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Ever since I was a child, I was afraid of spiders. To this day, I have to actually tell myself not to kill them when I see one, reminding myself they get rid of all the things that are worse. As it turns out, spiders are really not so scary if you turn them trippy, lava-lamp style colors and give them amusing hats and maybe a rocket launcher over a pit of lava.
Now, more than ever, life feels like we are all living in a fast-forward. We rush to work through our multitudinous duties, home to eat and knock out chores, and to bed to do it all again. There are pockets of time in our day where we get to sit down, relax, and enjoy the simple moments. CoffeeTalk is a game that embodies that both in narrative and in gameplay, asking the player to kick their feet up, make some coffee drinks, and enjoy the company of others.
I have long been an Assassin’s Creed fan. Been playing since the first game, and I have beaten every mainline entry that the series has put out. I have rolled with the punches, story-tone changes, playstyle differences, bad modern-day crap, nickel-and-dime DLC schemes, XP boosters, and glitchy messes. I love the historical murder-tourism and generally I have enjoyed several of the changes that have happened with the curren batch of AC titles. While I miss the sprawling urban playgrounds of Ezio’s day, and especially the zipline utopia that was Victorian London in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, I came to enjoy the forays into the truly ancient history that AC Origins, Odyssey, and Vallhalla have put forth. While the latest entry, Valhalla, is probably the title I have enjoyed the least, it still presented enough new story beats, and a general mood that justified its existence. Does the first larger DLC pack, Wrath of the Druids justify its existence in the greater game? The short answer is no, no it does not.
Stray could’ve coasted and likely succeeded on gimmick alone. A game where you play as a stray cat was enough to get me and many others in the door on day one, but Stray is firing on all cylinders from the moment it starts. It would’ve been easy to phone it in on this one, and while I usually start a review by posing whether or not a game delivers on its premise, I’ll let you know ahead of time that Stray exceeds expectations at every turn.
