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Game #33 Complete! Life's Too Short

Throw This Quote On The Back Of The Box: "Life's too short to be wasting time playing games over 28 minutes!"

Final Thoughts: This is such a weird one to rank because of how short it is. I think I mentioned this in my write up, but what this really reminded me of is one of those old Newgrounds adventure games you'd play like in 2005 that was someone's first attempt to make a game. The proper way to play this is one in a series of 28 other 10 minutes adventure games you're only playing because you don't want to do your math homework.

There is just a smidge of charm here, just this little bit of personality that made this more playable to me than some of the other nothing adventure games for the Playdate. I smiled a couple of times just because the game was kind of cute. That's something. Right? It might not be a great game but there's some personality here and that actually gets this somewhere. I wasn't annoyed while I was playing it like Lost Your Marbles, which is a more substantial adventure game but also a worse written one. Sometimes it's best to say less if you don't really know what you're doing.

I definitely didn't hate this, but I'm not sure you can hate a game this short. I don't hate people as I walk past them on the street and I don't angrily shake my fist at houses of people I'm driving past, and that's because I don't know them. It's the same here. You start the game, stretch a bit, take your shoes off, and the game shoves you out the front door and tells you that you got to get out of there before their husband gets back. Playdate is having me reconsider something I was always a firm believer of, and that is that there is no "too short" for a game. I always thought games can't be too short if they manage to pull off something in their runtime but it turns out I was wrong. Twenty four minutes is too short. You can't do anything in twenty four minutes. Think about every great adventure game you've played. Were any of them twenty four minutes?

I think it sticks out in an adventure game like this because the fun of this genre is getting this world with puzzles and not knowing what to do at first. You want to have to think for a minute. You can't do that in a game this small. Are you stuck? Well, did you check the five items you can check? No? Go check those five. One of them will do something. There's not a good puzzle here, and that's kind of because this game is too small in scope to have a good puzzle.

Still, not the worst. Not the worst! That's something, right? It was this guy's first game, so I feel bad being hard about it because hey he did something. He made something and it works and it is a little cute. That's something! He should be proud of that. The little ending segment where he's thanking people that taught him how to even do this is a fun little way to end things. It is a very good first attempt. It is, however, not a good game.

Should You Play It? Mmmmmmm...eh. You don't need to. So, I mean, good news is its $2 and I don't think it is necessarily a waste of $2. But I don't you'll miss out on anything by skipping this.

Final Score: 4. By the very skin of its teeth. It isn't as good as Demon Quest '85 mostly because that had a bit more meat to it which is weird to say. I'll slot it just above Grand Tour Legends though.

Games Completed: 33/151

Game Rankings:
33) HANA Spacetime Fantasy
32) Boogie Loops
31) Hidey Spot
30) Bub-O Collect
29) The Lushes Land
28) Nightingale
27) A Joke That's Worth 0.99 Cents
26) Recommendation Dog!!
25) Trickle Greenweed, Mermaid At Law
24) Whitewater Wipeout
23) The Botanist
22) Snak
21) DYG
20) Lost Your Marbles
19) Grand Tour Legends
18) Life's Too Short
17) Demon Quest '85
16) The Fall of Elena Temple
15) Flipper Lifter
14) Questy Chess
13) Slitherlink PD
12) The Keyper
11) SKEW
10) Echoic Memory
9) Executive Golf DX
8) Omaze
7) Sasquatchers
6) Hyper Meteor
5) Castle Tintagel
4) Casual Birder
3) Zipper
2) Pick Pack Pup
1) Crankin's Time Travel Adventure