llamapocalypse

I want to play that one so bad

Lord Huron’s Vide Noir is a significant departure from the rest of their work so far, and I really wish they’d do more in that style

As a wormholer, watching it unfold from afar has been kinda hilarious

This is incredibly niche but in the Blue Planet mod for Freespace 2 you’re on the losing side of a war for the whole campaign - your elite unit pulls off a bunch of small-scale clutch victories but overall things are not looking good. Near the end of the campaign there’s an elaborate series of missions involving disabling a bunch of hostile ships, intercepting and manipulating distress comms, and otherwise setting up a trap for the opposite faction’s command ship, the Carthage (culminating in a mission called, appropriately, “Delenda Est”). All the setup missions go smoothly, as does the first springing of the trap, but then

CRANE WIVES SPOTTED IN THE WILD but thankfully most of their work is at least as good

The gameplay is fun, but the story is kinda nonsensical and the antagonist names are just dumb (ah yes, Red the Red and Blue the Blue!)