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Cosplay Stray Thoughts

New game and other stuff

So I decided to play DreadOut, following my Uncanny Valley adventure. I started today, and OMG it’s terrifying! I genuinely had to debate whether I could continue playing, but for the time being I have decided to soldier on! (we’ll see how long that lasts…)

I have also taken the time to unpack and try to arrange some of my cosplay materials and tools. I think I finally found all my fabrics and most of my tools. However I realized that my sewing machine didn’t make the move intact. For starters I can’t find it’s power cable, and second the piece that holds the spool broke off…so…yeah. Can’t really use a sewing machine without the spool. I also have to go check back into the boxes to find my fabric chalk. I have now ordered a new sewing machine and just have to wait for it to get here. On the upside it’s a slight upgrade from my last one, so this should be fun!

In the meantime today I found my jewelry making supplies, and found that at some point I had started a necklace that I had never gotten around to finishing. I realized that I had some new pieces that would fit well with the design, so I decided to finish it.

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Finished necklace

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Reviews

Uncanny Valley Review

So this past week I finished my playthrough of Uncanny Valley. It’s a seriously disturbing game and I think it’s awesome. I may have also possibly gotten the worst ending possible, but who knows. I know there’s stuff that I missed, and I am planning to go back and play it again later, try out different things, different timings of what I do, etc. All in all I think it was a really good game, it had a really good atmosphere, and told an overall pretty decent story. During my time playing I did come across a couple of graphical glitches, nothing major though, and no real major bugs that I noticed. The one thing I would change about the game is how the save file works. So here’s the main menu:

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Uncanny Valley Main Menu
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Games Videos

Uncanny Valley – Part 1 is on YouTube

So if you enjoy watching others suffer, feel free to watch the first part of my Uncanny Valley playthrough:

Again, if you are interested in the game, check out their website –  Uncanny Valley

Hope you enjoy the video, I apologize for the audio quality not being great this video. Thought I had fixed all the sound settings, but it doesn’t seem to have saved, and I didn’t realize that until I was done recording.

The second part should be up by Sunday.

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Games

Uncanny Valley – Preliminary Review

Just started playing an indie game today called Uncanny Valley from Cowardly Creations. Steam suggested the game, it had just released on September 28th. It’s a retro survival/horror game. Now usually I don’t play horror games, I love watching them, however I get too scared to continue playing. Despite that though, I decided to give this one a shot.

So far I’m pretty impressed. At first glance you wouldn’t imagine that the game could be truly scary, but any doubts I had were quickly cast aside within the first minute of playing it. I nearly jumped out of my seat at the beginning. When you first begin the game you are informed that every decision you make will affect the outcome of the game and therefore each playthrough could be different, something which I find immediately intriguing and exciting. After all it’s always a good thing when a game like this has good replay value.

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Games Stray Thoughts

Holidays and Video Games

Well Summer is officially over and that means that the holidays are coming. I know, I know, September is barely over and we’re already talking about the holidays. But if you’re a gamer you know that holiday releases doesn’t only refer to releases in December, but rather anything released after the end of Summer.

As most gamers will attest Summer is often the worst time for video games. You usually find yourself having to survive with the games that you bought/received between the holidays and end of Spring. But as Summer comes to a close suddenly the calendar fills up again with video game releases, and this year is no exception. Now everyone has the franchises and genres that they’re waiting for, and for me that’s a rather broad list of games and it began with the release of Metal Gear Solid V. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your point of view and your wallet, that was only the tip of the iceberg. My current list of planned purchases is looking rather long and it’s starting before September even ends.

I don’t know about you guys, but here’s what my calendar is looking like so far:

  • September 29th – Might and Magic Heroes VII
  • October 9th – Civilization: Beyond Earth – Rising Tide Expansion
  • October 16th – Yoshi’s Wooly World
  • October 20th – Sword Coast Legends, Halo 5 Xbox One and Halo 5
  • October 30th – The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth
  • November 10th – Rise of the Tomb Raider, Fallout 4, Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void

I’m sure I’ve missed at least a few games, but that’s what I can think of right now. I’m also sure that there will be more to add to this list later as some more last minute titles get confirmed. Right now December is looking a little bit sad in releases, but I’m sure that will change. If it doesn’t then there will still have been plenty of releases to keep me occupied.

How’s your list looking?