It’s been a long time since I’ve done a theme week on the blog, hasn’t it? I think the last one was Lorcana, and before that it was Disgaea. Both were motivated by different things. In the case of Disgaea, it was blatant pandering to NIS America in the hope they would give a prerelease copy of the newest Disgaea game, and as far as I can tell, it worked. In the case of Lorcana, it was to perform some early analysis of the game, and its pricing.
And now we have the third theme week: Grump Week. I would like to briefly explain why.
I have been playing a pretty decent number of games over the last few weeks, and nothing has really grabbed me enough to write about. As a non-professional writer, my writing is performed by entering a fugue state, and committing to paper as best I can the result of that.
The second thing about my writing is that I try to be positive about things. Now, this means something VERY specific. It does NOT mean that I write good stuff about things I think are waste of time and money. It means I try to focus my efforts on things that I like. Again, I don’t do this professionally, so I have the the space to do this.
At least, I do most of the time. Dear readers, everything I’ve wanted to write about for the last few weeks has existed somewhere along the “Fuck this bullshit” spectrum. I have tried new things. I have branched out. I have played older things in the hope of getting a review. Upon looking within, I have not found anything that does not resemble spite.
The other reason this is Grump Week is that I am going to be talking a lot of shit about things that other people really like! Often things my friends really like! Spoiler: One of these games rumored to be up for the Spiel! (And I think it’s a bit shit.)