Really enjoying Discounty, sort of Tesco Express simulator meets light RPG / adventure. If you want a game where you have to order toilet roll and pasta before nipping off to complete a side quest then this is for you.
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I am playing Librarian, which is exactly what it looks like.
I took hours to do the first runthrough largely by hand, and then discovered all the shortcut magic that exists to use. Now I’m doing a second run trying to beat the clock, which is a very different game.
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But is there an Orangutan?
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It’s you! The player is the orangutan! 
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I have also been playing this. It scratches a bizarre itch, although I found it less satisfying in some ways once you have the cool magic powers that help you shelf things quicker and easier.
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I’ve sent a link to my Mum, who used to be a children’s librarian and is also a big Discworld fan. We used to call her (unlimited loans) library card the “golden banana”, in a very niche reference to the point and click Discworld adventure game.
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As far as I can tell there are several ways to play it:
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Just have an explore on your first go.
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Use no magic and shelf everything manually. Do not care about clock, have a cozy experience. (This will get you a Steam achievement!)
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Shelve everything as fast as possible. This will require maximum magic (achievement if you get under 3 hours).
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There also an achievement for shelving everything on the wrong shelves
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Finished Lost Records: Bloom & Rage last night and really enjoyed it (and cried at the end). Definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoyed Life is Strange (the same studio made the first couple of LiS games).
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Decided to try Subnautica 8 years after everyone else. It’s very good! And cheap on Steam right now because Subnautica 2 just released.
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Being late to a party just means more time to drink and less awkward conversation!
Looking forward to trying Subnautica 2 with my son.
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It is also on my list of games to play. Epic Store gifted it away some years ago. Maybe I find the time for it at some point
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Picked up the new LEGO Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight and thoroughly enjoying it so far. I love how they have incorporated the Arkham games’ Freeflow Combat system, which gives the fighting a depth usually lacking in the LEGO games.
Meanwhile, the usual humor and silliness is still present, executed well enough to make me laugh aloud a number of times, and I’m only just through the prelude and into chapter 1.
I like how they have taken elements of Batman through different comics and films to make this amalgamation of a game and story. Bruce Wayne feels like a cross between Christian Bale and Michael Keaton, Alfred appears to be modeled mostly after Michael Caine, while Gordon is the Jeffery Wright version. Ra’s al Ghul starts out as the Liam Neeson version, but quickly shifts to the comic/animated series version. Penguin looks and sounds like Danny De Vito’s take. The story, too, is a cocktail of all the movies blended up and yet it works.
This one is a winner.
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Because playing anything on the Switch is easier than setting up my PS5, I played and just finished Super Mario RPG, which I had never played before. Fun game, probably easier on Switch over the original SNES with some quality of life improvements like autosave and such. Overall pretty easy though, but it feels mostly like it was made to be a kid’s first RPG, just with enough extra bits thrown in to appeal to adults wanting a bit more.
There are some new elements to explore after finishing the game, so I am working on those now. Don’t know if they were always there or added for the remaster.
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I’ve finished Persona 4 (or at least as finished as I care to finish… I didn’t find the Super Secret Double Probation boss, but I beat the main boss and then the inexplicably long denouement that is only inexplicably long because you can’t find or beat the Super Secret Double Probation boss until you play the game a second time, which at 100+ hours for my first playthrough? No. Just no). It was good! Not as good at 5 or 3, IMO, but still pretty good.
I think started Penny Arcade: On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness 4, which is fine, and Sleeping Dogs which is also fine. Maybe a bit better than fine. My partner (who’s father is from Hong Kong) sighed a happy sigh the moment the game started, claiming it sounded like Hong Kong. I believe her… my one trip to Hong Kong was pretty incredible, but I can’t tell the difference between Guangdong and Mandarin so quickly. The atmosphere of the game is pretty good, though.
Oh, and two expansions for Mechwarrior were on sale, so I bought both of them and I look forward to trying them soon!
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I had a student, years ago, who came from Hong Kong. He used to play Sleeping Dogs so he could remember what it was like back home. He was saving every penny he had so he could go back.
I hope he made it.
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Playing some Songs of Conquest, which is a recent Heroes of Might and Magic-like that seems to respect my time more than some others I have tried. No verdict on whether or not it’s good yet, but it is currently free-to-keep on Epic, for any HoMM fans out there.
Also some Rogue Waters, also free-to-keep on Epic, which sounds cool as a roguelite pirate–ship-boarding game with a sort of deterministic XCOM combat dueling system, but I’m a little more confident that this is failing to deliver on the wonderful-sounding premise. The combat is a bit too simple, and I don’t like the grinding paired with the choose-your-difficulty-to-grind-faster thing. Like, I have a choose a finely-grained difficulty to ensure I always just barely win to grind fastest, but picking a difficulty that’s a smidgen too hard makes losing really frustrating, so I probably err on the side of caution, which is boring. Maybe a me problem. The premise is still fun.
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Guys, guys, there’s a Duskers 2!
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I keep on meaning to play some Duskers.
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In 2013 I purchased a little indie arcade game called “Scoregasm” which was really good. It looks like a “bullet hell” shooter, but it actually isn’t – unlike those games, you don’t have to dodge everything in the incoming patterns which assail you, as you have a secondary blast weapon which simply destroys everything in its radius. Making sure that weapon is charged and available is the key.
The sequel “Son of Scoregasm” was released in late 2017, and I bought and enjoyed that as well.
Eight and a half years later (a.k.a. the other day) I was very surprised to receive email with the subject “Son of Scoregasm update”.
It turns out Charlie had taken time away from the games industry for several years, and has now decided to update his old games (starting with SOS) for current platforms.
It seems that he’s intending to update the non-Steam releases as well.
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It is an amazing but stressful game :).