Been a funny kinda day 😂 weather has been utterly bipolar - blinded by sunshine on the way work, hail almost smashed the office window this afternoon, and then I thought I was legit gonna get blown into Hanley Forest Park lake on my way home from work! 😬 I messaged kiddo and she's left me on read... 🥴 so I've spent most my evening watching Memeulous on YouTube and then Dawson's Creek reruns whilst failing to pick a new game to start... 🙈 and finally I've settled on The Last Guardian since it's only a little single player title! 🎮
Spare the rod, spoil the child. Charlie has been bought a PS5 because... well... because it's Monday April 15th of course! A day with no significance whatsoever! I love when my tax money is given to people who don't work by the Government, only for them to senselessly spoil their kids with it at my expense, when I can't afford to spoil my own child (or myself for that matter) despite working 40hrs a week! 🥴
[Playing The Last Guardian]
First and foremost, let me begin by saying that Trico is both adorable and terrifying. It's like an XL Bully that you want to befriend; you stroke it cautiously, yet cannot ignore the possibility it may randomly snap and tear your face off at any moment. The game, though beautiful in design, does a spectacular job of no hand-holding whatsoever; I've already got frustrated enough to Google how to get past a section because the hint kept telling me to climb, but I could not find anything to climb. Turned out, I didn't need to climb; the hint was misleading to say the least. The path so far it has been relatively linear, unsure if that's how it remains throughout, but exploration feels faux organic - it seems like you're following your own intuition and figuring it out, but there really is no other way to proceed so eventually you're always going to end up being correct. The game has a constant tension, like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop... or my companion to maul me... I'm intrigued, but by no means blown away.
