Giglamps rambles

  La Chouette there, taking the concept of Free Roam a bit too literally... It's time again for some more shots from art of rally, which has pretty swiftly zoomed its way to being one of my favourite games; it's very easy to love. I've been trying out some different cars, still wrestling with the flippy spinny bastards RWD motors in career mode and having some leisurely strolls around, just to soak up the scenery for a while. Also, of course, keeping an eye out for the funny little things written on the bottom of each car. It's ideal to squeeze in when you've got half an hour or so going spare before work (before I then go to work, and end up going spare in a different sense.) Investigating the buzz surrounding the Rotary 3 (based on a Mazda RX-3), the blurb for which mentions that the engine "sounds like a thousand enraged wasps."   Quite literally driving off into the sunset in Finland, a very pleasant experience.   " You ain't seen me... roigh...

Coming back for another dip into Pools today, with some shots from Chapter 0. Where chapter 6 lost me a bit with its sudden shift to a more chaotic atmosphere, this epilogue/prologue/is there a word for something that feels like it serves both purposes at once? really delivered the goods with building upon the particular atmosphere of the earlier parts of the game - it's eerie, beautiful, tense, unmooring, melancholy, and there are ducks. The ducks are essential. The environment design in this maze is superb and there were a few more moments that reminded me a bit of Silent Hill 4; particularly the opening in the train station, the illogical exterior of the block of flats and the spinning contraption, which looks a bit like the big metal effort in the pool of blood at the end. Ah, memories... (I mean SH4 has a lot to offer, and I will readily go to bat for it, but the final boss fight technically puts you under a time constraint and anyone who knows me can attest just how much I fu...

    vroom! Continuing my swan dive back into video games after not bothering with anything for a few months, I've been looking for driving efforts to go at but being out of the loop for ages, it's hard to know what to look for. Also good luck if you're looking for something on the Steam Deck; there's a lot of stuff that's basically one step above shovelware on there, and if you're looking for something more meaty, then compatibility issues rear their ugly heads, or you'll have to deal with the minefield of DRM and those sods that require signing up to online services - ugh . Also, much as I love it, there's only so much time one person can spend on Sega Rally Championship 1995, with the dodgy Chris Cornell soundalike serenading us with the immortal " Game over, yeeeaaaah!!! " (in the right company, that still gets a laugh), so after a fair bit of rummaging, I found greatness, with the cuddly and adorable art of rally. It's different from wh...