Monday, September 18, 2017

September 17, 2017

 This morning I woke up at eight o'clock. My alarm went off at seven o'clock but I wasn't feeling rested enough so I gave it another hour. When I finally got up I played games. I thought about reading and about tidying up my house but I ended up just playing games. I decided that I was going to ignore the need to feel productive for one day and play some of the games that I have been wanting to play for awhile.

I started with Oxenfree, which was a lot of fun. I really liked the art style of the game, and the dialogue and voice acting was really good. The game as a whole reminded me of a mix of The Goonies, Scooby Doo, and Stranger Things. At some point I need to play it again because there are multiple endings. I don't know how drastic the endings are but I'd be curious to find out.

Next I played The Stanley Parable, a game I have been wanting to play for a very long time. It easily lived up to my expectations. It is another game that has multiple endings and I played through it enough times that I got to see the majority of them. The game has a very humorous narrator that reminds me a lot of British comedies (because the narrator is British) and the movie Stranger Than Fiction. It's a game I would play through again just to listen to the narration.

The last game I played (and I'm still playing) is The Happy Hereafter. It's basically a resource management game that reminds me a lot of Warcraft but without the fighting. You're just trying to collect resources and grow a town to make it nicer for the dead people coming to live there. It's got a fun art style and it's simplicity is very addictive. I got totally sucked in and I have been playing far too long now. But I'm getting very close to an end-game situation. I have upgraded all of the buildings and houses, and then I just need to unlock all of the decorative stuff. And technically I just beat the game, I guess, but I still want to max everything out.


My day of games has kind of screwed me over for the beginning of the new week. It is now after midnight, so I've missed my eleven o'clock goal, and I have to open in the morning. I foresee it being a rough Monday. On the plus side, I have now upgraded everything in The Happy Hereafter and now I just need to max out everything in my warehouse. Totally doable. But not tonight because good grief, I need to go to bed. After I record my audio journal.

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