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[kerzain]

SpongeBob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom

[Jack_Howitzer]

Do not feed the monkeys?

[Gigglemoo]

stick it to the man?

[Nightgaunt]

None of the above! I’m guessing someone will figure out the subgenre from this one…

[Gigglemoo]

Too easy with that picture :) Murder by Numbers

How’s the game Nightgaunt? Haven’t played this yet, it’s sitting in my wishlist.

[Nightgaunt]

That’s it!

I don’t know if this makes sense, but I wanted the game to be more… slick than it is? The story is pretty good, the writing is light but still good, and the puzzles are perfectly decent Picrosses. At the same time, I don’t think it quite gets the mixture of talking to puzzling right (a little too much dialogue). And there are some small changes to interface that I think could have made it substantially better to play. All that said, I’ve felt compelled to barrel through the whole game in the course of a few days, so it got its hooks in me. There’s plenty to enjoy.

EDIT: OH, and for some reason the easy listening-style soundtrack really works for me.

[Gigglemoo]

Cool, thanks for the review. Bumped it up a few spots :)

Here’s the new one:

[kerzain]

A Valley Without Wind

[Nightgaunt]

Prisoner of Ice?

[Gigglemoo]

Nopers.

[Lamalo]

The Dune adventure game?

[kerzain]

Ski or Die

[Gigglemoo]

[Rock8man]

@kerzain

I first discovered Hoard when @tomchick reviewed the game back in 2010.

Now I know how Smaug felt. Thumbs up.

Unfortunately, aside from Tom’s Thumb’s Up score, there’s nothing else left of that review because Fidgit, the site that published the review, decided to delete everything on their way into oblivion some many years ago.

Oh, and there was actually a Qt3 front-page entry made for the game when it hit PC about six months later.

Sorry, a bit behind in this thread.

Here’s Tom’s figit review:

Internet Archive of Tom’s Hoard review

[robc04]

I can’t remember if there is a Heroes of Might and Magic game that has a cold based faction. I’ll say HOMM 2.

[tfernando]

Looks like the planetary management screen of an old old 4x

[rhamorim]

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that somewhere…

[Rock8man]

It looks low rez enough to be Master of Magic or Master of Orion.

So I’ll guess Master of Orion.

[Rock8man]

@Left_Empty, catching up on this thread. I don’t really understand your screenshot. So Dear Reader makes you read books and makes a game out of it somehow?

[Left_Empty]

Yes, they are very relaxed wordplays (like figure the missing word, remove the wrong one, and all sort of variations on it), that actually make you focus more on the text more often than not. There is a single variation out of the 30-ish included that made me unfocus on the text, so it’s a pretty neat way to not simply read but understand the meaning.
In the case of poetry, as meaning can rarely be intuitively inferred, it also serves to learn it.
Quite an effective teaching tool, in any case, and a really bright idea.