A Lovely Stranger You Meet in the Train on Your Way Home

Review of Tangle Tower, a game by SFB Games.

If I have to choose one word to describe this game, it will be: lovely. Because that’s what it really is, at the end of the day. It’s a small, charming game made with great love for the medium, for the genre, for the thing itself. It’s not groundsbreaking or Important with capital I. It doesn’t expect you to think too much about it. It’s a stranger you meet on the train home who you unexpectedly made friends with, who takes you out for dinner that same evening and tells you all sort of fun stories, and then when you say goodbye you realise you never asked for their contact info. Meeting them is a lovely, cherished memory even if it has no impact to your life at large.

But I’m just waxing poetic.

End of Spooky Month Playlist

It’s kind of a thing for me to write a blogpost listing the games/books/projects/movies/etc I’ve been enjoying, along with like a mini-review of each. It’s not regularly scheduled. The last one was from June? The Summer’s End one was kind of one, although it only focused on my personal projects. The posts tend to be tagged status, mixed in with other posts, although you can probably see them by searching “playlist”.

… No, actually there’s another one, from July 2018 which I titled Reading List instead.

And I’m saying all this because this is something that I just realized, that it’s sort of a regular feature in my blog, if you can call something that gets posted twice a year as regular. I know this blog isn’t the neatest of web-places, seeing as it’s just another place for me to talk to the void with more space and permanence than Twitter, so it’s kind of… comforting? to see something that’s regular. Makes it easier to see how I changed (or don’t) from time to time, to see what actually happened when, to see that passage of time.

And, well, I like writing these things because it’s easy and fun. Good way to get words out of my head before getting ready to work on something more important.

Anyway, this is what I got now.