Misao is the first game by the same person who did Mad Father. The graphics are a lot cruder but otherwise I found it enjoyable, if hard to take quite seriously. Also, the backstory reveal involves unnecessarily nasty abuse, down to including rape, so avoid if you’re bothered by that.
It opens with a nine minute cutscene, but unlike Mad Father, the rest of the game has very little of this.
I was so excited to try this game out, to see more of what the surely-lovely Zoombinis franchise had to put out after the first game.
I was very disappointed. Mountain Rescue feels like a cheap knock-off version of the original game with everything that made it fun and engaging stripped out.
“The Seeds of Wither” is yet another 1.5 moneygrab of an ebook, and it’s perhaps the most shameless one yet. It makes up for it by being more horrible than Wither itself.
So I read the opening of John Dies at the End because it was recommended as a book to do.
“Dave? This is John. Your pimp says bring the crack shipment tonight, or he’ll be forced to stick you. Meet him where we buried the Korean whore. The one without the goatee.”
And you know what? Nope.
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The simply-named Defender’s Quest is a tower defense game with RPG elements. Your “towers” are party members that level up and can get upgraded equipment and all the standard RPG stuff. Typical for the RPG genre, there is also a strong story element, even moreso than in Immortal Defense. Before and after every battle, you’re treated to an extensive cutscene where multiple characters interact.
Unfortunately, however, though the early game is excellent, the whole experience falls apart around the halfway mark and never really gets better.
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Eon is a surprisingly readable book that develops some major issues by the end.
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Immortal Defense is a tower defense game. Normally those don’t hold my interest for very long, but for some reason I ended up finding this one fairly engaging. One reason is probably because it has a plot, but it also used some interesting an innovative gameplay mechanics that I believe alleviated some of my misgivings about the genre.
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Mad Father isn’t that great, so feel free to read the review without playing the game.
Ib is a really cool game and you should go download it immediately!
Let’s expand the definition of recs until it snaps in half.
Since I love to see dandelions and other people don’t, I’ve been trying to cook a bit with them. I was just feeding them to the chickens and lizard, but there’s only so much they can eat.
The Spirit Engine II is an interesting game. The title itself is a bit of a misnomer. It actually has nothing at all to do with the original Spirit Engine game – I guess the developer couldn’t think of any new title, so he just used the name brand of his previous game, a la Final Fantasy? I haven’t played the original game, though, so I have no idea how it compares and will only be discussing this one.
OFF is a free game that’s an okay entry into the odd indie game subgenre. If you like those, you should go download it, but it’s not so impressive I’d recommend it to everyone. If you’re going to play, you should do that before reading the rest of this. Also, I strongly advise that you use a walkthrough, as the puzzles quickly get annoying.
Last Scenario is a Japanese-style RPG made in RPG Maker XP. This game is actually a bit special to me, because it was the first RPG Maker XP game (and one of the first RPG Maker games, period) I ever played, so it really introduced me to the concept in a lot of ways.
I’ve been following Erfworld for a while, and it’s been doing something interesting, where by interesting I mean terrible.
I remember Zoombinis from when I was younger. My sister and I would play it obsessively. I don’t think we ever finished it, though. Revisiting it now feels somewhat strange – I don’t really remember enough for it to be nostalgic, but it’s interesting to try and see what entertained me as a child (and by extension, most children – Zoombinis was pretty popular) from an older perspective.