What I Played Today: March 28

Persona 4 Golden, Little Inferno, Civilization 5, Antichamber

I felt a need to try different stuff today, so I turned on my Vita (I have one) and played through a floor of Kanji's dungeon and a couple of days of school. I finally opened up the garden! I can now grow adorable little tomatoes.

Then I finished Little Inferno, because all I had to do was continue to burn things, you know? There were a few fun things to burn, like the beta version of the game that turned the fire into pixel. That was cute. Oh and I guess dystopian future and all that...I don't know, it was an interesting if not all that insightful ending. Weird to see a "toy" game with an actual ending and story and everything.

Then I tried to play Civ 5 and was not paying attention and Solomon was all like, "Yeah, I'm taking over your city now," and I was all, "OH NO!" Solomon is such a jerk, man...

Then Antichamber. I tried out some more things, trying to get it, and then I said, "You know, I'm done being confused. How do I get thorugh this room?" Turns out one of the properties of the green bricks is, in addition to disappearing if you accidentally sever the link, you can also create more by create a perfect circle. Yeah! Would have been...nice if that was hinted at anywhere. Then I got to this one puzzle that required me to make bricks disappear in a certain way and in the same video I saw earlier, someone twitched their way through it and I was lost and felt like giving up. Then I saw another solution and it BLEW MY MIND! I've really got to stop hanging out with this box. Who even gave me this box? Why am I thinking in it?

What I Played Today: March 17

Little Inferno, Ridiculous Fishing

I got a little further in Little Inferno. The plot is...progressing, I guess? I don't know, hard to build a story when you never leave the fireplace.

Also downloaded Ridiculous Fishing, which is a cute fishing game in which you try to dive your line as deep as possible at first, dodging all fish, until you start to reel it in, in which you want to catch all the fish. And then, when you hit the surface, all the fish are flung into the air and you shoot them with guns! That part is pretty great. Anyway, I've gotten a ways, to the last level, which has an infinite depth...supposedly. It has a nice pleasant art look and the music is good and sad and there's this sense that things are about to go blonko here pretty quick, which...I really want to see.

What I Played Today: March 16

Endless Space, Little Inferno

I realized there was a strategy game that I had purchased that I hadn't played at all. So I booted it up and played for hours. You are in space, and you have an empire. The space is hardly endless. But there are a lot of interesting little things here, with the way that you colonize planets, and the way combat works by playing Pokemon cards, basically, but once I met an AI character and saw the extent of his empire, I immediately realized that I was doing it wrong, and had absolutely no chance of winning. Must start over.

Also had Little Inferno re-recommended to me, a game in which you basically burn things. That's it, but it also had this weird plotline in which it's always snowing and the ever-present evil corporation wants you to light all your things on fire...

Anyway, I mainly spent my time using the "My Pictures" feature to put a picture from my library in the game and setting it aflame. Weirdly cathartic.