At 4:33 I looked up past my phone briefly, forgot Ben was lower right instead of lower center, looked back down at “Ben” in lower center and freaked out.
I finally finished all this content. It was a lot. Overall, I enjoyed it. I do miss the negative categories though - I hope they come back.
Outer Wilds is a good game, but wasn’t the best game for me. It’s the only game in a long time that actively gave me motion sickness. The controls were a hot mess. On top of that, the story isn’t really that impactful. If you read a couple science fiction books a year, you might even feel the story is trite at best.
I was so angered by the controls and the motion sickness that I just went and watched a Watch It Played on YouTube to see what I was missing. That improved my overall opinion of the game, for sure. But to talk about it as “one of my favorite of all time” is just, to use Brad’s words, insane. Many games *this year* had better stories, game play, and emotional punch. Including FE, which didn’t even make their list. In the end, it’s *their* game of the year, so it’s the exact right choice. Just not one I can fully get on board with.
Hell yeah crosswords. You’ll be doing Thursday soon. But the step from there to Friday and then to Saturday is massive. Saturday is just impossible for mortals.
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