The Switch also has Into the Breach, Hollow Knight and loads of other indie games that are admittedly also on PC, but fun to have on a portable platform. But then again it also has ARMS (fun and frenetic 3D brawler) and Mario + Rabbids which are Switch-specific.

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For Yakuza 0 on my laptop, I ended up having to put it in windowed mode and shrinking it down a fair bit. Annoying but I got used to it pretty quick.

SPOILER ALERT for anyone who cares (but really, this puzzle deserves to be spoiled):

Yeah, I picked up Heat Signature after playing and loving Gunpoint. Aside from the general game-design brilliance, there is the writing as well. Tom Francis’s sense of humo(u)r is not quite as central of an element in Heat Signature as in Gunpoint, but it’s definitely still an element. Just that super-dry humor, like…

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Ha, I know that was a pretty popular game and (therefore) I’m sure it was a favorite for lots of people. I just couldn’t get the hang of the trackball controller, I guess, so its “3D Pac-Man” vibe just never clicked for me.

I think you’re right that there was typically some kind of hint for each puzzle, though sometimes in obscure places... but the thing is that at some point, there are just too many illogical random “facts” like that to keep track of, especially if you encounter the hint before you get to the relevant puzzle. Like, if…

It doesn’t happen often, but yeah, I’ve had a few cases of “didn’t finish the game but I’m damn well finished playing”. Most recent one was Beholder... I had high Papers Please-like expectations for it but it just didn’t function that well as a game. Sometimes you just have to bail.

Gotta know where to look, man. I got Twilight Princess for $6 at my local reuse store.

Don’t trample my dreams of a sequel, dammit!

Intrigued by Deltarune, totally fucking psyched for Metal Goose Solid (UGG). The latter looks like Donut County only even more aggressively irritating. I’ve had my eye on this since you first flagged it however many months ago. Love.

<Missed edit window on Kinja posts by a few seconds>— Oh wait (consults list), they do have Defender. Wow. This place is an hour away through some of the poorest and Confederate-flaggiest parts of New York state, but damn, I think it’s about to become a fixture in our lives.

It was so good! (I am not so much of a fighter aficionado so I didn’t feel their absence so much.) I was super-disappointed when my daughter dragged us out of there after only 90 minutes— I will have to arrange to go back there with her fellow 12-year-olds so she will be in more of a long-term hangout mood and I can…

Thimbleweed Park is being discussed in other branches of this thread. Personally, I loved it. I’ve binged on a lot more classic and not-so-classic adventure games since then, so maybe I would not love it as much if I were playing it for the first time now, but I feel like it threaded the needle pretty effectively as…

I think I played maybe the first two Indiana Jones games from LucasArts (and liked them a lot— good if limited use of action elements too), but then I kind of ditched the series. I’ll have to go back and check out some of the other ones, like Fate of Atlantis. Thanks for the reminder!

Agreed. “Very good game with a few too many seams showing” is a good way to sum it up. I’m not completely writing off the idea of an Andromeda sequel yet, as various BioWare people were saying in that recent Polygon article that the franchise as a whole is definitely “very much alive”, though also very much on the…

The original Monkey Island was my whole introduction to the genre and I loved it (my senior quote in my high school yearbook was “How appropriate, you fight like a cow”), but I’ve hesitated to go back to it after my less than stellar experiences with Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max Hit the Road. Maybe my brain…

Yeah, the location of the hole punch in Grim Fandango was the one that got me on both of my playthroughs (10 years apart), so that was totally logical, just somehow missed. As for Day of the Tentacle, the horse dentures thing that SAM mentioned was the beginning of the end for me... I think a few things involving…

Oh yeah, those two were a bit tricky in Thimbleweed Park, but for some reason the one with the obscene phone call to the real estate agent (I think?) was the one that caught me. Didn’t even occur to me. But that one was solved by accident when I was browsing a review and the reviewer just so happened to mention that…