Crash TE

I just had to close a pop-up ad from the federal government trying to sell me special 250th anniversary coins. Are you people serious? You’re selling ad space to this federal government? That’s the last straw, I’m never clicking on this website ever again.

It took me about 6.5 minutes to read this article. During that time I had to close a total of 20 different pop-up ads. I am so close to never clicking on this website again.

also the piece bugged me because some of these new “innovations” were present in the HD-2D DQ 3, which was two remakes ago. And why are you looking forward to this more than you did the Erdrick trilogy? That little shady quip could have used some context.

I really don't get it. Is this about the diagonal pogo? You know the other crests have a different pogo right? But just spend half an hour with it and it becomes second nature (though I had to play with an 8bitdo controller instead of the pro controller for a better dpad, so maybe that's a decent counterargument). In any case, I didn't think this game was any harder than Eldin Ring, which won GOTY right? It certainly was not as hard as Bloodborne or Sekiro, and maybe the latter was too hard for GOTY but the former won that award from several sites including Eurogamer, Destruction, Edge etc.

This makes me more and more frustrated as I write this. Maybe I'm just particularly good at 2D action platformers, but nothing in Silksong came close to being as difficult as The Shadows of Yharnam or Father Gascoigne.

Here’s a tip for professional writers (fwiw I am also a professional writer): Don’t ever write the phrase “there is no middle ground” or “everyone either loves it or hates it” because it will NEVER be true. Every single time I read that sentence - every single time - my own opinion falls somewhere in the gulf between the two binary choices the writer has laid out. The same is true here - I thought FFXII’s gambit system was great, but it was certainly not my favorite FF combat system and I’m totally fine that they never revisited it.

Bring Back Nuance! Please for the love of whatever

Silksong was always going to pull ahead of Hades 2. Mostly because it's been way more time since Hollow Knight vs Hades, so Silksong feels like a fresher, less familiar experience. But also because I've seen lots of critiques of Hades 2's story, which say it's less tight and compelling than Hades. The only criticism people can find for Silksong is that it's too hard, which is 1) not true, and 2) not a real criticism, because that's exactly what the developers set out to do. You can dislike the game because it's too hard for you, but it's not valid to criticize the game for that reason, that's just the developer's design.

I gotta go back to Expedition 33, but it didn't totally grab me in the first hour so Silksong is easily the GoTY for me rn.