PLAY SPIRITFARAR

You wake up from a long night crossing the great seas of time and space, and traverse the floating village you call home. You cook breakfast for the family of lost souls you've gathered around you. Maybe you do a bit of fishing. Maybe you carve mollusks off the side of your enormous ship's hull. Maybe you tend to your garden, your fruit trees, or your livestock. Eventually though, your ship reaches the Everdoor, where it will stop long enough for you to escort one of your passengers to the great beyond. In Spiritfarer, you take Charon's role as the master of a great ship, and I've got to say, it's a lot of fun.

PLAY SLAY THE PRINCESS

As October came to fullness this year, oozing with spooky things like an impending election, I picked up Black Tabby Games' Slay The Princess (a recommendation of my wife) as an escape. I didn't know much about the game, but knew it was a visual novel with a new spin on the "rescue the princess" trope. On a dark and stormy night, I fired it up on my PlayStation and completed it in a sitting. It was a treat. Also full of tricks, to be fair, but certainly a treat.

PLAY SAYONARA WILD HEARTS

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a difficult game to describe, but I'll do my best: 

Imagine your worst breakup - the sort of thing that rocks your sense of self. Emotionally turbulent, you get on your motorcycle, you turn up your music, and you let yourself feel. You aren't sure where you need to go - your destination isn't the point - the ride is the point - wherever you are, you need to be somewhere else, to process your feelings. It's raining, the rhythmic drops breaking across your cheekbones and mixing with your tears. You're angry, you're heartbroken, and you aren't sure what to do about either. Why did she leave you? What did you do wrong? How could you be so stupid - again? You aren't paying attention to a wet curve in the road, your motorcycle goes sideways and your unprotected skull strikes something that turns the world black. The coma-induced fever-dream you experience on life support is Sayonara Wild Hearts at its wild heart.

ANNIHILATION ADJACENT - EPISODE IV: EBLIS WHICH WAY

 This is the fourth recap episode for ANNIHILATION ADJACENT, covering the events of a game that took place on May 11, 2024. It takes place directly after EPISODE III.

(This was a shorter game and mostly combat, and therefore a shorter recap)