Arthurplaysgames
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Hi! I like to play a wide variety of different games and I started this account primarily to help myself keep track of what I've played and what I thought, although I'm happy to share it with others as well. A lot of the games I play are very short, so don't be surprised to see a ton of reviews from me.
My reviews are only meant to reflect the experience I had playing these games, and as such are highly subjective. They may be influenced by things such as nostalgia, my mood while I was playing them, what I ate that day or what the weather was like, so don't expect any amount of objectivity. I rate everything on a scale of 0-10 instead of the default 1-5, although it'll be pretty rare that I rate anything below a 6, as that would mean that I made a big mistake when picking the game in the first place.
I made this account in January 2023, and at the moment I'm only including the games that I finished starting in 2023. That may change in the future, but if you're reading this then it has not yet.
Hi! I like to play a wide variety of different games and I started this account primarily to help myself keep track of what I've played and what I thought, although I'm happy to share it with others as well. A lot of the games I play are very short, so don't be surprised to see a ton of reviews from me.
My reviews are only meant to reflect the experience I had playing these games, and as such are highly subjective. They may be influenced by things such as nostalgia, my mood while I was playing them, what I ate that day or what the weather was like, so don't expect any amount of objectivity. I rate everything on a scale of 0-10 instead of the default 1-5, although it'll be pretty rare that I rate anything below a 6, as that would mean that I made a big mistake when picking the game in the first place.
I made this account in January 2023, and at the moment I'm only including the games that I finished starting in 2023. That may change in the future, but if you're reading this then it has not yet.
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A nice little mini Metroidvania. More Metroid than Vania, which is what I prefer. Satisfying exploration and a weapon system that's fun to tinker with. The presentation is a little amateurish, but in a way that adds its own sort of charm. Sometimes I just want my Metroidvanias to be over in 2 or 3 hours, and this is a solid game that delivers on that bite-sized kind of experience.
This would be a fairly unremarkable roguelike game even if it was more polished, but unfortunately it's far too janky and buggy for even that to be the case. It's short enough that I was planning on finishing it anyway, but after losing a run that I was most of the way through due to a glitch, I had to give up. A game-ending glitch can mean losing an hour or two of progress in this genre, so that's just a complete dealbreaker for me.
Iron Lung gives you just enough information to allow your imagination to run wild inside your claustrophobic little sub, resulting in a clever little minimalist horror game.
The premise is also very metal in a way that I enjoyed a lot - a convict pressed into a suicide mission in a rusty little can at the bottom of an ocean of blood? That's good stuff.
However, as short as the game is, I don't think the somewhat tedious (intentionally so, to be fair) gameplay was enough to sustain the hour or hour and a half of playtime in this game, leading me to believe it would have been stronger as an even shorter microgame.
So, points for originality and atmosphere, but it overstays its welcome a little too much to be truly great.
The premise is also very metal in a way that I enjoyed a lot - a convict pressed into a suicide mission in a rusty little can at the bottom of an ocean of blood? That's good stuff.
However, as short as the game is, I don't think the somewhat tedious (intentionally so, to be fair) gameplay was enough to sustain the hour or hour and a half of playtime in this game, leading me to believe it would have been stronger as an even shorter microgame.
So, points for originality and atmosphere, but it overstays its welcome a little too much to be truly great.