Pat @grimoirepit.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Amidst all the turmoil, I braved a book store. I found some really cool books, as well as some relics. That Oblivion issue of Game Informer is from October 2004! What a score. 160
Pat @grimoirepit.bsky.social · 19/11/2024“name a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains” Will anyone else meet me here? At the Dam at Otter Creek? 020
Pat @grimoirepit.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Choosing between this and Balatro was awful…but I have a feeling Balatro will get its flowers (it already has). Pacific Drive is so good. Harrowing and relaxing all at once, and with a killer UI. 260
Pat @grimoirepit.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Enough has already been said Akita Yamaoka, so I’ll just leave it at that. I do know many other audio engineers worked on this game though, and their work truly payed off. 130
Pat @grimoirepit.bsky.social · 18/11/2024All of the nominees have truly incredible music, engineered and performed by true talent, but Metaphor remains truly *unique*. The Esperanto-inspired chanting aside, it maintains a sound that is thoroughly triumphant, kingly, and nostalgic. 220
Pat @grimoirepit.bsky.social · 18/11/2024……okay I hadn’t really played the other games as much, but also look at this game!! 120
Pat @grimoirepit.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Again I’m sorry….this story changed me. Metaphor and its narrative stamp its foot down and say “No, fantasy DOES matter.” The game argues what a great leader, and thereby a true hero, needs more than strength is curiosity and imagination. It couldn’t have arrived in my life at a better time. 120
Pat @grimoirepit.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Pretty much the same as the previous post, though I will say that Katsura Hashino is cemented as an industry innovator, and he always guides teams to a singular, yet holistic vision. 120
Pat @grimoirepit.bsky.social · 18/11/2024The bias starts early. I have MANY thoughts about Metaphor. It was hard to not vote for it in every single category it was nominated. I think, more than most of Atlus’s recent catalog, it accomplishes everything it sets out to do, and then some. It has changed me, which rarely happens now. 341
Pat @grimoirepit.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Too early for a review obviously, but it’s got maps! Always promising 000
Pat @grimoirepit.bsky.social · 12/11/2024made it 34 pages into a new fantasy novel ask me anything 130