Svāgataṁ. The name's Valik (pronounced more or less like "Dalek"). Feel free to take a quick glance at these key points below concerning me in relation to gaming & some related topics:

• Allergic to low-poly and pixel graphics in modern releases

• Don't particularly care for strategy games, open world survival craft, most games centered around PvP combat (incl. fighting games), porn-type stuff, base builders, life sims, dating sims, nostalgia-based genres like tower defense & shoot 'em ups, and games that are mostly derivative of other games. In most of the above cases, I may make an exception if a given title is a highly unusual take on the category, and/or it has outstanding creative direction

• Even if one or two of my favourite games happen to be pre-invasion Russian, that's not an indicator of my political position, which is staunchly anti-tsarist (certainly anti-Putin), and I am definitely proud to be Ukrainian

• As someone who's quite comfortably a cishet Caucasian male, am methodically pro-LGBT and against First World privilege, though also have problems with political correctness and cancel culture, and mixed thoughts on DEI as a virtue (as a conservative conspiracy theory it's quite laughable for sure). If you think "Black Lives Matter" is wrong and should be countered with "All Lives Matter", then come back after you look up what tone policing is

• Mostly on a gaming break – at least until OD or Bloodborne are out on PC

• The original Witcher game is pretty bad, but definitely not because it's too old or too "un-PC" now. Even if the 2nd and 3rd entries are better in some ways (no clue whether that's the case, really), I fail to see why I should have much interest in checking out the sequels to such a pedestrian RPG, some nicely-designed gameplay elements though it may have

• Personal favourite figures in the gaming world include Poki, Dybowski, Stephanie Sterling, Yahtzee on his good days, and - somewhat banally - Kojima