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Currently Playing: SKEW

What Is It? An endless runner where you use the crank to move up and down and the gyrscopic controls to move side to side. There are traditional controls too if you're boring.

Gameplay Overview: You crank your little robot through a tunnel and avoid obstacles while collecting orbs to boost your score. It is head on instead of side to side. Have you played an endless runner before? Okay, this is that but also there's a crank now.

Here's The Game Page!
https://play.date/games/skew/

Here's Some Pictures!
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Thoughts:
-Next up is SKEW because we're entering the portion of the catalogue where the developers Caps Lock key was broken, apparently.
-SKEW is better than HANA, at least. I havent started playing yet. I just know already.
-Whoa this thing talks? I think this is only the second game with spoken dialogue Ive played, and the first of which was A Joke Worth 99 Cents.
-Oh no maybe this is a bad sign then.
-The name is SKEWas in Stock Keeping Unit. Uh shouldnt this game be called SKU then?
-It says its voiced by Jason Isaacs. Do I know who that is?
-Sorry game, Im going to imdb to see if this is someone I should know or not.
-OH! I know Jason Isaacs. He was Malfoys dad in Harry Potter. That counts as famous. More famous than I was expecting from a Playdate game, honestly. The second biggest voice actor to appear on this so far was the dude who made A Joke Worth 99 Cents narrating the joke and third place was whoever was torturing the recorder during Elena Temple.
-Hahaha one of his earliest roles is Cow Pat Keegan from something called Divorcing Jack. Gotta scrub that one off your imdb page, man.
-Also, speaking of scrubbing your imdb page, The Last Worker is in his credits but not SKEW. Gotta rectify that somehow.
-Wonder if I can change his Wikipedia and how long it would last? Jason Isaacs is an English actor best known for his performance of SKEW in SKEW for the playdate. Also, if you rearrange the letters in the name you will find the hidden code I AM LORD VOLDERMORT.
-Oh shit, Jason Isaacs was Admiral Zhao in Avatar? I didnt know that! Thats really what the Wikipeida lead should be.
-Hm, it says he was Admiral Zhao in Korra too? How was he Admiral Zhao in Korra?
-Ohhhhh he had an appearance during one part I completely forgot about.
-Man, I should rewatch Korra. That was a solid show I dont actually remember all that well.
-Arent you glad you joined us here today for JASON ISAACS FACTS?
-This game really wants you to know it was a The Last Worker spinoff. It says so on the title screen. Its listed on the store page. It says so on the splash page. The person who wrote up the blurb for the 10 Best Catalogue Games From 2023 had two sentences to describe the game, and one of those two was spent saying it was a spinoff of The Last Worker. Some dude yelled it at me from his car window last week.
-This begs the questions: what the hell is The Last Worker? Is this a game I should know? They clearly thought it would help this thing sell but I have not heard of it and I would say I am connected to the indie gaming scene more than the average gaming aficionado.
-Heres the Youtube trailer in case anyone is curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPIsIh-BoI
-I meanit doesnt look bad? I kind of want to play that more than SKEW, honestly.
-So part of the reason I picked SKEW was because it was selected as an editors choice game for 2023. They picked the ten best (favorite? Most notable?) games that could be found on the catalogue. The list is here: https://play.date/games/staff-picks-2023/
-The bad news is also on that list are Grand Tour Legends and A Joke Thats Worth 99 Cents. Grand Tour Legends wasnt horrible but its hard for me to think that would make a top ten list of anything unless there were only ten games released that year. And I wouldnt put A Joke Thats Worth 99 Cents on any best of list. If I thought it had to be included, Id just scrap the list at that point.
-Alright. So, SKEW.
-It is totally and utterly fine but its an endless runner and I dont think Im going to sink that much time into this because Im not the biggest fan of endless runners in general.
-Now excuse me I need to go look up more Jason Isaacs facts.

Time Played: One hour playing, one hour feverishly researching Jason Isaacs
High Score: 2935. Good for 39th place worldwide.
Beaten? I guess. I'm not done yet but I played through several runs.
Grade: 5. About as close to average as you can get.
Favorite Part So Far: It isn't HANA