Nerdy Music for the Masses
To get the most important thing out of the way – this is not a stealth game. It looks like you’re ninjing through all the levels, trying to reach objectives, but that’s only a small part of the game.
This, my friends, is a martial arts movie simulator.
There are some genres that I have a love/hate relationship with. There are your sports games, your racers, your zombie games (that’s more on the hate side) and then we get to stealth. Some things I love about them: Tactical thinking, the challenge of never being seen while I clear a room, the different weapons. Some things I hate about them: the constant waiting, the fact that in some cases if you get caught that’s the end of the level and you have to restart (and then some other times you are halfway through, get caught, and it reloads you in a place where you can’t avoid the mistake you made before…arg), the repetitive rooms to clear.
“Set condition one throughout the ship!”
“Red alert!”
“It’s a trap!”
“…Tzao Gao You’d best hold on to somethin’…”
I love spaceships. I mean I love the shuttles and rockets and all that are real life, but I sincerely love starships. Freighters, transports, battlecruisers, fighters, whatever – I read tech manuals and websites, I listen to all the tech babble I can from different shows, and I imagine what it would be like to be on a ship sailing through the black of space… So when I found Artemis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator I knew that I’d be hooked.
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I have been thinking about how to sum up this game in a review for the past couple days. Usually after playing something for a few hours I can form an ok opinion on it, and then after more time with it I only have to refine that… so obviously there’s a thing weird from the start. hm. let’s try again.
Ori and the Blind Forest was suggested to me because of my love of “Metroidvania” games. I put off buying it because, you know… poor. But when I finally got it, It was completely worth it.
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This game is a combination of elements from multiple genres and they fit together like a puzzle – seemingly disparate pieces fitting together to make a wonderful work of art. Dust: An Elysian Tail has fun combat, incredibly cheesy dialogue, and a story that seems to be rote but actually has a few gratifying twists. I loved every second of playing, and I think anyone who likes metroidvania type games will too.
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