Sengoku Strider wrote:The designer specifically created it not to be a game though. It like, exists to be a purposeful refutation of the 'game' category.
Aye, the sliding scale of toys, sims, and games.
Nintendo's designers usually have a good grasp on how important it is to have toy aspects; a lot of their competition does the barebones minimum and ends up making just a hamster tunnel and/or a list of chores. Dual Hearts is a pretty good example of a stripped-down Zelda.
I always wonder a bit about how many people have played a Grand Theft Auto game, but have completed very few to zero missions in any of them. If Jesus appeared and told me it was 60%, I'd believe him easily.
BIL wrote:Yep! That's the one. So many killer setpieces and scenes in that game. In the best tradition of superhumanly hardcore JP action gaming, many approach a truly oneiric level of batshittery, despite being firmly mundane in-story. Soaring about on a telekinetically-improvised gunnery platform, singlehandedly annihilating what legitimately looks to be a small army. Unceremoniously drowning in a sea of blood, emerging as a howling kaiju for a duel with an even more monstrous foe. Chasing a stubbornly body-switching Brain That Wouldn't Die into the back of a cafe, cooking the poor bastard on the stove, then eating it for an HP restore. Even amongst all that, the Future Nightmare Helltrain is arrestingly odd, with its perfectly contrapuntal balance of apocalyptic visions and sprinting massacre to bittersweet BGM. (it's so cute how the kid totters along behind his mildly annoyed mom as she mows through the horde :3)
All delivered at arcade-tight pace. While its mechanics are undeniably Wild Guns x Panzer Dragoon, the fiery creativity and blistering pace is 110% Alien Soldier II. Like all the best console-original action games, it'd fit right into a cab with only the barest of tweaks.
The one in the second game is much weirder, though.
Hey guys, i don't actually understand what this website is. I was actually looking for a game which i used to play a decade ago. I don't remember the game or it's name, I just remember some bits and pieces. The protagonists girlfriend was kidnapped by some kind of creature and he had to save her, at the end of the game when he saves his girlfriend, he wakes up and realises that it was all just a dream and her girlfriend was beside him, sleeping on his bed. Can anyone help me out finding this game? I've been looking for it for so long now. Thanks.
Idk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 12:15 pm
Hey guys, i don't actually understand what this website is. I was actually looking for a game which i used to play a decade ago. I don't remember the game or it's name, I just remember some bits and pieces. The protagonists girlfriend was kidnapped by some kind of creature and he had to save her, at the end of the game when he saves his girlfriend, he wakes up and realises that it was all just a dream and her girlfriend was beside him, sleeping on his bed. Can anyone help me out finding this game? I've been looking for it for so long now. Thanks.
Not ringing any bells, but I would suggest asking here:
You're sure to be in a fine haze about now, but don't think too hard about all of this. Just go out and kill a few beasts. It's for your own good. You know, it's just what hunters do! You'll get used to it.
American McGee's Alice takes place in the fucked up subconsciousness of an Alice plagued by guilt after a fire in her house has killed her parents. It's a neat game, too!
BIL wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:01 pm
Imagine a spilled cup of coffee totalling your dick and balls in one shot, sounds like the setup to a Death Wish sequel.
No mention of Weird Dreams for Amiga / ST?
Sure, gameplay is as much fun as putting your dick in a cheese grater, but the graphics still look very well done and surreal. It was rather high profile title back in 1989.
Thankfully, you can now watch it so that you don't have to play it. I have, actually, bought and completed it. It is.. an experience
Even amongst all that, the Future Nightmare Helltrain is arrestingly odd, with its perfectly contrapuntal balance of apocalyptic visions and sprinting massacre to 
