Let's just be honest here and say I don't blog as much as I should. But I am here now, so appreciate it! This is just a general collection of notes about life, the universe, and significantly less than everything:
Kid Mystic: Enchanted Edition is coming out May 5th for $14.99, and you better wishlist it now or we'll run out of wishlist spots for you! FOMO!
Since I finished the heavy part of the work for Kid Mystic, I have been a bit adrift. Obviously, stepping back into
Broken Build Simulator is my next task, but it's a daunting one when I think about returning to something I haven't messed with in a couple months. I will do it, don't get me wrong, but right now I'm on a bit of a break, floating near it.
One thing I've been doing is making notes, and even part of a 3D model, for a different game entirely that I shall not name at this juncture. It is the next thing I'm really excited about working on, though! But yes, BBS first. I promise.
Another thing I've been doing is playing
Last Epoch. They just released season 2, after a year of season 1. The delay was ridiculous, but the results are undeniable. If I haven't lauded this before, let it be known that it is among the greatest of games and if you are into the Diablo and Path of Exile ARPG style, Last Epoch is the best of them by a mile. Where Diablo 4 is floundering and overly mindless, and Path of Exile 2 is brutal and overcomplicated, Last Epoch is absolutely perfect. It's rather easy but the endgame scales to infinity and beyond. It has the most amazing systems behind it, with every skill having its own skill tree (my invention of years ago, by the way, stolen from my mind because I didn't wear a tin-foil hat), a far better loot filter and storage system than any other ARPG, and the universally accepted best crafting system. The build variety absolutely eviscerates the competition. Any skill you want to build around, you 100% can. I assume they aren't all ideal in the late endgame, but as deep into it as I go, nothing has ever been a failure for me, and I've built easily 100+ characters since the early access launch. It's just so good I get giddy every so often at one or another system when I see how tightly it all fits together. It's not a perfect game, but it keeps me obsessed and coming back more than any other game.
On a related note, I am still grinding away on
Unnamed Space Idle, which you'd think I just ignore for days at a time given the "Idle" in the name, but in fact I actively spend probably multiple hours every day poking at it, and it's the first thing I check on and tweak every time I wake up. Like Last Epoch, it is the king of its genre (at least that I've played), and I highly recommend it, and it's free! It has not gotten old after a year+ of playing, which is pretty good for a game you don't play. I haven't even gotten into all the systems of it yet. I mean, maybe I don't recommend it because it has pretty thoroughly disrupted my entire life.
So yeah, lots of game playing. Also watching Apple TV which we finally cracked and subscribed to, so I just have to note that the shows on Apple TV are shockingly good. I got it because I watched the first episode of Severance on an airplane, but Shrinking, Bad Sisters, and of course Ted Lasso, have all been super good, and I've been told of several others I have to watch. There's just not enough time in the day since I have to play Space Idle!
So that's me these days. What are you up to? What's the good stuff you've found in the world?
