Playtime: 123h. I enjoyed this game, I really did. Could it have been a DLC for the first game? Maybe. There was enough story content in it to warrant a new installment, but all the game mechanics (combat included) felt very same-y to me. The game looked and ran just as the 2018 piece. Which is to say that it is a stunner, for a PS4 game, so it runs as smooth as silk on any modern hardware. Including PC, which is to say that the game is well optimized. ...

Playtime: ~18h. Quite a nice little game! Having missed the golden days of the GameCube and Wii, I had not played the original and had bought a copy of this remaster long ago. I’m glad I got to play it. The game content and play style does show its age, but that is not necessarily bad, as I found it to be very charming in its own way. ...

Playtime: 16h 30m. Brilliant! I haven’t had so much fun with a game in a looong while, certainly not with any of the other games here reviewed. There are differents kinds of fun to be had while gaming, but Split Fiction excels at the best two kinds: fun while collaborating, discovering with, and sabotaging (why not?!) a friend; and some primitive, core kind of of fun, that makes you giggle like a baby non-stop because “this idea is stupid, outrageous! how can it be so fun?”. ...

Playtime: 67h 30m. A beautiful game. This stylized version of ancient Japan couldn’t be more appealing to the eyes. The plot does work, although it can be easily predicted from the first hours. But the friends you make are imperfect enough to be believable and captivating. Well, except that damn fighting monk. Exploration is rewarding, but can easily become a game of clearing map markers, which, admittedly, I did. ...

Playtime: 5h. Once I was done with Lies of P I had some time to start a new game before the holiday season. What I wanted to play next was Ghost of Tsushima, but the idea of starting the game, having the holiday break, and then resuming it on 2025 didn’t appeal to me. So I looked for a bite-sized indie game on my wishlist and found Cocoon. ...

Playtime: 42h. A surprisingly good game, with balanced mechanics and combat. Full of depth. Only sometimes frustrating. So here I was, days before my birthday, but not allowed to purchase and play the games I actually want to (Ghost of Tsushima or God of War: Ragnarök) because I gave put them on my b-day gift wishlist that my wife always ask for and, like magic, I end up being gifted by either her or my friends. ...

Playtime: 2h 36m. A delightful little game that has been sitting on my Steam library for I don’t know how long. It is easy to see why it is such a classic. So many interesting gameplay ideas implemented with simple controls: directional and 2 buttons, jump and action. Still on the “doing so much with so little” topic, there is also an interesting story being told during the bloodshed playthrough. ...

My personal blog moved from https://tinsuke.wordpress.com to https://blog.tinsuke.com. I also brought over the modern content, and might even import the old posts, who knows. This website is powered by Hugo and hosted on Codeberg Pages (source here). ...

Playtime: 134h 30m. Wow, how did I play this game for so long? I don’t know, the game loop of hunting and bringing down machines is entertaining enough (but so it was on the first game too), and I hopefully kept on going, looking for that spark of magic that made me fall in love with Zero Dawn. ...

Thanks to the porting efforts of huo-ju (photoprism-freebsd-port) and psa (libtensorflow1-freebsd-port), it is quite easy to get PhotoPrism up and running on a FreeBSD system or jail. The port uses SQLite 3 for the DB implementation by default, and while that runs fine for a few thousand pictures, things start slowing down a bit when reaching the tens of thousands. This post will help you to migrate your PhotoPrism FreeBSD installation from SQLite to MariaDB. ...