09.2025 (Patreon)

August is winding down, a solid month with a ton of footage. So in no particular order:

Life is Strange - This game is one of those interesting stories but I learned that despite it being very short, it's just not my style. More over the mods gave me a ton of issues between versions and ultimately the playthrough ends at Act 4 as a result. Them's the breaks.

Split Fiction - I'd played this once before and enjoyed it a ton. Not much to say, it's a phenomenal game if you have a partner.

RE6 - Speaking of partners, to this day I don't know where my co-op partner vanished to. So I subbed him out for a bot and finished the remaining campaigns for RE6. I'm not sure why this one was panned so badly back in the day but I'd look forward to a remake of 5/6 in time.

Mass Effect - My favourite game series of all time. If you hadn't played it, I'd recommend it above all else. I don't know another game I could demolish without feeling that creep of fatigue set in. Hours whizzed by as I was building my team, saving the galaxy and I'd say it still holds up well.

Andromeda - For all the glory and praise I had given the original, this entry to the franchise just didn't hit right. And I've sat on it for a while trying to figure out what they got wrong. Subjectively, it has to be a combination of uninteresting side characters, visually and personally wise along with a tone shift. The original felt grounded in its military approach, it felt like how you would imagine a council of races to act and that there was a seriousness to the world and it's characters. Andromeda felt like it lacked that sinister undertone or jaded edge that every character walked around with.

Lastly, some of you may have noticed a new tier pop up on my Patreon, so let me explain that. Currently, it's just for support. I've currently utilised about 75% of my available drive space and when the drive is full, I'm going to start retiring the less popular series. They will be archived on an external hard drive and deleted from the online drive to make space for new content. That's when the archive tier will function for its intended purpose that anyone who still wants access to those older less popular series, can make them available by re-uploading them. I'll also update the archived posts and be vocal about which series have been archived.

Until next time,
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