Saturday, November 07, 2020

Blog: Games of October 2020


October was pretty busy. Keeping two classes in the air while teaching remotely has been a bit of a struggle. So I've been playing more of the bite sized things. I can jump in to and out of really quickly.


My top five games (by play time) for October were:
  1. Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Getting some seasonal, halloween, things to do did perk the game up a bit. I'm still finding it a touch bland.

    Animal crossing villager with purple skin, zombie face paint, devil horns and a monocle, scowls at the camera.
    I'm mad they won't let me pick my own costume...

  2. Ogre Battle 64 - Did it snow? Yup. I described Ogre Battle to my partner the other day as "my favourite spreadsheet".


  3. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Again and again this remains a classic and my favourite game to just relax and play.

    Hestu the forest nympyh dances in front of Link in a forest.
    He must dance.

  4. Mario 35 - This has been a ton of fun. I've always been a little embarrassed at how I never learned the first Super Mario Bros. This has been great motivation to actually get good (even if it isn't quite the same game from 1989). It's also bite sized

    World 3-2 in Mario 35 with a number of red koops and goombas on the screen.
    I seem to have died. Again.

  5. XCOM: Chimera Squad - I tailed off playing Chimera Squad a little just because sessions can be a little long and I've had a ton of stuff I need to keep working on. There's also the drawback of going back to the desk you've sat at all day to play more games is sometimes a bit hard.

    Godmother and Torque fight a berserker in a shabby bedroom.
    Sometimes the fighting goes bedroom to bedroom.

Here's my total play time chart for October:



And here's a chart of how much I've played over the month:




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