I’ve been making a concerted effort of writing on a more regular basis as of late, as I feel the need to clear my head while putting my feet to the fire in some abstract attempt at appeasing an amorphous, other worldly force that demands writing sacrifice to keep the cosmic clock ticking.
Even if that sometimes takes the form of making dick jokes
about Hanna-Barbera characters
To that point, I have been enjoying my time with Multiversus, which I wrote about recently. I casually referred to the write up as a “preview”, due to a couple of contentious factors that left me not knowing how else to refer to the article all together. The game is free to play, and always updating, so what I even experienced and wrote about may not even be 100% accurate in the future with more changes inevitably to come. As mentioned, the title is free to play, also making needless the goal of attempting to help consumers make an informed decision with their wallets, as trying the damn thing is free for fuck sake, leaving me kind of riffing on what is essentially a no-risk stakes battle of curious proportions.
That is where things get hard for me (err, not about erotic fan fiction, just to clarify), but about writing output after the fact. Back in the old days, when I use to get paid to do this, it was more just pushing myself to report news and forge through product on a regular basis with the idea of topicality and deadlines to follow. Now that I’m just writing for funsies, it’s a bit more difficult to churn through game after game, kind of changing the rhythm and flow of the whole dynamic. Not only am I not receiving product on a regular basis to go through, I’m also flat broke, so the stuff I’m going to play is free to play stuff like Multiversus, or games I’m probably already interested in, which will make the deconstructionism involved the experience probably a bit more safely optimistic, leading to possibly by the numbers outcomes of predictably obviously uninspired conclusions.
Shocking I say!
More my point than anything is that keeping a steady pacing on this kind of output can be challenging, all things considered. Where I thought by playing smaller experiences or doing previews, my hope is that I would have some kind of quicker rapport with the experience before moving on. That intention ended up being the complete opposite of what has occurred, as me not wanting to make my replay of Let’s Go Eevee “a thing”, ended up having me play multiple games to finish the Pokedex, my review for Wallachia (which is definitely not a Castlevania game) has me now hunting for all the trophies, and my quick preview of Multiversus turning into a daily jaunt of looney tunesesque proportions.
all of the alternate skins for Mulitversus characters at this rate
More to my point, my write ups on ATE in recent days have been with the focus on something more digestible; not everything has to be a near five hour video essay on the ethical indignities involving the Sonic the Hedgehog series or a twenty six part series on the possible sexual proclivities of the Kingdom Hearts series.
I just don’t think I have that kind of energy within my being, truth be told. Shorter form affairs keep me well enough engaged, which ends up being a good thing, as the only way I’ve been able to make all of the writing work recently is with more free time, which is a happening that is soon to come to an end. It all works out, as I’ve been wanting to do more impromptu and decisive thoughts involving gaming, which makes the process of sharing thoughts less daunting than say, pouring fifty plus hours into a title, spending hours after that thinking about it, hours more yet writing it, and then hours afterwards lamenting I simply don’t have the time for anything except bitching about not having more time.
So yes, expect more brilliance ahead, albeit in bite sized format. I’ve tossed around ripped from the headlines as a regular go to for awhile now, and there are yet games I’ve been enjoying which I’ve been bafflingly mum about. I also teased a write up forever ago teasing Resident Evil 4, which I never got to, and since I am as if Sisyphus rolling the rock known as RE4 forever up the hill till time immemorial, I have little doubts I will refuse to struggle the steep ascent once more…
…cause you got to keep on rolling.
~Pashford
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