RE: Steam Winter Giveaway 2015 (D1 - It Begins)
01-15-2015, 07:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-15-2015, 07:54 AM by Crowstone.)
my reviews of games i've played
i can't believe i've only played four of these games :o
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Bastion- lovely game, it's 2D topdown as Schazer said (sort of, it's an isometric view side-top view) where you walk around with WASD and left/right click to shoot or swing your melee weapon at the mouse! Lovely story!
Cave Story+: haven't actually played the + version, but I played the original which had less powerful graphics but they were cute nonetheless. Platforming where you mash X to shoot! Lots of different choices to be made but you might not notice at first. There's a couple of different endings, and the story is wonderful and it's great
FEZ- a puzzle game, The main gimmick is that you play as a 2D platformer but push a button to rotate the camera 90 degrees around the protagonist character. It's a good mechanic. There are two different languages in the game, one of them is just english but all the letters are symbols and the second one are just a handful of symbols representing the 7 buttons you use to control the player character. There might be a third language but i don't remember. Disappointingly, about half of the puzzles in the game are just figuring the code and then entering it (as in up/up/down/down/left/right/left/right/b/a/start kind of codes) and that's half the game. Also the developer is notorious for being rude or something.
Thomas Was Alone- a cute, simple game about a bunch of quadrilaterals. It's a platformer about colorful little computer rectangles in the computer world helping each other with their unique abilities (such as a jump high rectangle, a rectangle that's good for being staircase for other rectangles, trampoline rectangle). It's a puzzle platformer and there's narration throughout the whole thing revealing the characterization and thoughts of all the rectangles. There is a free DLC that's automatically included in the Steam version with some bonus chapters, but I didn't like those as much because it introduced a rectangle whose ability is to fly with a jetpack that is very hard to control. At that point it was no longer a puzzle game and a frustrating test of frame-precise finger tapping. Fortunately you can skip individual levels?
Wow, my statements about stuff I like were about one sentence long, and the little tiny thing I didn't like about Thomas Was Alone was half the paragraph! Maybe I should consider a career as a professional critic, it'll be a great fit for me!
Bastion- lovely game, it's 2D topdown as Schazer said (sort of, it's an isometric view side-top view) where you walk around with WASD and left/right click to shoot or swing your melee weapon at the mouse! Lovely story!
Cave Story+: haven't actually played the + version, but I played the original which had less powerful graphics but they were cute nonetheless. Platforming where you mash X to shoot! Lots of different choices to be made but you might not notice at first. There's a couple of different endings, and the story is wonderful and it's great
FEZ- a puzzle game, The main gimmick is that you play as a 2D platformer but push a button to rotate the camera 90 degrees around the protagonist character. It's a good mechanic. There are two different languages in the game, one of them is just english but all the letters are symbols and the second one are just a handful of symbols representing the 7 buttons you use to control the player character. There might be a third language but i don't remember. Disappointingly, about half of the puzzles in the game are just figuring the code and then entering it (as in up/up/down/down/left/right/left/right/b/a/start kind of codes) and that's half the game. Also the developer is notorious for being rude or something.
Thomas Was Alone- a cute, simple game about a bunch of quadrilaterals. It's a platformer about colorful little computer rectangles in the computer world helping each other with their unique abilities (such as a jump high rectangle, a rectangle that's good for being staircase for other rectangles, trampoline rectangle). It's a puzzle platformer and there's narration throughout the whole thing revealing the characterization and thoughts of all the rectangles. There is a free DLC that's automatically included in the Steam version with some bonus chapters, but I didn't like those as much because it introduced a rectangle whose ability is to fly with a jetpack that is very hard to control. At that point it was no longer a puzzle game and a frustrating test of frame-precise finger tapping. Fortunately you can skip individual levels?
Wow, my statements about stuff I like were about one sentence long, and the little tiny thing I didn't like about Thomas Was Alone was half the paragraph! Maybe I should consider a career as a professional critic, it'll be a great fit for me!
i can't believe i've only played four of these games :o
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