Category: Tier Two

Infra
by LepcisMagna

This is quite possibly the only game I’ve played that starts you out sitting through a meeting and going through a PowerPoint. I honestly could not tell you if it was meant to be serious or not; it seems to be since it is the introduction to the game and meant to set the stage for a banal start, but it’s just so ridiculous I can’t be sure.

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Halo 2 (Remastered)
by LepcisMagna

I’ll give it one thing: after playing for a while and switching to the old graphics, I legitimately thought “it can’t have looked this bad, can it?” In fact, I was so convinced that they had downgraded the graphics of the classic version that I booted up my old copy of Halo 2 to check. But nope – my mind must have just smoothed over the old versions, perhaps because I was less familiar with Halo 2 than I was with CE.

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Stone Story RPG
by LepcisMagna

I find myself unsure. On the one hand, this is a fun little RPG with an interesting twist: you don’t directly control your character, only their equipment. You venture forward and defeat enemies, equipping and unequipping things as you go to give yourself the greatest advantage or solve puzzles. On the other hand, the game has taken influence from idle games. On the third hand, it has a built in scripting language so you can automate yourself away. Whether that’s a positive or negative, I’m not sure.

Oh also, it’s entirely made out of ASCII art, but you probably figured that one out.

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Desert Golfing
by LepcisMagna

Is Desert Golfing a good game? I’m not sure. It’s certainly a frustrating game. From the physics which make the golf ball bounce just a little too far to the holes designed to infuriate you by making the ball roll just off the screen, the game seems determined to annoy you. On the other hand, it’s not cruel about it – there’s really no pressure to continue, and any goals are really ones you set yourself. This separates it from games like Getting Over It or The Impossible Game, where either the game taunts you (in the former case) or requires such precision that memorizing a sequence of inputs is the only path forward (in the latter case).

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