Game therapy

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For weeks I couldn't focus on doing anything "sensible". To trick myself into thinking about something other than cats, I first watched the Olympics from Max and then the Handmaid's Tale, I hadn't seen the fourth and fifth seasons of that show. I still liked the fourth season, but I think the fifth was worse. When I noticed that the fifth season had come already in 2022, I thought that the series had been cancelled. But apparently the sixth and final season is coming next year. The message of the series is dark: people are the same shit everywhere.

After Tabitha's death, I consoled myself by buying games without caring much about spending money.

 

 

I bought cat games. Some "smaller" ones and one bigger one. I finally bought Stray, and played it through again. This time especially these parts resonated:

 

I watched my family die. I felt helpless. I couldn't do anything to save them. 

 

 

You were my friend, the very best I could have asked for.

 

From co-op games I finally bought Goat Simulator 3. It seems like that game has less freedom and fun than its predecessor, there's an overly long list of things you "have to" do. And some of them are quite difficult, and even buggy. 

 

Luckily long awaited game Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga came to Playstation Plus. And so did Cult of the Lamb right after that, just in time for my spouse's summer vacation. So those games we played.

I have wanted Disney's Dreamlight Valley for a long time, and was planning to buy it now because it was on sale again, but then I checked its trophies for the first time. That game does not have many trophies, and even those few are just grindy. What a disappointment. So I didn't buy it.

But Everdream Valley caught my attention and I bought it. That game has plenty of animals. The game is nice but early on I was annoyed by having to chase animals, that's just too much trouble. So I'm kind of regretting buying that game.

 

I desperately want to find similar games as my beloved My Time at Sandrock. And in this context Coral Island has often been mentioned, and its full access-version has finally been released. And another similar game is said to be Roots of Pacha. To these kind of games I absolutely need the story mode, which tells me what to do. I'm not interested in roaming around aimlessly, like recently in Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, I stopped playing it right at the start.