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schneefink) wrote2021-11-26 08:53 pm
schneefink) wrote2021-11-26 08:53 pm
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Snow and maps
Today we had the first snow of the year! It felt early, even though it is late November, but then it also seems strange that it is already late November. Where did the year go?? Time passes weirdly in a pandemic, I say as I sit at home during the fourth lockdown.
For a while this spring and summer I played many new games. Then I told myself not to start a new game before our vacation, and after the vacation I told myself not to start a new game right as the semester starts, and then not right before the exam. But one exam is over now and I don't have another one until January, and we got a three month extension for some important deadlines at work (suuuuch a relief) so December is just very busy instead of incredibly busy, and that means I have time for new games again!
I just finished Carto, which was very sweet. The idea of a ten-year-old girl with the power to literally rearrange the world is scary, but as a game mechanic it was fun, and the puzzles were just the right difficulty for me. (I only looked up a solution twice, both times very early on the ice berg; I could have solved it eventually but was too impatient.) The art and exploration and characters were very nice. The game took me about five hours and I enjoyed them a lot (but not so much that I'm interested in going back to find all the secret puzzle pieces.)
For a while this spring and summer I played many new games. Then I told myself not to start a new game before our vacation, and after the vacation I told myself not to start a new game right as the semester starts, and then not right before the exam. But one exam is over now and I don't have another one until January, and we got a three month extension for some important deadlines at work (suuuuch a relief) so December is just very busy instead of incredibly busy, and that means I have time for new games again!
I just finished Carto, which was very sweet. The idea of a ten-year-old girl with the power to literally rearrange the world is scary, but as a game mechanic it was fun, and the puzzles were just the right difficulty for me. (I only looked up a solution twice, both times very early on the ice berg; I could have solved it eventually but was too impatient.) The art and exploration and characters were very nice. The game took me about five hours and I enjoyed them a lot (but not so much that I'm interested in going back to find all the secret puzzle pieces.)