When I finish STRAY later this week I’ll be giving away some cat toys, earrings, buttons like the ones in the game & a $10 donation to the winner’s favorite cat charity!
Watch the video for prizes, rules and information. To enter, comment on any of my STRAY videos and just tell me you want to enter.
See all of my STRAY videos on YouTube
Winner will be drawn and notified after I finish the game.
~ J.L. Hilton
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Today’s Try-It Tuesday game is MONSTER PROM, a really weird and wildly inappropriate 2018 PC dating simulator about partying with dudebro werewolves, thespian vampires, well-endowed poltergeists, soul eating demons, snobby gorgons and more.
MONSTER PROM was developed by Beautiful Glitch, based in Barcelona, Spain. I played alone but it’s possible to play with up to four people.
Don’t let the “prom” in the name fool you – this is not an innocent game about innocent teenagers.
I didn’t expect to like it but had a good time and would actually like to play it again.
Rated “M” for mature audiences, due to drug references, sexual themes and strong language.
~ J.L. Hilton
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I played the free Steam demo of POTION CRAFT: ALCHEMIST SIMULATOR and its Feast of Winter Cone update in 2021, and I loved it.
Now, I’m starting over with a new playthrough of the recent 1.0 release, which adds a bunch of quests, characters, potion requests, haggling mechanics and more.
POTION CRAFT is a singleplayer game developed by niceplay games and published by tinyBuild. Development is ongoing, with updates planned for the future.
It’s available on PC and Xbox, with releases on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch planned for sometime in Spring 2023.
The game appears to be rated E 10+ for “everyone age 10 and up” but parents should know that there are references to sexual activity, including libido potions and mention of a brothel, as well as refererences to drinking and violence. Some characters and potion requests are downright evil, asking for help to poison someone or burn down a neighbor’s house, for example.
More info at PotionCraft.com
~ J.L. Hilton
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I started the new year with a return to FALLOUT 3 to find Ruzka’s lair, an unmarked location I missed in Point Lookout, and wrapped up 2022 with a Fallout Holiday Giveaway. Congrats to Dangerous Toxicated Monsters for winning the Official Vault Dweller’s Advent Calendar, Nuka Cola stocking and Women of Fallout ornament set!
GOD OF WAR RAGNAROK also wrapped up at the end of the year, and this week I will complete my second playthrough of THE OUTER WORLDS.
There are two new videos edited from my livestreams of THE OUTER WORLDS. One is about the Mega Ice Queen boss in Peril on Gorgon, and the other is about how I got the DLC to work in the first place. I reckoned if I had problems, then others might have problems, too, so I wanted to share how I got them fixed.
The very last video of CAT QUEST II with Baby Jewels will be available on “Caturday” the 7th.
I will probably play STRAY on my PC next, since Baby Jewels already owns the game on Steam and I won’t have to buy it, but I need to see if my laptop can handle the game.
CALICO and POTION CRAFT are two more PC games I plan to revisit, with videos coming to YouTube later this month. Both have had big updates and I want to check out the new content. If you missed those games, I have a CALICO playlist and you can check out the Winter 2021 update of Potion Craft, which for some reason is one of the most popular videos on my channel!
There are a ton of little PC indie games that I want to check out, too, so be on the lookout for more Try-It Tuesday videos this year, and if I can figure out how to livestream from my new Xbox X, then I might play PENTIMENT with game pass.
Have a healthy and happy new year!
~ J.L. Hilton
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Here’s a little video greeting card of me trying to put an “elf” on a shelf in Fallout 3.
Whether you celebrate Hanukah, Christmas, Solstice, Yuletide, Kwanzaa, New Year’s, all of the above or none at all, I wish you health and good cheer.
If you’re struggling at this time of year, or buckling under the strain of world events, I want you to know that I care about you and there is help.
Suicidepreventionlifeline.org 1-800-273-8255
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services 1-800-662-HELP (4357)
Domestic Violence TheHotline.org 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
Free emotional support & low-cost online therapy 7cups.com
Or you can use Google Maps to find services in your area.
We all need a little help sometimes, and this year has been tough.
Yours truly,
J.L. Hilton
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I am counting down to Christmas with the Official Vault Dweller’s Advent Calendar from Bethesda. Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, eBay and other retailers.
At the end of the countdown, I’ll be giving away the calendar (with all items returned to the pockets) as well as some Fallout ornaments and a Nuka Cola stocking.
The Minutemen flag that appears in the video is a gift from Jesike Biking, and the brass Vault Boy ornament is a handmade gift from Steven Hughes.
The vault suit stocking was handmade by sewtodayvintage on Etsy and the Nuka World tickets are from HandmadeFallout on Etsy.
I made the Day Tripper, Nuka Quantum, Dandy Boy Apples, mutfruit, Sunset Sarsaparilla, and New Vegas snow globes.
Other items seen in the video are official Bethesda merchandise.
Music: “12 Days of Christmas” by Jingle Punks.
~ J.L. Hilton
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Sometimes I get comments, in chat when I’m livestreaming a video game or in the comment section of my YouTube videos, telling me I’m not playing a game right. Yet, I somehow manage to complete games on normal or harder difficulties, so I don’t see what I’m doing “wrong.”
While “I suck at this but I still enjoy it” is a valid way to play video games and to stream them, sometimes I don’t actually suck. I’m just playing differently than other players and there’s nothing wrong with that.
There are many different ways to play games, which should be obvious in games like SKYRIM or STARDEW VALLEY, but it’s also possible in a game like GOD OF WAR.
Yet I still have dudes rolling into my chatroom during a SKYRIM livestream to tell me I should go get some particular two-handed weapon that’s the “best” in the game… even though I’m playing a stealth archer with no perks in the Two-Handed skill, I’m doing just fine on the highest difficulty setting and I’ve already got the platinum trophy on PS3.
Even in a cozy low-stakes game like STARDEW VALLEY, which offers a range of content including farming, foraging, forestry, fishing, friendship, romance, dungeon delving, beekeeping and more, I’ve had people tell me I’m playing it “wrong.”
They insist I should be farming like crazy, making tons of money and constantly expanding like I’m some kind of capitalist empire, instead of doing what I actually enjoy, which is foraging, collecting, exploring and making friends. Isn’t the point of the game that I left the Joja company rat race to relax and focus on what really matters in life?
I have to wonder if this says something about their values and my values IRL.
My STARDEW VALLEY playlist on YouTube
Then there’s the 2018 GOD OF WAR, where I hung back and threw the Leviathan Axe a lot because I usually play an archer or sniper in other games, so I continued to use a lot of ranged combat in this one too.
I had no previous experience with the God of War franchise, so I didn’t understand the effective use of rage until I was about halfway through the game. Yet I still managed to complete the story on normal difficulty and had a great time doing it.
GOD OF WAR is one of my favorite video games of all time, even if I played it “wrong.”
My GOD OF WAR playlist on YouTube
I know a lot of people who won’t play certain games or don’t play video games at all, because they’re afraid of being bad at them, so I think it’s good to show my learning curves, not hide them.
And I think it’s important to show that there are many different ways to play a game. Anyone who thinks their way is the only “right” way to enjoy something is either immature or an asshole, or both.
~ J.L. Hilton
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Just watched the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once. Loved the action, the feels, the creative story.
The googly eyes especially made me laugh because my daughter uses them around our house, for things like cabinet bumpers.
~ J.L. Hilton
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