The Anodyne series is an interesting one, I've thouroughly enjoyed both now and each time I feel I haven't quite grasped what I've played.

There's a density to the games despite their light play time, weaving meta-elements, out of bounds exploration and a just vague enough storyline and lore that the player is left to think on what they've experienced.

The games are such a love letter to things like Zelda and the psx era too. There's a lot to love here and a lot worth exploring.

What a fascinating concept, I love Yume Nikki and its interesting seeing this and thinking 'yeah thats sort of what I'd picture if it was an Atari game'.

Nails the concept completely and gives interesting food for thought.

What if Kikiyama had made a game in a different era? would it have been the same? would it be like this or different?

I knew I'd love this just from a short trailer, a game where you make everything nice and green again? I'm in!.

A cracking game I don't think we've quite hit on whatever deep down feelings that makes this sort of game so satisfying, Splatoon, The Unfinished Swan, games where the mechanics revolve more around changing the environment, reclaiming it are incredibly satisfying and interesting and I'm only happy to see more coming with the hope that developers are starting to see the power of this (I feel) underutilised mechanics.

I also love how the game comes up with some great puzzles for cleaning up the environment, its not straightforward (why would it be?) and as time goes on, complicated systems becomes simpler and satisfying, and sometimes obvious solutions to the games problems will leave you feeling like a dope for not thinking of them (maybe not, maybe im just the dope).

Worth a try if you like city builder style games, its a different sort of game in the same area, but worth a try if you like games in general.

The only downside, not really even a downside is the short length. I'd love another planet to clean up in the future.

I'm bad at these old style games so I made vicious use of the switch rewind feature, despite that, I love this.

The way in which your play of the game evolves naturally from just running away to gradually working out that you can direct and trick enemies, making snap decisions between chasing down a power-up or not is amazing, and a testament to the game design and tight implementation.

Well worth the time.

I really like this, fantastic ...micro game?....toy?

Unfortuantely steam has managed to lose my save twice now and I can't bring myself to go through the start a third time.

Highly recommend.

Honestly much better than you'd expect, feel like Star Fox makes this game but in general the gameplays solid, the elemental system is interesting and theres just enough to do that its fun but not too much that it drags it out, worth giving a go if the price is right.

Don't love the progress being tied to dlc however, caved in and bought a few small dlc items but if you want that 100% the price starts rising fast and honestly its not worth it.

Bit of a shame a sequels unlikely really.

I have fond memories of theme hospital despite I'm pretty sure being pretty terrible at it.

I was then overjoyed to hear that they were ressurecting the series, it was nice to know that some devs hadn't forgotten it and wanted more.

I'm....shelving it though....I'm not sure if its that theres too many levels or maybe that the content for the game was more front loaded but in later levels and stars I've been left feeling like I'm just waiting for stuff to happen in fast forward.

Thats not to give the game any less credit or that I've had a bad time with it, if anything I suppose its almost great that theres too much of it, I haven't even bought dlc yet.

I'll probably be back some day, or maybe I won't, but regardless I've loved my time with it and I'm glad its here.

I've always kind of liked golf games but this and golf story was the first time I ever embraced the chance that I might really like them and not just think they're 'all right'

Out of the two this ones the better one, it's incredibly frustrating at times but then again I feel like anyone that plays any golf game has said the same thing.

When its going well though and you're nailing shots theres nothing like it.

My group has finally completed this game and my god its been good, a wonderful world and excellent mechanics and combat.

One of the biggest laughs to play as a group and something you can really sink your teeth into.

Definitely give it a go!