Always fills me with that sinking feeling when I hear they’re releasing an expansion for Over-Botch. That game already eats up enough of my free time, and every single expansion I swear that I won’t go back. Then they release all the special skins, I HAVE to come back otherwise I’ll miss them, and the cycle begins anew. Sigh…guess I’m in for some late nights.
It’s even worse this time, because they just added the psychologist class, and it’s been billed as the most difficult to rank up of them all. I’ve sunk fifteen hours into it so far, and I’m still just a beginner psychology student. They’ve done their research, though. Apparently it was done by interviewing actual psychologists from the Mornington Peninsula region all the way to the Northern Territory and back, so they definitely wanted this to be an accurate experience. Not a replacement for going to see an actual psychiatrist about actual problems, but…a taste, perhaps.
It’s going…fine. Did you know that psychology is actually pretty deep? Suppose that makes sense, since it’s a study of the human brain. Thinking, therefore being, and all that stuff. We learned that in the first class, and it’s one of the few things I actually remember. Anyway, I haven’t even reached the point where I can give psychological evaluations. Got to pass about three more exams before they let me do that kind of thing. And of course, I looked at the leaderboards online, and there are already people who’ve sunk fifty hours into the profession and are setting up their own practice. HOW. WHY. Here’s me, having the gall to be employed. How very dare I have commitments in my life that prevent me from playing a video game 23 hours a day and working my way through a virtual career as a psychologist.
On the other hand, the creators really went all out with this one. Pretty sure they intend people to actually make strides in becoming a psychologist for real, once they’ve put in all the work.
Except now there’s going to be a deluge of psychiatrists available for booking in the Mornington Peninsula, for real, because it’s the only location currently available in the game and the textures are *gorgeous*. Maybe there’s a tourism sponsor…
-Wes