Game Time
At least once a week, me and my best friend get together and we hang out over voice chat. We shoot the shit, share videos, have really emotionally vulnerable discussions on the struggles we are facing having aging parents that we don't have ideal relationships with, and play video games together.
Sometimes we do co-op games, sometimes competitive games, sometimes if it is a narative based game - one of us will stream it for the other and we'll be like Statler & Waldorf, mouthing off with commentary as one of us drives the game.
This week, we played some really fun games that I wanted to share
5D Chess
So chess... straightforward rule set that hasn't changed in years. What happens when you add time travel to chess?
You wind up with this sort of nonsense - multiverse chess that can impact each other, as well as being able to go back in time and impact your own timeline.
What you are looking at is the timeline of our game. After 3 moves we split into 2 timelines, then were good for a bit. But once we started jumping around things went all sorts of crazy! I am pretty sure there were boards without kings and boards with 2 kings for a while.
If you open yourself up to the crazy, this is a great time!
The Horde Wants You Dead
If you ever watch the ninja stickman flash videos, this game is something you should check out.
It is a military styled bullet heaven in its demo phase. The stats are a bit too much to manage, and at the moment it is very repetitive, but there is a lot of fun in there. I think this has a ton of potential, and its multiplayer was seamless and easy to get going.
Slay the Princess
This game is a wild ride! I have only started to scratch the surface, and the parts of the game I've seen feel like I am in for a wild ride.
Slay the Princess is a horror visual novel. This is probably my first visual novel game that I can think of, and if this is what they are all like this quickly in.... I need to play more.
I do worry that I've pulled a "Dungeon Crawler Carl" and started with one of the best of a genre and really have to dig to find more that grabs me in the same way.
I don't know how much to say about the game without spoiling things...
If you've every played Void Stranger, I had a similar experience when I reached the trees.. but it was very early on.
Given how the scene was handled and how flexible it all felt, I want to start a fresh save to see if it is the same.
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