4/1/2023

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Architect

Lazarus Cage

They want to keep you bound in the dark, but you won't let them. You will get out, fight and flee, fail and die, then try again and again...

Nautilus

Grudges must always be the first to die when a storm arrives.

After years away you return home to your dying father, but will you be able to get your brother to forgive you for leaving? And will you step up to the challenge to inherit your father's most prized possession?

Written as part of the 2023 Spring/Summer Contest: Gone Fishin' it is a game with a much bigger focus on story than gameplay, but still there is a decent amount of endings and variation for something this short.

Welcome back, there's currently a lot of activity around reading due to the Summer Review Contest so you can use those threads to see what people are reading and find recommendations.

Thanks, I was curious after I was done with it why you ended up liking it so much to recommend it (I don't read existing reviews before formulating my own opinion to avoid spoilers and influences) and after reading your review I agree with most positives you point out, just don't feel that strongly about them in comparison to the negatives with the exception of characters, and yes Griffith was probably the best one overall. A bit cartoony, but that works well for the general YA vibe. Maybe the one exception being that it deconstructs the superhero genre in a similar fashion to The Boys and other stories like it because it doesn't do that, mainly because its story centers around a school for supervillains as stated in the description and to me painting one superhero slightly gray through a single accident isn't quite enough to reach the same level of genre subversion. Also if you're mentioning The Boys, a better parallel to mention would be Gen V which is a TV show in the same universe, but much closer to Prometheus since they're both YAish stories in a super school. I only saw a few episodes before the YA drama pushed me away, but it wasn't worse than the later seasons of The Boys.

Amen to that, there's a significant amount of decent games gathering dust with pretty much one comment that's longer than two sentences. Just pressing by random a few times you can find enough to keep yourself busy for a week (as proven by about half the stuff I reviewed for the contest so far)

Just finished it a bit ago and I'm currently trying to figure out how to phrase my review in a way that doesn't bash it too hard because the game isn't bad, but it did annoy the shit out of me, and it's not just because it's essentially YA and I find YA painful to read. Kinda curious what others will think once they get to it.

Shit I didn't even think of that, thankfully the game decided (not that inaccurately) I'm incapable of artistic and social stuff anyway so the lack of creativity juice shouldn't hurt my usefulness that much. Also I second the naming suggestion.

Congrats to YellowCake and the top 3 in general, between Fluxion making a last minute comeback to restore the Bored's glory and Cat apparently being a lean-mean-reviewing machine (I swear I blinked and you went from being 5 points ahead to 20) you guys kinda put the rest of us to shame. Now all that's left is dealing with the stress of not knowing who's gonna get yoinked off their team.

This is why I don't like Rimworld, it's way too good at being creepily close to recreating reality between the backstory, stats and traits. Anyway I feel like Option B is the more reasonable one considering we're still not that secure in terms of basic resources and reducing the amount of hands for a chance to get another pair is just bad math.

Unless I misread something the reviews are counted individually, and it's 1 point per review regardless of length which is why my most recent storygame has been taking the brunt of the (mostly deserved) bashing. My style of reviewing doesn't lend itself well to very short games which is why I don't really do those games unless I get really curious.

I have it on my list and since I won't be catching up to Cat or YellowCake for this mini challenge I might as well read something I was already interested in.

Nah I'm pretty sure you're fine. It's more so a matter of culture shock combined with calling someone who's actually not straight a faggot instead for once, which means the odds of taking it as not a joke were higher.