terraria has relatively seamlessly kept up with modern expectations in gaming and that makes it an easy recommendation for the group to go back to every once and a while.

This might be a short post but take it as a prompt to spend some time revisiting a classic with some friends. Also last week’s article was basically novel length, I’m giving myself a bit of a reprieve. <3

Ethan Rodgers