Maker’s Breath, it’s 2025

Hello, everyone! I can tell by the crickets that I have been away for far too long for anyone to still be hanging around this little globe of mine, but after much guilt and much meandering, I realized how much I missed blogging about games. I am pretty much off Twitter and BlueSky and all other social media, and so my finger is much less on the pulse of gaming news than it used to be, and life has taken several turns and I’ve unfortunately not been consuming as many games as I have in the past.

But gosh, have I missed this little blog, so I figured it was time to at least come back and say hello. You may have noticed it looks a little different… I’m aggravated at how abrupt it was, but I leveled down my plan and immediately lost all the formatting of everything I had before, and this was something I didn’t think was totally awful in the pinch to get the site functioning again.

Regarding gaming, I’ve not been up to too much. I started playing The Cruel King and the Great Hero, and loved every minute of it, but then life happened and I will have to start it over again, I think, because I was quite far along and forgot all the controls. I think I stopped playing because I got lost in the map after another long break, so unless I can find a walkthrough, it might be easier to go from the beginning again and remind myself of all the things, anyway.

Courtesy of Ian from Adventure Rules, a million years ago I started playing CrossCode and absolutely fell in love with that game, too, but boy oh boy when I picked that one up again a few weeks ago, I was at such a high level that I was steamrollered during the first real fight because button mashing just wasn’t cutting it. I have to say, I am impressed at past-Athena for being so adept. So, another game to restart.

I also downloaded Tunic onto my Playstation, and the forty-five minutes I played of it were positively delightful.

But Athena, I hear you say, you haven’t answered my real question: have you played the new Dragon Age game??

And, dear readers, you will know how insane my life has become by my telling you that, for a Dragon Age game released last November, I have only played about 9 hours of Dragon Age: Veilguard. I love it, but I have not burned through it nearly as quickly as I have done for other Dragon Age games (through no fault of its own. I am enjoying it!)

But I am shooketh, as the kids say.

I think the only game I have completed – really, truly completed – since I last posted was Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition, which was an impulse buy a few years ago. True to form, I purchased it because of its cover, and that it said that the game wasn’t actually real, even though I was looking at it. Expecting some sort of Orwellian, 1984-esque adventure, I picked it up and brought it home. It wasn’t quite Orwellian, but was definitely thought-provoking in a way I thought would make for a good blog post at the time, but I would have to sit and poke my memory for a bit to remember all the things I’d thought at the time in order to put together a coherent Interesting Case post. Not impossible, but this post, too, is a tad impulsive so I would need to figure out a whole new plan for this blog, and perhaps how I talk about games, before I was ready to hit restart, as it were. I think I was right, though, when I said it would be my favorite game released in 2020.)

I’m not sure how this blog with morph now, because my real world and my virtual ones have changed so much since I was here last, but maybe that’s the beauty of AmbiGamingCorner – there are many, many facets of the real lives behind virtual worlds, and I’ve always loved exploring those with you, in whatever direction that took us.

Thanks for stopping by, and I’ll see you soon!
~ Athena