This month started on a very strange note. As far as I can tell everything ended up working out, but I feel I was in kind of a weird headspace for a lot of October so I didn't do as much work on myself as I'd have hoped. Still, I spent a lot of time playing and watching things this month so I suppose it wasn't that different than usual. There are a lot of really good video games out right now, if you can believe it.
I played a
lot of
Pokémon this month. Like, way more than I thought I would. I started the month by finishing
Pokémon X and then I spent a
whole lot of time playing
Pokémon Legends Z-A. I went into this game skeptical it could match
Legends Arceus but, somehow, I think it may be better than that game. I have a lot of thoughts about this, so much so that
I did a writeup on it, but for now just know that I really love
Legends Z-A.
I also got really into
Ghost of Yotei. I've written a bit about
Assassin's Creed Shadows, and I intend to have more to say about that soon, but
Ghost of Yotei, in my eyes, is kind of just a better version of that game in almost every way. It's really interesting having played both in such close proximity and I want to write something about that experience soon, but I have yet to finish this one so that could still be a little ways off. Still,
Ghost of Yotei has been a lot of fun and it's my favorite game Sucker Punch has put out in quite some time.
I'm still playing
Fortnite. I realize that's not exactly a new development, but I sure am playing a lot of
Fortnite these days. It's pretty much become my go-to voice-call hangout game over these past few years and, as one of those, it's pretty great. They added a "Blitz" mode a few months ago that basically condenses a standard
Fortnite game into, like, a 10-minute affair and I
really enjoy that. It's a very low-stakes game where victories still feel good, and due to the fact that it seems pretty heavily packed with bots, victories come way easier than normal Battle Royale (or Zero Build, as the case may be for me). They've had some big collaborations recently with some
Power Rangers stuff that was neat, though I've honestly been a big fan of the Halloween update with its
Scooby-Doo additions.
Speaking of Halloween, I watched a few horror movies this month. I have an annual tradition where my brother and I will marathon some horror stuff together and we did that again this year. We started things this time with the original
Final Destination (which was about what I expected, and pretty good as a result). We followed that up with a movie called
Wendigo which, despite its title, wasn't really a horror movie about a wendigo. It was a pretty solid family drama though, and a good movie, just not what we were expecting. After that we watched a horror short (
available on YouTube) called
My house walk-through that feels
very evocative of
PT (in a good way). Next up was a Polish musical/romance about mermaids called
The Lure and that was pretty decent. I feel like it wasn't amazing at any one specific "thing" it was going for, but I commend it for trying. Then we watched a recent release called
Waves of Madness which feels like a vaguely-cosmic-horror-y take on
Resident Evil, with acting you'd expect from
RE (for better or worse). It was surprisingly fun and enjoyable, and it even has a (probably unnecessary) filming gimmick that you get used to pretty quickly. We ended the night by watching
Creep, which was by far the best film of the night. It's a found-footage horror/thriller thing that is worth going into relatively blind, but it was a great way to cap things off. As you can guess by the spread of films I've mentioned, we generally try to cover a gamut of genres and types of things when we do this and I'd say we had a pretty good selection this year without any real duds.
I finished
SILENT HILL f this month and I loved this game. While I had my doubts going into it, Ryukishi's writing is very apparent in the final product and the game is all the better for it. It's a pretty fantastic game all-around
that I've already talked about at length so I won't harp on it much more here.
I didn't play any
Yakuza this month. As you can see by this somewhat lengthy blog post, I've been busy with other things these past few weeks and I just couldn't make time to start
Kurohyou 2 this month. I plan to get to it soon, hopefully before the end of the year, but I also might just spend these next two months working through other new releases. I've played a lot of
Yakuza this year already so getting to another isn't a super high-priority for me at the moment.
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