Unthemeful

Played a couple of games today that I'd seen around but never played.  One was Unconscious Mind (the blip - Freud supposedly) and Weather Machine (by Vital Lacerda, a 'heavy' game specialist, some of whose games I really enjoy).

Both were the sort of game I find irritating and I doubt I'll bother with either again.  In Weather Machine the 'theme' was pretty much pasted on top of a fiddly abstract game.  

My gripe with Unconscious Mind is slightly different - two thirds of the game made reasonable sense in the context of the theme, hung together quite well and would have been a decent game in itself.  The remaining third was completely meaningless, arbitrary and, I suspect, pasted on to make the game 'deeper'.  It didn't, it just made it messier.