grace_machine
2017
Counting completed as "did every grand prix" It's Mario Kart!
Realized I forgot to log this! It's not Metroid 1 at all, but it's pretty damn cool. Propulsive and downright electric in spots. Really appreciate how much these games force you to think through the items you got and to really use them in ways that are not just opening doors. Even though basically every trick comes from previous games, they get used in pretty cool ways here. It's not as emotive as II or Fusion (obviously) but I think the basic video games feelings are really well deployed. Fun stuff!
Despite a couple fun ideas, really feels like it can do nothing but slightly rework stables of Souls ideas. Might pick this back up, but probably not.
2021
2015
This shit is twee.
2019
Kinda wild how even subscription mobile games are like this. All the effort in the world to make you spend more time on device.
2021
Still pretty dang cool. Appreciate the game's central observation a lot, that mystical and magical forces are yet another means of social power. Even demons and bosses and bureaucracy.
Also appreciate how many storytelling modes this has, games can be a lot of things. All at once even.
Also appreciate how many storytelling modes this has, games can be a lot of things. All at once even.
2012
THAT FEEL WHEN NO GF
2001
First half is fantastic, second half is rough. Still a really interesting, lonely, and tragic FPS.
Just cut the rope!
2019
Instead of being actually novel and silly, this game layers a bunch of recognizable video game stuff on top of an okay golf game. Really boring ultimately!
Really really inconsequential.
2021
I guess I appreciate broadly what this is trying to do. Turning the language of a GTA into a little portrait of community. But without real friction or edge it just means nothing. Boring.
2021
The encounters and AI feel great. Unfortunately the levels are boring and the story is extraordinarily brainless.
eh