Books

I went through the second book of The deed of Paksenarrion divided allegiances and this one has an even more go directly to the next one ending than the first one, so I went straight into starting to read Oath of gold It’s weird how the first book in the series left so much more of an impression on me than the latter parts, I guess I didn’t enjoy the ending much, since I can’t remember anything of it, but the journey there is quite great. The second book was good, but it doesn’t really reach up to how much I enjoy the first one, it just really is enjoyable. And even though the happenings can be kind of grim it never really stops being kind of cozy.

So I’ll keep reading this one towards the end and see why I don’t remember anything past the point that I currently am in the book.

Games

This week has been more or less one thing, and one thing only when it comes to games, silksong it’s a wonderful metroidvania so far, and I’m really enjoying it, it’s kind of nice not having levelling and such in it, it makes me less worried if I’m prepared enough, and I can focusing on trying to deal with what’s in front of me instead.

I really enjoy the bossfights in this game, and I have never really enjoyed them in other games, I think it has something to do with them being very well telegraphed, and following good fun patterns that you can learn, so after some tries, you learn the patterns, and the tells, and you execute the pattern when you see the tell, which often is complicated by the pattern being a bit variable or half random, but it’s really fun. I’m struggling more with the arena battles, where you’re locked in a room, and groups of enemies are spawning in, since it’s so much to focus on and deal with it just feels more chaotic and harder to deal with.

The one thing that I would criticise silksong for is that it’s kind of hard to know what is on the path where you have to get through something, and what is optional extra challenge. I often am unsure, or I see it first then when I’ve gotten through it, but I’m not sure if that is intentional or not.

I’ll probably be going on with this for a while, not being that great with games, I struggle at points, and use some off time to gather some resources before trying again, but when just the act of moving around, and doing basic stuff is as fun as it is in this game I don’t really care, I’m just having fun playing, so what if I use longer, that’s just more enjoyment for me.

It feels like many of the bossfights also have their own music going on, which is really fun too, it just makes the whole thing keep from being stale. I think I could be gushing about this thing for so long, so I’d better stop before it gets too tedious.

Media

I’ve been kind of wanting to listen to some more silk-song discussions, and the one episode of into the aether and wavelengths talking about it kind of weren’t enough yet, but we’ll see how they are going along, I also really enjoyed the segment of video game podtimism that was talking about it, so quite a lot of fun there.

Geowizard released the last episode of his no-roads mission through London, which I’m really looking forward to watching in the evening, it’s just a lot of fun, and the guy is really charming, he just makes things fun to watch.

This week’s podcast in general apart from that has been more of the normal, and I’ve been kind of more excited to go back to listening to some of the old videogame podtimism episodes that I have. I guess it’s still kind of all in a bit of a funk, but I hope things will do better as time goes along.