JayMoyles Galactic Nova

Posts : 15456 Points : 14629 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 28 Location : The Shibuya River
 | Subject: Re: La5t Game You Fini5hed And Your Thought5 Thu 23 Jun 2022 - 18:34 | |
| - Jimbob wrote:
TRY HARDER THIS TIME JAMES: I think my favourite bit was when I got all the power-ups and I could go round finding all the secret bits. Loved the Metroidyness. Hated the quicktime bosses, where you have to remember a button combination you only need to press once every 2 hours. Good though. That was more or less my take on Dread too! As for Donut County, it was a fine little distraction for a couple of hours - silly, didn't overstay its welcome, but you'll forget about it by the next day. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS

Posts : 25046 Points : 23878 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 32 Location : Admintown
 | Subject: Re: La5t Game You Fini5hed And Your Thought5 Fri 24 Jun 2022 - 21:08 | |
| _11.png) - Balladeer wrote:
- On the whole, Fez left me cold. It's a quite poor platformer, barely elevated by its world-twisting mechanic beyond being outright bad at it; and in the surface layer I've scratched, it's been no more than an adequate puzzler. One 'puzzle' had me taking a picture of a QR code: cute, but not exactly satisfying to solve. The game's aesthetic is nice enough, but its world feels slightly off. I think that's intentional? It's quiet, mostly empty of obviously intelligent life, filled with arcane graffiti, and the whole thing gives me the creeps and makes me feel a bit lonely. That's been Fez's greatest quality so far, but it's not one I particularly care for.
Literally the day after this post, I finished Fez.  By which I mean, I got the first ending, and what a bamboozling ending it was. What I said above is still all accurate though. Fez is more mood piece than great game, at least until you dig into the depths of decoding its language(s?) and stuff, which I did not and will not do. Its core mechanic is undeniably clever, but it doesn't add much to the surface-level puzzling or the platforming, making it a rather unsatisfying puzzle-platformer that nonetheless has a certain something to it. 5/10 As well as playing that throwaway joke of a game, I finished bona fide classic Mom Hid My Game! 2. #Bantz aside, what with the low-effort art, short game length (under an hour I think?), and single asinine tune, there's no way I can give MHMG2 more than the 6/10 I gave its predecessor - but honestly I have a big soft spot for it. It made me laugh several times with its ludicrous escape room/point-and-click situations. An hour or so of silly dumb fun that is apparently, according to me, better than Fez. And you know what? I'll stand by that. |
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Rum Disciple of Greener

Posts : 1407 Points : 1420 Join date : 2013-01-20 Age : 30 Location : Scotland
 | Subject: Re: La5t Game You Fini5hed And Your Thought5 Sat 25 Jun 2022 - 19:42 | |
| - Balladeer wrote:
- Still, the core is both addictive and fun: I don't think I've enjoyed a colour-matching puzzler more since Meteos. A high 7/10.
I've started Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon recently, and it's a good fun colour-matching puzzler. Quite hard though. Still, you might like it... in as much as I can predict what you will and won't like! It might get a Balla 7/10. |
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