I write this one a day later than normal, it’s easter, that strange time where the vacation days sneak up on me, so an extra day off on monday, which was nice. It also really helps that the weather has been amazing which has been really nice, so I had some good days being quite a bit outside and just enjoying the nice weather, and not having to have a jacket on.

Books

I dropped Green Mars last week on Monday, it was a pain to trudge through, and just got worse, I didn’t like that nothing could be solved without an american so I stopped reading at 60% it just wasn’t worth it for me.

I started reading Doubleblind by Ann Aguirre, and I have been enjoying this one a lot more, it’s also full of politics, but just writes people way better than the Mars-books ever did. I’m still having a bit of a hangover from struggling so I catch myself procrastrinating even though I’m not reading that book anymore, but I’m really enjoying this one, it’s a lot more fun.

Yesterday I also had an excellent time reading in a park with people around, and it was wonderful, just enjoying the nice weather and the atmosphere. It was wonderful.

Games

For most of the week I’ve been playing Afterimage A metroidvania, I got pretty far in it a year or two ago, and got stuck on a boss, I started a new game, and have been quite enjoying it, yesterday I was a bit overwhelmed with how huge the game is, so I will probably take a little break again and play something else for a while, but this is a game that is really fun when one is in the mood for exploration, it’s really nice looking, but the story is gobbeldigook, I’m not sure if it’s the trans/localisation that is weird or if the story just isn’t great, but I just ignore all the text, and hope that I get through.

Yesterday I also remembered that I have Iconoclasts downloaded, and it’s a fun mostly platformer metroidvania-ish game, and I started that one again as well, just to have something a bit smaller and more guided of an experience, and I’m having quite a lot of fun starting out with it.

Over the weekend I was taste-testing some games too. One thing that I have noticed is that I have become way worse at playing metroidvanias and action games on a keyboard than what I used to be, it just feels a bit better playing on a controller. I tried out Mio a future metroidvania where you play a droid on a spaceship, I did get a bit into it, but it’s one that feels really awkward on a keyboard for me, so I’m struggling with it there, it does look really beautiful though which is a huge plus. Another one is Bo: Path of the teal lotus which very much feels like a mix between hollow knight and ori, with a very nice art style, they both feel pretty good, and are probably something that I will try out.

I also taste tested Astral Ascent which is more of a roguelike brawler, and it’s one that I’m not quite sure about, it feels really fun in the fights, but it kind of feels like it’s a bit much with how it does magic, it’s hard to keep in my brain when mostly focusing on evading and fighting things it’s hard to keep that in mind as well, but it’s quite interesting, so if it gets onto a good sale, maybe I will try it out.

Media

I finished out my backlog listening of Video Game podtimism and added press start to the rotation this week, I also kind of have been in the mood for some more Into the aether and have started relistening to episodes from the start, I also added some far left podcast stuff to try out, to see if there is anything worth listening to there, sadly it seems like most of the stuff is very america-centric, but I will have to wait and see, maybe it’s fun, it would be nice with getting some more repetition of theory, to be sure that I have a good grap on that stuff.