Friday, October 29, 2021

Week in Review - 10/29/2021

 


  • Book of Travels (PC - Steam)
Asan came to Braided Shore with practically nothing. Now he has commissioned the artificers of Crossings to fashion him a sword and a cane. He is now a formidable force on the battlefield again. Asan spends his leisure time fishing and peddling swords for glassware. He doesn't have any other strong ambitions, but he has been interested in learning a few potent tea recipes. I tried to find a secret market the other night only to find out that real life time zone issues interfered with my exploration. Frustrating since it's a weekly occurrence. I will have to try again next week. 


  • Diablo II Resurrected (PC - Battle.net) 
My brother's friend at Blizzard worked on this game and we try to set aside some time on Sunday to play through it together. It is an official Bunker Hill Bros. event for the first time in a long time. This week Deez started a new character (Assassin) while I continued to push forward on my Necromancer. We re-covered Act 1 of the game up until the final boss which we will hopefully tackle this upcoming weekend. 

  • Metroid Dread (Switch)
It should be little surprise that Metroid is an important foundation in my life. If it is a surprise, you should read some of my early articles. That said, I feel like I've only really played about 50% of the franchise. Super Metroid and Metroid Prime are two of the greatest games I think have ever been made. I have never beaten Metroid Zero Mission or Metroid Prime 2 & 3 but I just can't seem to get into Dread for some reason. I'm trying to pin down why I feel underwhelmed.

  • Monster Train (PC - Steam)
Definitely got less runs in this week than last week, but I got some runs in nonetheless. After clearing the game with every faction at least once (though certainly not on the ever-increasing difficulty), I decided I was invested enough to get the only DLC available at this time. It introduces a new faction and some new mechanics - that I can't resist which I think is why I started losing when I was previously on a ridiculously long win streak. I can't pass up the opportunity to use the new DLC mechanics to make super powerful units or spells - which in turn makes the enemies ramp up in difficulty, too. I should really try to scale it back ... or should I just "git gud?" 



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