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I don't like the noise my uninterruptible power supply units make every
time all the central heating in the neighbourhood goes on all at once.

Play:
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Them's Fightin' Herds (PS4/PS5) - So how do you hold up a middling
fighting game that's hampered by having to render its combatants as
cartoon animals? You tie a 16-bit RPG exploration minigame to the side
of it so that each fight has visible stakes. The narrative is honestly
pretty inspired, but the fighting game is sort of weird and opaque if
you come in expecting any kind of resemblance to recognisable martial
arts. One of three delightful bargain purchases from this past weekend.

Hokko Life (PS4) - For five bucks! I read up on the provenance of this
game, and it's one of those titles that got into Early Access (tm)(R)(C)
on Steam and was immediately pilloried for being buggy and unplayable.
The console ports didn't come until they finished the game, and the
result is a somewhat underwhelming Animal Crossing clone. The kids would describe it as 'chill' but so far all I can see is that it's
'derivative' and not always in a good way. Still, for five bucks it was
worth the laugh.

Want:
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Demon Gaze II (PS4) - On the way from VG Plus, assuming nothing catches
fire or gets a tariff attached to it. I only recently learned that the
two Demon Gaze games, Mon-Yu and Undernauts are all part of the same
game series. I do have both Demon Gaze games on Vita already, but given
that I'd accidentally gotten three of the four for proper big-screen Playstation it seemed silly not to have the last one in-hand too.

Bin:
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Nothing game-related.

-KKC, who needs more sleep than he's been getting.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

Puzzle Agent 2 (PC) - more of the same puzzles-with-story Layton-ish
stuff as the first game. Including location recycling of course,
because Telltale. Still, it was decent enough - but pretty short. I
might have missed a puzzle or two, but it seems like I only did 33 in
the whole game, including all the optional and bonus ones I noticed.

Want:

To try Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures (PC), another Telltale one
I've not previously played. Though I'm not quite sure if I should be
expecting adventurey puzzles, or "Gromit will remember that".

Bin:

Nothing.

-Rus.
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On 13 Jan 2025 at 18:48:45 GMT, "Russell Marks" <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

Want:

To try Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures (PC), another Telltale one
I've not previously played. Though I'm not quite sure if I should be expecting adventurey puzzles, or "Gromit will remember that".

Interested to see how you get on with it - I played about an hour of the
first one and it was so awful I just gave up on them. Like TT had
decided to make it For Kids and just simplified it beyond all interest.

Cheers - Jaimie
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Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

On 13 Jan 2025 at 18:48:45 GMT, "Russell Marks" <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

Want:

To try Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures (PC), another Telltale one
I've not previously played. Though I'm not quite sure if I should be
expecting adventurey puzzles, or "Gromit will remember that".

Interested to see how you get on with it - I played about an hour of the first one and it was so awful I just gave up on them. Like TT had
decided to make it For Kids and just simplified it beyond all interest.

Well I have been known to play Lego games and Minecraft, so maybe I'm
secretly a kid in any case. :-) I suspect I'll either enjoy it, or
enjoy saying how much I didn't.

-Rus.
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On 2025-01-13, Russell Marks <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

Puzzle Agent 2 (PC) - more of the same puzzles-with-story Layton-ish
stuff as the first game. Including location recycling of course,
because Telltale. Still, it was decent enough - but pretty short. I
might have missed a puzzle or two, but it seems like I only did 33 in
the whole game, including all the optional and bonus ones I noticed.

I really enjoyed the Puzzle Agent games, and played all the Layton games
with the kids. Looking through Telltale catalogue I'm not sure what to
play next. The family enjoyed Sam & Max and Monkey Island games, have
you played those, would you recommend? Might try The Wolf Among Us.
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Geeknix <usenet@apple.geeknix135.net> wrote:

I really enjoyed the Puzzle Agent games, and played all the Layton games
with the kids. Looking through Telltale catalogue I'm not sure what to
play next. The family enjoyed Sam & Max and Monkey Island games, have
you played those, would you recommend? Might try The Wolf Among Us.

The Sam & Max seasons did get quite repetitive, but were generally
good. Tales of Monkey Island was a bit weaker, I thought. Of the more visual-novel-like games they did, the only one I tried was Tales from
the Borderlands, which I thought was pretty good.

I'd recommend the Sam & Max ones mainly. Just be ready to see some
locations and characters over and over and over again.

-Rus.
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