I’ve been playing a lot of Atlus’s new release, Metaphor: Refantazio (Metaphor). It’s been interesting to see them grapple a lot with some of the same things I’ve been thinking about in Roll for the Gods. I’m going to focus in on one of them here: the ability to instantly…
ChoiceScript Game Guides
Last year, I spent some time diving into the Choice of Games/Hosted Games catalog, researching how their games recognized player choice and how popular stories achieved player buy in. Like I mentioned in my Game of the Year post, these games are extremely minimalist: just text on a plain background…
The Ten Best* Games of 2023 that I Played** (for the First Time***)
These are some of my favorite video game experiences over the last year. Part of starting this blog was to do some writing on other topics and build up a record of my thoughts over time. What better way to do that than make a list? Writing up the blurbs…
20 Minutes Till Dawn: Implicit Synergies
During the November Steam sale, I picked up the bullet heaven game 20 Minutes Till Dawn (20MTD). I was drawn in by the limited color scheme and its striking use of red accents. But after playing it, what I ended up liking the most was how it builds up a…