SEP - FAR: Lone Sails (Android)Alex79uk wrote: ↑January 1st, 2021, 1:25 pmJAN - 80 Days (Android)
JAN - What Remains Of Edith Finch (PS4)
JAN - Judgment (PS4)
JAN - Donut County (Android)
FEB - Gorogoa (Android)
FEB - Horace (Switch)
FEB - Castlevania (NES on Switch)
FEB - Akumajō Dracula (Famicom on Switch)
MAR - Pinball FX3: Back To The Future (Switch)
MAR - Pinball FX3: E.T. (Switch)
APR - Fantasy Zone (1cc) (Arcade on Switch)
APR - Assassin's Creed: Unity (PS4)
APR - There Is No Game: Game Jam Edition (Android)
MAY - Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch (Switch)
JUN - Super Mario 64 (Switch)
JUL - Silent Bomber JP (PS1 on Vita)
AUG - OutRun 2 (PSP on Vita)
AUG - OutRun 2 SP (PSP on Vita)
AUG - Ashen (Switch)
AUG - Papers, Please (Vita)
AUG - Scramble (1cc) (Arcade on Switch)
AUG - Bayonetta 2 (Switch)
AUG - Pinball FX3: Family Guy (Switch)
AUG - Shovel Knight: Shovel Of Hope (Switch)
SLIGHT POSSIBLE SPOILERS
I've been keen to play this for a while, and ended up getting it for my phone, which is probably not the optimal way to play it, but it controlled fine and looked great.
For a fairly large part of my playthrough I wondered what I was missing. I found fun in collecting things to burn for fuel, and the arbitrary puzzles here and there to clear the way were OK, but I wasn't falling in love like so many have described. But little by little the game really revealed it's true nature to me. It's not really a puzzle game, it's not really an adventure, it's a really personal story about persevering and forming bizarre attachments, I think.
I found a little toy boat a while back down the road. During a rocky moment it must have fallen out the back, and so I left my ship and went looking for it. There it was, sure enough, a little way back there, but I was so happy I found it again, and this time made sure I secured it to a hook for safe keeping.
The game is just a journey, but a journey which you aren't taking alone. The ship you travel in throughout takes on an almost sentient quality, and I felt bad for the creature every time I was too late with the brakes and slammed it's head in to a wall, usually resulting in an engine fire. And what happens later in the game to that thing genuinely left me feeling sad for it.
And the whole thing wraps up to an almost beautifully anti-climatic ending. The camera pans out, fade to black, I really liked this.