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Octopus Pie: Volume 2, by Meredith Gran
This was just as amazing as the first one! I love Eve & Hanna's friendship & all the chaos that follows them. This series is filled with slice of life vibes, drama, and silly fun that makes me laugh out loud. & Victor is da man! Who's Victor? No idea!
Octopus Pie: Volume 1, by Meredith Gran 📚💙
OMG I FKIN LOVED THIS! I had no idea what to expect and I was beyond pleasantly surprised. I love every single character and I absolutely loved the storytelling and humour and omg I am in love. That is all 🥰
Octopus Pie - Meredith Gran "#573 – babies get in free"
Perfect Tides: Station to Station
3/5⭐| Steam | Lovely art and music; less gripping story
I really enjoyed Meredith Gran's first game, Perfect Tides, so I was excited to pick up the sequel and see what happens next in Mara's life. While the first game shows her in high school, this second one is about her college life in The City (aka, NYC).
Maybe it's because I'm not a city person, or maybe it's because i'm not a writer, but I just didn't gel with the story of this game nearly as much as last time. I was also a lonely weird nerd in high school writing stuff online, so I related hard to Mara, and maybe that let me forgive some of her personality flaws and find them more endearing than annoying. But here in college, I found her tendency to overwrought pretentiousness mostly just irritating. Her series of bad decisions made me cringe, which is definitely the intent, but I found her attempts to understand herself painfully shallow. Basically, she used a lot of words to say nothing.
I had another issue with the story, and it started in the first game too - as someone who didn't even date until my junior year of college, I have trouble sympathizing with Mara complaining about how unloveable she is when she's on her 5th boyfriend. I know things are more complicated than that, but still - from my perspective, she has a decent time of it.
Anyway, this maybe got more personal than necessary, LOL! Otherwise, the game had a lot of good moments. The art is, as usual, astounding, and there were some really creative and fun moments thaht stood out. The Bohemian Rhapsody scene was SO fun, and I also loved the concert rhythm section.
The story was interesting, and I still love Mara and some of her friends (Rosetta <3 <3). I loved seeing her relationship with Lily grow, and her family story expand. I didn't really care about all the musings on the nature of art, and discussion of The City, but that's just my personal prefs.
The gameplay was much improved from last time, although it still had issues - it claimed full controller support but completely ignored mine, for example. But there was a lot less pixel-hunting! I missed some core (I think) mechanics of the game, so I think I possibly missed out on some content, but that's on me of course.
However, perhaps it sums up my reaction to the game that I couldn't be bothered to go back and replay to get that content. The game was fine, and I'll definitely check out a sequel if the saga continues, but it wasn't as gripping for me as the first one. So it goes!
The Highline Triptych ! (+dawn version) These were my absolute favorite backgrounds to make for the whole game. I have fond memories of visiting the park with my dad on the very first day it opened to the public and looking out at all the still-wild sections...it was so much fun to tap into that feeling for these. Go play Perfect Tides: Station to Station and run around on the tracks the way I always wanted to!
Perfect Tides: Station to Station is finally out on Steam!! It was so rewarding and cathartic to do the backgrounds on this project...Meredith really let me go wild recreating the NYC of my childhood in pixels :) I hope everyone enjoys the game as much as we enjoyed working on it!
Perfect Tides: Station to Station by our friend Meredith Gran is out TODAY!!! :0
A point n' click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's
In the now painfully distant yet painfully familiar year of 2018, I started reading a comic. The name of the comic was #OctopusPie, written
Octopus Pie: The Mega-Thread
"I have made the decision to slowly and methodically re-post every single tweet I ever made on this website. All the comments, analysis and silly memes. All of it."
Read the full thread here.
