Literally just finished The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo. Very short point and click but excellent animation. Interacting with it generally felt very slick and the game has a very generous hint system so you don’t get stuck. A mix of surrealist and cartoon sensibilities, kinda reminds me of Allegro non Troppo for some reason. It’s mostly made up of little vignettes to solve with a more elaborate multi-scene piece in the back half.
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idk kids are incredibly varied in their tastes and what they enjoy so it just realpy depends on what theyve absorbed into their little brains.
i feel like the universal turn off for kids is something that involves reading when they cant read in the first place and theres very little happening on screen but even then ive known people who learned to read by playing jrpgs
related, ive been playing chibi robo and the amount of redundant talking in it is diving me insane. anytime telly vision comes on i loathe him more and more. i thought this would a good “time limit” sort of game since each half day has a timer, but a five minute day can be like 20 with all of the talking involved. its bled into my enjoyment of the mundane activities you do because theres always a chance of telly popping up to tell you for the 148395th time that you got some happy points or to remember to put trash in its proper receptical. like please i just wanna be a little robot that explores a big house and cleans up little messes and talks to toys i dont want to grind the leaderboards so i can “get all the robo babes” telly
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i also remember disliking the amount of talking in that game. chibi robo is one of those games that should be perfect cania bait but i actually don’t like it all that well
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romhacking is like, my favorite thing. i read someone’s complaint about a slightly older game and i’m like, someone should address this injustice and make a chibi robo romhack
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There’s a lot of potential here. For example, you could also make Okami into the good game it should have been by removing all of the talking.
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Unfortunately I’m on the deck where y ou have to do stuff like this:
https://twitter.com/BobbyFortanely/status/1648327978630234112?s=20
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woah wait what? I think i’m strongly in the chew on wood camp here.
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I was skimming through the thread and kept re-reading the bolded as you calling the launch of a AAA release a “major big time”, and the game itself a “big guy”, so I think those are good terms for the kids to use for AAA games going forward.
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Speaking as somebody who played Gitrog in EDH, this shit is perverted.
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yeah chewing on wood rules, chewing on plastic sounds like a hell
nb I am also a person who likes crunching on big ice cubes, I know it’s bad for my teeth and I don’t care
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i used to chew the plastic tails of my dinosaurs and most of my wooden pens and got roughly the same thing out of it. they were a similar softness, altho you could flatten the dinosaur tails
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If you’re at that point with something, maybe you should have given it up for something else sooner!
I’m of the view that if a game’s good, it can do whatever it wants though.
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fitting with the current subject of conversation, i won’t be trying the harder difficulties of spelunker hd
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i also support romhacking movies
lucas spielberg and that guy that ran a kickstarter to remove the rat from the departed before getting DMCA’d - holy warriors for justice
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Had to redo this scenario in Frosthaven even though we’re playing on baby difficulty, but we won this time. I switched from Geminate to blinkblade, I think that helped.
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goat simulator is probably more immediately entertaining to most children than katamari, but i have better taste than any child i’ve met
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imo katamari is for the inner child and i absolutely mean this as a compliment
it has a way of piercing cynicism
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Is the difference crassness?
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like idk, i normally wouldn’t put katamari and goat simulator in any of the same baskets. goat simulator, with what little i’ve played it, is more like a weird little physics toy and kind of a jokey riff on the whole idea of video games. katamari, on the other hand, is a motherfucking videogame.
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katamari and sonic adventure are the games i go to when i feel like shit and i need something that is unabashedly joyful.
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