Thoughts from Mirality

(This is all spoiler-free, so don’t worry if you haven’t played these yet.)

First off, to follow up on my first Games post: Overlord was lots of fun, and definitely worth playing. I did end up playing through both evil and goodslightly-less-evil paths, and had fun with both (although the evil path seems a little forced at times). But it’s got an excellent sense of humour and there’s just something cute about your minions. The only downside is that harvesting lifeforce (to get more minions) can be a bit of a grind sometimes, but you don’t really need all that much in the end except for use in the Forge to upgrade your weapons/armour, or if you’re trying to get the Jester to say specific things (the Jester’s pronouncements are the PC’s equivalent of the Xbox’s Achievements).

But anyway, enough of that, and back on to the main topic of this post. If you’ve been living under a rock, you may not have noticed that Valve’s Orange Box (Amazon, Mighty Ape, Steam) was released a couple of weeks ago. Being the Valve fanboy that I am, I preordered it and started playing almost as soon as it was unlocked.
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