games

so Pika

did you figure out the best way to do it

Was there a best way, I just beelined it on the direct path to the thing

grab the disc, warp whistle to the corner of the map, lure it all the way there

and then it takes forever to catch you

lmao, that makes sense

No, I just did it with it chasing me

Anyways, price point too high which means the game is bad

it good-great (minus some negatives) for a 5 dollar game, its okay for a 30 dollar game

The first couple areas/hours have all the interesting stuff

the worst part of the game imo was the final area

for being as short as it is, its weird how it runs out of steam too

and the water area

I think I did not really enjoy any of the powerups other than the first two I got (disc and bubble)

bubble is always the first item, and then the other 7 you can get in any order I think

You can get the disc first I think

I didn't, but I am pretty sure there is nothing stoping you

anyways this is going to win indie of the year or something at the game awards and it either will deserve it because nothing else came out, or it will win when it shouldn't

I like it, but hearing the dev worked on it for 5 years makes sense

because it's inconsistant in a way I think something designed in 12-18 months wouldn't be

Yeah, fully agree

palworld and yellow taxi goes vroom also came out this year

palworld will not be allowed to win, I think you are legitimately the only person who played the taxi game

I would probably also like the taxi game though, I like those kinds of games

Toushin Gent will be very cohessive because it will be developed within the year

Do you have it on good authority it'll be done in a year

got around to doing the post game of Yellow Taxi

very good game

the infinite bubble jumping in Animal Well is very easy

the taxi game is pretty damn good

at least from the demo I played

not sure if it was on purpose but it has that cozy ps1 style feel to it

did you go back to it with a controller?

nope

but if I ever buy the full game I will

i am already understanding why pika was annoyed

switches keep getting reset and its obnoxious

oh is polu also playing it now?

i had to stop because playing that on a plane while on very little sleep is not a good experience

was getting very consistent with the bubble jumping though

I played/beat it last night

it was good

What's the replay value like? Skimmed chat and it seems like a nice/short metroidvania with interesting movement tech

Pikas Kickflip wall thing was pretty cool

There's more postcredits than I initially thought, not a lot more, but the game overall (4-5 hours for 1st credit roll) it's probably more like 10-12 hours long total rather than 6-8 like I said last night there's also a couple tiers of speedrun and zero-death achievements baked into the game too, that ig might be replay value worthy

I don't see there being a lot of replay value personally, and its not the kind of metroidvania that would benefit from a randomizer or anything

worth playing though, if for nothing else that I think the game is technically/visually really cool

and the opening couple hours are def the strongest

No combat kinda hurts it for replay

once you do (or learn how to skip) the puzzles, thats it

Except the sine wave puzzle, I did that but it'll still take me 5 minutes to do it again

I know there is a 30 minute achivement, I can't be bothered

(don't have it on steam so less motivated)

Not seen is the 1.5 hours I spent trying to do a harder version of that trick earlier in a different room

Normally you can infinite bubble jump, but the dev added humming birds that pop the bubbles to some sections

so disc climb tech is your best moce

This game will have cool early speedruns, and an insane TAS

I legitimately believe you can use the disc to climb straight to the final area

likely 100+ frame perfect disc jumps

but I really think it is TAS possible

If there was no humming bird in the area between the final shaft and the start, it'd be human possible and easy

The game seems interesting enough then, but I don't think it's 25 dollars interesting. The lack of combat kills it a bit for me, but the Sine puzzle sounds interesting (or like a big pain). Maybe ill try the download that spooky(?) posted. I haven't watched Dunkey in a long time, but its nice to know he published an interesting game at least.

At least I know it'll be a good GDQ run to look for.

Its not

its a 10-15 CAD game

not 30 CAD

That's the exact price range I was going to say. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing though.

Its about double what it should be

Dunkey's name meant it'd sell at this price

so I get why it is

Yea exactly, they could get away with it this time. If his name wasn't on it this game wouldn't have moved nearly as much, especially at 25-30

It was #1 on sales though, but I wonder how much that really amounts to

yeah, the DL I uploaded is what Pika played, that's my copy of the patched game I bought on Steam

~8k, is the answer

it's sold WAY more than 8k

where the fuck is that number from

it's wrong