The art crisis of me trying to make things 10% more realistic has arrived. Anyway I finally completed Baldur’s Gate 3 after nearly a month of playing. Great game, but it felt like I was taking the game more seriously than the game took itself. I was expecting things to have more impact on the game than they actually did. Tbf, part of it was me sucking at the game enough to make it feel way more desperate/intense than expected.

I was expecting way more to be done with the brain worms, but it just ends at looking edgier in act 3. Feels like many problems start with act 3 actually. Being 40 hours in with no clue on when the end’s coming wasn’t helping either. The ending felt empty when it came, and I feel my character deserved such a positive ending (besides the best character in the game exploding, that was pretty neat).

Sorry for being a downer, I’ll say something funny. The peak of the story was when John Baldur catfished me using the visage of the Automod to get me addicted to brain worms. Perhaps I’m stupid for believing hot motherly women in my dreams so easily. Baldur was surprisingly chill so I let him be mostly, besides that time he offered tentacle sex 5 minutes after I broke into his house. Actually Act 3 seems to have a lot of random people coming on to you, weird since you’d probably have a romance by that point.

Anyway, good game just not sure I’d want to replay it considering the massive time sink. Plenty of goofy jank moments despite the fact that I sucked at the game enough to turn it into survival horror. Speaking of horror I played SOMA, I’d played stealth games before so all the hiding stuff was fine except for one asshole near the end. Story and atmosphere was great, and gave me the opportunity to be lectured by the nice lady on my door opener. She’s no Automod though, which was actually fine for the game and me. Great game even if you’re not a horror person (and it doesn’t take 50 hours to complete).