This weekend is for relaxing just a little bit more than we relaxed last weekend. I’m not saying we should just collapse on our couches and let out long, relieved sighs, but perhaps we can breathe a little easier. Maybe play some video games. Perhaps even space video games.
Ever play a space video game? Ever play two space video games? I am trying to work these opening sentences into a clever Everspace 2 pun, but it’s just not coming together for me. No doubt my editor, likely John Walker, will offer to help shape the pun into something workable, but I shall refuse, because I’d rather be shooting and mining in space. Everspace 2, now out in early access on Steam, has all the shooting, mining, and exploration I crave in my space games, without making my head ache like space MMO EVE Online. I love to fly around without having to do math. Or at least doing math of my own choosing, completely unrelated to a player-run economy or complex skill training system. I pull trigger, ship go boom. Hooray!
So, what are YOU playing this weekend? Yes, you, with the corporeal form.
DISCUSSION
I finished FF7! I’m... free? Oh gosh I don’t know what I’ll do with myself now. I liked it, but it didn’t impact me as it has others. Maybe that’s because I’m not nostalgic for it, and maybe that’s because many of the best things it does have been iterated on and improved. But it was worth playing and I’m excited to now play the remake later after a break.
Probably, I will play the Crown Tundra Pokemon DLC, which for my money is actually quite good. I’m reaching a level of Pokemon burnout from beating the game and playing the DLC this year, but it’s still holding my interest. The map feels in 3D what the best routes of the 2D games felt like - maze-like, full of caverns, and with interesting secrets. If this is what they’ve learned from these games and can turn the open world into next time around I will be very excited. Please make some of the caves look a bit different, though. Try a new color or something.