Recent reviews by Paul Newman

Thought I'm done with cards, but they pulled me back in.

But this one, on the other had, is good one.

Odd. Original part hold up, but additions - they drag on. It's like a fan product, with different vibe, though they both go meta, but sense of humor is so off, I had to sit through whatever fanciness they came up with. Original was quite a whole game, but I somehow wondered if I wanted to revisit it via sequel.

In the end, I'm just not finding all the post-meta-modernism so alluring, since sure it shifts attention into new terrietory, and provides different PoV, but eh. Maybe I cared more in 2013, and that Wait 4 years achievement worked. But I'm not so sure about 10 years one, but oh well, let's give completionism a chance to fullfill.

Initial nice impression reminds me opening up a bunch of of DOS or Spectrum games and having no idea what to do, because they were all pirated and I didn't have a manual. I just appreciate the vibe of discovery, like figuring out which one is cool, and which one requires manual to save some sanity.

Scratched the surface, and it feels like grabbing a chest of toys, like true 50 in 1 unlike those Dendy cartridges with like 10 repeating ones.

I'm just wary of actually setting up an emulator with complete platform library where I would get lost completely, and this is like a fresh take on that experience, but manageable.

If this one gets a Steam Workshop it could work.

Going in blind and exploring is good. All I knew it had good reviews, which turned out just right amount of info to know beforehand.

Sometimes controls are fiddly, and platforming isn't as tight as it would be on a single planet, but overall it's an exciting world that's tied up. It's not overwhelmingly perfect, as there are no voice-overs also. But it brings me memories of Parkan, and I feel comfortable in this solar system.

Was looking for language learning games, this one seems to be targeted just for that, and I'm at A1 (when click-through dialogues work better than live speech), but problem is the story's writing looks subpar, and I feel like playing a generic point-and-click. And it lacks double captioning in 2 languages, which works exactly in cases when my vocabulary is lacking.

Also it's not well made. It lacks a feature of saving words in personal dictionary. And travelling from one place to another - there're no shortcuts like an in-game map, you can't even double-click to skip the walking. Interface for opening doors is tedious - SCUMM adventure and such fazed them out for a reason - here basic "look at" doesn't offer good dialogue that would make me curious to look at everything, so there's no point to have it as a separate option to scroll through every time I switch between talking and using. It's disengaging. And If I'm not engaged - simply watching animation wits Spanish dub and captions would work just as nice if not better for diving into the language.

It could be a good solo learning tool, but for game to actually be enjoyable I'll have to either play with a teacher or manually check the dictionary. Quest logic plus walking times are tedious already, and adding a language wall on top of that - something gotta pay off.

Animations are nice, but the art-style just generates a craving to go back to Kyrandia, when I didn't know English but just enjoyed doing whatever.

Vibe is right to play through locally or with remote play, and we easily completed it in 10-20 minutes with a partner.

Определённо хорошая кооп игра, к середине прохождения механика начинает работать. Чёткость платформинга немного смазана, но сами паззлы приятные, создают взаимный опыт чувствования разных перспектив.

Вылетание онлайна было несколько раз, при чекпоинтах это незначительное неудобство. За малую цену это не It Takes Two, но позволяет ценить совместность прохождения.

Покупать нужно по копии каждому, это немного запутало, потому что раньше были френд пассы. Логично было бы собрать "демку" которая может быть только клиентом, но не сервером.

Tried to play compepetve and was told to delete the game, so I can't play it anymore.

Timeless masterpiece, finished it long ago and it still has infinite replay value with mods and custom levels.