I love a side-scrolling platformer video game. I love the first Yooka-Laylee game. I love Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair...or, at least all but the last 10 minutes I played of it.
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Yakuza Kiwami isn't exactly a fun game. It's a game that leverages many different things, in small amounts, to pull the player through. It's a bit funny, its combat is a bit good, its narrative is a bit engaging, and its cutscenes are a bit long (this last "bit" is sarcastic; the cut-scenes are very long). Yes, I finished the game, so it has to have some merits. But I won't be playing any of the other Yakuza games.
Untitled Goose Game is my favorite type of game. It's a video game that takes a small number of mechanics and stretches them in increasingly chaotic ways. Here, you play as a goose with the ability to waddle, honk, and pick things up. Your mission: sew the seeds of confusion among the citizens of a small town. You know, goose stuff. Here's the essay I mentioned: https://calebjross.com/being-a-ninja-is-easy-in-a-world-full-of-idiots/
The remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is here and it is amazing. But, having not played the orignal since I was a child, I was surprised by the story. It's,well, it's pretty sad.
Super Metroid is one of my very favorite games. It has been a favorite until fairly recently, in fact. This last few years of amazing game releases has pushed Super Metroid down a few spots. But it's still one of the very best video games of all time.
I used to write a lot of fiction. For about 10 years of my life, that's all I did creatively. Now, I mostly write non-fiction and video scripts. In this video, I pick up my books for the first time in years and try to recall what they are about. It's weird to think a writer could forget something seemingly so big and important as one of their own books. Maybe it is weird, and I'm just bad a memory. Link where you can buy the books: https://calebjross.com/works/booklength/
I had a lot of fun with Dishonored. Once I decided that taking a passive approach with all the sneaking and stealthy thing wasn’t for me, I went the opposite route and ended up really falling into the warm embrace of Dishonored. Will I play Dishonored 2? Eventually. But not yet.