Busy week this one, actually.
For starters, I played Vermintide 2 over the free weekend it had. Basically, it's an all-around improved version of Left 4 Dead 2. It is so incredibly similar, I wonder how they got away with it. In that sense, there is nothing wrong with the game, but the negative reviews apparently come from broken promises on the devs' part, and because the players wanted more than what they got. Objectively speaking, Left 4 Dead 2 has great reviews, and this one is most definitely a better game, and would by that logic deserve better reviews, but sadly, it's not how the world works. I've never been a fan of the genre though, and this game was never on my list, hence the not-full-review. It was still fun for the 2 days and dozen-or-so hours I played it, but that's that.
Additionally, I read through Phenomeno one night. It was supposedly the best Visual Novel that was under 2 hours, which is why I picked it. (Not that I have any clue how they rate the times - it always takes me twice as long to finish them.) I'd say it was a good but not great horror story. Surprised and fooled me at times, and never used any dumb cliches like jump scares, instead properly developing the eerie atmosphere. Still, it had some moments in the story that just didn't add up, which hurt the whole in many aspects. On the upside, it's free. On the downside, it's fan-translated (a few small mistakes every paragraph, but it's still completely understandable at all times), and is only an adaption of the first of the six light novels it is based on, leaving the story unfinished. There is no English translation available for the LNs either, so I guess I won't ever get to read them.
Well, that was a bit long for just a "passing mention".
Anyways, my last year of school is beginning tomorrow. Not at all satisfied with my progress over the summer, but at least I can see where and why my time went. I don't think it's a lost cause ever getting this pile of games over with, I just have to do it at some point. As someone once told me: There's never time to do anything. Not today, not tomorrow, and not in a week or a month. That's why you just have to do that thing.
I guess it's a bit ambiguous, but what I gathered from it is that this lack of time is just an ever-present feeling. No matter how much or little you fit in your schedule, you'll always feel out of time, but if you just don't think about whether you have time do something and do it, you can get it done. Realistically speaking, of course you have a limited amount of time, but what I just said comes from that very few people are actually out of time. They still have time to do more, but if they start thinking about it, they won't find that time.
So I'm confident that if I really want, I can complete this pile of games. But it's still easier said than done. I mean just look at these numbers:
- Games in backlog: 283
- of which VR: 18
- of which Visual Novels: 53 (+2 - I'm really not even playing these from my list, maybe I should exclude them from the report along with VR, would make for more realistic numbers...)
- of which Early Access: 61 (+1)
- Games reviewed last week: 3-ish
PS. I also hammered together some CSS to make embedding images prettier, mostly on my side. The defaults really make we want to dive in there and just rip some of that stuff out, but I know that would take too long to be worth it.
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