Recent reviews by twowayromeo

Deck: Use the WASD template and once the game boots up press the hamburger button, it centers the screen.

I've done three routes and -- the game is really good! It takes inspiration from some good films, Pasolini's Teorema, Assayas' demonlover, Kurosawa's Cure and almost anything by Takashi Miike.

There's really nothing I can add to whatever else everyone's said, but here's a trigger warning: child abuse. Imagine everything horrible that can happen to someone, and then make it worse. I'd advise anyone sensitive to this not to play this game. Seriously. Don't.

Anyway, a couple things: it's a bit long, even using the skip feature. I never got bored or lost my patience, but it does eat up time. Not complaining, as No, Thank You!!! is consistently interesting, just be prepared to invest a lot of time into the game. I did use a guide after the first playthrough. I liked Maki's route the best, but I still have one more to go.

The only other thing to note, which others have already, is the s-ex scenes. They go on forever. Haru says "intestinal fluids" a lot. They're by far the least interesting part of the game.

No, Thank You!!! is a very well-written, thoroughly engaging, charming and dark. I like it a lot, and recommend it for thost interested in thrillers or mysteries that, let's face it, go places no one really should go.

[100% out-of-the-box on Deck]

Phantom Spark is an anti-grav time trial racer. Nothing more, nothing less.

The emphasis is on very wide turns without a drifting mechanic. This is a game about keeping your line.

The aesthetic and the music induce a trance-like state.

I know that's not much of a description. But, really, how do you describe something you find almost perfect (allowing for the impossibility of true perfection)? You can't describe it.

But you can play it. 10/10, highest recommendation.

I don't have three hands. Other people cope with the controls, but we only have one life and hey, if you've already got the skills or are willing to hang in there, great. The UI is absurdly awkward.

On the plus side, the mod community is robust.

I had to play Trapped in Stone to support the developer of Better Off Dead, a game that reaches a level of cosmic ugliness some of us appreciate. While Trapped isn't as brutal as Better, it has the same sensibility of a nightmare that never ends.

There aren't any big reveals, mysteries, twists, and so on these small games live or die by. That's a credit to Trapped, in that it creates a world of horror in what admittedly is an already dismal situation but which doesn't have any of the tropes of less inspired short horror games. Play it already! Or at least play Better Off Dead.

I only have two criticisms of Trapped in Stone, both mechanical - the mouse pointer can get really faint, to the point where I couldn't see it; and the very end, which I couldn't do and had to watch on Utoob, I tried a bazillion times hence my long playtime. I don't feel i missed anything though, and it's 100% playable on the Deck with the default WASD template.

[Played on Deck works perfectly]

So I was hangin' in the bunker, as you do, reading Schopenhauer, just relaxing by the generator, and long story short, things didn't turn out too good.

Would love to recommend Eschaton, it's not a bad mood piece, but ran into an invisible Unity wall trap and couldn't progress. Was near the end too, I reckon. Kinda thin gruel to start over, I'm afraid.

'Security Camera In Use' -- oh, the irony!

Oh I laughed so hard at one of the endings I wanted to thank the dev! And this is 100% perfect on the Deck I really liked it.

Dear Neognosis, I want to bear your children.

One playthrough, got the good ending. Can't imagine what the bad ending is - well, actually I can, but let's not talk about it, okay?

Fun little point and click I'll be playing through again to make different choices. Minimal aesthetic is surprisingly expressive and - there's actually a story! But I gotta tell ya - and no, I never never ever lie, except at my hearing - tattoo dude in Russian Prison Tattoo Simulator is far better than the one I had. Don't ask.

I would love to recommend this game, It's got lore galore that's really good with its sinister, brutal undertones that fit the horror genre. A lot of people like or love the game, so this review is really written for people like me, who have terrible spacial relation problems, and if the game were structured differently, I might have liked it. I love the content of the game; it's everything else that was, for me, miserable.

I got to midway or so through Chapter 3, and just couldn't go on any longer. I did make the mistake of not drawing a map while I was playing. (As far as I can tell, there's no in-game map). The game play consists mainly of walking all over the place in corridors that look exactly the same, a muddy brown maze. There are visual and auditory clues (the latter of which will be missed by people with hearing impairments) but if you pass by them once, and once more, and still can't find the location you need, tedium overwhelms. So it's a dungeon crawler without fighting (at least to the point I got) and within that context portrays the kind of panic I imagine the characters are experiencing, but I'm not, and in the end the game became a tedium simulator (or just actual tedium, take your pick).

Like I said, the lore and terrible fate befalling the kids (to the point where I got, at least) is really great. I just couldn't take it any longer. But for those who really know their way around, or are smart enough to draw a map as they go, Corpse Party has a lot offer. For those of us who run into walls in real life, it's too much of a muchness.