Restarted more than resumed, really. Just 30 minutes in, the last time. Gotten a good chunk now, though, so looking like I'll keep playing.

It's doing some interesting things so far to keep me engaged beyond triggering some pale version of nostalgia.

It's a great game. The production is more impressive than Control, no question, but I think I was slightly more compelled by the actual events in Control's story. So I kind of come out of this having enjoyed both of them about the same.

The Final Draft thing is a little quirky. Not sure I'm quite on board with needing to replay the entire game to see the "true ending". But since I don't actually need to do that, I'll let it slide.

I know one thing. I'll play the next Remedy game.

Kinda alright? It's just compromised by a presentation that's... nothing. You could practically do anything given the source material, and I don't think they took much of a risk.

If I exclusively cared about gameplay, I'd probably have a decent time. But I like risks.

I always appreciate when someone is clearly executing on a specific idea. It's admirable.

I'm not always able to communicate with that idea, or maybe it's being conveyed in a language I understand. But that's alright. Not everything's for everyone.

This does next to nothing for me, in other words.

hope they figure out a shader pre-compilation process

I don't see any STALKER here at all. It's more or less an uncluttered path from HL2 to this. Not bad, just not especially compelling.

Yeah, not really having enough fun to keep playing.

Through no fault of its own, I dropped Elden Ring a month into playing it, roughly 100 hours deep. I have returned.

I guess it makes sense, I ended up diving back into the first Dark Souls four years later to round it out, and on that scale I'm not doing so bad.

Appreciate what this is trying to be, but I disagree with some of the choices they've made. And I don't think I have the patience for a player character this agonizingly slow.

Really good. Might pick it back up at some point to do the challenge mode.

Almost didn't play it due to my lack of familiarity with the series, but glad I did.

1:00:54.35
didn't have the timer enabled, and just happened to throw in the towel at exactly 1 hour. those 60 minutes and change pretty much vanished into the ether. fun little thing

my eyes are tired now

Relatively sure I can see why people love it, just not connecting with me.

very simple, but it's relatively easy to see the Blendo of it all

i do gotta get better at math, can't argue with that

Got clotheslined by a really frustrating bug my first time through the PC version. Hours into it. Gonna give it another shot.

Fingers crossed.

Edit: Nope. Easily one of the most strange bugs I've encountered. Ah well.

the writing is far from the totality of this game's bizarre mediocrity. the cutscenes are genuinely some of the worst I've ever seen, and the opening section is intensely tedious

but also yes, the writing is challenging. it's kinda weird how crass she is? sincerely, I love swearing, but this girl makes me me feel like a prude. I'm assuming it's to set up a shift, where she's excessively caustic and then progressively softens, which could be fine, I just... can't get attached to someone this unlikable

very good cat

even doing my best to put aside my feelings on real world law enforcement, the vibes in this game are fucking grody, dude

i don't even say shit like that, that's how off-putting it is