Yeah, I kinda wish they weren’t patching these games unless there was something that literally breaks the game just to keep that retro feel
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oh cool they threw out all the balancing work they did for a 20 hour game for the sake of a bugfix cool cool
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popping out of a coffin is a western trope, even
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mockup of what a famicom port of planet zoldath might have looked like:
(I like to imagine that this is where Pilot’s later design originated from.)
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anyhow, after a 3 month break i finally completed it:
there’s still like a dozen screens i have no idea how to access
top shelf vidcon
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I got this installed on one of my Anbernic handhelds yesterday, which feels like some forbidden magic sort of stuff.
The Portmaster notes say that some of the games with larger areas don’t work as well, and that for it to work on the measly chipset the audio has to be compressed a good deal, but I didn’t notice too much difference (then again, I only played a little Barbuta).
Anyway, neat way to play it on the go without lugging a Steam Deck (or I guess waiting for a Switch version…surely that’s gotta be in the works…).
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cherried Warptank a few days ago…
for my first appearance on this week’s Eggplant podcast’s discussion of Warptank, which you can listen to here if you’re interested!:
going to be on their episode next week about Waldorf’s Journey as well
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Mini and Max sure is something, huh?
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yes! maybe my favorite game in the set? it def stands on its own as like a very interesting indie puzzle platformer. and Rail Heist are at the very top for me.
also i was very excited to be on the Eggplant podcast yet again to talk about Waldorf’s Journey, a favorite game for me. Ben Esposito of Neon White and Arcane Kids fame was also on this episode
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atm, Pilot’s Quest is the most-played contender out of all 50 titles so far, even when i only played it for the first time yesterday.
This somehow pushes the right buttons to make me go
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The thing about Pilot Quest is it had a way of creating this miasma of FOMO while I was playing the other games. “Have I got enough by now to buy the next upgrade?” “I could be earning more resources right now if I improved my pilotville a bit more”.
Midway through, I started to kind of hate it and wanted to just gold it ASAP and never think about it again. Which made it dig its hooks into me all the more
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fwiw, took a break from Pilot’s Quest today and since i had NOTHING better to do, why not give Interstellar a rewatch.
THIS GAME
IT DOES THINGS IN MY BRAIN
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I played a lot of Rock On Island this weekend. It’s part of my recent thing of trying to complete games with saves. It’s kind of weak in that it’s just a tower defense game, but I still enjoy the Q&A phenom of going to sleep after losing a round and waking up with a winning strategy. The last level is very daunting. I’ve made it to the final wave but got crushed.
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BOOTED UP CAMPANELLA 1 AND ACTUALLY NOTICED THE FREAKING WARPS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER LET’S GOOOOO
*doesn’t actually get any further than last time*
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Yeah the tradeoff on missing all those extra lives doesn’t seem worth it.
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First one I’d get gold for indeed is Pilot Quest.
Of course I would — endgame spoilers ahead —
meet this Norrok? Black&White Dude in my last run to collect more bucks for ship’s fuel, defeated him just to get a ‘come and find my doll elsewhere’ msg:
No thanks i’m good, took me 16h and 40mins already. As it turns outbafter the credits rolled you crash again on the same planet, and they have added three levelup machines plus a few new items to grind for… the grind never stops.
Still loving it tho, and will come back to it … later.
So hej, Golf🏌️.
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non-paywalled GDC talk (TODO: listen to it)
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Finally played UFO50 now that’s it’s on Switch and omg, I spent 3.5 hours straight just playing Devilition, what an incredible game. I wanna go back and beat it again, it’s so good.
The last boss is so easy compared to the rest of the stages, I wonder if it’s more of a reward for getting that far?
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I also got Ufo 50 one year later on the Switch
I generally prefer to play games one at a time, either finishing / dropping a game then moving on to another. So I like the framing of Ufo 50 which does allow me to play 50 games at once without any friction. And it helps that most games are best played in short bursts, and are very hard to clear on the first try (for me)
I wish there were more non-gamer wife games. So far, the only ones I’ve seen are Pingolf and Camouflage. There are a lot of multiplayer games but they seem to be either VS, or they’re co-op but violent
Barbuta
I need to devote like 5 consecutive hours to it but already love it
Ninpek
I like this one but the A / B control scheme is getting in the way: I always have the attack button pressed with my thumb, and trying to jump with A using the same finger feels wrong. (I also am not a fan of NES Mario controls for that reason)
Block koala
I don’t know who’s in the mood for Sokoban. am never in the mood for Sokoban. And while at least Sokoban is perfectly legible (there are only blocks to push, walls) Block Koala is the opposite. 7 levels in and I’m still not sure how those numbered blocks work. I also really don’t like how the 1 blocks work differently than the other numbered blocks. Least fav
Party House
Everyone loves Party House, me included. I feel that the real miracles here are the setting and legibility (more than the core gameplay) - I’d love it like 70% less if it was about building a dungeon and attracting heroes and monsters and whatnot. They added deckbuilding to a very cool setting entirely unseen in videogames and it’s all holistically perfect
Camouflage
Huge hit. This needs 10 more lvls while Block Koala needs 30 less
I love how the intro mentions three kinds of enemies but you only get to see birds if the crocodile auto-kill pathfinding doesn’t work, the game using a bird to fly over to kill you instead of the croc. Amazing
Overbold
I am mega addicted to this one. Such a small focused game and I’m always improving but I’ve spent 5 hours and still haven’t beaten it. My issue has been more being underbold than overbold - I’m never prepared enough for the last wave. My other issue is being terrible
Pingolf
I am terrible at this and it rules
Paint chase
Cool at first….There are hard legibility issues once the switches are introduced though. And I don’t particularly want to go through the early stages again
Pilot Quest
Nice. Idle elements are a bit underbaked as it seems I went from being completely unable to do anything in the overworld to being able to easily complete anything in the overworld with no in-between.
Porgy
I am spoiled by having multiple games on the collection being about exploration limited by resources with the player being able to explore further and further as they acquire resources. I love it
The giant eyes on the submarine look normal in-game but very funny in the opening cutscene
Caramel Caramel
I’m just not willing to put the effort in learning this one or any other hell shmup like Star Waspir
Hyper Contender
The few days of Towerfall multiplayer are behind me. Sorry
Campanela 1
Like Ninpek, nice game but awkward A / B controls. I don’t want my right thumb to control all 2 actions when I have this perfectly fine right index finger sitting there doing nothing
Kick Club
The way this game handles sport is so funny. I love how the tennis field appears in the background, vertically. I am going to try and fail at this one so many times
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