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77. Murdered: Soul Suspect - 9h - 17.09
As a ghost detective, you take it upon yourself to solve your own murder so you can move on to the afterlife with your dead wife. Murdered: Soul Suspect has a goofy title and a goofy protagonist, but everything else in it is dreary. From the visuals to the characters to the subject matter. It's a truly ugly ass Unreal 3 game in the sea of ugly ass Unreal 3 games that plagued last gen. I enjoyed it well enough but tbh i don't feel like i would've missed much if i hadn't played it. I suspect i won't remember anything about it in 3 months. Which is a shame, because the premise is very cool.
78. LocoCycle - 4h30 - 24.09
Unlike the last entry, this is a game i won't forget in a long time. For better or worse. After the first live action sequence, i was more than ready to hate it. It was truly awful. But then the game proper starts and i was in shock for about 10 minutes due to how fucking stupid and over the top everything is. This is up there as one of the dumbest premises ever devised for a video game. But it kinda...works? After that first hump, i really got into it and actually had a lot of fun. It's a fairly repetitive game, but i enjoyed coming back to it every day to play a couple of levels and get my daily dose of crazy.
Still not too keen on the live action stuff, it's more miss than hit to me. Mostly due to the acting trying to be funny bad but not getting past just being bad bad. The extensive silly dialogue during gameplay really worked for me though. It's childish and it embraces that fact confidently. The gameplay itself is alright. A mix of brawler and the loosest definition of a shmup. It's not at all challenging unless you're going for perfection. And like i mentioned, repetitive. After the first couple of acts, you've seen most of the ideas, with slight variations moving forward.
Tbh i never much cared about Twisted Pixel's games. Their gameplay ideas never excited me and i always found their games to have a mean streak to them and a hideous art style. So i guess LocoCycle it's their best game :D
77. Murdered: Soul Suspect - 9h - 17.09
As a ghost detective, you take it upon yourself to solve your own murder so you can move on to the afterlife with your dead wife. Murdered: Soul Suspect has a goofy title and a goofy protagonist, but everything else in it is dreary. From the visuals to the characters to the subject matter. It's a truly ugly ass Unreal 3 game in the sea of ugly ass Unreal 3 games that plagued last gen. I enjoyed it well enough but tbh i don't feel like i would've missed much if i hadn't played it. I suspect i won't remember anything about it in 3 months. Which is a shame, because the premise is very cool.
78. LocoCycle - 4h30 - 24.09
Unlike the last entry, this is a game i won't forget in a long time. For better or worse. After the first live action sequence, i was more than ready to hate it. It was truly awful. But then the game proper starts and i was in shock for about 10 minutes due to how fucking stupid and over the top everything is. This is up there as one of the dumbest premises ever devised for a video game. But it kinda...works? After that first hump, i really got into it and actually had a lot of fun. It's a fairly repetitive game, but i enjoyed coming back to it every day to play a couple of levels and get my daily dose of crazy.
Still not too keen on the live action stuff, it's more miss than hit to me. Mostly due to the acting trying to be funny bad but not getting past just being bad bad. The extensive silly dialogue during gameplay really worked for me though. It's childish and it embraces that fact confidently. The gameplay itself is alright. A mix of brawler and the loosest definition of a shmup. It's not at all challenging unless you're going for perfection. And like i mentioned, repetitive. After the first couple of acts, you've seen most of the ideas, with slight variations moving forward.
Tbh i never much cared about Twisted Pixel's games. Their gameplay ideas never excited me and i always found their games to have a mean streak to them and a hideous art style. So i guess LocoCycle it's their best game :D