Ever since Epic has setup a store front, they've been trying to draw business by giving away a different game every week and if it struck me as interesting I would pick it up only for it to languish in my backlogs. This would be one of those games, so when I did my first dice roll in a long while (franchises took up a lot of my gaming time recently), this came up as the result. Interested, I installed and a few hours later, the credits were rolling. I have to say, it was a nice evening.
When over the Christmas holiday Epic Games gave away Ghostwire: Tokyo, I decided to pick this up as well since it takes place before the main event and is a free title. I already understood it was a visual novel, but I was hoping for a lot more then I got here. I pray this doesn't reflect on the main game beyond the setting.
Way to start the new year with a bang! Ok ok, I was playing this through the end of 2023, but really how else can I put when I finished it? Now don't get me wrong, this did not come out of left field or anything. I absolutely loved the game it's a sequel to, but after my time so far playing with Unreal 5 (in the form of Starship Troopers) I had concerns about performance and general game quality this time around. Thankfully I was not only proven to be worrying over nothing, the game carried by the engine is arguably my favorite game of 2023, taking even the title from the CyberGoddess of Citidel Station's outing! Well done!
Hail and welcome everyone! Not a lot to say that isn't said on the title, but with this post, we are starting the yearly tradition around here: playing games to help sick kids! And we do this by taking part in Extra Life.
Every year, gamers come together to raise money with the Children's Miracle Network with the pledge to play games for a 24 hour session in honor of those kids we are helping. We each play for our chosen hospital, having a great time taking our chosen hobby to do some good in the world.
And how it works is really simple. If you want to play with us, just make your way to the Extra Life website, sign up, pick the hospital you wish to play for, and get to it! If you would like to help us help the kids, it's also simple (and either way, thank you for getting involved. These kids need all the help we can give them). Come on over to our team page and you will see a nice big blue "Donate" button. Clicking this will bring you to our roster where you can pick who to donate under. You can even click on any of our names to see our individual pages and what hospital we are playing for... complete with a similar donate button on any of our pages. But if you wish to pick right there, the donate next to each name will bring you there with the donation section already open.
All of this is handled by the Children's miracle network, and the page itself has a lot more detail about what the whole thing is about.
But on that note, I think it's time I close this opening entry... and time we all get to what we do best... and do something straight up awesome while doing it. Have fun and game on!