Oh wait, this season's ending in a couple hours? Okay, so I'm usually pretty defensive of Fortnite, it's probably the best live service game out there right now (although you wouldn't expect that to be a very hard bar to clear). But this season kinda sucked, guys.

Still not a fan of the Chapter 5 map, with the only new stuff here mostly being relegated to the corners (and a lot of the locations still feeling like empty repeats of one another), and the lack of reliable weapon upgrade spots made games feel like a lot more of a gamble than they already are. The mythology-based items are all mostly bad, with the only stuff really worth going for being the coins, which are often too hard to bother with in solo and fairly inconsequential in squads. The new shotgun was pretty good for a bit but it got nerfed into the ground really quickly, same goes with the wings.

It's live service so there's a chance that this secretly got a lot better in its back half, but it says something that this is the first Fortnite season in, like, 2 years that I've completely tapped out of halfway through, not even bothering to make back the vbucks on my battle pass. Really hoping for some big sweeping changes next season, as chapters have definitely been saved before even when their base map(s) showed very little promise.

Very bizarre Arkanoid clone. Honestly kinda resembles a shmup a lot of the time, especially once you use your special ability, which splits one of the balls into probably like 20. You really don't have to use it much to trivialize it though, and the game is very very easy, even on a single credit. Still does quite a lot to really make a brick breaking game feel like a true action game, though, and it's fun enough to be worth a look if you're interested in these kinds of games.

That soundtrack though, lol. https://twitter.com/FLOOR_BABA/status/1396325087360454657