Matchy Games

I’ve talked before about how I’ve noticed cycles in my life. I won’t go much further into it, I’ve run the topic into the ground.

This week, I’ve been playing a ton of match based mobile games. I think my favorite is this one where you get a stack of Mahjong-like tiles and you are attempting to pull tiles with the same photo in sets of three.

I’ve picked up doing this in the interest of doing some brain health recovery. I’m not sure if it’s really working, but someone told me that it would and I’ll take a Hail Mary shot.

Even if it isn’t any good for the health of my brain, the calming images on the tiles do seem to be helping with my stress. This is really surprising, because even though I make it a point to go outside and touch grass I’m not often moved by the vistas the outdoors can offer me. I’m not sure why tiny drawings of flowers and seeds affect me more deeply than actual sunsets, but hey I’ll take it.

I’ve also been enjoying more long-form choice based games lately. I’ve revisited Quantic Dreams Heavy Rain recently and it is a shit show with more holes than a club bathroom but it was so foundational that I can’t completely leave it in the past. It feels like in some way it’s coming back to me in full circle, because my first (now deleted) post on this site was about Heavy Rain.

This whole long winded piece is just to say, I’m working on some Heavy Rain fan fiction. No spoilers, but Blake and Jayden will in fact be ex-lovers.

Marinate on that.