What are you currently playing?

[Worgen]

So... Starcom: Unknown Space... its got its hooks me in, I play it all day now. The combination of satisfying combat and exploration with good dialog overcomes the somewhat lackluster overall story and the lack of deep conversations with other species. I do wish I could have a almost destroyed ship surrender. You do get some interesting missions, but unless you have one of those going on most species will at best just trade with you after the initial conversation.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Baldur's Gate 3 again, and I decided to actually recruit Minthara this time, but I can't say she's terribly interesting. Maybe this has to do with me not doing an "evil" playthrough and just knocking her out at the Goblin Camp and scooping her up later at Moonrise, I don't know. But she really has very little going on story wise. Even Halsin and Jaheira have some business to attend to that you can help them out with and get a better understanding of their character, see them grow and change a bit. But Minthara gets nothing really.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

You know what? I did beat this already. I played through a level in the middle after accidentally selecting it, then after that I was trying to figure out how you were supposed to tell which levels you've already played and selected the one on the end, and then there were credits. Huh. I played the jellyfish level and the game was pretty much how I remember it, difficult to control and borderline incomprehensible. I'm not sure if the goal is to eat everything or just get to the lowest level or what. Kind of makes me want to replay Flower because I remember that one being actually good, but I have factories to build and environments to destroy in Factorio so it'll have to wait

I think the goal is to simply get to the lowest level every time. From what I can tell there's no benefit to eating anything, other than popping a few related trophies. If anything you become even more unwieldy the more you eat.

Flower is definitely the better game, with much more clear objectives and a more satisfying endgame and even though there's still a measure of jank from motion controls piloting a gust of wind comes more naturally and feels/looks more exhilarating. The bad part is the slow crawl in the 5th level where you're navigating mazes and avoiding getting zapped.