Completed Shining Song Starnova #visualNovel today. It had six stories of #Jpop idol group members struggling on the path to fame… to unlock the seventh’s, canonical one which I just completed.

Overall, I liked the game (and spent like 15 hours on it total)—the story is engaging (and quite dark at times,) the characters relatively well-written, overall feeling is sticking well. I have some minor complaints only: NSFW elements (unlockable via DLC) are mostly a detriment to the plot, no idea why they added them; requirement to complete six routes to get to the main one is somewhat extra; and it gives one too little choice to mess things up. I liked the wrong choice endings though!

So yeah, recommended if you have too much free time and are looking for a well-written visual novel with a moderate amount of fan service.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/shining_song_starnova

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Finished The Drifter, a grindhouse inspired point and click adventure game by Powerhoof. I really enjoyed it, felt pretty fast paced for the genre, though sometimes this is constrasted a bit in some tedious sections when you get stuck and have to piece out a solution.

The art, music and voice acting are all excellent and the story is quite interesting, if a bit videogamy at times.

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Persona 4 is an extremely polished game, and it probably deserves all the praise it gets. But, to me, this is yet another FOMO-inducing media piece. Like, now I have to optimize two things instead of one:

• Not only do I have to snatch finite time from other 24h of activities to play Persona.

• But, in Persona, I have to make elaborate plans for where to go, what to do, whom to spend time with, and how often.

I am tired of being an adult.

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Slay the Spire 2 (Early access) and Marathon were both released yesterday. Indie games stay winning 💅, StS2 feels like a complete game even on early access. Looking forward to see it evolve!

Also... it was written with Godot I think? Even more winning!

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wow, they are adding multiplayer to slay the spire II? that seems really interesting, makes it a little coop dungeon crawler.

I may for the first time of my life buy some early access game? Their track record with StS1 seems pretty good :)

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Nephilim, mais les joueureuses incarnent des Templiers qui protègent l'humanité des Nephilim et de leurs machinations démoniaques

(oui c'est très binaire, mais pour ma défense, le plot de base de Nephilim l'est tout aussi 😁. Ça m'a toujours semblé hautement subjectif que les Nephilim représentent systématiquement Le Bien ®)

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Check out nuworm by noa - an elegant, well-designed puzzle game. Currently on level 5.1 - playing a few per day.
https://cubestudio.itch.io/nuworm

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Je suis étonné qu'il n'y ait pas eu de traductions d'Everway en français. Ou bien il y a eu des tentatives qui n'ont jamais abouti. En tout cas, c'est la lecture qui va bien pour le café :)

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