No Straight Roads Review is Live! (Patreon)

Another review is live! This time, I checked out No Straight Roads, which I've been pretty excited for. It's a boss rush action brawler with a rhythm game twist — enemies attack in beat with the music — and like 90% of that sentence is my jam. It has some truly stunning aesthetic direction and winning Saturday morning cartoon charm, but unfortunately, a lot of its mechanical ideas are a little on the shallow side. There's a lot of half baked systems you have to wade through to find the good stuff in No Straight Roads, and that makes it a difficult recommendation to make, but despite it all, I still somehow came away wanting to like this one. It's got a lot of heart, and you want it to succeed! But it ends up a bit middling while you might have some fun with it, you can probably find better sitting in your backlog.

Next week isn't 100% in stone yet. Might be the first chapter of Tell Me Why, much more likely it'll be Spiritfarer. Either way, I should finally at last be able to get some solid progress on the Mass Effect GTDM. For those interested in a progress update, I'm about halfway through a draft, but I've still got a bit more to play through before I make my final points and so on. So the video's still a ways out, but we'll get there! Until next week!