Had to haul my behind to the wound care place this morning.
Except that that’s not what it’s called, which confused the fuzz out of me. I looked all through the building directory and couldn’t find anything with the word “wound” in it. I started to worry that I was at the wrong “building across the street from the hospital”.
The place is called the Richmond Medical Sciences Centre. by the way. Next time I decide to get there via cab, I won’t have to tell the driver to drop me off at the hospital then cross the street.
Anyhow, so there I am confused after going through the building directory like ten times looking for the word “wound” [1], I saw a friendly sign pointing to something called something like Richmond Community Health, and so I went there to ask them where this wound care place was.
Turns out, they were it. Apparently I got my wires crossed about which words were part of the name of the thing because I was looking for the Richmond community wound care clinic and I was supposed to be looking for wound care at the Richmond community care clinic.
Whatever. I got there, on time at least.
Turns out, this was not the full admittance procedure. It was just the basics plus changing the dressing on my wound.
That was much appreciated because I had been wearing the same one since Tuesday and it was getting pretty gross.
The nurse also did a bunch of measurements, which I did not expect. They revealing that my legs don’t match.
There’s a 3 cm difference between my thighs (so to speak) and a 1 cm difference between my ankles.
I think that means the leg with the wound on it is still sort of puffy.
But what I noticed was that might right leg, without a wound, was a lot paler than the left.
WTF is up with that?
I swear, I will never take bilateral symmetry for granted again!
They gave me some stuff to read and I was on my way.
Bit of a pisser on the way home : after waiting a long ass time and watching two 401 buses and two 414s go by, when my 407 finally arrives, I get on, and the driver announces that the bus will be terminating at Brighouse Station.
The whole dang reason I take the 407 is that unlike the 401 and the 414, the 407 takes me to within one block of home. at Buswell.
If I wanted to walk all the way from the Skytrain station to home, I could have taken a 401 or a 414.
Sigh. Oh well, I survived. It’s only an extra block and a half.
So now I am home, and trying to relax. I got a whack of new game when I bought a bundle off of Fanatical, and surprisingly some of them were actually pretty good, so I have those to look forward to.
Maybe I will write reviews of them later.
Sure, what the hell. Quick impressions of some games.
Ash of Gods : Redemption. A surprisingly good turn based strategy game. The plot really drew me in, which is not something one can normally say about TBS game. The system is pretty interesting, too. Lots of ways to make individual characters have their own moves and their own play style. Plus there are mods, which is always good. I plan on playing this one a bunch, even though I am currently stuck on a tough fight. Totally would recommend to other TBS game fans like myself.
Lust for Darkness. A 3D adventure/puzzle game with all the annoyances that genre brings. The kind of thing where you can’t just click on a door to open it – you have to click to grab the handle, then move backwards or forwards to open the door.
Because that’s how we all open and close doors and cabinets and drawers and things, right? Grab on with both hands and walk backwards?
The plot revolves around a man trying to find his wife, who appears to have been abducted by some fucked up sex cult/
This one is on the bubble for me. So far, the gameplay has been boring AF, consisting mostly of wandering around mundane environments searching for the one object that actually makes something happen.
However, the horror elements are well done enough and the plot is interesting enough that I am somewhat willing to play more…. for now.
Would not recommend, however.
Town of Light. Super into this one. Also 3D and puzzle-ish like Lust for Darkness but with the annoyingness turned way down, and the artistic merit way up. It tells the story of a girl named Renee who was put in an asylum in 1920s Italy, and….
Do I really need to go on? You know if it takes place in an asylum in the 1920s. some pretty bad shit will have gone down.
Anyhow, she returns to that asylum six years after being released and explores the place to try to remember what happened there.
It’s very good. Great voice acting. spooky atmosphere, the occasional jump scare to keep you on your toes. And a plot that drew me in instantly and won’t let me go.
My only quibble is that sometimes the “things actually happening” bits are too far apart and I start to lose interest.
But still, would recommend for anyone who loves psychological horror in more than one meaning of the phrase.
Oh, and finally :
River City Ransom Underground. A highly surprising and faithful sequel to an obscure NES title that has built up a substantial cult following over the years.
This is the game I bought the whole bundle to get. It sounded hella fun and I just fell in love with the idea of people putting a whole shitload of time and energy into expanding this very old game.
This is the game that was worth $5.15 to me. The fact that some of the rest are good was a pleasant and highly welcome surprise.
I haven’t gotten very far in it yet. I can’t seem to beat the first real boss. But I am sure that once I get used to the controls, I will kick his ass.
One annoying thing : there is no in-game way to looks up what the controls are. It tells you to press P or K or S or B, but those are not the keys you press on the keyboard.
They are Punch, Kick, Special, and Block, and it’s up to you to figure out WTF.
The basic idea of the game is that it is a blend of the beat’m up genre (like Double Dragon, Final Fight, and Alliterative Alley) and an RPG.
So you fight like in a beat’m up. but you have a character sheet, stats, and an inventory like an RPG.
I enjoyed the heck out of the original. And I look forward to figuring out how to kick some ass in the sequel.
Well, those are the ones that survived the first culling of the ones I tried and did not consider to be worth playing.
Wow, I am participating in games journalism!
I am absolutely chock-a-block with excitement.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.