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Loco Motive
2024
Loco Motive
2024
Loco Motive
2024
Complete playthrough. A short but oh-so-sweet point-and-click puzzle game, created in two weeks for a game jam, Loco Motive is the best third-party attempt to capture the feel of classic LucasArts games that I can remember ever playing. Tasking the player to solve a murder mystery on a train, a streamlined interface minimises any friction in interactions and the puzzles avoid ever becoming excessively obscure. Where the game really excels is in its superb writing, with a sense of humour evident throughout - there are plenty of somewhat 'fourth wall'-breaking asides to camera from the protagonist - and enhanced by expressive pixel-art. Nods to the absurdity of the seemingly bottomless pockets that so many point-and-clicks rely on are a great example of this, for example - in both dialogue and animation. While you'll be done within about an hour, anyone who's even the slightest fan of the genre should definitely be playing this - especially as it's free!
Palia
2023
Palia was said to be "3D Stardew Valley" and I suppose it delivers that. In a world where there's a TON of farm games coming up every day, where "cozy games" are so popular they have their own game showcases, I feel Palia stands out among the others.
It's got fun characters to talk to, and LOVELY ways to waste your time like fishing, mining, farming, and so on. It's endlessly charming, and best of all: it's free.
It's got fun characters to talk to, and LOVELY ways to waste your time like fishing, mining, farming, and so on. It's endlessly charming, and best of all: it's free.
Palia
2023
Palia
2023
Zelda + Animal Crossing + FFXIV?, paired with rather lackluster execution.
It's admittedly cozy and the NPCs are cute, but... you basically just chop trees and mine stone so you can furnish your house on your own. And, maybe you fish? Maybe you talk to someone else? The end game is also apparently just buying rather expensive clothes and pets with real money. I don't find that to be particularly fun.
It's admittedly cozy and the NPCs are cute, but... you basically just chop trees and mine stone so you can furnish your house on your own. And, maybe you fish? Maybe you talk to someone else? The end game is also apparently just buying rather expensive clothes and pets with real money. I don't find that to be particularly fun.
It really shows this is a Good-Feel game. I'm not a fan of their last Nintendo game but this one is very well crafted, no pun intended. It's cute, with simple mechanics and a lot of variety of situations. It is easy. If you like a little bit of a challenge, you won't find it here. But that also makes it quite accessible to a wider range of people to play it without much problems. It's a beautiful game, the costume change system creates many mechanics and different stories told as theater plays performed by her as the protagonist and overall having Peach as a protagonist is a plus. Not that short of a game, pretty fun. I don't know, it's quite good for what it is.
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