I gestured at the buildings of #NewOrleans around us and said “This is the setting for the adventure game…” and then Amy started cringing audibly because she thought I was going to say “…Deadly Premonition 2!” but instead I said “…#Norco!”
#Norco is also very good and you’ll find some earlier thoughts from me on that hashtag. That’s one I can generally recommend.
I thought about Norco when playing #Earthbound for the first time last month! Both games, produced 25 years apart, play around with subverting CRPG expectations about the sanctity of the combat UX in this one specific way that makes me hoot and holler.
Look, just… come to Coop’s on Decatur Street in the next 30 minutes and I’ll explain.
And that's #Norco put away. You know... for all its mucky ugliness and intentional jank, I think this one appealed to me more than slow, majestic #Pentiment. I liked the swampy weirdness, haunted by alligators whose pebbled skin glistened with rainbows of aerosolized petroleum, while their eyes shone with the fires of refinery plumes.
Also it's one-third as long, so, yes.
This is a great time for #AdventureGames! And I need to take a break from them for a bit. 📚
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
Mar 7, 2023 - Day 66 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 72
Game: Norco
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Mar 25, 2022
Library Date: Aug 8, 2022
Unplayed: 211 days (6m27d)
Playtime: 41m
I am, quite vocally, not a fan of pixel art games. As I'm reasonably certain I've said before, I lived through pixel art when it was a necessity, and I have no nostalgic sentimentality towards that era that makes me look back wistfully to a more "simple" time.
Which is why, upon starting Norco, I sighed. It was immediately obvious that I'd overlooked the fact it was a pixel art game when I bought it, and I figured I'd just suffer through it for 15 minutes and get it out of the way.
I was wrong.
Norco is a point-and-click adventure, set in and around a suburb of New Orleans, some time in a run-down future.
The soundtrack is moody & evocative, and the storyline drew me in. The only reason I didn't keep playing is that I'm somewhere south of exhausted and desperately need some sleep.
Norco Debuts New Fluid VLT (theloamwolf.com)
Norco Bicycles has announced an all-new Fluid VLT eMTB engineered to give pedal purists a few less reasons to resist the electric evolution.