Redwolf's Journal (continued)

I don't know if it's a good or bad thing to have seasons getting into the 6-7 episode realm. It's hard for me to think of them as seasons. Then again, some shows have 50+ episodes in a season, so what's it really mean? Ah well. After watching season one , I was perhaps fairly critical. With these seasons, I may be a little less so. It's still overly simplified in a lot of ways. Catra is still the best part of the show, in my opinion. Watching her rise and fall (and rise and perhaps fall again?) remains more compelling to me than basically anythings else while the good guys are repeatedly learning to work together and Adora spends most of the seasons stressing out about trying to live up to a legend that's pretty vague to begin with. Catra is smart, tough, and manipulative as fuck. If she actually stopped seeking validation of others, she might be the most dangerous person on the planet. Then again, without that motivation, she might not be so badass. The plo

I was interested in The Surge when it came out, as a sci-fi Souls-like game sounded entertaining. That one just didn't quite reach the critical level of interest for me to buy and play, though. The sequel, being widely seen as an improvement in most ways, was an easy pick-up. As one might guess from the genre label, it's very heavy on action combat. The zones like to twist and turn back on themselves, providing a number of shortcuts. Overall, it might differ mostly from the Souls games in having a story that is based on "now" rather than uncovering ago-old lore. I'm not going to say it's the greatest sci-fi tale of any particular time. I had a fair idea what the "twist" was well before it was openly stated. But the story of waking up after a crash in a city going through a nanite apocalypse works fine. There are challenging fights. There is (or at least can be) a fair degree of grinding for improvements. It felt like a solid entry in the genre pret