The Impression Session 9/05/26 – Pragmata, Esoteric Ebb, Bad Star Wars Brainrot Clone
This is going to be a new recurring feature (or as recurring as anything here) of just general impressions of stuff I’m playing, new or old, full playthroughs or light touches. All the games I’ve played over the last few weeks will get a little bit of that writing goodness here. Pragmata The type of game Pragmata is doesn’t come around as often as I would like. A game of singular focus with no extra stuff around it. No tacked-on multiplayer, no post-game grind, no asynchronous online features. It is a full, complete video game. The fact that it is a new IP too is even more confounding. Pragmata feels like it fell out of a 2010 Xbox 360. From its storyline, to its characters, and especially the aesthetics, the game just screams to me “late 2000s”. What a state the industry must be in for “complete, functional video game” to come off as fresh and exciting. One of the things I love about Pragmata is that it is lean. There is nothing throwaway about Pragmata unless you engage with it...