#videgoame

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VIDEGOAME

You are Player, your Love is missing and you're off to retrieve them. Twitchy arcade/puzzle game with you trying to collect keys while dodging bats, lasers and dealing with a rotating screen covered in extra visual distractions. Keyboard only controls further complicate things given the reflexes expected from you. To its credit, you can play on an easy mode where you just respawn on death and can continue your journey, the normal mode where you respawn but the room is reset or a single life mode in case you just don't like yourself very much. Graphics are minimal in a wink wink retro & fourth wall breaking sort of way with beepy retro sounds as well. There's a PDF game manual included in the files further playing off the "twisted retro game" vibe. While I wouldn't technically call this a roguelike, how much you enjoy it will probably depend a lot on how much you enjoy that genre and game play.

Enjoyed? Meh

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Busywork

Laundry done, child asleep and in bed, everything cleaned up. Now it’s time to translate. Maybe I’ll get some work done tweaking rainblocks tomorrow. A VIDEGOAMEbeta has been sent to some people and I am getting good solid feedback. Realizing around ten thirty at night that it is now time to do stuff that I want to do is a bit scary. Perhaps I need to do less. But it sure feels good, even though…

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Whiskey and working

It was a Very Merry Game of Thrones[footnote]or should I say “A Song of Ice and Fire”? My nerd tendencies urge me to be accurate, but that is the “common” name for the series.[/footnote] Weekend as I plowed through fifteen chapters of A Storm of Swords and watched six episodes of Season Two. All while translating and doing my fatherly duties. Being an adult is hard.

I’ve also been enjoying a nice…

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"The reviewer's job is difficult when it comes to a game like Dark Souls. I simply can't unreservedly recommend that you buy it. It's not a game that you play to relax. It doesn't care in the slightest about whether you're enjoying yourself, and it doesn't give a fig for your notions of entertainment or your mental well-being. If you just play games for fun, this isn't for you, and no amount of insistence on my part is going to change that. But if you're interested in the limits of the videogame form – to see just how focused, how pure and how uncompromising in its vision a game can be – Dark Souls is unmissable. If you take the time get into Dark Souls' mindset, to begin to understand the twisted way in which it operates and taste the rewards behind its cruellest challenges, this is one of the most thrilling, most fascinating and most completely absorbing experiences in gaming."

Keza McDonald - IGN Review