christian

I recently played through To the Moon, it’s just a few hours long and it’s really just a story with some superficial gameplay elements taped on top. It’s really sad, I cried.

I saw there are a couple sequels and I intend to get to them eventually.

Animal Well is great, it’s a 2d puzzle platformer. I’ve beaten the base game, it took me about eleven hours because I was trying to explore thoroughly, but I get the feeling I’m still not anywhere close to uncovering everything.

There’s not even an attempt at a narrative, but that allows the game freedom to be extremely nonlinear. You’re dropped into the game and you start exploring. You pick up on things you can think of as objectives, but there’s no motivation beyond your curiosity as a player to see what will happen if you complete them.

The gameplay is designed extremely well, but the real selling point is the creepy (yet somewhat cute) atmosphere. The pixel art is amazing.

I did, but I completed it before the main story and actually had no idea it was the expansion. In retrospect I knew an expansion was installed and that could have crossed my mind at some point.

I finished Outer Wilds a couple days ago, I really liked it a lot. I had heard everyone say to go in completely blind and I had the impression that there was going to be a major twist or change in gameplay, but the reason that’s good advice is the magic in the game is in the exploration and discovery. There are some moments that just made me feel awe and wonder. Progress is entirely in the form of understanding, so starting the game for the first time after reading up a lot about it could be like introducing yourself to mario on world 4.

The first few hours I wasn’t fully into it, but there was just so much to explore. By the time I actually needed to take a couple hours on something and smash my head against the wall, I was already hooked and was willing to take that time to make progress on my own.