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"MAGNAGOTHICA: MALEGHAST is now out! It’s a full color, heavily illustrated skirmish scale necromancer tactics wargame heavily inspired by heavy metal music and gothic comics"

Considering the author, I expect this to be awesome on all fronts. It looks like it is all digital. You can also get it from their Patreon.

Also as a side note, if you decide to read K6BD go here. If you go to the main page you'll probably see major spoilers, since it's the latest chapter.

I'll call it Bed, Bath, & The Great Beyond.

Canticle is a dragon or other powerful being's egg. The entire planet is an evenly rotating massive investiture sink. I can easily seeing that being a major part of the development of a dragon, both heating and sustaining the embryo. The hostility of the planet is also likely in part a defense mechanism.

I swear every mobile site is absolute garbage that runs like ass on phones.

Been playing a lot of Steam's NextFest demos and posting about them. There's a lot of fun and interesting games being highlighted. Also finally getting around to Psychonauts 2 and it's great. It picks up directly after the events of the VR game Rhombus of Ruin (which I haven't played due to lack of VR) which apparently picked up right after the first game, keeping a strong narrative thread between the games. You also have all of your powers from the first game, avoiding the classic yet annoying trope of arbitrarily losing everything just to get more or less the same powers. The gameplay is exactly what you'd want from a sequel, keeping the basic loop the same while expanding on it with new abilities.

They don't let you get very far in the demo but what I did play was very pleasant. When you're running around on foot you slide down hills and can zoom along the surface of water, keeping your character moving and avoiding awkward stoppages as you explore. If you get some air, like with the charged jump or the levitation ability, you can glide gently back to the ground. All of these things make it very fun and satisfying to explore the world.

They're all so varied it's easy to fall in love with at least one. I personally love Nightmare Painter's and Silence's. The dark world with cyan and magenta highlights of Painter's world does something special in my brain and I dig the hell out of it. If I were to make an animation out of the book all of his parts would be in B/W with the hione lines being their colors and possible casting a colored glow on and otherwise B/W world. The creepy horror feel of Silence's is a fun, very tense divergence from the usual.

Overall this game feels a lot like the classic Castlevania without so much retro jank. The controls feel great and the action is satisfying.

One of my highlights from NextFest, this game feels like a lighter version of Cultist Simulator and I cannot wait for it to come out. Definitely worth playing the demo.