Honestly, it's a bit of a surprise that courtroom games don't make a bigger showing than they do. Sure, you have the Ace Attorney series, but aside from that and (through a mirror, darkly) the Dangan Ronpa games, there's... not really a huge market for "punch this narrative straight in the logic". Unsurprising, then, that Aviary Attorney showed up ( Read more... )

Another ambiguous span of time, another glut of games tackled and messed with. Only one out of the lot was beaten, but I'll definitely come back to them.

But I'm bad at shmups, you guys.

The Hurricane of the Varstray -Collateral hazard-A bullet hell of CAVE-esque leanings, with by far the most wonderfully mangled translation imaginable. ( Read more... )

Yep, Sword's digesting more free to play games off of Steam. This time, walking simulators. Delicious and low in calories.

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind HeistSUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years. No, I didn't mistype. Yes, I know what game I'm talking about here. Eight. Eight. Eight ( Read more... )

What happens when you mix urban exploration, Katamari Damacy, Animal Crossing, and Half-Life?

Nothing, those things are nothing alike, what are you doing.

What happens when you try to mix them anyway and add in a few hefty bong rips? Then you get Jazztronauts. A new game mode for Garry's Mod (aka 'that wonky Valve physics box/thing that people ( Read more... )

So I finally pulled away from my personal millstones for a little while to try some stuff that had been rattling around the discovery queue and, well. I was largely disappointed, but cleared two and kind of "eh whatever" the third, so, my thoughts.

VARENJE (Freebie Chapter One)

Celine and Xyzzy already said everything there is to say about this, ( Read more... )

this... this was a game.

holy shit.

I don't have words, this is exactly the right blend of inexplicable and unsettling to basically be the most horrifying creepypasta. To steal the words from Vinesauce, "this is Revenge of the Sunfish fucking weird ( Read more... )

So, we'll probably get another Thing Tried this week because last week was a hot mess where I accomplished just about nothing except screaming, but for now, well ( Read more... )

So I admittedly have only gotten a few hours into this, but... well, I have some good and bad thoughts on it.

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It's fascinating how three people can approach the same game and have three completely different game-ruining complaints about said game, all of which are fully accurate and easy to see in the game itself ( Read more... )

A friend graced my Steam inbox this morning with a certain VN that just came out the other day.

That friend got keysmashed at, and I flailed, and then I played through it, knocking out the first route I gunned for in about two hours (plus an added hour of trying to overcome a technical issue that seems to be pre-existingLet me start by saying: You ( Read more... )