Nick Vracar
@nickleevee.bsky.social
A writer, a gamer, but mostly a stack of puns in a trench coat.
Played through Crow Country, was good. Its horror plot about a girl in search of a missing enigmatic billionaire blends retro 3D with design choices reminiscent of classic Silent Hill. Combat is slow and clunky and traps feel cheap, but the characters and story are worth it.
February 18, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Played through Crow Country, was good. Its horror plot about a girl in search of a missing enigmatic billionaire blends retro 3D with design choices reminiscent of classic Silent Hill. Combat is slow and clunky and traps feel cheap, but the characters and story are worth it.
Played through Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion, was okay. It’s a short game with shoddy shooting that’s the worst of the N64 trilogy (not the worst Turok game, though) that still manages a surprisingly weird sci-fi plot with some pretty good boss creature designs.
February 14, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Played through Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion, was okay. It’s a short game with shoddy shooting that’s the worst of the N64 trilogy (not the worst Turok game, though) that still manages a surprisingly weird sci-fi plot with some pretty good boss creature designs.
Played through Stray, was okay. The game where you play as a cat who must escape a city of robots and monsters is a visual feast but mechanically average, offering little depth to its rigid gameplay systems.
February 8, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Played through Stray, was okay. The game where you play as a cat who must escape a city of robots and monsters is a visual feast but mechanically average, offering little depth to its rigid gameplay systems.
Read The Novus Quandary, was great. It’s a fast paced collision between two eras of sci-fi that’s part a suspensful thriller in space, part galactic mystery that’s epic in scope while still managing to keep itself engaging with its plethora of interesting, dynamic characters.
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Read The Novus Quandary, was great. It’s a fast paced collision between two eras of sci-fi that’s part a suspensful thriller in space, part galactic mystery that’s epic in scope while still managing to keep itself engaging with its plethora of interesting, dynamic characters.
Went to see Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? at Theatre Tallahassee, was well done. The acting was among the best I’d seen on that stage. It has less of a plot and is more a character piece, with long conversations that circle around the truth, slowly approaching it inch by inch.
January 25, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Went to see Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? at Theatre Tallahassee, was well done. The acting was among the best I’d seen on that stage. It has less of a plot and is more a character piece, with long conversations that circle around the truth, slowly approaching it inch by inch.
Played Tomb Raider (2013) again, still one of my all time favorites. While its villain is cartoonish and your allies never get proper development, the adventure Lara goes on is like Die Hard on an island, a fast paced ride that doesn’t stop until it’s suddenly over.
January 24, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Played Tomb Raider (2013) again, still one of my all time favorites. While its villain is cartoonish and your allies never get proper development, the adventure Lara goes on is like Die Hard on an island, a fast paced ride that doesn’t stop until it’s suddenly over.
Played Saints Row (2022), wasn’t all bad. Its production is undercooked and its design feels dated, like playing a shoddy remaster of a much older game, but eventually I warmed up to its story and characters, and by the time the gang sings Love Shack karaoke it was a fun time.
January 11, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Played Saints Row (2022), wasn’t all bad. Its production is undercooked and its design feels dated, like playing a shoddy remaster of a much older game, but eventually I warmed up to its story and characters, and by the time the gang sings Love Shack karaoke it was a fun time.
Played through Cyberpunk 2077, was a fantastic game that felt more like a role playing experience than most RPGs. It’s set in a city so sleazy it makes Las Vegas seem quaint, but its story about the loss of identity against technology, haunted by Keanu Reeves’ ghost, is engaging.
December 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Played through Cyberpunk 2077, was a fantastic game that felt more like a role playing experience than most RPGs. It’s set in a city so sleazy it makes Las Vegas seem quaint, but its story about the loss of identity against technology, haunted by Keanu Reeves’ ghost, is engaging.
Played through Superliminal, was good. It’s like Layers of Fear if you were trapped in a dream instead of a nightmare, where perspective creates reality. It leaves a hopeful message that any problem can be solved with just a change in perspective.
December 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Played through Superliminal, was good. It’s like Layers of Fear if you were trapped in a dream instead of a nightmare, where perspective creates reality. It leaves a hopeful message that any problem can be solved with just a change in perspective.
Another year goes by, another year of listening to too much Dance With the Dead and not enough Old Gods of Asgard, though now there’s Neon Odin in the mix, along with singles from the Peacemaker season two soundtrack.
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Another year goes by, another year of listening to too much Dance With the Dead and not enough Old Gods of Asgard, though now there’s Neon Odin in the mix, along with singles from the Peacemaker season two soundtrack.
Played Outlast 2, was okay. It was a fast paced chase into the darkness that suffers from linearity and quite a few sections solved via trial and error. The horror imagery is great, but the dual narrative isn’t that interested in the main plot, burying its mystery beneath lore.
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Played Outlast 2, was okay. It was a fast paced chase into the darkness that suffers from linearity and quite a few sections solved via trial and error. The horror imagery is great, but the dual narrative isn’t that interested in the main plot, burying its mystery beneath lore.
Played through Diablo 1 on the PS1, wasn’t bad. It’s a solid port that’s blurrier than its PC counterpart, with significantly longer loading times. Its auto aim helps with lack of a mouse, but that suffers from short range and lack of targeting controls.
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Played through Diablo 1 on the PS1, wasn’t bad. It’s a solid port that’s blurrier than its PC counterpart, with significantly longer loading times. Its auto aim helps with lack of a mouse, but that suffers from short range and lack of targeting controls.
Finished Silent Hill 3, was good. Its story and creature designs are excellent, while its combat is an uneven experience sending you from mostly easy boss fights, to enemies too high or low to be hit, to squaring off with a katana against a nightmare nurse with a gun.
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Finished Silent Hill 3, was good. Its story and creature designs are excellent, while its combat is an uneven experience sending you from mostly easy boss fights, to enemies too high or low to be hit, to squaring off with a katana against a nightmare nurse with a gun.
Played through American McGee’s Alice. While it’s largely overshadowed by its sequel, I found the original to still make for a fun and twisted trip through Wonderland, despite some terrible platforming sequences and a collection of weapons that’s more like a bag of tricks.
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Played through American McGee’s Alice. While it’s largely overshadowed by its sequel, I found the original to still make for a fun and twisted trip through Wonderland, despite some terrible platforming sequences and a collection of weapons that’s more like a bag of tricks.
Played through Gears of War Reloaded, was good. Its sequels were better, but the first Gears is still a solid action game to revisit with an emphasis on long range fighting over cover based shooting due how few shots it takes to die, and your character being built like a fridge.
November 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Played through Gears of War Reloaded, was good. Its sequels were better, but the first Gears is still a solid action game to revisit with an emphasis on long range fighting over cover based shooting due how few shots it takes to die, and your character being built like a fridge.
Watched The Girl on the Train at Theatre Tallahassee, was good, despite the uneven British accents. It’s an interesting mystery that reminds me of Memento but mainstream. The stage production was impressive with its moving train set, even if it’s largely used between scenes.
November 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Watched The Girl on the Train at Theatre Tallahassee, was good, despite the uneven British accents. It’s an interesting mystery that reminds me of Memento but mainstream. The stage production was impressive with its moving train set, even if it’s largely used between scenes.
Played through Anthem (because EA’s shutting down its servers), was mediocre. Flight is fun, but the action lacks impact, with a mission structure that doesn’t understand the open world experience, while also ruining the possibility of meaningful plot and character development.
October 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Played through Anthem (because EA’s shutting down its servers), was mediocre. Flight is fun, but the action lacks impact, with a mission structure that doesn’t understand the open world experience, while also ruining the possibility of meaningful plot and character development.
Photo modes in games are often tricky because they feel like they demand luck when timing character placement and action, but the photo mode in Cyberpunk 2077 is surprisingly robust and distracting from actually playing the game.
October 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Photo modes in games are often tricky because they feel like they demand luck when timing character placement and action, but the photo mode in Cyberpunk 2077 is surprisingly robust and distracting from actually playing the game.
Read Tex Murphy and the Romanov Enigma by Aaron Conners, was great. It’s a thrilling adventure on its own, filled with quite a few surprising twists and turns that also does an excellent job bridging the gap between Overseer, the Radio Theater episodes and Tesla Effect.
October 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Read Tex Murphy and the Romanov Enigma by Aaron Conners, was great. It’s a thrilling adventure on its own, filled with quite a few surprising twists and turns that also does an excellent job bridging the gap between Overseer, the Radio Theater episodes and Tesla Effect.
Played the remake of Silent Hill 2, was really good. Bloober Team made a very faithful adaptation of the narrative while also making some interesting adjustments to the gameplay, most notably to the mannequin AI and the Abstract Daddy fight. Made for an excellent, spooky time.
October 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Played the remake of Silent Hill 2, was really good. Bloober Team made a very faithful adaptation of the narrative while also making some interesting adjustments to the gameplay, most notably to the mannequin AI and the Abstract Daddy fight. Made for an excellent, spooky time.
Played Dragon Age: The Veilguard, was mediocre. It’s a big game filled with meaningful content, built on a foundation of bland designs. It has interesting character moments in a story that sacrifices moral complexity in favor of a team building seminar against miscellaneous evil.
September 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Played Dragon Age: The Veilguard, was mediocre. It’s a big game filled with meaningful content, built on a foundation of bland designs. It has interesting character moments in a story that sacrifices moral complexity in favor of a team building seminar against miscellaneous evil.
Read The Launch Party by Lauren Forry, was excellent. While it doesn’t fully embrace its science fiction aspect, largely limited to its setting isolated in a luxury hotel on the moon, its take on the Agatha Christie murder mystery is very intriguing and highly suspenseful.
September 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Read The Launch Party by Lauren Forry, was excellent. While it doesn’t fully embrace its science fiction aspect, largely limited to its setting isolated in a luxury hotel on the moon, its take on the Agatha Christie murder mystery is very intriguing and highly suspenseful.