Book Review: Elantris

I didn't mind this book, but it did remind me of other, better books - particularly The Sacrifice by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. The ending is extremely unsatisfying and was very obvious from early on. There was really no other way it could have gone. I read in the hope that I was wrong; that there was some twist coming. But there wasn't. There were bits and pieces I liked a lot, but because of the looming climax they never felt significant. Nothing did, really. All the struggles and conflicts are rather pointless, and although the characters don't realise that, we know it for a fact.

Returning to games

Today I played a bit more of some games I've already tried. Most of them I tried so long ago I've completely forgotten them, but I have tried them before (and there's probably a good reason I never went back to them).

Shadow of Mordor

Played another half hour or so and found myself in what appears to be a mandatory stealth section. And that might be about it for this game. I'll give it one more go and see if I can get past it another time, but alongside the repetitiveness of the gameplay so far; the utterly uninteresting plot; the weird controls; and the fact (which I failed to mention previously) that the whole map is hostile all the time so you can't just casually wander around grabbing collectables, I don't think I'm going to make it much further into this game.

In no particular order: games

I was going to try out Horizon Zero Dawn but it turned out I hadn't downloaded it. So while I was checking if I had enough disk space and if there was anything I should delete, I discovered that a good chunk of space was being taken up by Shadow of Mordor. I'd played a little bit of that, about half an hour or so, a while back, but never gotten back to it. So I played that instead. Then I tried out a few other games I hadn't gotten around to yet.

Also in this post, a review for Seen that I wrote a while ago but was holding onto for another one of these multi-game posts.

IMPACT Throwback Throwdown

Overall Rating: ★★★●★☆☆

Well, this was extremely silly, but quite entertaining. A bit slow in places, and a little too long, but over all pretty good.

ROH Final Battle

Overall rating: ★★★●★☆☆

I wouldn't normally have bothered watching Hour One but, since this was potentially the last Ring of Honor PPV ever, I decided to make an exception. Probably shouldn't have bothered. It wasn't bad, but the main show was already long enough and there was nothing amazing on Hour One. As for the main show, there were a couple of really good matches to start and the tag championship was amazing, but for a grand finale it was a little lacking.

NXT WarGames

Overall rating: ★★★●★☆☆

The big question here was: can this new version of NXT still deliver when it comes to TakeOvers? And the answer is... not really. The show was fine. But by TakeOver standards? It sucked.