While the industry celebrated Clair Obscur several times over, we talked about the wonderful December releases that are more interesting than The Game Awards.
I started playing Final Fantasy Tactics again, which means I have been in Mandalia Plains grinding for several hours now. Mandalia Plains is the earliest stage in the game, and
Vanquish is basically if a cover shooter was a SHMUP, a dynamic that inverts the flow of a stodgy subgenre that died an ignoble death for good reason. Gideon’s suit primarily lets him do two things: slow down time in small increments or rocket boost while sliding on his knees.
What makes the Manbreaker so punishing is not that the individual steps are harder than what you’ve faced, it’s that there’s a lot of them. The cliffs are constructed in a way that if you fall you are unlikely to go further than the base of the stairs, but you will often have to start from the begin
Paul Thomas Anderson’s nearly three hour long Pynchon-adjacent revolutionary drama One Battle After Another is a hit. We here at Aftermath give it our stamp of approval and recommend
