In any other year I would have been all over this, but a combination of an aged engine, awkward writing, and opaque systems me drifting to other RPGs. For more thoughts, see the Abzu Game Club letters. See the Game Club letters for more thoughts.Ībzu is like the oceans it portrays: beautiful, fluid, but with more emptiness than life. Occasionally suffers from pixel hunting, but the zero-g movement is such a pleasure that I didn’t mind.Ī noble attempt to recapture the old-school cyberpunk adventuring of Snatcher, but lacks originality or any real hook to hold the player’s interest. The Games of 2017Ģ0,000:1 takes one genre over-represented in video games (sci-fi) and two under-represented (murder mysteries, screwball comedy) and smushes them together in a delightful package, riffing on a particularly ’60s conception of artificial intelligence (one that is devious, but cannot lie in the face of direct evidence).
#Tv tropes spaceplan update
Every year, I promise myself I’ll be responsible and update this as the year goes on, and every year I fail to do so – if I don’t remember much about a game, I suppose that speaks for itself.Īs always, an asterisk after the tile means I actually finished it.
#Tv tropes spaceplan series
Last year I experimented with not restricting myself to a single sentence, and found it resulted in giving games a fairer shake, so this annual series will just be “Short Notes” going forward. For the fifth year in a row, I’m writing a few sentences about every game I played this year.
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