Category: Tier One

No, not that one.  And no, not the other seven or eight.  This King’s Quest is a reboot/continuation/prequel of the classic King’s Quest games in an updated graphical style.  I was told that all of the textures are based on oil paintings which were scanned and applied to the game – it works, though not as grandly as I had hoped.  If you haven’t heard of King’s Quest, you probably aren’t a fan of point-and-click adventure games and can feel safe skipping this one.  If you have, I need to preface this with the information that I haven’t actually played the originals – they’re on my list, but I’ll first need to get them working in Windows 10.

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Let me be clear: I went into Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition thinking I could just knock a quick game off my list, sure I wasn’t going to be particularly interested in it.  It looked like a vaguely Mexican-themed Smash Brothers ripoff.  What I got was a fun and (mostly) intuitive game about a man named Juan who gets killed by an evil skeleton on Dia de los Muertos, but is given a second chance by a mystical luchador mask.  I look forward to playing far more of this – here’s to hoping the initial glow doesn’t wear thin.  Tier One.

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This is a difficult game to get screenshots of, since it’s a roguelike rhythm game.  You crawl through a dungeon to the rhythm of your own heartbeat, matched to the beat of the song (awesome songs, and apparently you can add your own as well).  It took me a little bit to “get”, but as far as roguelike gimmicks go, this one is amazing.  Tier One.

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You know what the difference between Super Amazing Wagon Adventure and Organ Trail is?  Organ Trail is fun.  I went into this thinking that Organ Trail would be exactly the same as SAWA – a one-joke, boring parody.  I was wrong.  There’s gameplay.  And choices.  And macabre humor.  And…you know…fun.  This is a better parody than SAWA ever was, and it’s actually a game to boot.

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Osmos may be a simple game, but it’s so peacefully addictive that I can’t fault it.  Like single player, ambient, agar.io.

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I first played a game called “Lugaru” back in 2005/2006.  In Lugaru, you played Turner, a ninja assassin rabbit – the combat was varied and interesting, since you played as a very low-health, high-speed character with an astounding jump (because, you know…rabbit).  Later, they announced a sequel (yet to be titled).  I pre-purchased it, and waited.  Actually, I’m pretty sure I bought it three times – once on their website when it was made available for pre-purchase, once in a Humble Bundle, and once on Steam (because I forgot both the email and the password to my original account).  During this time, they came out with hundreds of alpha builds (I played a few) in addition to lore-building comics and concept art.  Twelve years after, Overgrowth was released.  And people complain about Star Citizen taking a while.  THEY DON’T KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORDS “worth the wait”.

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I’ve tried getting into Euro Truck Simulator 2 a couple of times, but never quite “got” it – it just felt like a dressed up version of Desert Bus (you just can’t beat the developer commentary in the remaster).  This time, however, it clicked.  As I was driving in to Glasgow, the rain started falling while I was listening to Time After Time on some Polish radio station.  It felt good.  It felt peaceful.  My commute isn’t that long these days, so this gives the perfect excuse to catch up on Podcasts.  I can definitely see myself playing this for many hours (even if it has Train Simulator levels of DLC problems) – though I’m now tempted to get a racing wheel….

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