Category: Video games

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Potioncraft

Last week, I finished playing the game Potioncraft. It was honestly exactly the sort of cozy little dopamine hit I needed during the end of the summer and all the changes and transitions going on.

It’s also the first game I’ve ever 100%’d on Steam, or possibly ever. (I don’t tend to finish games; even Spirit Tracks, my favorite Zelda game, isn’t complete because I couldn’t fight Ganon or whoever it was. Gosh, was that really 15 years ago?)

In any case. If you like crafting sims that are navigational puzzle games, give Potioncraft a shot.

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A bittersweet discovery

I’ve been playing Expedition 33, an excellent video game. (This post does not contain spoilers.)

After I discovered a certain character, and recognized his voice actor, I hollered “IS THAT JEAN DE FUCKING FLORETTE” or thereabouts.

The voice actor was, indeed, Gerard Depardieu.

But I discovered very quickly that he had allegedly Me Too’d some people.

And I am very tired of all this. Depardieu was the voice of my early adolescence. I watched SO MANY French films that he starred in. (If you don’t speak French, think Kenneth Branagh, but less conventionally attractive.)

But with all that said: I’m not going to let it ruin my enjoyment of the game. He may be a bad person, but the game is bigger than just that one fact about him. (And if you draw your line someplace other than where I did, that is your prerogative and that is okay.)

Wheeeeeeee

Edit: My friend informs me this is not true, and I cannot find the thing that confirmed he was, so I will chalk this up to either (a) having dreamed it, or (b) finding an incorrect AI summary and not realizing that’s what it was. But who knows! A

Anyway, sorry for the misinformation!

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Moonstone Island

I have been playing a really great game recently called Moonstone Island, on the Steam deck. The way I describe it to my friends is:

Imagine that you’re playing Stardew Valley, but you’re also catching Pokemon, and those Pokemon battle each other using Slay the Spire decks.

It’s very very cute, and also has nice queer representation. All pluses in my book.

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There are only three stories…

There are only three stories: a stranger comes to town, someone goes on a journey, and Godzilla vs King Kong.

Leo Tolstoy, per the Internet

In my life right now, there are only three video games: Pokemon, Animal Crossing, and Zelda.

And I just got the Dream Home in the latter, so for a while now there are only two stories. Time to SELL ALL MY GEMS AND FURNISH THIS HOUSE BAYBEEEE

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Short game review : Harvestella demo

This past weekend, I played through the prologue demo of Harvestella. It was pretty fun, but I’m not sure if I’m going to eat the full game cost. Maybe for Christmas.

I just think I’d probably pay $40 for it, and I’d definitely pay $20; but $60 is just more than I’m willing to do right now. I know that’s probably irrational. And it is a very pretty game. I just have others, that I already own and haven’t finished, that I’m inclined to finish before shelling that out.

I like the concept, though. I enjoy related-but-different-genre games, like Pokemon Conquest or Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King. (“Now, with more colons !”)

I did really appreciate that there’s a non-binary option for your character. Even though I think it’s just for pronouns.