Baby Steps (Gaming)

by cheapLEY , Thursday, October 23, 2025, 15:40 (4 hours, 17 minutes ago) @ stabbim

I'm in a place right now where, without spoiling the specifics, there's kind of a lot of open space and I can just pick things to tackle. I think i can see a place to "progress," but I'm not interested in going there yet. Having too much fun.

Much of the game is like that, even if it's not super obvious that there are other things around to do. There are a bunch of hidden things around. I missed so much on my play through that I later saw in youtube clips. I'll definitely play through it again at some point and try and do a bunch of the stuff I missed.

I also love that it kinda plays with expectations. Like, sometimes doing something will give you a funny cutscene or even an item that can change the way the game plays (keep an eye out for the sunglasses pretty late into the game). Other times, you'll do something and get absolutely nothing, other than just the satisfaction of having done it.

Maybe some day I'll put some more thoughts down about the game, because I genuinely love it and I think it's actually really well designed in so many ways. It hit much harder than I expected it to--I expected it to be mostly a sort of goofy frustration simulator, but it really is so much more than that.