June update

Last month I’ve played way too many games (mostly short ones) and couldn’t find the motivation to talk about them all - which kind of bothers me because some of them were really worth talking about… The same thing is happening this month, so here is a small update!

I wanted to put a screenshot here, but the picture is kind of a spoiler, and I mainly wanted to show you what was written on it, so :
“What’s written on the pages of my journal is not a chronicle of my life. None of these moments really happened like this. But this is how I remember them, now.”
I’ve studied literature, and I wish this little sentence and the whole game were discussed in class. It’s hard to take distance from someone telling you a story/his or her life and well anything actually… Here you can experience that distance, really feel it, be frustrated because of it, you can “get it”.
I could go on for quite some time on Journal… I’ve started playing it afer Pearadise left a comment on my May Report post, she got me really curious and I left my impressions just after playing the game (a few minutes after finishing it actually). It’s confused and with a lot of spoilers. I was not feeling well just because of those few drawings and words.
Here it is, be careful though, if you haven’t played it, reading my babblings will ruin the experience for you

Beware spoilers! Here are some words exchanged with Batman about Her Story

I loved this one! It is so well-made and the game includes dev commentary which is great. Really enjoyed to hear how the “floating dancers” (screenshot below!) came to life!
I was pissed off after reading steam reviews…
Florilège of shitty things people said :
“At one point the commentary explained how the rapid scene shifting is meant to be deliberately confusing. Well, congratulations, you succeeded at making an awful game.”
“It feels like the back-of-the-book summary of a game, not something that should cost money.”
“Is this even a game?”
“The “developer” should go back eating their boogers on the playground, and stop stealing money for what is essentially a sad tech demo from 1999. It’s puke.”

And, the best one: “The only fools that praise this game are tweens that masturbate to minecraft.”

There’s some truth in there, the game is short, it’s confusing but as much as a movie messing up with chronology - it’s nothing impossible to grasp. And as far as the “it’s not even a game” goes… well that’s the beauty of video games! Some are telling you stories, some are making you kill stuff
and what is it about money every freaking time a game doesn’t last 50 hours…

I really love Emily is away and when I saw this one on HB I didn’t really consider not buying it. I’m glad I did, it was great! But… really similar to Emily is away. Emily (another Emily) is still here, Sigur Ros too, promotion for other games… All that makes Emily is away so good is still here but better (the discussions about your profile pictures are way more fun), yet the story is different. It has everything to be at least as good as the 1st game, but then for me it wasn’t. I enjoyed it, really, but the “magic” had already happened I suppose…

It looks like an early version of Everything.
With an awesome thing you can’t do in Everything : RAINING BLOOD
And - as with Everything - I don’t have a freaking clue how to tell what I thought of this, so i’ll just go with “doubleplusgood”

This game is so beautiful, and damn…. the music!
Thanks uguleley for bringing this game to my attention!

Concerto
BEST SONG EVER

That’s it!