Tag: Tunic | A Banana Peeled

Ever since coming home from the hospital, I’ve been relying on old games to bring me comfort. I still dip into Cozy Grove (Spry Fox) on the daily, but there’s not much to do. I really appreciate that they add new content every season and a season-appropriate festival every quarter. I’m eager to see what they do for Christmas, which should be in a week or two. Other than that, though, there really isn’t much to do. Yes, I can capture the new insects and fish, but that’s not really an incentive to play more of the game. I’m not mad about it, to be clear. I’ve been playing the game for eight months, which is good value! And it’s so cute, I don’t mind that there isn’t much to do any longer. I love that there are new outfits for each festival, which gives me one reason to visit during the fests.

Another game that is a comfort to me is Dark Souls III. It’s my favorite game of all time and I’ve played it dozens of times (I’m counting each NG plus cycle as another time playing it). It’s the first game I thought of trying to play once I was conscious again. I was nervous booting it up because I didn’t know what I would do if I couldn’t play it any longer. I think it was a week or so after returning home? Maybe two? Time is fuzzy at this point. This was the first game I tried after coming home from the hospital. To my relief, it was just as instinctual as it had been before. I kept it easy–killing scrubs outside Firelink Shrine–and I actually had tears in my eyes because it feltso good.

Now, I’m up to NG++ and about halfway through the game When I did the second DLC in NG+, there were summons for three of the four bosses. For the first boss, I used the two NPC summons and rocked it fairly easily. Which was funny because I had dragged my feet before doing this boss. I really hate this particular boss because there are two phases and the second phase is a whole different boss. It’s just long and tedious, much like all the fights of this DLC. Except the Halflight, Spear of the Church, which is the boss fight in which the boss can be a human player. This is my least-favorite boss in the whole series because I suck at PVP. The fact that it’s not optional makes it even worse.

I was watching The Game Awards with Geoff Keighley last night and was keenly interested to see how Keighley would address the Blizzard Activision bullshit seeing as asshole Bobby Kotich is on–wait. He’s CEO Bobby Kotich and the president is Rob Kostich. Until this very moment, I thought they were the same person. Anyway, it’s the latter who is on the board for The Game Awards and the former who is a accused of being a harasser and all around asshole. At any rate, people were interested in seeing how Keighley would handle the situation as he was mealy-mouth about it before the show.

Sadly, he was just as mealy-mouthed during the show, saying we all had to do our part to battle harassment in the industry, including online. He didn’t name any names and the way he phrased it sounded as if he was more concerned about online bullying (which is bad, don’t get me wrong) than systemic harassment and abuse in the industry itself. If you didn’t already know about the allegations against Blizzard Activision, you certainly wouldn’t have learned about it from Keighley. Many gamers would argue that The Game Awards was no place to get into the details because it’s about celebrating games, but there can be no true celebration with that much egregious abuse. It’s the big giant elephant in the room and needs to be address. Geoff Keighley has arguably the biggest platform in games right now. For him to turn it into ‘everyone needs to do their part’ is disappointing, but predictable. I would have been shocked (in a good way) if he had called out Activision Blizzard specifically, but I’m not surprised he didn’t.

Before that, there was the pre-show. The first trailer shown was my second-favorite of the night. It was for Tunic by Andrew Shouldice, a Zelda-like soulslike with a fox as the main protagonist. Several months ago, other-Ian at Eurogamer played the demo and I was immediately charmed. I cannot wait to play this game and it was a strong start to the pre-game. Er, pre-show. Tunic is coming out on March 16, 2022. That’s only a few weeks after Elden Ring. Oh dear. That’s not good because Elden Ring is going to consume my life for several months.

I am so incredibly charmed by Tunic. It’s supposed to be really hard and other-Ian did have difficulty with it. The dev came into the stream to give him vague hints, which was really cool. The fox is so cute and everything about it is just wonderful.

Then, there was a bunch of nonsense that I didn’t care about. I felt a pang of sadness at the Tiny Tina trailer. Why? Because I loved the first two Borderlands when I played them, but that was ten years ago or more. I and the world have moved on, but Borderlands hasn’t. I didn’t like the prequel and HATED the third game because not only was the humor tired and stale, it was actually offensive to me what they did to Lilith.

Let’s move on before I get too enraged.

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