Coffee Talk - Uzzy
Coffee Talk, from Toge Productions, is a narrative driven bartending game. Set in an alternative Seattle, where orcs and elves roam the streets doing their mundane jobs alongside humans, you play as a barista in the eponymously named shop, you'll listen to their stories, mix drinks and change lives. All with a lo-fi jazzy musical accompaniment and relaxing aesthetic, pleasing to the eye and heart. Just look at it!
So, yes, this is very much in the VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action groove, but from the demo at least it's slightly less comedic. Now I loved VA-11 Hall-A, and something like this, with the repetition of mixing drinks and changing lives, along with some soothing music and visuals, feels just right for January. A nice, relaxing way to start the year. I was slightly disappointed by the rather simple story I saw in the demo, but that's probably just the starting point, and the writing was good, so I'm not too worried there.
Blade Runner - Uzzy
Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution into the NEXUS phase - a being virtually identical to a human - known as a Replicant. The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them. Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. After a bloody mutiny by a NEXUS 6 combat team in an Off-world colony, Replicants were declared illegal on earth - under penalty of death. Special police squads - BLADE RUNNER UNITS - had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing Replicant.
This was not called execution. It was called retirement.
LOS ANGELES
NOVEMBER, 2019
One of Westwood Studios' finest works, and quite a departure from the RTS fare the studio was more famous for, Blade Runner is one of the most atmospheric point and click adventure games ever made. This time it's actually available, with GOG putting out a release just last month. You play as Ray McCoy, a rookie Blade Runner assigned to investigate a case of multiple animal murder. No person would murder one of the few remaining animals, so of course, Replicants are suspected in the crime. The game features a branching original storyline that can end in one of thirteen different ways, a side story set in the same time and place as the iconic and movie, cameos from some of the movie's characters (no Pris and her bangs, sorry Chloe) and the legendary Frank Klepacki scoring the game, based on Vangelis' work. You can currently play it on 64 bit PC's by installing it with this tool, and running it through ScummVM.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Uzzy
Apparently The Witcher 3 is experiencing quite the resurgence of late. Why not prove you're as good as Henry Cavill up there and complete all the Witcher contracts in game?
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