Floor management to Main Tom…

Goooooood morning, buddies, and welcome to Whatcha Been Enjoying? I hope that you’ve got had a fabulous week, and that the weekend forward brings you a lot pleasure and/or relaxation (delete as relevant) as you require… I’d bail on my quota of Pleasure and take Double Relaxation, to be trustworthy, such is the loopy busy month I’ve had to date. Except its Joi from Blade Runner 2049. I’ll take Double Joi for positive. Please.

Anywhoo, thanks for stopping in for our small weekly winding. I actually recognize that y’all nonetheless making the trouble to indicate out and preserve the scene alive, week after week. It’s necessary to the positioning, and it’s essential to me. However most of all, it’s necessary for you, the neighborhood. We’ve been right here over 200 occasions, and I by no means cease feeling the love and comradeship between you all, come hell, excessive water, of Disqus points.

Hope that this can be a fantastic weekend. Do every little thing I wouldn’t do <3

Your circuit’s useless, there’s one thing incorrect…

Work continues to snowball as Destructoid deconstructs, reconstructs, and reengages itself — It’s an extended, analytical course of, with numbers to be studied, errors to be made, and concepts to be tweaked. It’s going to be a bumpy trip to search out the candy spot — I haven’t had a lot of a chance to play numerous video games. However I’ve hopped in Helios and returned to the Reside, Die, Repeat world of Housemarque’s Returnal.

It’s most actually a kind of video games the place you spend a little bit time away, and overlook fairly how easy and exquisite the motion is. As a roguelike, it’s hardly Hades, but it surely’s visually spectacular, with compelling and difficult fight, and a fantastic however horrifying collection of worlds. It’s so relieving that Housemarque, pressured to desert the shmup style it has mastered so nicely, discovered a solution to reconfigure their skills into the third-person journey market, moderately than churn out some battle royale tat.

There’s no Noomi Rapace *siiiiiigh* but it surely’s the closest to a Prometheus sport I’ve acquired.

Are you able to hear me, Main Tom?

So, earlier than I get again to the trigger-pumping motion of my very own area odyssey, I need to want all y’all a really completely happy and gratifying weekend. Please take the time to spacewalk into the feedback and allow us to all know Whatcha Been Enjoying. We’re midway by way of November, and which means time is operating out for you GOTY crammers. Whether or not you’re catching up on 2022 up to now, or just enjoying regardless of the hell you need — your experiences are all legitimate and welcome right here. Thanks for becoming a member of us within the discourse, regardless of some awkward hurdles. It means the world to me that you’re nonetheless part of our cosmos.

Have a beautiful weekend, from all of us at Destructoid.