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A Memoire Blue A very short game about a daughter reconnecting with her mother. It's light on the 'gameplay' and heavy on the feels. All in all it took me about 90 minutes from front to back. Super nice art, some incredible moments of spectacle and a heartwarming story. Solid effort. Also on Gamepass. Tunic I'm guilty of using a guide to help me get through the final few hours of Tunic, and once I did that the first time I never looked back. It absolutely took some of the shine off of the game, but I still really rate this one. I'd be very surprised if this isn't in the running for some industry wide awards come November and December. 4/5

Disco Elysuim Following @danielpholt's example. I'm also ditching this. There's a few things I don't like: 1. RNG skill checks. I feel like this should just have been a threshold thing. If you are over the requirement you pass. The happiness of passing a 12% skill check I had no business even attempting is far outweighed by how much I felt cheated when I failed a 79% skill check. 2. The relentless darkness. It's all so grim, like yeah it's a dystopia, but gods is it fucking depressing. 3. The pressure. Add to the grimness the pressure to pass skill checks, and the pressure to scrounge up $20 a night so my character can sleep, and the pressure to constantly make choices it just feels like working in a horrible, unfair place, which is not remotely fun. I saw the game over screen when my character shot himself in the face, so imma call it "completed" and move on with my life.

Is Elden Ring gonna be the From game that finally hooks me? We shall see.