If you’re time-poor and not a big RTS fan, you might want to skip this game, but I’ve certainly enjoyed it. I haven’t gotten around to playing as the Mongols yet (which I’ve heard are the standout nation), so it may improve even further once I hit that campaign. I do wish there had been fewer “plop you into some stone walls and hold off a siege” missions, but I was overall satisfied with the objective variety. I loved the documentary-style videos interspersed between campaign missions both for having very high quality production and being relevant to the story. It’s a more mature take on a core idea that worked very well for me decades ago, and this approach works well for me in the modern day. While I wish we could have seen more unfamiliar campaign territory (I didn’t need the Hundred Years War again), the stretched timeline for each nation drove the focus to their progression through history rather than great individuals.
#KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION XBOX SERIES#
The latest entry in the series heavily leans on nostalgia for those games, to the point that it feels like a soft reboot of Age of Empires II. I never got into the PVP scene, but I really enjoyed the unique pace of AoE compared to other contemporary RTS games.
#KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION XBOX PC#
Age of Empires IV (PC) Image from PC Gamerīack in the early Aughts, I devoted entire winter vacations to playing through as much of the campaigns from the first two Age of Empires games as I could.
I played KID A MNESIA: EXHIBITION on the Epic Games Store, and it is also available on Playstation 5. Particularly for the price of “free”, I can certainly think of many worse ways to invest a small amount of time. If you have anything less than a total aversion to Radiohead, I strongly encourage dropping into this game thing for at least a half hour to check out the visuals and space out for a bit.
I also don’t love Kid A like a lot of the fandom does, but I do like Amnesiac quite a bit. I consider myself a casual fan of Radiohead’s music, to the extent where many of the references in the game interactive museum passed over my head. I’ve only spent around 90 minutes in the exhibition, but that time included the “How to Disappear Completely” / “Pyramid Song” / “You And Whose Army?” triad, the latest of which was my personal highlight of the time I spent. Since this game experience has generously given me an excuse to put 11 things into my top 10, I’ll happily oblige them. Within the first couple of minutes of walking around, I found writing on a wall that stated “this is not a game”. This is a game that would have made my top 10 list if it weren’t for one minor complication.
(With apologies to Hitman 3, Resident Evil Village, Deathloop, Wildermyth, and Subnautica: Below Zero, all of which I didn't find time for but was interested in.) Not Rated: KID A MNESIA: EXHIBITION (PC) This image is labeled "gah" on my desktop Let’s instead get right to my favorite games of a year I don’t want to talk about (yet). Well, fuck you 2021, you don’t deserve a couple of paragraphs. This is the third year I’ve actually had the gumption to post a Game of the Year list, and in the past two I’ve written a couple of paragraphs about the year and overall mood I had with the games I played.
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