2026-01-19

Last year I spent last half of December playing through Hollow Knight. Was great. I liked the atmosphere it has and the feel of some of the areas towards the edge of the map.

There are some things I didn't do, like the last Colosseum fights, but I was starting to feel tired of it. I wasn't bored, but I got to that point were I had already seen most of the map and was just hunting little bits and passageways and I just wanted the game to be over.

Still, 26 hours and around 176 deaths later (40 or so of those were against the Watcher Knights) I finished the game and was left with a thought.

The player character looks like a character that ducks. It took me way too long to stop pressing down while trying to avoid incoming projectiles.

So, after that I decided to play some shorter games. Like Dino Crisis 2!

I first played it many years ago and hated it. But this time it kind of clicked with me.

Immediately after starting it the game feels more fast paced than the previous one. I really liked the movement here, very fast and satisfying. It's also a great looking game. It has cool backgrounds. Certainly didn't remember this looking as good as it does.

The story is a very special kind of nonsense that everyone should experience. Something about time travel. I'm not sure I understood why things happen but I don't think it matters much here. Just an excuse to shoot dinosaurs.

The weapons are fun. I specially enjoyed using the dual machine guns. Didn't get to try some of the latter ones. I feel like I wasted a lot of credits upgrading the cartridges size a few too many times. It kind of felt unnecessary. In hindsight, I'm not sure I was ever close to running out of ammo.

At some point there's an underwater level with some platforming. Underwater stuff was a bit annoying. Mostly because it took me too long to realize I had to use the water spraying thing to stun the very fast dinosaurs there. That area also has this door screen.

There's nothing particular there but it's quite ominous looking.

This screen also looked great. Some Comedy's Inferno vibes here.

So yeah, I've changed my mind about this game. Liked it a lot.

2026-01-05

A new year started!

Yeah.

I had a new year's eve dinner with my family. It was eye opening.

Started alright, though. Talked for a bit, had a nice dinner, dessert. Talked a bit more. And then when we were cleaning and getting up somebody mentioned how the Arabs are trying to take over the world and the racism started.

See, apparently they couldn't do it by force so now they're sending people over there to ideologically convert Europe and the United States and move them closer to Islam. I was quite shocked. There's usually an inappropriate comment here or there but this time it was long hateful rants about Arabs, Muslims, Gaza and what not.

At that point I left.

It sucked. Felt genuinely bad about the situation and at this point I don't plan on going to any other family reunion.

Haven't done much else this year so far. Well, there is this new blog page that I'll be using now. Old stuff is available over there on the left.

I also played some stuff but I'll write about that another time.