Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
Malix@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Started playing Rauniot - a post-apocalyptic isometric point&click adventure game set in Lapland. Only few hours in and the vibes are great, although the voice acting and dialogue feels … I dunno, it’s not “bad”, but it feels a bit “off”, like it’s written by"semi-edgy artsyfartsy" type, and the dialogue is performed by aliens who only got the tldr version of how to act human.
Visually the game looks quite a bit like Fallout 1 and 2, just with higher colordepth and resolution. Sound (apart from dialogue) is pretty ambient. So all good in my books. And I gotta respect the absolutely slamming metal tune the main character is blasting in their car during the intro sequence. Hell. Yea. \,/
Puzzles have been mostly “find a tool to do x”, some items (eg. a rope in the first screen of the game) do blend into the background, so hovering over everything on the screen is a must. Interactables are highlighted in yellow outline, which on some cases can be really soft and it blends to the apocalyptic colorpalette of sepia/brown/gray surprisingly well, but at least all interactable things have a soundeffect when hovered with a mouse.
Gotta play more, I do want to see where it goes with the story and puzzles later on.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 days ago
Interesting. Haven’t heard of that but it looks neat. Might be the type of game I’d rather watch a Let’s Play of than play myself, though. Also…
are you sure they’re not just… Finnish?
Malix@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
heh, kinda fair, tbh. But then again, so am I, and it still feels like watching aliens :D
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 days ago
Okay, fair enough haha!
Also I love Finland for the record, the joke was just right there you know…
Malix@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
All good and fair when it comes to a bit of banter :)
Besides, the game sets unrealistic expectations as the characters actually talk.