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Beret is a 2D puzzle platformer where the main character has telekinesis based on line-of-sight to the object. This lends itself to simple combat, tricky maneuvering, and fiendish combinations of elements that lead to puzzles to get stuck on for hours or days. There's a built-in level editor and a small but decent number of user-published levels too. Unlike a lot of other games in this somewhat crowded genre, this one has multiple save states available, so despite being in real-time it is fairly forgiving as far as execution goes. It is multi-platform, but unfortunately since the game was written in a custom C engine, it doesn't seem to run as well on modern Macs as it used to. Still runs pretty well in Wine, though. The soundtrack stands pretty well on its own too.
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Toribash's loosy-goosy physics reminds me of some other ragdoll physics classics, the DIsmount series (Stair Dismount, Truck Dismount, etc.) https://jet.ro/dismount/ It's hard to figure out whether these are games or sandbox toys, but essentially you have a ragdoll and exactly one push vector, and want to do as much damage to the poor sap as possible.
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Been playing Little Square Things over the past week or so. It's essentially a cross between Chip's Challenge, LaserTank and "mimic puzzles". Unlike the rest of the somewhat large genre of "grid-based block pushing games", this one distinguishes itself by regularly making you control multiple characters, often letting you sacrifice some of them, and automatically wrapping the room edges. The game aims for a DOS-inspired aesthetic in the graphics, music and story, but thankfully it's still got plenty of modern conveniences - unlimited undo, entire worlds unlocked on a "total star" basis rather than level by level, and only requiring 250 out of 330 stars to finish the game. It's pretty well-polished for the basic type of game that it is, and the difficulty is pitched gradually as well - it stays casual up through world 4 of 11 and only starts getting mean in maybe world 7. Levels also don't take forever, too, which is great. The game is nominally for Windows, but I've been able to run it in Wine just fine. Leylite fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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