Day one of the summer vacation. Admittedly, one that should have started in earnest much sooner, but a sports injury had me laid up and on lock down for the bulk of what summer there has been so far.
But it’s been a good amount of time to get some earnest hard-work done on gaming. A good chunk of that has been spent in Vanilla Software’s Unicorn Overlord. It is first and foremost a game that has caught me by surprise in its JRPG roots not causing me to do an immediate nope. But further than that, I have also been pleasantly surprised that it has proven to be a capable and intelligent strategy game. I was at first skeptical of its auto-battler nature, and was ready to walk right the eff away based on that. But the depth of the game…it is not anything if not a game of strategic theatre maneuvere. It evokes images of kings and generals and nobility pushing statuettes around on room-sized strategic maps on the floor of a castle. The game starts basic and scales quite well, neither overwhelming the player but also not letting them get a pass by routinely employing the same strategies on maps over and over. The gameplay lends itself well to taking various strategic approaches….chokepoint management, rear-echelon defense, covering a unit’s retreat, amassing overwhelming force…the battle maps are truly your playground. And while, yes, I would prefer a keyboard and mouse, I cannot find much fault with how well Vanillaware has done with implementing game controller input.
In and amongst these sessions, I have also been playing World of Warships and War Thunder. I won’t go into detail tonight. But I will say that I was very anxious in expecting during this playlist that I would forget things I had learned or re-learned (in War Thunder I am playing Naval Battles) and have to knock cobwebs off each time I left one for a couple of days and then came back. I have been away from World of Warships for a while, but have 137 hours in that game. I have like 1.5 hours in War Thunder, and did not originally onboard in Naval Battles; I was trying the aircraft the one time I’d checked into the game. That all being said, I acclimated quickly and have been having a blast going back and forth between the two.
I watched Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. That DC Animated 75th Anniversary Collection continues to never disappoint. Finally bit the bullet and started my round of upgrading my tablets. Started at the low end by picking up the iPad 10th Gen 256GB since Apple dropped the price in the last round of iPad announcements.
[written on the Apple iPad 10th Gen]
Rounding Off Infinity 