Out
completed: 1/7
goodreads
Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her deadbeat husband and then seeks the help of her co-workers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime.
thoughts:
i HATED the ending of this book!!! the tension and suspense was built up so good throughout it and then the ending just sucked literally everything out of it. a shame because despite how ""dark"" this book got, i was still hooked with Masako's story and how it would unfold. I hated that it ended the way it did and it took away from Masako's character, imo.
Baldur's Gate 3
completed: 1/15
steam
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
thoughts:
i'm ngl i think this game is incredibly overhyped, lol. i originally got this game because i'm a sucker for a high fantasy rpg and as an eccentric vampire lover, astarion felt tailor made to lure me to this game. so, i bought it for my birthday last year. and hated it. maybe i'm not cut out for "real" rpgs but this game was such a miserable slog for me that i literally just gave up on it entirely, deleted it from my console, and lamented that i'd essentially flushed 70 dollars down the drain. this year tho i'm on a mission to beat all my unplayed games and cross platform co-op is coming and my friend wants to play it with me, so i decided to give it another chance. also the mod support on console definitely helped me make up my mind because for such a popular rpg the customization of the character creator fucking sucks and hearing "there's mods!" in response to the lack of body diveristy seriously pisses me off LOL. imo, a lot of the fat characters in this game are meant to come off as disgusting/repulsive or they're all "bad" people. so i played it anyway depsite my hate for it and decided that, yeah. it's not as good as everyone made it out to be. for as big as the game is, it still felt incredibly empty in certain points. I was getting dialog trees for routes i never took or things i never did. it was annoying at best and frustrating at worst. also. tav, the self-insert player character, feels incredibly empty with the vacant eyed stare and four expressions. it took me out of whatever "immersion" i was meant to be feeling. high stress situations suddenly became a joke when my tav's face looked like an over exaggerated shocked emoji. at the end of my game karlach's ending scene bugged so badly and i'm fairly certain i missed out on quite a bit of dialog in it lol. the fact this game is 60USD(70 if you're on ps5 like me LOL)and they're still adding endings to this game. be serious. all the companion quests are echoes of one another, like what do you mean they're all victims under the whim of some big bad piece of shit and you can either liberate them from that or make them worse LOL. also, it's not so much a game issue as a community issue but what the fuck is up with the characters that get DO get attention. wyll is right there. karlach is right there. jaheira is right there. shut the hell up about gale!!!!!!!!!!!! also really??? FUCKING GALE? a windbag egotistical dipshit that wont shut up about his ex. fuck him!!!!!