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Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Guys. Guys I was just playing "Dear Esther" for the third time and this game is still totally awesome. I always want to screenshot every fucking second of this but I'm kinda lazy ass.
Perhaps the most obvious and famous ghost of the whole game (watch the left of the screen), the one at the start of chapter 2. This one “walks” all the way down to the edge by the sea, and stares out. You can only see it from the sides of your screen. Looking at it dead on, even from a distance, causes it to become faint and almost invisible, hardly noticeable at all. Upon walking towards it, it disappears when you lose sight of it behind a wall. This can be overcome with noclip, but it is even harder to see once you are close to it, anyway.
what are some things you look for in a game? what are some games in the past 5 years that you feel are really excellent and make use of the medium well? (however that looks like to you) :3c
Firstly, I look for the promise of a great story, be it sweeping and epic or straightforward and cathartic. (OFF, Chrono Trigger, Persona 5, TT’s The Walking Dead \season 1\, Lisa: The Painful RPG, To The Moon, The Cat Lady, Final Fantasy 6, Link’s Awakening, Bravely Default)
Secondly, I look for a game which excellently immerses you into its environment; a game whose world you don’t really want to ever leave. (Kentucky Route Zero, Abzu, Yume Nikki, The Stanley Parable, Dear Esther, Firewatch, Shadow of the Colossus, Journey,)
Thirdly, I look for something with a really unique art style, something I feel like I’ve never seen before. (Gingiva/Middens, Monument Valley, Thirty Flights of Loving, Crypt Worlds, Limbo, Her Story, Time Fcuk, LSD: Dream Emulator)
Lastly, I’ll likely play a game which lacks the previous three requisites if it has promise of becoming meta or subverting your expectations radically. (Doki Doki Literature Club!, NieR: Automata, Spec Ops: The Line, UNDERTALE, INSIDE, The Witness, Hatoful Boyfriend, Anatomy, The Beginner’s Guide)
From this infection, hope. From this island, flight. From this grief, love.
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