Lurker > sergiocornaga

So exciting to see a new game top the list! I look forward to playing it. It looks like I'll be waiting another two weeks for Saturday Edition... unless I decide to skip forward in the season.

It's interesting to hear that developers are finding this thread. It's unfortunate that there's so little writing about Playdate games out there, but I've personally always appreciated your candid, snarky tone. There's a real sense that these are your honest and relatively unfiltered reactions, which I find so valuable. And it's certainly not dissuading me from buying any games! I bought HANA Spacetime Fantasy, A Joke That's Worth 0.99 Cents, DYG, and The Keyper, all after reading about them in this thread. Hell, I bought a Playdate partly thanks to reading this thread.

I haven't spent enough time in Playdate communities to speak with any authority, but I get the sense that most places shy away from potentially upsetting criticism in favour of more encouraging positive feedback. I think this can be great! If developer-focused Playdate spaces are welcoming of inexperienced newcomers, strange experiments, and rough edges, it will no doubt improve the breadth and magnitude of the Playdate library. I personally prefer this to be balanced with the sort of criticism found in this thread, and as a game developer I often seek out (constructive) negative feedback in hope of improving my craft, but I understand not everyone feels OK with this.

That said, I love reading glowing reviews of weird stuff too, and I've found that Playdate: The Unofficial Website (run by TheGameLlama) is an excellent source for this. Check out this wildly different review of HANA Spacetime Fantasy! https://www.playdateunofficial.com/the-games/hana-spacetime-fantasy

They also put out a really intriguing 2023 GOTY list (also consisting entirely of games you presumably haven't played, and neither have I): https://www.playdateunofficial.com/articles/2023-playdate-goty

One of them, Initial Daydream, is currently only avaialable on itch.io. I hesitate to bring this up, but... I suspect your count of total games available on Playdate has been excluding everything there? Because it looks like there are at least 817 available there: https://itch.io/games/tag-playdate
Apologies for any can of worms this might open.

Lastly, I finished Mars After Midnight last night. It suits being divided into short sessions very well, so I played it nightly with my mum over the past three weeks. It's definitely one to get, and I look forward to reading your thoughts!

Suprak_the_Stud posted...

-What do you call a meeting between two lispers? A spraydate! Haha because like Playdate guys.

Interestingly, I got this game and the joke has been changed to:
-What do you call a meeting between two deodorants? Spraydate!
Maybe someone found the first version offensive? As far as bad jokes go, I think this revision has actually improved it by adding a element of surrealism. However, it fails to account for roll-on deodorant, so hopefully a third update is forthcoming.

I've picked up a few games in the sale, and while I have yet to go through everything, I will say that Legend of Etad is my favourite so far and I would recommend checking it out. I'm judging based on a smaller sample size than you've experienced, though.

Also, HANA really is quite terrible, huh? I quit out to try something else and when I went back to it, none of my progress had been saved. Do you know if it saves at any point?

Just made my first Playdate game purchase!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/eb7d7df9.jpg

I decided to buy one of these and it arrived today! I like it so far. I will now start using this thread to influence actual purchase decisions!

Today Panic finally opened up shipping to my country. Should I buy one of these?

In all likelihood Xalavier Nelson Jr. was working on eight other games at the same time as this one.

VOTES
Brilliant Wings
Winding Through Avidya
No Turning Back

VOTES
Nilah, the Joy Unbound
Udyr, the Spirit Walker
KSante, the Pride of Nazumah

Nope

VOTES
Kvaris Ancient Boss
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Song of Mourning: The Eternal Wind

VOTES
Radiant Golden Thunder
Life in the Base -morning-
Feline Fracas

Radiant Golden Thunder is incredibly good! And Life in the Base -morning- sounds like a loose arrangement of Heal from ICO

Can I choose "___" as my actual answer like those stickers where you write a name in the blank space?

VOTES
Comfy Cutie Hangout Zone
Absolute Grip on Sanity
Stage Select M

Surprised by my own votes as I didn't think I had a preference here! Still, the massive impact this will have on my near-total comparability with hotdogturtle reassures me this wasn't skewed in a particular direction.

VOTES
Memories of Memories
Amulet of Enbarr
Ocean Glaze

Good change, though I'm a little sad that The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is no longer the very last game on the list for obvious reasons.

VOTES
Dodo's Lair
Steel Works Sizzle
Mission Clear

VOTES
The Face of the Deep
A Placid Island of Ignorance
Once in a Lullaby

VOTES
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Nine Out of Tension
Whirlpool Tune

This was way closer than I thought it would be (hence even abstaining on the first match).

VOTES
Blue Area
Green Area
Final Boss Theme

VOTES
Linking with curious creature
Scooping Up Dreams
Visiting man

VOTES
Thermal Vent (Lost Atlantis)
Pest Friends (Insect Hive)
One Person's Trash (Magic Landfill)

First match was the toughest call, but I ultimately managed to make a decision. How would I format abstaining from voting on one match if I wanted to?

Bump, since this has made it to page 6.

Glad to see my predicted winner (Moonstruck Blossom) is still in the running. Of course, now that I've actually said that, it will probably be eliminated immediately...

VOTES
Nilah, the Joy Unbound
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

VOTES
Dance of the Daring
Trick or Track (Temple Remix)
Keep Up (Temple Remix)

Dr. Wily Stage 1
Boomer Kuwanger
Skyway

Tundra Man Instrumental

Dr. Wily Stage 1

Final Transmission

KommunistKoala posted...

Final Transmission is good but feel like it could have been half the length and been better for it

This comment makes me wonder if shorter songs have won more matches... it definitely feels like the champion might be trending towards the 1 minute mark.

Tundra Man Instrumental

Galaxy Fantasy

Dr Wily Stage 1

You should definitely be entitled to a refund for that. Cancel your plan, and try initiating a conversation here? https://help.netflix.com/en/contactus

Thunder Tornado
Title

Tough match 2.

Tundra Man Instrumental
Infinity Mijinion

Leonhart4 posted...

People are trying hard to turn this into VGMC though

Is this a complaint about the two fangame songs that have already been eliminated from the contest?

azuarc posted...

Freedom Planet

@azuarc I think this wasn't counted due to a missing 2.

SINGLE
A Dance of Fire and Ice
beatmania IIDX 29 CastHour
Deemo II
Final Fantasy VI (Pixel Remaster)
Genshin Impact
League of Legends
maimai DX UNiVERSE PLUS
Melatonin
Risk of Rain 2
Sephonie
Splatoon 3
Touhou Nemuri Sekai ~ Wonderful Waking World

DOUBLE
FAR: Changing Tides
Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis
Shovel Knight Dig
Stray
WaveTale

Galaxy Fantasy
Zero Gravity Area

NOMINATION
Freedom Planet 2 | 13 Sep 2022

Samples:
Dragon Valley | - | https://youtu.be/dUpQTvj0geY
Robot Graveyard | - | https://youtu.be/-2pihOFLGZA
Airship Sigwada | - | https://youtu.be/nvC_QaBAnFs
Lunar Cannon | - | https://youtu.be/88aD7KzoGzY
Gallery | - | https://youtu.be/wHTPNWObPN4

NOMINATION
Super Lone Survivor | 31 Oct 2022

Samples:
Life Force | - | https://youtu.be/osMxg8d-1Vc
Deathsong | - | https://youtu.be/YNhR3wpJwsc
Lungs | - | https://youtu.be/XjPKK7KJco8
Fresh Start | - | https://youtu.be/VpXSohNebI4
Leaving Home | - | https://youtu.be/H0I1qYWCQAw

NOMINATION
Crossy Road Castle | 27 Feb 2020

Samples:
Dance of the Daring | 8 Apr 2022 | https://youtu.be/pc4HJXRRrdY
Trick or Track (Temple Remix) | 8 Apr 2022 | https://youtu.be/JzNSBn51rFI

Departure
Jakob

Final Transmission
Revealing

NOMINATION
PRODUCER 2021 | 14 Nov 2022

Samples:
Makoro Plants | - | https://youtu.be/GDDm3SKPIbg
Cruisin' | - | https://youtu.be/ZPODpkVfUcE
SPRINTIN' | - | https://youtu.be/jCaK8tElSq8
Hoshino | - | https://youtu.be/6T_PjkaDPHE
PRODUCER 2021 | - | https://youtu.be/JQgTEfRdWFk

Thunder Tornado
Skyway

Opening X
Dark Man Mix

I'm appreciating the ascending game title length sorting!

This was great! Thank you rwlh (and all submitters).