Wordsmith's Anvil

  Images courtesy of Obsidian Entertainment As many of you have probably noticed with my other reviews, I don't tend to stick with the latest and greatest games that have released. I don't get paid to critique, so my thoughts and scribbles are purely my own and I usually start jotting them down after finishing a game I got on a PSN sale or for "free" via PS Plus Extra. As I don't have an XBox or GamePass... I had to pay full price for The Outer Worlds 2 and happily did so because I love Obsidian and the first one is one of my favorite games in the last decade.     The Outer Worlds 2 puts us in the shoes of an Earth Directorate agent right off the bat. We have a mission to carry out in the colonized system of Arcadia, and that entails working with fellow Directorate hero Augustine De Vries. Within the first couple minutes of the briefing, one can tell that something is off with De Vries. She appears somewhat reluctant, yet resolute, in what is about to happen. Duri...

Image courtesy of Costa Pritsos & Me   The Title 1801 “Everybody get the fuck up right now! Get the fuck out of those racks right now! Get on line!” My voice sounded foreign to me, but somehow that didn’t matter. This role felt great. The raw recruits in the barracks scrambled to get out of their racks and get on the chalk line drawn on their side of the room. Young men wearing nothing but their underwear tripped over one another or the edges of their beds to make it happen, most recovering quickly with just a stubbed toe or a hop and a skip. One sprawled face first on the floor. “Don’t get up,” I told him. “Push.” He knew immediately what I meant. This wasn’t his first day of training, after all. He got himself into a push-up position and started dipping his chest all the way down to the floor, then shoving himself up to full extension. Repeat. And again. After the twentieth one I told him he only had twenty more. Then I moved on. “Count off!” Davidson, my fellow drill instruc...