Writing N' Video Games

106 hours later, I beat the last story monster of Monster Hunter: World (with slinger ammo.) FEATURING the most advanced and beautiful range of monsters to date, Monster Hunter: World is the fifth mainline game in the series and the first on the XO/PS4 generation.  It's huge.  And filled with large monsters, small monsters, pet-sized monsters, plants you'd be lucky to find during a hunt, bugs, and ore to collect for items, monster specific rewards, equipment (weapons, consumables, and charms), and an arena so that you can't run.  Then, there are high-rank versions of all that.  The general success of this Monster Hunter is taking all that stuff and making them useful to hunting and crafting, so hunting and crafting are interwoven through every scale of the game, be it your current task or the one you're preparing for. Full Ingot armor and a mud monster (Barroth) THERE are 32 large monsters in the New World, meaning the boss sized ones, (the ones we really c...

SLIME Rancher takes the survival exploration gameplay that dominates open world games and drops the survival. I caught my first glimpse of Slime Rancher near the beginning of its early access run and bought it a few months from its official release.  What is it?  It’s a whole lot of farming of wild blob-like creatures (slimes) and food while using a vacuum gun through a day and night cycle to earn money. The catch is that there is no pressure. Home on the ranch THE game starts by informing you that you, Beatrix LeBeau, have journeyed to the Far Far Range, 1,000 light-years from earth and quickly spawns you first person, vacpack (vacuum gun) in hand on your ranch. The gun is easy-to-learn: collect and release things.  You can collect slimes, slime droppings (extremely valuable rocks), food to feed your slimes, and eventually upgrade it to carry water.  You can also sprint and jump, the usual stuff in a first-person game. The machinery with green li...