Tried out Sable.
The dialogue so far is attrocious, a kind of sanguine faux-Nintendo NPC style but through the rose-tinted notalgia goggles of a millenial. One character told me they loved me twice within the first 20 minutes of the game!
It made me realise that the bluntness of npc dialog in nes/gb titles left a lot of room for projection and in my head it came out more like Carver than Proust.
It features more busywork/collecting than I would like but the chill vibes are welcome.
Best bits so far:
- I accidently added a map marker and no matter what I can’t remove it.
- Vsync doesn’t work but of course there’s a 24fps mode in a game with free camera control.
- Fell into an infinite void and autosave didn’t work for the last 30 minutes.