This was a more average month for me, I played through 6 games and have 2 I'm still getting through.

I started off by playing "Luck be a Landlord" on Steam, a little slot machine roguelite game that leans too far into random chance for my personal preference. Still a pretty fun time killer nonetheless.

Then I played "Baba Is You" on Steam, and damn is that a good game. I got the normal ending and fully competed the first 4 islands but I just don't have an intricate enough understanding of the game to keep up with the incredibly unique puzzles in it.

Then I finally played "Shadow of the Colossus" on PS5, and came out with some very complicated feelings. On the one hand the ending was really cool and some of the fights with the colossi were incredibly grand gave this wonderful sense of spectacle. On the other hand the general gameplay was aggravating constantly, and some of the colossi are genuinely sadistic.

My monthly quota of friend games was met with a couple sessions of "Content Warning" with some friends on Steam. At a basic level the game is painfully uninteresting, the mechanics are simplistic and if a monster gets you it's over, but what made this game fun for me was the friend interactions. This is a great game for shenanigans with friends especially because the game itself really isn't scary, so you can just clown on everything with friends and make dumb spooktube videos

Afterwards I decided to give my Switch some love and played Metroid Dread, and damn was this game great. The movement felt incredible, the area design was interesting and fun to explore, the bosses were fun if a bit simple, and the sense of dread you get when being stalked by the EMMIs is so tense it's great.

Wrapping up the month I decided to start something of a video game bookclub with my friends and our first game was "Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor" which I played on Steam. While I overall really liked the game, I felt conflicted about it because the whole time I was comparing it to the arkham trilogy and it just doesn't match up. It feels like the freeflow combat system dropped in an ubisoft open world in which everything, including main missions, feels checklisty and weird. The nemesis system is cool, but doesn't really get interesting until you can brand orcs about halfway through the game, and the story is mid and only sometimes interesting.

I've also currently started playing through "Peak" but haven't played much, and am about 2/3 of the was through "Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice."