Path of Exile: An Unexpected Review
My mother died last Friday. I dealt with it the way I deal with many things; played video games and wrote a bunch.
Most video games couldn’t hold my interest long. I found myself starting old favorites and games I’ve purchased but never played. I’d play each for a few minutes, stop, and start another. I was possessed by a kind of lonely boredom many experience but shouldn’t have to. My insomnia, for the first time in ages, was not being used for the exploitation of art and video games.
I had to go on a bit of a quest to find a game to hold my interest. When my friend suggested a F2P Hack-and-Slash RPG in open beta, I immediately downloaded it. The Action RPG is one of the most therapeutic categories of game. You push the button and receive pleasure. Escape comes easily while reading quest text and collecting loot. It’s a great, low-maintenance sort of gameplay that can hold surprising amounts of depth.
After several hours of playing, the review pretty much wrote itself.