Joguinho bonito e simples pra relaxar! Eu curto escalar de vez em quando na vida real e os devs capricharam nas animações, ficou bem feito! Outra coisa que gosto é de Journey, jogo que claramente inspirou Jusant com sua história emotiva, meditativa e silenciosa. As músicas entram só quando importa e a história é contada pelo ambiente e alguns textinhos aqui e ali - que não me pegaram muito, exceto por alguns. Também tem o amiguinho que te acompanha na jornada toda na forma de um bichinho fofo que te dá uns poderzinhos que encaixam bem com o gameplay e a história.

Tudo isso é bem derivado de Journey, que em si é muito derivado de Ico - o clássico de PS2 do Fumito Ueda. Também conhecido como um dos melhores jogos de todos os tempos, então ao mesmo tempo que gosto de muito de jogos nesse estilo Ico, nenhum chega no mesmo patamar. Tudo bem, porque afinal quase nenhum jogo chega nesse nível e também Jusant foi de graça no Game Pass!

Resumindo, joguinho bom e bonito pra zerar de uma vez só!

The third entry in my “beating every The Legend of Zelda” journey! After falling in love with the series with Wind Waker and getting annoyed with old game mechanics in the original NES game, it was time to give a go to the influential “goat status” Ocarina of Time.

Played it all the way through in about 3 months taking my time alongside my girlfriend who convinced me into this Zelda journey. It’s funny how she compares her experience with mine, she used to play these games as a kid so she took her time and knew all the secrets. She collected bottles with fairies, potions and made sure to grab all the items before proceeding. Meanwhile I’m just grinding all the way through with the least amount of hearts, potions and items as possible.

I mentioned how I got frustrated with badly aged mechanics in the original The Legend of Zelda, I have similar issues with this one too. It’s very much a spiritual successor to the first game in the saga, same essence but in 3D. That means it’s sort of open world, which is pretty cool for its time, but it also means it has a fair share of bullshit. By which I mean “how the fuck am I supposed to know what to do now” moments, something very frequent in old games - which CAN be nice sometimes since modern games tend to hold your hand a lot - but most of the time it’s annoying. For that reason I used walkthroughs at certain points, as I did for the first one, which honestly improves the experience.

That being said, I can see how massively influential this is and it’s also a pretty entertaining game by itself. It’s Wind Waker without the polish, it’s the OG NES game with the polish. The story is standard stuff but pretty heartwarming and wholesome, the open world has honestly a bunch of optional stuff to do, the visuals are great for the time and the gameplay is a dope blend of action and puzzles that set the standard for 3D adventure. Some dungeons are way better than others though (I’m looking at you weird inside of a stomach dungeon).

Looking forward to A Link to The Past now!

I love To The Moon and had this sitting in my backlog for ages, alongside the other games from the series. Decided to play it on a whim, as it’s a very short experience as well.

This can barely be considered a game, it’s more keen to a short animation or something like that. It’s a pretty cute and wholesome story with beautiful music. The pixel art is pretty good as well but it doesn’t work as well as it does in To The Moon. I’m eager to play the actual games from the trilogy now though, see if they’re as good as the first one.

Another good old first person puzzler, one of my favorite genres. Unfortunately they all have that Portal shadow lurking behind them and most of the time they don’t reach quite the same level. Viewfinder is one of those. It’s a short and easygoing experience. The thing it has going for it is it’s unique mechanic, but even then I felt like it could’ve been explored better.

Ever since Portal every game of this genre tries to fit in an emotional story alongside the puzzles, most of them fail. Viewfinder is no exception as well, very bland stuff here. Reminded me a bit of “The Turing Test” in that aspect.

It’s no Portal, neither is it a The Talos Principle or Superliminal, but it’s a quality fun short game to get on sale.

Incredible narrative single player experience. Sometimes all I want in a game is a straightforward cinematic story with decent enough 3rd person adventure/action gameplay. God of War ticks both of those boxes with ease, I was completely immersed in it’s incredible story and world.

I played the PS2 games as a kid and I don’t have much recollection of them besides: “bad-ass guy kills greek gods and there’s blood and boobs and shit”. So I never really saw this saga as a prime example of storytelling, but man this definitely took the series in an amazing and more mature direction while keeping and paying homage to the PS2 games. I love the whole Kratos is a now a broken man shtick, I could hear him talk with Atreus all day.

Gameplay-wise it’s pretty straightforward and there were some challenging bosses as well. Nothing mindblowing to be honest, but very entertaining.

Can’t wait to play Ragnarok once it comes out on PC!

Absolute fun, straightforward but full of personality. I love the art, the music, the storytelling was pretty surprising and the gameplay is banging.

It’s full on Zelda-like, specially the original one, leaving a sort-of open map for you to explore and discover secrets. It also has some sections similar to dungeons with puzzles and the “get a new ability and use it right away” classic. It’s also just the right amount of challenging, with great boss fights (and some pretty cool wave-like stuff) where you retry and retry and eventually get in a groove without getting frustrated.

If you love classic adventure games and something filled with charm and character, this is a no-brainer.

Fun little puzzle game, something I'm usually on the mood for every once in a while. Although I prefer first person puzzlers, this a really creative and simple game. The visuals are great and the puzzles were challenging enough, really great for scratching your thinking and shit. Some of the late ones were kind of annoying, one of them being the only one where I checked out a solution (no one's perfect).

This made me realize my favorite "thinking men's game" type is for sure Point and Click Adventures - the best of the bunch. Something like Sam & Max has that perfect balance of problem-solving, fun and story. Whereas this kind of tries to tell a story but it's sort of random. That being said, the ending is pretty surprising. Can't match Portal, Superliminal and Talos Principle though.

Worth playing if you are looking for a short fun puzzle game. Though there's better ones out there.

Played co-op with my girlfriend.

WHAT IF THERE WAS A OPEN-WORLD ONE LEVEL 3D MARIO? That’s Bowser’s Fury. It’s a pretty big map where you just wander around collecting “Cat Shines” to get into boss fights against a gigantic Bowser.

You choose the order of islands/levels you want to play in order to get these “stars” and then after some of them you get into the CAT MARIO X BOWSER KAIJU BATTLE. That part is pretty fun, but collecting all the cat shines is even better.

It gets addicting, you want to free all the lighthouses and shit. You do a little bit on one island, then get back to an old one and boom it’s all different and now there’s a new cat shine to unlock. It’s a seamless, addictive gameplay loop that just grabs you and makes you keep playing. The islands and challenges are all super fun, creative and well designed.

The co-op aspect isn’t so well flashed out, 3D World’s is way better. But that’s mostly because Bowser Jr isn’t so exciting to play with. That being said, playing games with my girl is always fun and it was great teaming up to get some of the Cat Shines. It would’ve been a lot harder and less exciting to play by myself for sure.

The presentation and music is also flawless. I haven’t played much 3D Mario, but now I can’t wait to play some more! Incredible short and fun game.

Wow, incredibly charming and fun game! Very unique and cute platformer. Definitely a little bit of a Nintendo vibe to it, but it’s CLEARLY a Media Molecule game. It has that same quirky, wholesome, handmade feeling that Little Big Planet has - one of my all time favorite games.

Tearway also uses the full potential of the PS Vita, integrating the hardware’s features with its story and gameplay REALLY well, not a gimmick at all. As for the story itself it’s really wholesome and heartwarming! Incredible game overall.