The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming

Aaaaaaaaaand Another One Completed!

Finished my first playthrough of Cloudpunk! I’ll have to play through it again to get missed achievements and to see what happens if I make other choices.

Cloudpunk takes place in a dystopian cyberpunk world made entirely out of voxels. You play as a delivery driver for the company Cloudpunk. It’s quite simple: Make your deliveries, and don’t ask questions.

Cloudpunk has a beautiful city-scape with tons of areas to explore, even after finishing the game. There are also a lot of interesting characters you meet along the way, and well written dialogue that is surprisingly relatable. You also have chances to make your own decisions during your travels, giving it replay value. My only complaint is with some of the voice acting, and that’s only for a couple of the NPC’s you meet during your quests. For the most part it’s actually well done.

I’ve played this all in between my Steam Deck, Desktop and TV, and it looks stunning on all of them. It also remembers your screen resolution on each device! I can play it on a handheld without it changing the resolution on my other systems.

I give it a 4.5 out of 3.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming / Hobbies

Achieving A Good Evening

Shantae standing with her uncle and friends after completion of her uncle's dynamo.

Didn’t have time to do much playing, but I did advance the plot in Shantae: Half Genie Hero! The Dynamo has been built, an achievement has been acquired, and more quests have popped up for next time.

I also finished up another part of my ongoing animation project! It’s currently keeping the room nice and toasty (and not just in universe!). It’s looking like it will still be rendering when I go to bed, and it’s cold enough tonight that I have no qualms about using my RGB space heater. Next time I touch SFM I’ll begin prepping the next stage. I’m anticipating another month of strange imagery on the horizon.

All in an Overlord's day

A Day Of Snow!

It’s rare for us to get snow here on the coast, and when we do it usually vanishes by the next morning. This has been lingering around for a couple of days. I’m hoping it all passes soon, we’re not a white winter area… although it was fun playing in the snow for a bit. 😛 There’s snowmen all around town. I think the Canadian Military is getting ready to strike.

Gaming / Hobbies

All Work & One Hour of Play

Ammy keepin’ it real.

Spent the last hour of the evening trying to gear myself towards achievements in Okami. I’m thinking after this romp I’ll be taking a break though, maybe play something completely different for my next session. Possibly something with a more humanoid form?

This is fine!

It all hasn’t been about play though, been getting a lot of animation done… unfortunately we keep coming up with other ideas to animate into the scenes. Damn our imaginations!!! I’m hoping to have something rendering in the next few days, which is good because that’ll warm the house and it’s supposed to be getting into freezing temperatures… FREEZING TEMPERATURES.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming / Open Threads

Evening Open Thread

A couple years ago, I received an anime cookbook for Christmas. I haven’t really done much with it other than make really delicious honey ginger milk for tea, but this weekend I attempted to change that. I learned about a dish called Omurice, a Japanese breakfast dish inspired by western omelets! Basically you fry rice and then wrap it up in an omelet with ketchup drizzled on top. The ingredients are easy enough to gather and prepare, but the omelet is where I’ve been failing. During my first attempt yesterday I browned the omelet more than I should of, but it still tasted good. Today I got the color right, but it fell apart when trying to put it all together. I’ll probably need to watch some videos to get an idea for the technique. It’s tasty even if the omelet falls apart, but I want to get the presentation right. Instead of having mine with ketchup, I purchased a gingery Asian BBQ Sauce, and it all tasted sooooo good.

Between my Omurice attempts, drinking green tea, flowery aromatherapy and lots of Okami; it’s been a nice, relaxing weekend. I just need to finish it up with a matcha latte and then I can successfully call it a night.

Gaming

All Aboard The Ark Of Yamato!

Another game I can add to the finished list! Now that I’ve successfully finished it I can provide my list of pros and cons:

Pros:
  • You’re a Wolf… AWESOME
  • You’re a God… that’s cool too
  • Beautiful Music and Visuals
  • Amazing Storytelling
  • Hours of Exploration
  • Unique Gameplay: Slowly save the world with The Joy of Painting!
  • 4K Support
  • Linux and Steam Deck Friendly
Cons:
  • 30FPS limit

 

All in all I thoroughly enjoyed playing Okami, and look forward to playing it again on NG+! Easily one of the best games of all time. Now give us Okamiden!

Gaming

Fighting Through Light and Dark

I Found The Great Wall Of Oh Fuck

Went dancing through pretty shapes and lights in Outland! I gained the laser ability and destroyed a bunch of jellyfish. Apparently I got a “rare” achievement for finding 10 collectables. Although, looking at the global achievement stats for Outland it looks like not many have finished this game. Thanks to the Steam Deck though I might change that… a little. I seem to really like playing Metroidvanias on it, it just feels right.

As simple as it is in design – it does present a fun challenge. Time is literally everything in getting through some of these obstacles. If you’re red (dark) the red beams won’t hurt you, same if you turn blue (light) and run through the blue beams.

Timing, it’s everything.