GAMES!!!

Thoughts and such on games i am currently playing Will include video, board, and card games

I played some games of russian bank (card game) with my mother and she finally won a game which was fun after the dozen or so games we have played prior where she was still learning the rules and such of it.
I then taught her piquet which is a french game and she actually liked it and did well enough that she wanted to play it for reasons other than to beat me

I am attempting to teach my mum a variety of two player card games so that she and my father can do literally any activity together since they are both getting old and are lonely and have no friends (and this becomes my problem) so this may well be a fix (hopefully)

I have been playing Tales of Arise as of late and its a fun game to play but god do i have issues with it. Largely because of the fact that it is so very close to haveing any real polical message and it just refuses to follow though and make any statement, and in a way this is nice because i can go ahead and make it my own politics in my head (which is what i do to make it more bearable) but it comes close which is part of what is so frustrating to me about it. Off of that the games characters are good after the first two protaginists, which is a shame beucase it is ~10 hours of Shionne and Alphen bitching to eachother about eachother just constantly, which is simply annoying. And after you find Rinwell (best girl) their dynamic spends about 5 hours being basically the same thing but with a third person, then law shows up and he adds enough that the dynamic of just arguing stops and after that point the game is much more fun, if only it wernt so late. I will be going and playing Berseria after this which i think has a better overall story