If it looks like a developer made a mistake, it was actually the product owner. Or the user. Or cosmic rays. But never the developer.

https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw?si=tKM8xq1MLdvvkxa_

Is it a Last.fm replacement?

I wonder how much of this correlates with the rise of intimacy coordinators. I’m sure there are productions that think it’s not worth the investment so they just scrap the scene and have it take place off camera etc.

And perhaps a rise in actors not wanting to have their stuff on the internet forever now (even more so with the rise of AI training)

As someone who buys a lot of gadgets and quite often barely uses them afterwards or has mild buyers remorse… I have never once regretted buying a Steam Deck. It really is an amazing piece of technology.

Pretty much just astroturfing isn’t it?

• Disco Elysium

• Citizen Sleeper

• 1000xRESIST

Japanese and somewhat fan servicey at times but also recommended:

• Nier: Automata

• 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

Tank controls have been pretty universally despised for many years now. Basically since we got analogue sticks, tank controls never really made sense.

Stuff like the Grim Fandango and RE1 remasters were offering alternate non-tank controls back in 2015 and there’s probably earlier examples too

Ah, a fellow Into the Aether listener perhaps? Or maybe just a big JRPG fan 😁

I gotta check out Trails at some point. The whole tetralogy thing kinda puts me off in the same way Yakuza does but you gotta start somewhere I guess!

If you liked this I really hope you’ve dug into 1000xRESIST. They’re not super similar but enough so that I think if you liked 13 Sentinels you’d probably like it also

Always love to see Mole Mania get some love. One of Shigeru Miyamoto’s earliest titles he worked on also

What are your picks of the genre?

I’ve also tried a whole bunch, my favourite is probably Rogue: Genesia, I really like the challenges and metaprogression over some of the other titles I’ve tried

This looks rad!

On a similar note I Wanna Maker which is more or less Mario Maker but free and tonnes of developer created and user created levels to play through.

Tametsi

Simple premise is basically Minesweeper, but all the puzzles are handcrafted with some neat designs and concepts that will stretch your puzzle solving to the limit. Also importantly, no guessing required to solve and it’s dirt cheap for the amount of hours of puzzles you get!

Taiji was waaaaay harder than the Witness for me personally, but great choice. The vibe and music and what not is super chill also

Man this made me feel guilty downvoting. Great game, a real surprise packet for me, think I got it in a Humble Bundle and tried on a whim and had a great time.

Think it’s an Aussie dev (single person?) too, and still getting pretty frequent large content updates

Removed by mod

I completely gave up on the game after they killed the PvE / skill plans for 2 (around Lifeweaver launch), but I played quite a lot of 2 from launch and agree. I really like 5v5 and team structure wise to me the game felt in a great place with the change.

My guess is that they’re still bleeding players and looking for any shot in the arm to bring the oldheads back

Duck Detective is great, perfect short game. Hopefully they have the framework there to do more cases like Golden Idol did, because I would love to play more

What a disastrous piece of writing that was. In one line you can basically undermine anything you have written or will write and destroy your audience’s faith that the breadcrumbs of a storyline you’ve laid down are actually meaningful.