I only participated in the Summer Sale Steam thread, so what exactly is so bad? From my observation, the Steam sale threads are very hard to maintain a discussion due to how fast they are. And then in the Summer Sale thread there was someone abusing ModBot giveaways. Is there anything else that I missed?
Yup, some people insulting fellow GAFfers via PM and being a dick in public. But let's not go back to that, shall we?
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The Whispered World --MB-B8A8F7FB73D6F31E- Taken by Sullichin
If anyone is looking for a Zelda-lite game check out Ittle Dew (featured in the Groupees BM9 bundle). I finished it a few days ago and really enjoyed it. The games has a top-down perspective like 2D Zeldas but the main focus are the puzzles.
You start crashing on an island and you want to get out. After a simple tutorial you meet the shopkeeper who says you need to find an artifact so he can make you a raft. He also offers 3 different items, a fire sword, a portal and an ice wand but of course you need money to get them. This is when the game begins, after talking to him you enter the castle which works as the main dungeon. There you go solving puzzles to access other rooms looking for chests with coins to buy the items previously mentioned that allow you to go further into the castle.
Once you have enough coins you talk to the shopkeeper and ask for a specific item on display but buying stuff isn't fun, so he throws you into a dungeon which revolve around solving puzzes to with your newly aquired item and beating a boss at the end of it.
Along the way you can collect pieces of paper that work as heart containers and cards but those are useful only if you want to 100% the game. In the overworld there are a few caves containting a chest with any of these stuff, I believe can be solved with 1 item except for some. There is also an optional dungeon, "The Master Cave" which consists of 12 rooms that will surely test you skills. (This one has cards inside so if you want to find them all you need to finish it)
Puzzles consists of the classic: pushing blocks, litting torches, blowing up walls and blocks. Of course you need to combine your item powers to solve some. This allows for clever puzzles and different solutions. For example the the portal wand can create blocks to which you can teleport, to do that you need to throw a beam at a mirror and let yourself get hit by it. The ice wand not only lets you freeze enemies and put out fires but it can also create ice mirrors on the walls, so combining these powers makes for some nice puzzle solving.
Another good thing about the game is that it can be finished with all 3 items or any combination of 2, which makes going through the castle a little harder since you might need to enter some rooms another way. You will also find shortcuts in all dungeons and castle that have some harder puzzles in them.
It tooks me around 7-8 hours to 100% the game but it can be finished in less than 15 minutes (there is actually an achievement for doing it) if you know your way around it. In fact it was made to speedrun, adding an extra challenge. On the other hand, it lacks multilayered dungeon, the combat is very simple and enemies are very easy to kill therefore being behind Zelda games if that's what you like. But that is not what the game is aiming for.
To sum it all up, if you enjoy puzzles in Zelda, I fully recommend it
Oh OK, thanks.
I think the chance a foil is like 1% or something so I just sell boosters.
Some stuff I have been playing:
Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed: Played 3 stages and it was fun... gonna play it soon again. It also looks great: my PC was having a hard time holding up reasonable frame rate on highest specs, now I am 1366x786 and I still get some framerate dips where the game drops from around 60 to 20 (mainly when changing vehicle types). Oh well, it's still playable and I don't want to fiddle around the settings too much (because the config tool is awful!). Hopefully I get more into the game, but from the first 20 minutes I am having a hard time believing that it could even touch the greatness of Crash Team Racing and will fall to somewhere like Diddy Kong Racing and well... Mario Kart levels. AKA the first tier, when CTR is god tier. Damn I love that game.
Super Meat Boy: Hard, but not as hard as I expected.
Mark Of The Ninja: I have said how I feel about the game elsewhere on this thread, but for me it's a strong 7+/10 and hopefully I can finish it sometime soon.
Their most recent "thank you for liking us on facebook/being in the steam group" giveaway ends tomorrow. I'm hoping they at least post an update after that.
I keep getting killed again and again on Organ Trail my good fellow GAFfers, and I can't explain why I'm liking this game. It's the survival thing? I mean you even choose how much food to give to others and you need to search fur supplies.
You can also improve your own car, you can accept jobs, I mean, sure it does look like what it is, an Indie game but it's a bit addicting. I want a game like this but with a big and tense setting. I also played The Last of Us, back in the day.
In this run, everything was going well! Getting food for everyone and medkits. Nobody was destroying items for the car or messing with the map but...THEN
...I now have to face my hardest decision my good people. Don't know what to do. Everyone knows what has to be done but nobody is saying it. I don't want to do it...
When I played through the game one of my guys got bit and we all made it through. It was a challenge to manage at the end, but I got the super OP bonus of a snow cone machine early on so I could keep doing trades to manage time and find great deals and then scavenge only at ideal times and use food from that to rest a lot for my bit guy to recover rather than use medpacks. Later I got the invincible tires so there was no stopping us in the long stretches of the final 1/3 of the game. For the very end I was selling tons of surplus food and scrap to get medpacks, batteries, and ammo. Combat training seemed like a total waste so I never bothered.
