It’s been a long time since I’ve done a themed 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. Why, you ask?
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 an amateur writer, I perform my writing by entering a fugue state, and committing my mental state to paper as best I can.
I try to be positive about things. This 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 can decline to write about things I don’t like.
At least, 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 finding something to review. Upon looking within, the only feelings I can find resemble spite.
So I’m going to give in to anger and write about some of these games I do not actually like. Also, 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 is up for the Spiel! (And I think it’s a bit shit.)