WTF - Sega, were you high ? SEGA Bass Fishing

When Sega was thinking : "Hey let us make a fishing game with the aesthetics of a arcade fighting game" they were prolly totally high on some freaking SEGA drugs.





This game, regardless of its age, is close to being cool again, wouldn't it be unplayable and depressingly boring and ugly.

BUT it has everything a good SEGA fighting game has, the voice, the style, the music, the unplayable keyboard configuration that every good console port first has before you manage to change the key in the options menu.

But in some museum for learning game designers or get high and laugh yourself to death with some friends or -go fishing in real life -

I don't know. I wish the guys who are responsible for this game would do a session on Reedit.

Darkout - The tenth million f*cking 2d block crafting game BUT

Yes. But what ?

It is different. Not in its game mechanism. But it has a refreshing 3D non retro game engine,
and it is more like a well made cartoon sci-fi fantasy setting.

It is well made, everything looks nice, even more organic.





The form of the blocks is not closed, the first wood wall looks actually like a real wood wall, with open space in it.

The User-Interface is well made, but I will never understand why they are using small fonts when they *know* most users will have a high resolution.

There is no story, just hey you're stranded on this planet, theres your stuff, get going and good luck, you f*ck.

Thanks to the unusual graphic concept I will stick to it for a bit and explore it.

Crazy Plant Shop - Crazy Plant...Well, why not ?

It opens with some nice easy jazzy eastern europe music but terrible synths.

Delightful vector grafx. Let me have a look.

OK. You always wanted to know everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, about breading....yes...breading...PLANTS ?

Then this game might come in ...fruitfull...Hahaha.

No seriously. I was bored after 20 minutes, but if I ever want to know about asexual plant reproduction in a fictional breading machine handed over to me by Mendel himself, I will certainly
fire up this jewel of an educational software.

Stacking - Oh OK, lets stack some !

Öh. No clue what this game is, but the Double Fine Sale in Steam was showing I had this already in my library, so hey.

It is from 2012. Some story about rescuing someone from some industrialist. Sounds ... well ... appealing. Let me have a closer look.



[ AFTER THE FIRST 25 MIN RUN ]

Ok. This game is seriously crazy. You walk through an scenario in the early industrial revolution, and your family is more or less enslaved as child workers. You, the smallest...DOLL...yes, DOLL, come to the rescue.

Besides the fact that the dolls are talking with their stomachs, you go behind other dolls that are bigger and then GO INTO THEM.

Yes. Then you can use their special abilities like poisonous gas or shouting.

The music is awesome, the atmosphere well design, the ideas funny. But for some reason I wasn't motivated to stack dolls.

But I will keep this in my collection for further examination one of these days !

Six days - Oh my ... Time for Edge of Space

I did not post anything for another six days. Shame on me.

But RL und BF4, to which I fall pray again, are keeping me from exploring the depth of my Steam Library. I put a hold on any new games, cause I really lost the overview on all those in my library.

But Edge of Space keeps updating all the time, so I took a look, and to my surprise, it seems to be a Terraria connected sandbox pixel game. Well, I will have a short look.

Well. This reminds me totally of Signs of Life, only that it is not close to being so pretty and sophisticated as SoL.  It is a Space Setting, the usual, oh my , I was close to saying crap, thinking the genre starts to bore me, but nevertheless, it is not so pretty, the animations are strange.

The dimensions are not Terraria like, rather real size proportions. There are a lot of small details I could now list that would make my distaste perhaps more understandable. I will have a look into it in the future, but right now, that is not really capturing my interest.

Starbound on the other hand, as well as Signs of Life, still tempts me from time to time.

Surprise Test : Black Mirror

Besides being a interesting TV Series, which has absolutely nothing to do with this game, I know nothing (John Snow) about this game. It was downloaded in my Steam Library, but so are so many other games.

So I clicked on it. Let me have a look.

Shroud of the Avatar - Early Access on Steam

Finally. Mr. Garriot and his team brought the virtual predecessor of Ultima to Steam Early Access.

I played it for two hours so far, and was, well, it is promising. And since I am a HUGE...HUUUUUGE Ultima fan since I was 15, loooooong ago, longer than you might think (yes), I will make it to a continous series on this ... blog.

It is all, and you get three notices of that before you actually are entering the game, it is all PRE-ALPHA, so keep that in mind, dear writer (me), before you apply your sharp observation skills to crush your precious diamond in the rough.

Thank you.