Deltarune Chapter 1 (2018)
Anyway, what else… I've been playing the full version of Öoo. What I'll say is that it has the smuggest dead ends I've seen in any game ever. The sort of dead ends that level designers wax lyrical about years later. Genre-defining dead ends.
It's also a game that feels like it's trying to use the standard Metroidvania map screen to its maximum mechanical potential. Like it has a need to fully justify the exorbitance of a map screen after the game's predecessor (ElecHead) went perfectly well without it.
As one with not too small a connection to indie game and int-fiction creation, that defeat really got me in the gut.
Still, seeing people still fighting back even right now is giving me some heart. If you're one who's still raising your own ruckus about it, I'm very thankful.
I've been feeling rather depressed for the past week or so, so much that I haven't been able to string a single tweet together.
There are a few reasons, but the payment processor vs itchio debacle, and the shadow it casts over the future of the net itself, is high among them.