I've finished Metaphor: ReFantazio at last! Here's my last batch of playthrough notes.

( Notes up to the end of Metaphor: ReFantazio. )

Karaoke! At an actual karaoke place, this time, meaning we were largely limited to actual hits rather than the obscure nonsense we tend to sing at home ( Read more... )

By popular demand, here's another entry on Metaphor: ReFantazio! (When I say 'popular demand', I mean that Jes told me to post this. It takes very little pressure to get me to talk about videogames ( Read more... )

We had a home karaoke evening on Saturday!

This karaoke session was very loosely Hallowe'en themed. Sometimes we stuck to the theme; Rei opened with a magnificent rendition of 'Margaret Thatcher, Blood Snatcher' by THWACK!, and Tem's 'Hell Is Forever' from Hazbin Hotel and 'Rest in Peace' from Buffy were great fun. Sometimes we came up with loose ( Read more... )

I was not at all psychologically prepared for how weird the release of the Silent Hill 2 remake would be.

The original Silent Hill 2 permanently rewired my psyche when I was sixteen. It's responsible for half my taste in fiction. So many of the characters I love, so many of the things I've written, they can all be traced back to James Sunderland. ( Read more... )

Tem and I have finished our replay of Master Detective Archives: Rain Code! Here are some more of our stupid conversations while playing, this time with full-game spoilers.

( Spoilers for Master Detective Archives: Rain Code. )

I'm enjoying looking through everyone's responses to the 'mistakes you noticed after posting fanfiction' poll! Please continue to share your shame so I can feel less alone.

I've just realised I should really have included a 'forgetting crucial worldbuilding details' option. I fell prey to this twice recently, when writing for In Stars and TimeMy ( Read more... )

Tem and I have been replaying Master Detective Archives: Rain Code. This game is extremely silly and horny, it's filled with characters named things like 'Zilch Alexander' and 'Yomi Hellsmile', and we act like idiots when we play it, which I feel is very much the way it was meant to be played.

Yuma: I'm Yuma Kokohead!
(The name 'Yuma Kokohead' ( Read more... )

I started watching Pokémon at the age of about ten, and I think it's the first show I ever watched with a real sense of progression across episodes.

I was used to episodic cartoons in which the status quo rarely changed: Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes, Dexter's Lab. Pokémon was completely different. It had story arcs! The characters were on a journey ( Read more... )

Tem has been showing me Star Trek: Deep Space 9! I have very little prior experience of Star Trek - I'd only previously seen a handful of original series episodes and the 2009 film - so this is an interesting experience.

I'm not currently experiencing any desire to jump into the DS9 fandom, but I am enjoying the show. We're in early season five; ( Read more... )