500 Word Game Reviews: Lands of Lore – Guardians of Destiny

It feels like all my recent game reviews have all been on the newer, shinier, HD side. Time to go back a few decades, and back to a franchise I’ve already covered here before:

Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny (1997) – RPG, PC

500 Word Game Reviews: Niche – A Genetics Survival Game

As someone who loved the Creatures series of games as a child, I was intrigued to see a newish game along the same lines in last month’s Humble Choice, and have been playing it quite a bit ever since…

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Niche: A Genetics Survival Game (2017) – Strategy, PC

Spring 2020 End of Season Rankings

The last three months were no doubt the weirdest of my life so far, so I feel more thankful than ever to the creators of these series for the role they played in keeping me entertained and sane throughout lockdown.

…that won’t stop me from tearing into the shows I didn’t like, though. 😛

500 Word Game Reviews: Heaven Will Be Mine

It’s Pride Month… supposedly, though the sudden stripping away of rights both here and in the USA haven’t put me in the mood for celebrations. Time for some gaming escapism, I guess?

As ever, newer HD games with lots of text don’t mix well with this blog layout, but opening the images in a new tab should work now at least.

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Heaven Will Be Mine (2018) – Visual novel, PC.

500 Word Game Reviews: The Wolf Among Us

I just found out that WordPress is changing its post editor again, effective from tomorrow… time to get in one last post quick! It took ages for me to not hate the current version, which I only switched to after they started removing features from the one before it. Meh, maybe it’ll live up to the ‘new and improved’ promises, but I’m stubborn and just hate change. 😛

So, for what hopefully (and probably) won’t be my final blog post, here’s another game I’ve finally played though after years stuck on the back-burner:

The Wolf Among Us (2013) – Point-and-click, PC

Spring 2020 Mid-Season Rankings

Time for my usual mid-season anime post, in an anything but usual season! I had hoped to follow 16 series as I did during the Winter, but COVID-related delays and cancellations soon put a stop to that. 😮

And so, here are the eight series I’ve kept on. Not all my first choices, but the best of those that have (so far) survived unscathed.

500 Word Game Reviews: The Forest of Doom

I love gamebooks, especially the Fighting Fantasy series. I had a fairly substantial collection of them at some point, most of which vanished without a trace. Complete mystery. Thankfully, a few of the classics have been adapted to PC for this new digital age – but do they hold up compared with actual video games?

Forest of Doom (2014) – RPG, PC

500 Word Game Reviews: Gray Matter

Despite the fact that I have an enormous backlog of unplayed games that I should be working through, this month I was in the mood for revisiting one of my favourite titles from years back. And so:

Gray Matter (2010) – Point-and-click, PC

Winter 2020 End of Season Rankings

Before my fading memories of this Winter’s anime are all overwritten by new Spring first episodes, here are my thoughts on their endings.

For the first time ever, this list covers exactly the same titles as my mid-season rankings, with no late additions, because nothing continued beyond 13 episodes. I believe Plunderer was the only thing in a season of over 30 that did carry on. Split cours seem to be the future, not sure what my thoughts on that topic are, but I digress… Starting with #16:

Cosplay photos (Minamicon 2020)

While I wait for Haikyuu!! To the Top to finish airing (there’s always one…) so I can share my end of season thoughts, here’s some photos of my cosplay from Minamicon three weeks ago. Very fortunate timing, any later and it would surely have been cancelled due to Covid-19. 😮

The studio photos were taken free of charge and uploaded by Nert (http://www.manylemons.co.uk/) and Pouncy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/pouncy_g452/), so be sure to check out their pages to see some of the convention’s other wonderful costumes. 😀 And I’m also including one taken by my friend Pips, as it’s of my favourite photos of me in cosplay ever.