Astral Chain (with Tim!)
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Following a CHAIN of technical difficulties, I streamed Astral Chain for about an hour and a half. The technical difficulties had me *extremely* surly for maybe the first half hour of this stream. I'm sorry if I'm a little unbearable at times for the beginning part here. It's just, man, the controllers would not sync to the god darn Nintendo Switch. The Joy-Con batteries were dead. Plugging in the Pro Controller wasn't working. Nothing was working. I was about the scream. In fact, maybe I *did* scream. No one will ever know, so soundproof was the room I was in when I might have done so.
Eventually we get down to some action—though it turns out I loaded up a level with a god darn unskippable slow-paced detective procedure right up front. Well, we have some good times and make some good quips. I don't know. There are some real word burgers in here. I talk about Goblin Sauce, Dog Milk, and other infernal condiments. It's ghastly, gross, and ghostly. One guy in the chat says "this whole game looks like a Yugioh card." What a fantastic way of putting it. Yes, it does: it owns.