Very, very sweet!

There are beetles full of wisdom, a non-judgemental communal garden, complimentary tea for all customers, and that's just after five minutes of gameplay!

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Don't know if I ever played the 1.0 release, probably stopped when it was still beta?

Sigh... I shall sit here and make sad old man modem noises for the rest of the evening. *Pshhh kkkkkk rrrr kaking kaking kaking tshchchchchchchchcch ding ding ding*

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Will give it a try. Because, according to Steam, who is infallible, it's very similar to something I've played before, American Truck Simulator.

I guess here you smash critters with a hammer, and in ATS... well I guess it's the roadkill aspect?

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Better be careful! OpenRazer causes open sores!

(Apologies, horrible joke! I'll see myself out...)

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Quoting: ageresI have also found a new PlayStation 1 emulator recently, DuckStation (available as a Libretro core for RetroArch as well). It's going to be my favourite PS1 emulator. It has a lot a graphics settings like widescreen for 3D games without stretching videos and better game compatibility than Beetle-PSX-HW which has troubles with running modified games, e.g. translated ones.

Wonderful! I have been looking for something like this!

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I have played quite a few lately, but the one I come back to again and again is art of rally. It's not perfect, what game is, but it comes pretty darn close. Close enough that I'm nearing the 1000 stages achievement.

When it comes to driving I'm average, to be honest, but I am having a lot of fun. My biggest problems so far are the spectators. I have to make a conscious effort not to brake and swerve for the poor dears. They are clearly close relatives to the pedestrians from Midtown Madness. No risk of hitting anyone, they get out the way. But some part of my brain can't accept that simple fact. How they managed back in the good bad old days, with real people, not only lining the roads, but standing in the middle of it up the last moment I shall never understand. Me? I brake for pixels.

Problem number two involves the stages in Germany. They are lined with large rocks. Hinkelsteins? What are they good for? No idea, but they look surprisingly like grave stones. Ominous! But it's not like Germany got a dark hideous past or anything like that. Anyhow, smashing into one of those at 170 kph = instant death. The first time I ran one of those stages I subconsciously held my breath. Had I not gasped for air in time I would have fallen of the chair and become the first person to sustain serious head trauma from sim racing.

An imagination is a terrible thing to have sometimes.


Surprise tank attack, that's a triple caution.

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Quoting: lelorrainAs for my game budget, last June, I had to promise to my better half that I would not buy a game for NINE months! I admit that over the years I collected over 300 games in the last 30 years! What! That's just about one game a month!

Fight fire with fire. Withhold sex until you're allowed to buy games again!

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Sort of mini review of the demo

I quite like the graphics and the art direction. The darker, gory parts, sort of reminded me of American McGee's Alice, that's a plus. I was however disappointed with the actual gameplay. I was expecting something clever with the whole two souls sharing one body bit, some sort of hook to differentiate them from other adventure games, but it is pretty standard stuff. Story wise, it's a bit hard to tell from so short a demo.

Another thing. I who regularly takes a sledgehammer to the Queen's English should probably not be in any position to critizise* this, but feel I must. The English in the dialogue, the grammar and sentence structure, is quite awkward. Even to somebody who is not native to the language it's remarkably noticeable. It should be a priority, and hopefully an inexpensive task, to have someone proofread and improve all dialogue, especially since the Kickstarter only have voice acting as a stretch goal.

This might like a very negative review but overall I think it does show promise.

* Muphry's law!

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Quoting: wvstolzingEDIT: Another perspective puzzler in development - https://twitter.com/mattstark256/status/1213156890475212800?s=20 - looks really interesting. The developer has posted a couple more updates in the Summer in his twitter feed.

Oh, thanks for posting this, very cool! Seems to be called Viewfinder?

Speaking of interesting puzzle games, I wonder if Miegakure will ever be released? It's been in development for 11(!) years now. Not DNF bad, but it is getting up there in years.

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GPU Maker: So we have this cool new GPU, accelerated ray tracing, infinity cache, mesh shaders. Photo realistic graphics really.
Gamer: Shut up! I'm fighting ascii snails!
GPU Maker: ...
Gamer: ASCII SNAILS!!!1

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