Souls Like Strings

• 'Next refresh' means 'next background refresh' not 'next time you can successfully request a refresh'
  • It's still wrong though haha
• Demoing is easier when you break it up into chunks
  • And have separate links/accounts for each chunk
  • And close the links from the previous section before starting a new one
  • Luckily for my talk at Tokyo Rubyist I have slides & no links
• Not for the first time, returning inside a block (like reject) actually returns in Ruby
  • What you're thinking of is next
  • Please do not get stuck on this for...

Projects

Continued writing this blog! Did not make as much progress on my meetup talk as I probably should have (i.e more than 0) but I've always worked best close to the deadline anyway.

Games

Despite being in Italy for 10 days of the month I racked up over 90 hours of Slay the Spire 2 in the 16 remaining days after its March 5th release. That's just over 5.5 hours a day which sounds about right haha, more or less every moment I could be using my laptop. As expected it's the original but better in every way in...

See you fantasy cowboy

Why

• Well written & voice acted
• A gigantic, crunchy CRPG to sink your teeth into
• Turn based mode! Very cool they went back to add it

Why Not

• You don't have 100+ hours to sink into a single game

Impressions

This is absolutely a game I would've burned 100+ hours on back in my days of gaming freedom, but with a wife and soon kids I do not have 100+ hours to burn.

Right from the start, Pillars makes it clear you're in for the long haul. There's more lore...

Man I wish Valve still made games

Why

• The orignal but better
• More variety in scenery/the tools at your disposal
• A lot of interesting lore about Aperture/GLaDOS
• Humour is spot on just like the original, and more frequent

Why Not

• You hate thinking just as much as Wheately

Impressions

The original Portal was a really cool puzzle game with some light story and funny moments to keep you motivated, but there are only so many white-walled test chambers a mute can struggle through. The best parts of that game were when you broke out...

Waifus fight music

Why

• Pretty wide range of difficulties
• Songs play pretty differently to each other
• Enough tracks that there'll be a few which hit for anyone
• Monetisation seems very fair

Why Not

• Not incredibly fan-servicy, but there are some skins you wouldn't want your partner to see you using
• Some tracks require incredibly quick/well timed consecutive inputs, even on easy

Impressions

I took a flier on this since it was ~200yen and was pleasantly surprised; never tried rhythm games before but this probably won't be my last. The presentation and character designs are...