Souls Like Strings

Unfinished, but doesn't need to be

Why

• Unique art direction looks amazing
• Bosses especially have cool designs, and some have interesting mechanics
• Cool lil' easter eggs to find in each level

Why Not

• Enemy placement is a bit Dark-Souls-2-like at times

Impressions

I took one look at the screenshots and knew I was playing this one, the sketched aesthetic of the bosses really appeals to me. The rest of the game's art didn't disappoint either; the small cast of enemies each have interesting designs and the background art matches the overall aesthetic while providing...

A Major swanSong

Why

• Feels like an alternate version of the main game
• Major Song is a badass in her own, completely different way
• Arguably more complex & difficult than the base game

Why Not

• Lacks the strong story which made the main game so special
• Set in a factory, so no stunningly detailed backgrounds to admire

Impressions

I was fortunate enough to play Sanabi after the DLC released, so I got to go straight from getting my ass kicked by Major Song to kicking ass as her. It's pretty shocking how differently...

Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski.

Not sure how to feel about this one

On one hand, 12 strangers getting on a bus for a cross-country roadtrip ending in their collective suicide by driving into the ocean is a pretty compelling setup. On the other, the same things which make it compelling also make it very difficult to pull off. I'm not an author, so I'm not sure how a book like this should be written, but IMO this isn't it.

The overall structure is there I think; you have a varied group of people...

• If your Jest tests are hanging indefinitely, it might be a render loop caused by lazy and state/observable updates
  • 'maybe' being the operative word, I still don't properly understand why that was happening
  • but the actual behaviour was never broken and removing lazy fixed it after hours of wall head-butting, so I'll take it
• Honeycomb does not let you have an SLO covering two separate endpoints, e.g. comparing the successful requests for OTPs to successful uses
  • Seems like a useful feature for... pretty much everything
  • There are a lot of cases where you want compare...

Cyberpunk revenge Spiderman

Why

• Stunningly detailed pixel art
• Unique movement mechanics feel amazing
• Excellent pacing between gameplay and story
• The story actually rivals the gameplay for best part

Why Not

• There's definitely an initial adjustment period to the movement
• This is a cyberpunk setting, it's pretty dark

Impressions

I came into this expecting a fun action platformer, and for the first ~6 hours that's exactly what I got, with a bonus serving of amazingly detailed pixel art. The core mechanic of grappling feels amazing once you get used to it, thought that took me...