Listen to the Rain

Around six years ago, the group chat I have with a couple of guys to talk about video games (I'm sure you have one too, right?) blew up with discussion of a game called Hollow Knight. I had heard about it on both Rock Paper Shotgun and Bonfireside Chat, of course, but this was people I knew talking about the game, like listening in to a discussion on the playground the way that the designers of The Legend of Zelda hoped that people would do when talking about their game. It sounded amazing and right up my alley, especially when those same group chat friends started talking about a planned sequel called Silksong that was supposed to be coming out in a few short years.

Well, that was six years ago and I've beaten Hollow Knight and Silksong still isn't out. Sic transit gloria mundi.

I started playing Hollow Knight in April and originally thought, oh, this is a thirty-hour game, it'll take me a couple months to finish. But if you've been reading you know that I've gotten pulled into modding for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, which takes up a chunk of my free time, and I also have Laila, which takes up a much larger chunk of my free time. Don't let the fact that I took almost eight months to beat this game imply anything about the quality of the game itself, however--Hollow Knight is a gaming masterpiece and I can perfectly understand why it monopolized gaming chat for weeks on end.


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I'd heard a lot about Dark Souls. I'm pretty sure it's been years at this point since it first came to my attention, but I had been scared off for a while. Not because of the gameplay or its reputation, but just because of Games for Windows Live. By the time I finally got Dark Souls, I knew that it was going to switch from GFW to Steam matchmaking at some point, so I loaded it up, played it for a bit, and then I-



DAMMIT.
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