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Challenge Me!
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Banyu Lintar Angin - Little Storm -
9 minutes playtime
0 of 0 achievements
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Kimmy
2.3 hours playtime
0 of 0 achievements
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7 Grand Steps, Step 1: What Ancients Begat
5.1 hours playtime
0 of 0 achievements
Banyu Lintar Angin - Little Storm -
I waited too long to write something about this. Honestly, I think this type of game isn't for me. Certainly the art is charming, but I don't know why I'm downloading it as a game instead of watching a video or animated slides. A Raven Monologue at least had a moment that was justifiably interactive, but this didn't seem to take advantge of the medium at all.
Kimmy
Challenge Me! game and SG win. If this taught me anything, it's that I have no idea how to play most games correctly. It's a visual novel set in the 60s. You play as a 10 year old babysitting a younger child named Kimmy. Kimmy doesn't have friends, so you take her around to play with other kids. You buy toys from the corner store and have to choose the right options when teaching the rules to the kids. Each character has their own story, but you won't have time to play with everyone everyday. It's sort of a bittersweet coming of age story that I think is pretty good.
7 Grand Steps, Step 1: What Ancients Begat
"Archaeology" and Anthropology Ancient World (Greece, Rome, Persia, etc.) At Least Somewhat Historic Educational Make Believe - Simulated Lives
Challenge Me! game. Unfortunately I had to shelve this. Not because it's a terrible game, but I feel it takes too long doing the same thing repeatedly. Then I automatically died and lost hours of "progress." I just can't even. The fact I don't want to keep playing is arguably even part of the point of the game, in which, much like life, you play the mechanics of the game correctly and do everything right, but can still lose randomly. That said, there is an initial appeal and good concept under the long tedium. It's relatively easy to get into with a very brief tutorial--a lot of things are left for you to figure out, which is kind of bad, yet that, too, goes along with the concept. There is some light management system if you reach the highest social class, but doing so only extends the length of doing the same things by hours. If I ever picked it up again, I don't think I would bother rising from subsistence farmer.
I think A Raven Monologue also made use of different effects/animation to give a sense of movement, where Banyu is basically a short graphic novel with the only animation being the little leaves falling.
Am curious what you mean by Kimmy teaching you “I have no idea how to play most games correctly”?
You have to choose the right dialogue options to teach the younger kids the rules of the games, like jacks, hopscotch, etc. I don’t think there’s any consequence if you do it wrong (you just have to choose the rules again). And you don’t actually play the games. But I didn’t even know the right number/kind of dice to use for Yahtzee.
Ahh gotcha. haha Trivial Pursuit for kids!
100% agreed on 7 Grand Steps. I am currently 8 hours in and I just can not bring myself to play anymore even if I would really like to put it in my completed pile but I dread playing it for a few more hours. If it would have been about 5 hours to complete I would have said it is a ok game to pass the time when bored, but it is just too long.
Right on, now we can abandon it in solidarity rather than in shame.