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cobaltninePlayed 10/28, posted 10/29. I'm trying to create a backlog before I leave for Denver.
The first person threw me. But when it called me a blueberry tea-cake, I nearly vomited.
I guess the puzzles were good, but the stupid smarmy twee words throughout made me ill. Actually, it reminded me of someone I have very mixed feelings about, which was not really good. I'm sure many people have overly cutesy exes that this reminds me of. I bet many of them are not still together, because jesus christ, that's too much twee.
I guess I'll give it a 6, because I do like the puzzles, and it's a full, non-broken game. But this needs de-tweeification pretty fucking badly. Jiggle? Schrinch? Scrunch. I can't even type that easily. numbat? You spent all that time making a big list of painfully cutesy names? Really? The saccharine* of this makes me want it to not win, but frankly, with the amount of broken I'm seeing, things ain't looking good for us nasty modernist cynics.
*saccharine itself gets a bad rap, and I should call this the splendaization - passes muster too quickly as harmless, but is suspicious on second glance.
POST-CONTEST EDIT: There is some discussion between myself and Jeremy Freese in the 'conclusions' post with this tag. I'd like to think there isn't any ill-will between us, as while I still despise twee nonsense, I think we came to a conclusion that it's OK; my concrete issues stem from, in the end, this being his first game.
The first person threw me. But when it called me a blueberry tea-cake, I nearly vomited.
I guess the puzzles were good, but the stupid smarmy twee words throughout made me ill. Actually, it reminded me of someone I have very mixed feelings about, which was not really good. I'm sure many people have overly cutesy exes that this reminds me of. I bet many of them are not still together, because jesus christ, that's too much twee.
I guess I'll give it a 6, because I do like the puzzles, and it's a full, non-broken game. But this needs de-tweeification pretty fucking badly. Jiggle? Schrinch? Scrunch. I can't even type that easily. numbat? You spent all that time making a big list of painfully cutesy names? Really? The saccharine* of this makes me want it to not win, but frankly, with the amount of broken I'm seeing, things ain't looking good for us nasty modernist cynics.
*saccharine itself gets a bad rap, and I should call this the splendaization - passes muster too quickly as harmless, but is suspicious on second glance.
POST-CONTEST EDIT: There is some discussion between myself and Jeremy Freese in the 'conclusions' post with this tag. I'd like to think there isn't any ill-will between us, as while I still despise twee nonsense, I think we came to a conclusion that it's OK; my concrete issues stem from, in the end, this being his first game.
