Games You Played Today Oratorio Tangram

Was it this one?

1 Like

It is!

i’m sure you guys are big fans of its hit sequel until dawn rush of blood

fuck

this is the in-game routing for the first day

“Go out” is the line straight ahead

“Clean the kitchen” moves you over one to the right

there is no presentable option that takes you to the right most fork and to that item, whatever the fuck it is

if you don’t have the right item, you can’t pick dialogue choices because this game is some fan fiction bullshit and you have amnesia and the only way you can summon feelings and words and basic common fucking sense is if you have the right item and when you don’t you get railroaded into some bullshit “well, you made a mature decision but you’re going to die alone” ending, sensei end or joke ends

I don’t even know why I’m pouring all this energy into this other than sheer determination to not be outsmarted by a fucking light novel game

what am I doing with my life

3 Likes

I’ve seen nothing about it but I assume this is a sick burn.

Just finished The Wonderboy III remake on Switch, after all these years we finally get to see what is in Wonderboy’s house at the end…

Turns out it is a portal to another dimension with a super hard dungeon in it … so much for his well earned rest

3 Likes

Full Throttle’s puzzles are just plain intuitive. I get an item and I know what it’s for; I find a problem and I know the solution. I haven’t had to look at a FAQ yet.

It’s making me quite sad at the relative decline from this to Broken Age.

The art is more effective for being subtle about the fantastical elements like hovercars and pipe organ exhausts.

I feel like maybe some of the rock/paper/scissors style enemy weaknesses in the biker duels weren’t always immediately obvious but they were really satisfying once you figured them out.

You mean rock/paper/scissors/chainsaw

2 Likes

I think about the “you picked up a new weapon” riff a lot.

3 Likes

picked up ‘Voyage to Farland’ on Steam, Shiren the Wanderer clone on sale for $2. Seems like total garbage. Would’ve tried to get a refund but I couldn’t be arsed.

tried ‘Zavix Tower’ on Steam, which I bought in January and never played, and it seemed like a paint-by-the-numbers dungeon crawler. It was fun for the 45 minutes I played, but it ran like total SHIT on my old laptop, so that was a bummer.

on iOS I’ve been playing two games:
‘Bazoo Mobile eSport’ - this is a clone of the old Sega falling-well puzzle game called ‘Baku Baku Animal’ with good multiplayer infrastructure. Quite fun, and within one day I took my rank from in the 100,000s to ~480. Cosmetics require an ungodly number of green gems, so they are effectly IRL money only, which blows.
‘Castle Crush’ - Clash Royale clone with less polish. Still fun for some reason. You have no built-in attack like you do with towers in CR. I got up to 1000 trophies doing rushes with cheap units, even beating people 2-3 ranks ahead of me. You can also spam the annoying emotes, which I do constantly.

BOW NOW

This has entered my and @Flylighter’s personal lexicon after playing FT together once per summer for all our teenage and college years. Every time we are playing a game and get anything cool. Or even just in real life. Got that 3am chalupa at the Bell? BOW NOW

3 Likes

The most recent incarnation of this was perhaps a week ago, when I first hoisted my new weedwacker after assembly.

1 Like

For many years, as a side effect of solving The Dig, certain lines became beloved family injokes. “I can’t use these two things together,” “It won’t accomplish anything,” “Now where would I be without this shovel?”

4 Likes

This should be a thread

2 Likes

Wow, you had game related family in-jokes? My family just called me fag and weirdo whenever they saw me playing games growing up.

Does any SBer want The Dig the Novel? It is quite bad.

1 Like

Occasionally when I tell my coworkers that I’m going to grab lunch I’ll say “elf needs food badly”.

4 Likes

sure

How is it possible that I’ve not heard of Shiny Entertainment’s Messiah until now??

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME???