Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Not a problem, dragons are extinct. or invisible. Or flying so high you can't see them. I won't say where I saw one. Maybe I did not.

Dragon Quest Builders (2) *attempted* something between RPG and minecraft-style building, and at least it released. It looks pretty good for a blocky game, it has spectacular block and item diversity, and great building tools. As a mostly creative game with a bunch of silly NPC villager interactions, it's fun. Unfortunately, there's only the hint of a great base/town builder in there, but it's too shallow in the end. You've got different classes of NPC villagers with needs and skills, but there's no challenge, only the satisfaction of seeing your town run sort of well. Story mode also teaches you to build defenses and traps against monster attacks but monster raids are scripted and very dumb. After the story ends and you get into full free build mode, you'll never have a monster raid again, making it all basically useless. And also there's very little procedural gen in the game. Main islands are big, but static. Small islands are procedural each with a set biome, but their primary goal is to be destroyed for materials. You can only save 3 of them to use them as (small-ish) new landmasses for your builds.

That makes absolutely no sense. Nintendo does enough shit that you don't need to invent some. Console wars have never been about doing the exact same shit. Game boy Vs Game Gear? N64 Vs Playstation Vs Saturn? Even SNES and Megadrive/Genesis had very different designs, and that's enough to be noticeable in the games if you are familiar enough with them. They sell video game systems and games, they're competitors. So is Valve. So was freaking Ouya. The fact they're doing thing differently enough that they're not completely interchangeable *is* the competition.

Must be reassuring when your government announces they *won't* label you a traitor and throw you in a cell for playing a random video game.