The YouTube Graveyard
So I came across this YouTube video today: Exploring “0-view YouTube” Until I Get a Bingo
It reminded me of the fact that I’ve always enjoyed getting glimpses or exploring these corners of the internet—by that I mean, randomly coming across some of these random videos with no views whatsoever. Or scrolling through random people’s Reddit profiles, especially those with a long post history.
I just think it’s super interesting to get a small glimpse into someone else’s life, it’s nice to think about how others might live sometimes. There’s like this feeling of mystique, you get to wonder what their struggles might be. If it’s in an old video or post, you might wonder what they’re up to now, or even if they’re still here with us…
Sifu
Sifu is one of the best games I’ve ever played. It’s just genius, the way everything is put together it feels like a game made with so much love and passion. The game feels like it was made by people who love martial arts and video games, the mechanics feel so good, the moves are straight up amazing. The Bak Mei inspired style that Sifu uses is insanely cool. The flow of the combat is super addictive and all of that on top of an AWESOME art style. Might be the most badass game I’ve ever played.
AI, writing and emdashes
As GenAI and LLMs get better and better I grow more weary of my passion for writing as now it feels like by the time I’m able to really do anything AI will have already taken over and my work remain forever drowning in an ocean of AI slop articles and novels. For the longest time now ever since I’ve found myself indulging in escapism I’ve wanted to write fiction but haven’t even gotten around to it yet, wanting to be a published author one day I’ve been meaning to actually read more books and try to get myself in a position where I can write something I’m proud of. I know the first thing I write probably won’t be a masterpiece but I really wish to write it the best I can.
Elden Ring
Elden Ring is by far the biggest game FromSoft has made to date and it is also my favorite as of writing this post.
I think it has every aspect I loved about the other souls games I played but boosted by like 10 times. I think, these games are at heart, Metroidvanias and Elden Ring feels most like one. The open world and literally do anything whenever you want nature of the game make this game feel way more like a Metroidvania than the others. I’m glad to have platinumed it.
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Truly one of the games of all time.
For real this game isn’t really the best. It’s not a bad game by any means it was fun enough to play and to platimum but it was short and kept missing on like so many aspects. I played the other Spider-Man game a while back and it was MILES (haha get it?) better than this. At least from what I remember, it’s been a really long time.
Cat Quest
Peak gaming. Cat Quest is a game I remember from when I was a little girl—and seeing it on sale for super cheap, I nabbed it. It was a great decision. I remembered this game very fondly and I’m glad to report that it is not nostalgia this game slaps.
The gameplay loop is addictive and keeps you playing, I played it for 10 hours and got the platinum, couldn’t put the game down for those 10 hours. You can watch my full playthrough split into three parts here: Cat Quest Playthrough
Grand Theft Auto 5’s missions suck
It has been a really long time since I last played GTA 5 so I barely remember anything, but a GTA 5 video came up in my YouTube recommendations and the thought came to my mind, GTA 5’s missions fucking SUCK.
There’s not that many good missions in the game with the heists being somewhat decent, and even those don’t have much going for them. The missions of the game just feel like “drive to this place, watch cutscene, shoot people, watch cutscene, mission passed”
World Trigger
World Trigger is a super underrated shounen battle anime in my opinion. I don’t hear people talking about it like at all even though it’s probably one of the best in the genre. World Trigger has amazing characters and a banger power system—and an interesting plot to top it all off of course. The world building is nothing to scoff at and the show is filled TO THE BRIM with tournament arcs, which we all know everyone loves.
Bloodborne
If this game got a sequel it would be more than a masterpiece. And I do believe it. The game has a lot going for it despite it having a lot of flaws, if I’d written this post a few years ago I think it’d be different but having now played through Sekiro, Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 (I’ll go back to ds1 and 2 eventually)
I can say that while this isn’t my favorite game fromsoft has made it is still amazing and still holds up even after all these years. Though it’s being heavily held back by the lack of a rerelease on better hardware. I actually tried replaying the game before writing this post but I just could not do it—30fps is just too shit to do this game justice.
Hades
I’m a sucker for a good roguelite and Hades is one of the best, and also one of the most unique. Hades is one of the first (if not the first) roguelites to have a very prominent story. The story is built around you dying and interacting with the different NPCs at the house of Hades. The game has a total of 21,020 voice lines and 30 voiced characters.