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Roguelites aren't usually my thing, I hate math, and I don't really like poker, but somehow this roguelite about doing math to poker has me up way too late to do just one more run.
It has a similar vibe to Morrowind in some ways, in that you can kind of sense the designer winking at you and encouraging you to break the game.
I'll probably never hit the heights of some folks who are getting scores measured in powers of 10, but I'm still enjoying the hell out of it. I've beaten the game with a handful of decks so far, but it feels like I'm just scratching the surface.
It'd be nice if the after-blind summary could go a little faster, tho!
It has a similar vibe to Morrowind in some ways, in that you can kind of sense the designer winking at you and encouraging you to break the game.
I'll probably never hit the heights of some folks who are getting scores measured in powers of 10, but I'm still enjoying the hell out of it. I've beaten the game with a handful of decks so far, but it feels like I'm just scratching the surface.
It'd be nice if the after-blind summary could go a little faster, tho!
Aside from some repetitive combat and sometimes-problematic script, Enslaved is surprisingly good!
As an adaptation of part of Journey to the West, it's extremely loose, but the character design and animations are fun and engaging.
It never feels like you're EXACTLY in control, since things like your movement speed are highly contextual, and the platforming and combat puzzle challenges are extremely rote, but you're in charge enough to feel like you're actually playing the game, and its short (but not too short!) length means you don't really have enough time to get frustrated with it.
Andy Serkis is great as Monkey, making a pretty middle of the road script more fun than it deserved to be.
I'm sad I missed this when it was new! It's not doing anything special and it doesn't have much to say, but it's the kind of reasonably solid, reasonably entertaining 18-hour game that nobody seems to want to make anymore.
As an adaptation of part of Journey to the West, it's extremely loose, but the character design and animations are fun and engaging.
It never feels like you're EXACTLY in control, since things like your movement speed are highly contextual, and the platforming and combat puzzle challenges are extremely rote, but you're in charge enough to feel like you're actually playing the game, and its short (but not too short!) length means you don't really have enough time to get frustrated with it.
Andy Serkis is great as Monkey, making a pretty middle of the road script more fun than it deserved to be.
I'm sad I missed this when it was new! It's not doing anything special and it doesn't have much to say, but it's the kind of reasonably solid, reasonably entertaining 18-hour game that nobody seems to want to make anymore.
I'm way late to the party but Firewatch is an absolutely excellent game held back only by a few glaring technical flaws
The narrative and presentation are so solid I had trouble getting to sleep after playing the first half, and I will be thinking about the conclusion and what the game has to say about finding connection for a long time
But also I had to restart several game days, always frustratingly close to the end of each day, because my character got irreparably stuck on/in some level geometry, and repeating those whole days (some 10/+ mins long) kinda sapped some of the momentum out of the game
Still a banger. You've probably already played it, but if you're like me and you just had it in your backlog (heyo!) for the last 8 years, definitely make time for it. It's good!
The narrative and presentation are so solid I had trouble getting to sleep after playing the first half, and I will be thinking about the conclusion and what the game has to say about finding connection for a long time
But also I had to restart several game days, always frustratingly close to the end of each day, because my character got irreparably stuck on/in some level geometry, and repeating those whole days (some 10/+ mins long) kinda sapped some of the momentum out of the game
Still a banger. You've probably already played it, but if you're like me and you just had it in your backlog (heyo!) for the last 8 years, definitely make time for it. It's good!