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| Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win... |
Over the last weekend, I continued running Rise of the
Runelords for my Pathfinder group. We are trying to maintain the game during
lockdown by doing it as a video call; it worked well with some connection
issues. Long-term readers of the blog will know that running a game online is
nothing new, but when I’ve done it before, it’s how the game stared – not as a
contingency plan for not being able to meet! The group completed their task in
the Vault of Greed, and journeyed on to the Shimmering Veils of Pride where
they encountered their own reflections in the mirrors! Not to put to fine a point
of it, but there could have been no better time for me to not have to hand out their
character sheets, as for perhaps the first time I had access to all their information
and was able to run their characters. Unfortunately, I had to cut the battle short
due to family illness, but we will hopefully pick it up again in the future.
There is talk of members of that group doing a game in the
week as well; I’d like to be a part of that but we’re in discussions about that
system to run and who will be running the game. I’ll see how it works out; I
would prefer to play this time as I don’t get to play very often, but it depends
on what the other lads want to do.
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| Spider monkeys. See what they did there... |
Earlier in the week, Kirsty and I had a go with a board game
that I’ve had for a while and not done anything with yet – Rhino Hero. This is
a game about stacking cards to resemble a skyscraper and getting your hero to
the highest point on the skyscraper without knocking the whole thing down. It’s
aimed at younger people and is a good game; perhaps not with the depth of some
of the other games that we play, but certainly the most dextrous and one of the
better ones for spectacle. We had a great time building the towers and trying not
to knock them down! Kirsty won both games that we played, and we’d be happy to
show this to our friends when we’re out of lockdown and they can come around
again!
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| Sonic Generations. It's a lot of fun! |
One game I forgot to mention I’d played the previous week
was Sonic Generations on the Xbox 360. I was inspired to play this partly by YouTube’s
The Completionist, partly because I’d downloaded if for free off Games with
Gold, and partly because I’d just finished Assassin’s Creed 2 and wanted something
light-hearted and fun to play. I’ve enjoyed it so far, although I find it
better in short bursts rather than prolonged sessions. If it were just a case of
getting through the game, I might have beaten it by now already, but while the
number of stages may appear to be small, there are a lot of challenge modes
attached to each stage and that is taking a decent amount of time at this point!
I’ve been playing Sonic for almost for as long as I’ve been playing video games
and there’s little to surprise me now, but it’s a good fun game and one that I’m
hoping to see through to the end.
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| You would not believe the faff I've got to go through to get a screen grab from the Switch to my computer... |
One game that I actually did see through to the end was
Dragon Quest on the Nintendo Switch. I’d bought this a few months ago, played
it for a few hours in November, and didn’t play it again for a while, mainly
because knowing the time investment generally needed for RPGs, I waited until I
had some time before committing to it! I don’t want to say much more than that right
now because I’m hoping to get a review out either this week or next week.
Finally, I’ve been playing New Super Mario Bros U on the Wii
U. As it’s been a while since I played it, and the levels I tried to play
through last time were very difficult, I started a new save file. I may or may
not see it through to the end but it’s a Super Mario game; they’ll always be
fun while they last!
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