Played a few demos and been mainlining a couple games, including

007 first light demo: felt too derivative of other action game openers but smooth and polished, with the best montage sequence implementation I've seen in a game; that's where my hour long demo ended

Dispatch has really well written dialogue and characters but I felt like I sometimes didn't know enough about some of the heroes to know where to dispatch them, and in other cases it was too on the nose. Part of me just wants to watch this instead of play it, but I do like the setup and the animation enough that I'll likely get it while ps+ is having a sale. I got to about the first few minutes of episode 3 before getting booted from the two hours demo

Ninja Gaiden Ragebound is surprisingly forgiving and FUCKING AWESOME. I feel like it'll end up being too short somehow but I'm loving the glorious pixel art and smooth gameplay, with just enough to think about to keep things interesting without making them overwhelming. The plot is a parody of itself with all the demon Crystal talk but it's such a great representation of what I'm sure the original developers of some older games had in mind. So happy it's free on ps+ right now

Life is Strange: Reunion is making me question some life choices I've made for Max caulfield and I'm not great at solving the mystery puzzle part ||or being prepared for blood wine to backfire when the game seemed to suggest it would not, so it turns out I'm just not that smart at life choices in general|| but I'm happy to get some kind of closure for these characters, unless it decides to pull some dumb shit at the end.

I do miss having these games split into episodes, cause the "scenes" just don't feel all that natural to me as far as pacing. I also miss them being easy platinums when you just had to pick up the collectibles in each episode, whereas now they've got the choice tree trophies that make platinum so much harder. I guess that's a good thing for replay but I rarely do.