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You should try again!! The main story campaign is quite short, and the later chapters are really neato.

UltimaterializerX posted...

What a write up. Nicely said.

You always, always know when a game was made with love.

Thanks, I appreciate it! Uggg these are really hard to write.

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#8 The Outer Wilds (and DLC)

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Admittedly, Outer Wilds is NOT for everyone. It's self-directed exploration, to a fault. You have to WANT to like it, to WANT to crash your ship and die over and over, to WANT to decide what to investigate next.

But, most people who do want those things, usually end up agreeing, "yep, that might be the best game ever made."

Outer Wilds fixes the "Myst" genre, by having a mystery that is awesome. Like awe-inspiring. Many pieces of the story you uncover are eureka moments, and then they miraculously make it all of it fit together, to 100% perfect satisfaction.

But who cares if the story is good if you're not having fun right away? Well luckily, the game's planets are breathtaking FEATS of imagination and programming. This game gave me the shivers far more often than any horror genre game, just using the astonishing power of nature and physics (and music?).

The DLC is a great addition, maybe even better than the main game. It has some unique tricks up its sleeve that are pretty mind-blowing! Unfortunately, it's common to get stuck, and also the gameplay loop can be annoying. But that's worth looking past, IMO!

BEST PART: My worst goosebumps came from ||spacewalking at the sun station||. It was fundamentally scary, like a fear of heights, or a fear of the bottom of the ocean.