Looking forward to it further down the road in development. I do wonder why these dollhouse sims are so rare, since they’re so popular.

I’ve heard of it before and considered playing it, but I have a tough time committing to play a game with sexual violence as a theme. It’s nothing against the game, which looks interesting. If anyone knows of a good let’s play for the series, I’d love to experience it in some way, even if it’s a dulled experience.

They’re pretty strict about depictions of violence against minors, right?

One thing I really loved about it was even though the character models were as weird looking as you’d expect from the era, the backgrounds were beautiful and when i played it years later with more modern sensibilities, I still was fond of them. The story took advantage of the fact that the main character was an artist, so there were a number of colorful or visually interesting segments.

The whole experience felt so vast, and even not being a child any more (which can make stories seem vast because of your own imagination), there still feels like there’s a lot to both worlds. And history to characters, just out of view.

It also lives up pretty well to its name. There’s a lot of it. A lot of lore and locations and puzzles. Some of the puzzles are obtuse to the extreme, and silly. There’s one that’s almost legendarily bad, so it has that bit of history if you’re interested lol.

It’s tough to say what’s nostalgia and what’s my preference and what’s genuinely great. You’d probably have to play it to find out!

My nostalgia faves are still The Longest Journey and Grim Fandango. My love of stories told with games started here. I do need to think about what my all time favorites are, though. That’s a big question.

This sure isn’t true lol

I don’t know if it’s amazing writing, but I was cringing less often with this one than i was with ‘it takes two’

Not the kind of game I enjoy playing very often, but it’s been great watching streamers try it out. It just looks fun.

I wonder if it’s one of those kinds of deaths that just makes the local paper unless they take out a lot of people with them.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7847085/ article discussing 21 fatal heart attacks while driving during a period of time in china

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23343022/ article discussing the results of the Finnish Road Accident Investigation Teams (RAITs) on fMVAs in Finland during 2008-2009. 11% of these were because of “disease attack.”

Severe injuries may mask the role of an initial disease attack.

These articles make it seem like unless there’s careful investigation after the fact, it’s very difficult to know for sure if illness caused the accident.

So it probably is a daily occurance, depending on how many fatal accidents happen in your country. (and depending on a million other factors, most likely)

I’ve heard them called “search-action” games before, for people who dislike “metroidvania.”

seems likely that there are a good number of people looking for new free games to try out

I wonder how many people downloaded it? It had 51 reviews, but I don’t know enough about steam reviews to say if 30 were the hackers or if that means a thousand people downloaded it.

There are a lot of reasons for this, and it’s been normal in some places for a very long time. If it’s new to you, it’s probably just a regional difference that you haven’t heard it more. The way you worded your question makes me feel like you are trying to start a fight, so I think I’ll push down my instinct to link you to resources.

I hate inventory management, because it takes away from the fun parts of the game. When it is the game, they’ve made the effort to make it fun (or it’s just a bad game). If you like puzzle games, an inventory managenent game is just one of those, basically. It stands on how good the puzzles are.

I think 18 is a good age to let people spin those big wheels, virtual or otherwise. when i got there, i was capable of spinning once, losing, and moving on.

i mean, if someone was interested in making a fun movie and not a cheap cash grab, just having a basic setting wouldn’t prevent them from doing that.

I remember going to a fair as a child and being bummed i couldn’t spin the wheel because i was like seven.

It’s a shame, but it’s the consequences of my actions. I was a very violent person and I hurt a lot of people in my life.

Assault, I guess? They clarify it wasn’t a sex crime further on.