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nerdietalk) wrote2018-12-31 10:37 pm
nerdietalk) wrote2018-12-31 10:37 pmFiction of 2019
Hell yeah, a new and improved obsessive list
nerdietalk) wrote2018-12-31 10:37 pm
July
Game good! I might try other ones but as charmed as I was, a lot of this was a slog. It moves at a really good pace for a while but sometimes there's just long boring sections that lose me and then I stop playing for a month. I started it in February. Like woof. Still! Vivi and Steiner were great, Zidane won me over eventually, the girls were not as bad as they could have been, and the villain becomes real compelling by the end. A good time!
A Case of Distrust
A short mystery game. That's what I need sometimes. There's two clues that require you to pay attention to really specific details and actually think about them. Naturally, those are the ones that gave me trouble. But! It was still a beautiful, minimalist game and if you want to spend two hours problem solving, you deffo can.
Black Mirror I
Not the tv show. Its goofy ass point and click horror at its finest. Its doing its best to work and sometimes it lands but its mostly just campy fun. It does, however, have a whole slog of waiting around for the game to continue that just sucks. Its padding out the game for the sake of padding out the game. Its infuriating.
Persona 5
It just... works. 100 hour games is a hell of a time investment, but it absolutely sucks you in. Every character is incredible, the plotline is really engaging, the gameplay never gets tiring, and its just a wonderful time. People say it goes kind of off-the-rails and I do think the final hours could have been better established but... I still really enjoyed all 99 hours I played. I'd play it again even. Its a fun ride.
Nancy Drew: The Captive Curse
I missed Nancy Drew a lot. I haven't played one in years and I think I'm gonna quickly change that. There's something so charming about all the goofy puzzles and the voice acting and everything. But I think the games have really evolved since I dropped them off. There's more care into people's motives and stories than I remembered. The writing is more powerful and funny. Its a riot.
Day of the Tentacle: Remastered
By comparison, this has aged horribly. It was a fun ride but a lot of jokes don't land and its painfully 90s. Schafer games are certainly goofy, but the other ones just have much more depth and care into its characters than this. I don't... care about Bernard, Hoagie, and Laverne. I want to- Laverne is a very different type of "obligatory girl" character that I haven't seen before. But it just didn't drag me in.