Chatterbox: Down to Earth

@Gamers

Attention, video gamers!

So, who here, (besides Ashlee) plays video games?

I guess I'm not really a "gamer"--I play video games but I'm not like, geeky or anything about them. And I don't play an awful lot. (Mostly because my dad doesn't let me XD)

Okay. So, who here has heard of the game Ori and the Blind Forest?

Several weeks ago, it was a Friday night and I wanted to play a video game. My dad didn't want me to start a new Skyrim game because he said it would take me too long to make a character. (It's true, I'm nuts about making alter egos.) I started rummaging through our video games, and found a gift card thingy for a free download of this game called Ori and the Blind Forest. I think it came with my dad's Xbox One.

So, the good thing is that it was rated E! Most of my dad's games are Mature 17+. (I play them anyway.) We downloaded it and I started playing!

There was a ton of backstory at the beginning and it was kinda sad and depressing. But once I started playing, it was AWESOME! It's fun, not really creepy, challenging, and there's violence but it's fantasy violence. Mostly you just zap things with lightning.

But then, after I had made a ton of progress I got stuck in a place and I couldn't get out. I spent almost an hour trying different ways to escape but it was no use.

Sooooo, we had to reload the entire game. But since then, I've redone all the things I already did and progressed further! It's going really well. And I also "defeated" the place where I got stuck before.

Well, actually it was my dad because I was stuck in a different part of the game and the only way to get through it was to go in that place where I got stuck and retrieve something. So I spent a long time trying to get through it without going into the place where I got stuck--and, near tears, I went to my dad for help. Of course, he came up with a way to get through both places and did just that, and made a whole ton of progress. 

Is this making any sense? XD I'm kind of just babbling now.

Okay, time for a short questionnaire. 

1. What game (s) do you play?:

2. Is it a game where you get to make your own character, or are you given a character?:

3. How many hours do you play each week?:

4. When did you start playing the game (s)?:

5. What's it rated?: 

6. What type of game is it? (Ex. Fantasy, adventure, umm...etc.):