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Simoun posted...

Iconoclasts was amazing. I love the story and it made me think about it for weeks. But I will admit the metroidvania part of it just fails.

Yeah, I'm sure it really did resonate with some people and certainly understand why. I just wasn't one of them. Felt like the game was talking at me for ten hours without really actually saying that much.

Furi's story accomplished so much more to me in about 1% of the text, if that. The Beat has one line of four words that's had me lying awake thinking about it both nights since I finished that game. Less is more sometimes.

Strider (PC)

Super, super solid. Nothing groundbreaking from a strict gameplay perspective, but it stands as a wonderful example of how to do a remake well, which isn't to say that it isn't fun exclusively on its own merits, either. Movement is slick and tight and free, which is good, because this game is a whole lot Metroidvania-esque than I realized and so fits in with what accidentally became a bit of a theme for me this month. Hiryu is just as cool of a video game character as any you could name. Fun time.

And with that, I've officially beaten ten games in July 2021, which is a completely arbitrary feat that I will almost definitely never repeat in my life. Lot of good stuff in the last ~30 days.

I've also now got exactly as many finished games in my Steam library as uncompleted ones now, which is also not likely to last very long.

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