Please take note from these, Sony.

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Messing around in Horizon Zero Dawn's DLC area (except for the one photo in the desert).

Also, here's the one photo I took "accidentally" in Concrete Genie last week.

I hope using Twitter to share these isn't too bothersome, I lost my one and only flashdisk and Twitter's the next best way to share it.

Started Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds. 3 hours in and so far it's pretty good, the main quests seems interesting and there's already a wealth of stuff to do and collect. The new snowy area looks fantastic, this game still holds up pretty well graphically. Also, I forget how fun the combat in this game is. I'm a bit rusty now, so I have to thank my past self for amassing the best gear and resources possible in the base game, which helps me brute force through the enemies.

I had a lot of fun with both seasons of Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts, it just keeps making things crazier without normalizing it, which made it funny the whole way through. All the characters has hilarious moments, and there's a lot of running gags that never gets old (I can't control myself every time the FFF inquisition shows up). The second season felt more disjointed, but it's still very entertaining. I wish there's a third season.

I also finished The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. I love how it potrays the main characters' superpowers, it all makes some sort of sense and it makes him experience amplified annoyances from what normal people would have, so it naturally would lead to ridiculous moments. It certainly helps that the supporting characters are all batshit insane one way or another. I laughed less as the show goes on, mostly because everything became so normal to me that it's less ridiculous because of it, but I'm still very much entertained.

Through pure luck and no skill, I managed to beat Tetris Effect's journey mode. Man, I suck at Tetris.

1. Death Stranding
2. Concrete Genie
3. River City Girls
4. What Remains of Edith Finch
5. Life is Strange Before the Storm
6. Journey
7. Tetris Effect
8. Dragon Quest XI
9. Mega Man XI
10. The Witness
11. Hollow Knight
12. Thumper
13. Hotline Miami 2 Wrong Number
14. Yakuza 0
15. Horizon Zero Dawn - The Frozen Wilds DLC
16. Prey - Mooncrash DLC
17. Marvel's Spider-Man - The City That Never Sleeps DLC
18. Ace Combat 7 - The three DLC missions
19. Minit
20. Celeste
21. Gris
22. Hard West
23. My Friend Pedro
24. 1979 Revolution Black Friday

Finally finished Tetris Effect's Journey Mode. It took me a while because I really suck at Tetris. On the plus side, I got to listen to the songs more so its not too bad.

The songs are overall great, with a variety of well executed influences from all over the world (Prayer Circles Gamelan hype!), but man there's some that really stand out (to name a few: The Deep, Dolphin Surf, Downtown Jazz). Even the ones that felt more like intermissions aren't half bad. I especially like the vocal songs, which mostly show up on the last leg of the journey.

The visual effects are pretty trippy. I didn't get to really focus on them since I was at the edge of my seat most of time trying to survive the onslaught of blocks, but there's definitely some that stand out (Starfall's galactic rave comes to mind).

All I need right now is the actual OST to release...

I have been hooked on Holy Ghost!'s Dynamics recently. It's a super solid and groovy synthpop record with a good sense of style.

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And another one.

1. Death Stranding
2. Concrete Genie
3. River City Girls
4. What Remains of Edith Finch
5. Life is Strange Before the Storm
6. Journey
7. Tetris Effect
8. Dragon Quest XI
9. Mega Man XI
10. The Witness
11. Hollow Knight
12. Thumper
13. Hotline Miami 2 Wrong Number
14. Yakuza 0
15. Horizon Zero Dawn - The Frozen Wilds DLC
16. Prey - Mooncrash DLC
17. Marvel's Spider-Man - The City That Never Sleeps DLC
18. Ace Combat 7 - The three DLC missions
19. Minit
20. Celeste
21. Gris
22. Hard West
23. My Friend Pedro
24. 1979 Revolution Black Friday

Finished Concrete Genie. This game is just very positive and heartwarming at its core, and I love it. The way everything came together at the end is not unpredictable, but still makes me feel fuzzy inside.

I said it before, but I really like how this game looks. The satisfaction from painting mostly comes from how beautiful the painting effects are. I wish we got more of the 2D drawing scenes, they look gorgeous. Mechanically it's quite simple, and it's very much fine the way it is. I also like when the game turned...

..to an InFamous-lite action platformer to change things up a bit near the end.

Overall, I'm very glad that I got to play this now. It's another one to consider for the neighboring 2019 GOTY thread (8.5/10)

Started Concrete Genie. I really like the spirit of this game, despite the dreary setting. Seeing all the paintings come to life and making the genies happy gives me the feels. Not to mention the game looks pretty great, especially the colorful painting effects. It's not the smoothest running game I ever played, but it's still off to a wonderful start.