Strange Journey was one of those games that really got under my skin. It hit the right notes of dread, isolation, despair, and horror like a wonderful mesh of The Thing, Event Horizon, and At the Mountains of Madness. The music too helped pull off the vibe and it makes me wish they had an actual live recording instead of digitally generated tracks. The fact it could pull off such a vibe on a tiny DS/3DS screen just begs for this to be remade in a full PC/console experience.
audaxdreik@pawb.social 1 week ago
My Christmas present to myself was a 2TB NVMe to pop into the system JUST for retro gaming.
RetroArch backend with ES-DE frontend (until Launchbox relents and focuses on a Linux release …)
All that space to hoard the bulkier PS2/GC ISOs and already at 100GB+ of metadata scraped in put into ES.
I’m old enough to be nostalgic for it, but even if you’re not, there’s something truly magical about the earlier gens, especially the later handhelds like PSP and 3DS. Game design had come a long way and was sufficiently modern without some of the harsher edges of older retro stuff, but still hadn’t given in to excessively evil design patterns. The graphics are clean, if still a little bit crunchy, which I find charming. They’re compact experiences that understood (in the time) the need to be put down at any moment because you could be doing something else or running out of battery. Place that in stark contrast to the modern mobile gacha nightmares that hammer your attention constantly trying to get at your purse strings. Did you remember to do your dailies? Has your party returned from the deployment?! ARE YOU WASTING TIME BY NOT REDEPLOYING THEM! Better check in with the game!
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Played a lot of Strange Journey on DS. It was a really cool game. I didn’t know there was a remake.