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Blind Play Game Recommendations from the Ukraine Bundle

seasons

mysteries under lake ophelia has big atmosphere. it’s by the same people that did fatum betula which i haven’t played but plan to. you play a kid camping out in the woods that only fishes. it’s ps1′d out with the ground textures that are kinda moving. the kid is wearing a dreamcast shirt.

i like the way they did sounds. you don’t actually see a lot of the stuff creating the noises, but birds chirping in the day and crickets chirping at night for example have this slow doppler effect to them. it makes the small play area feel bigger. it gets quiet when the lure hits the water, and that’s when i noticed how much was going on above water audibly. it’s a cool submerge effect. it’s very calm under water and you’re only able to control the camera really as the lure sinks. no pause or menu underwater. the short draw distance under water works well.

i haven’t finished it. it does start a little slow but the feeling of “there’s a lot more to see down there, got to see the mysteries” is keeping it interesting.

connierad

seasons Did you ask to use the bathroom?

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connierad I did not

beets

I started playing Kingdom: Two Crowns the other night and somehow lost 4 hours and went to bed at 0130. I woke up groggy at about 1000 and didn’t have much energy so I ended up playing more until about 1300.

This game is real good mannn. It’s kind of like if a clicker game had just a tad bit more to it’s setting.

It’s heartbreaking seeing a wall fall and 20 archers and builders get whacked by a mob of goblins becuase I was trying to maximise distance between walls. Thus creating a great migration of jobless guys back to the centre of the island.

billy

The Toree 3D games are in there - they’re good.

connierad

seasons I recommend being very insistent about needing to use the washroom if you’re in the mood for some more exploration.

Herb

kowloonwalledcity Oh. Wow. I tried ZeroRanger out. It’s probably the best game from 2018 that I’ve never heard of, that plays like the best arcade game from 1991 that I’ve never seen.

TracyDMcGrath

ZeroRanger is honestly my favorite game of the last decade. It is for shooting games what Undertale was for jrpgs, and shooting games are better than jrpgs haha. It’s so hard to talk about because of spoilers, but the very fact that I have to dance around spoilers while talking about an arcade shooter should tell you that it’s really something else.

Herb

TracyDMcGrath I had that thought of “is this an Undertale kinda thing going on here?” because of the intro and the pacing of things. Boss fights were over when the music tracks felt like they were just warming up. The first time I got the after stage power-up part I thought I was supposed to shoot those, so that was a tip off too. After seeing your comment that confirmed it for me. I played again a little bit ago and tried doing no shooting - and yep, it can be done pacifist. At least the first stage, anyhow.

Of course I might be a moron and misreading what you were hinting toward. Hopefully, I am wrong. I want it to be that I receive regular cellphone check-ins from an adopted goat-mom.

tapevulture

zeroranger is only for windows dang it

TracyDMcGrath

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=38494

Needs a direct x compiler but it should run in Wine. Playing in tate mode might be a bit finicky but yoko should be fine

tapevulture

TracyDMcGrath sorry i forgot to reply to this. thanks for the rec. several years ago when i badly wanted to play the game Banished i gave wine a thorough look…can’t remember why i never did it. i’ll check again

TracyDMcGrath

Herb so basically yes and no. It doesn’t do the pacifist vs not pacifist thing effecting the plot that Undertale does but it does let you choose your end stage powerup (by flying into it) or destroy the one you don’t pick (for fun) or destroy both powerups (for an extra challenge). You can always replay a stage by selecting it from the start screen to get powerups you destroyed or didn’t pick, and you can change your load out to any combo of powerups you could have had by that level and which you have collected. Powerups you unlock with one ship type are shared with other ships but they affect each ship differently. It does do Undertaley stuff with the narrative but not that 1 to 1 and not with these orbs. You can’t reach the end of the game and skip all powerups, but you can skip most of them and there are people who basically do pacifist/low% runs of the game this way

Geoff

Gunmetal Arcadia Zero seems neat.
Side scrolling RPG, very obviously Zelda II inspired.
It goes for the NES look and includes some CRT simulation options.
I only gave it a quick try so far, but it certianly gets the look right.

kowloonwalledcity

Geoff it’s REALLY hard

beets

I’ve only played a small amount but Elephantasy is really top notch. It’s a puzzle adventure game where you play as a elephant who shrinks into a fountain.

The game revloves around an item shop where you rent items which will help you exlpore the world and collect gems. With 1 gem you can rent 1 item at a time, with 6 you can rent 2 and so on.
The puzzle design so far feels just right, not too easy, not too hard. The sound effects are pretty excellent too, sounds just like how a pixelated cartoon elephant should.

I wish I could download this to my phone. It’s the exact amount of chill I want while waiting in a burger shop.

Snowdecahedron

My recommendations, excluding super popular stuff: Quadrilateral Cowboy, 10S, Fatum Betula, Hypnagogia: Boundless Dreams (and free first game), Lenna’s Inception… and CrossCode, fuck it. Game should be at near Hollow Knight levels of popularity.

I’ve been playing…

Toree 3D and the sequel: They’re alright, but I was disappointed that the horror aspect was so light. The level with the stars chasing you was in one of the haunted PS1 demo discs and I expected more like that.

ZeroRanger: Confusing but I ended up having fun. Core gameplay and music are great. Would have liked it if the game told me what the different modes are - White Vanilla seemed like an easy mode at first, but it isn’t (but kinda is) or tell me that type-B and type-C are different ships because the differences are quite subtle. I only realized when I saw the different charge shots.

Spoilers:
I don’t get the point of looping. Things don’t change that much to justify it. I think it would be cool if the game kept looping and became more and more unrecognizable like a simulation breaking down, but it just ends before getting to the most interesting point of the first loop. And it wanted me to go melee mode for the real final boss? Well, I guess I’ll watch a video because I don’t want to replay it.
Speaking of Undertale, the monk boss is absolutely a reference, right?

Sanguine Sanctum: Walked around curious places and offered blood to some demon/god. My comfort food.

TracyDMcGrath

Snowdecahedron The monk is an Undertale reference yeah. You can pop his bubble at the start to trigger some dialog and skip that fight. The boss you need to go melee on is not the true final boss, in order to get to the end of the game you need to destroy the orbs Erasure gives you at the end of loop 2. The looping and esoteric requirements to get to the end game are shmup tropes essentially that the game is playing with. Shmups have looped since Gradius and Cave often would add absurd requirements on getting there and absurd difficulty spikes when you do (in DoDonPachi DaiOuJou you need to collect hidden bee items and play the first level perfectly the second time through to proceed for example). The true final boss of this game I kind of recommend watching a walk-through or a guide before engaging with. It’s the thing that cemented this game as one of my favorites of all time, but it is also something that I know really turned people off this game and your mileage may vary. If not, the game warns you before you fight it and I’ll just say its not kidding.

GreenOrange is story mode to WhiteVanilla’s score/traditional mode. WhiteVanilla is kind of meant to be the forever version of the game you play after you beat the story mode, and is remixed to kind of streamline the game into a more traditional arcade style run based thing. I would skip it entirely before completing the game, but it’s cool and is the version of the game most often played in marathons.

rejj

I just tried ZeroRanger based on the above recommendations, and:

dang, this game is fun
dang this game is loud! player beware, I had to go in to the options and turn music and sfx down from the default of 90 to about 25

TracyDMcGrath

There’s been a thing over the last few years of indies being SUPER LOUD and I don’t know why. Nuclear Throne similarly scares the shit out of me every time I forget to adjust volume before launching

billy

TracyDMcGrath there are two likely reasons:

loud is punk and punk rules
bigger-budget games are usually mastered primarily for surround formats and codecs with wider dynamic range, and as CD-quality stereo becomes more and more of an afterthought the 2.0 mix gets a quick, low-effort mix, often not compensating at all for the altered bandwidth. Indies often don’t have this problem as 2.0/2.1 is their usual target format.

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