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sideways• Successfully ran through Uncharted 1 a second time, and found it so surprisingly simple that I fired up Uncharted 2 and ended up reaching a new milestone in my gaming sphere: completing a game on hard mode. Am I absurdly chuffed about this? Yes, yes I am. I have a complicated relationship with "being a gamer" that is in no small part linked to being a woman and all the discourse that surrounds "girl gamers", and it means there is a streak of proud defiance after years of hastily explaining that I'm really just a casual player. I am still a fairly casual player, mind, but - it's nice to have this.
• I've been meaning to play Journey for a long time and finally picked it up in the Easter sale. What an utterly gorgeous little game. I thought perhaps it would have aged since the heyday that saw it declared One Of The Best Games Ever, but its sweetly simplistic style has given it an ageless quality that means the experience remains intact. The first time I played through it, I did so mostly solo as no one I ran into was interested in sticking together, but that meant I was free to explore and puzzle at my own rate so it worked out well. The second time I did find a partner only three sections in with whom I journeyed through to the very end, and my god I had misty eyes by the conclusion. We drew interlocking hearts in the snow as a farewell.
• My successes with Uncharted 2 prompted me to give Bioshock a go, a game which I once found far too intimidating and scary to play myself, though I watched a playthrough out of interest in the plot. I'm proceeding competently but having trouble being interested enough to stick with it. The gameplay isn't hugely my thing and I already know the story, so... eh. Half wondering if I shouldn't try Bioshock 2 instead, since I don't know much about that one. (I bought the trio of games on sale ages ago; they're sitting there regardless.)
• It's been a very game-y few weeks.
• Watched Castlevania, gory as all get-out but funnier than I expected - which all made sense the second I realised it was written by Warren Ellis. (I followed FreakAngels diligently back in the day.) Second season was a little slow, but all action scenes were [chef kiss]. Definitely prime OT3 material between the mains, good lord.
• Saw Captain Marvel and liked it. It didn't blow me away but it was pleasing and I like Brie Larson as an actress in general. My brother did not love the film - he found Carol's dry confidence bland and uninteresting - but I've seen enough of her in the comics to find it an appropriate adaptation.
• I'll probably be seeing Endgame next weekend. I didn't... really get a lot of enjoyment out of Infinity War so I'm a long way from hyped, but I've had enough fun with the MCU over the years that I'll probably get some wistful feelings, and otherwise it's just nice to do things with my friend. I haven't been trying hard to dodge spoilers but have somehow mostly succeeded until very recently, when one or two "spoiler-free" comments nonetheless managed to leave me with heavy suspicions about something. Malesh. Not that fussed.
• Continued to keep accidentally reading The Circle Opens to the point where I re-read the whole damn series. Welp.
• Also accidentally read a, like, 300k Assassin's Creed fanfic duology despite having never played any of the games? Don't look at me like that, I don't bloody know how it happened either. I just opened a fic written by a friend-of-a-fandom-friend out of curiosity about their style, and suddenly I was ten chapters deep in a deeply messed up slowburn relationship between two assassins. This is the quicksand the cartoons warned me about.
• I've been meaning to play Journey for a long time and finally picked it up in the Easter sale. What an utterly gorgeous little game. I thought perhaps it would have aged since the heyday that saw it declared One Of The Best Games Ever, but its sweetly simplistic style has given it an ageless quality that means the experience remains intact. The first time I played through it, I did so mostly solo as no one I ran into was interested in sticking together, but that meant I was free to explore and puzzle at my own rate so it worked out well. The second time I did find a partner only three sections in with whom I journeyed through to the very end, and my god I had misty eyes by the conclusion. We drew interlocking hearts in the snow as a farewell.
• My successes with Uncharted 2 prompted me to give Bioshock a go, a game which I once found far too intimidating and scary to play myself, though I watched a playthrough out of interest in the plot. I'm proceeding competently but having trouble being interested enough to stick with it. The gameplay isn't hugely my thing and I already know the story, so... eh. Half wondering if I shouldn't try Bioshock 2 instead, since I don't know much about that one. (I bought the trio of games on sale ages ago; they're sitting there regardless.)
• It's been a very game-y few weeks.
• Watched Castlevania, gory as all get-out but funnier than I expected - which all made sense the second I realised it was written by Warren Ellis. (I followed FreakAngels diligently back in the day.) Second season was a little slow, but all action scenes were [chef kiss]. Definitely prime OT3 material between the mains, good lord.
• Saw Captain Marvel and liked it. It didn't blow me away but it was pleasing and I like Brie Larson as an actress in general. My brother did not love the film - he found Carol's dry confidence bland and uninteresting - but I've seen enough of her in the comics to find it an appropriate adaptation.
• I'll probably be seeing Endgame next weekend. I didn't... really get a lot of enjoyment out of Infinity War so I'm a long way from hyped, but I've had enough fun with the MCU over the years that I'll probably get some wistful feelings, and otherwise it's just nice to do things with my friend. I haven't been trying hard to dodge spoilers but have somehow mostly succeeded until very recently, when one or two "spoiler-free" comments nonetheless managed to leave me with heavy suspicions about something. Malesh. Not that fussed.
• Continued to keep accidentally reading The Circle Opens to the point where I re-read the whole damn series. Welp.
• Also accidentally read a, like, 300k Assassin's Creed fanfic duology despite having never played any of the games? Don't look at me like that, I don't bloody know how it happened either. I just opened a fic written by a friend-of-a-fandom-friend out of curiosity about their style, and suddenly I was ten chapters deep in a deeply messed up slowburn relationship between two assassins. This is the quicksand the cartoons warned me about.
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Date: 2019-05-05 11:11 am (UTC)Do you have a fic you'd recommend to people whether they knew the series or not? I definitely have a few that I think stand perfectly well on their own merit.
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Date: 2019-05-19 05:49 pm (UTC)And I would recommend a series about a Mad Scientist and his closeted not-boyfriend based on Reanimator. I'm an absolute sucker for Monsters in Love.
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Date: 2019-05-20 04:06 am (UTC)And ooh, hit me with it. Lose nothing by giving it a try!