Chloyster [she/her]

Trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her)

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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • From the UFO 50 website:

    AUTHENTIC BUT ALSO MODERN - We carefully chose what elements to modernize. Every game shares a unique 32-color palette and we took great efforts to make them look and sound like actual 8-bit titles from the 80s. On the other hand, it was important to us that UFO 50 was fun and surprising for modern players, so we chose not to limit ourselves to the genres and design conventions of the past.

    They’ve said in interviews as well that they choose to view UFO soft as a game company that was very ahead of its time


  • My goty and one of my new all time favorites. It’s the best bundle since the orange box. Every game is unique and awesome and very well thought out. These are not mini games, they are well well thought out, clever, and fun games.

    Not all are for me, but I’ve had fun stumbling around each game and figuring them out. Favorites include:

    • Mini and Max

    • Party house

    • Rail heist

    • Night manor

    • Overbold

    • Warp tank

    • Mortol





























  • I have a love hate with analogue. They undoubtedly make really excellent products, and I absolutely adore my pocket. However they really lean into the fomo of their stuff. They make very few units, and you have to be ready to go when they drop more product most of the time. I will say though the price of this is a lot lower than I expected. And while you shouldn’t count on it, every analogue system has gotten some form of ability to play roms from other systems (whether it’s built into the OS (not happening for the 3D) or a “jailbreak” is released by basically an employee of analogue).

    Analogue stuff is good if you have cartridges you want to play, but at this point, with the recent release of Taki Udon’s cheap Mister Pi (https://retroremake.co/pages/store), I think Mister is the way to go. It’s an open source project as opposed to analogue’s implementation. The issue with Mister was you needed a pretty expensive DE10 Nano board to utilize it. Now you can get one of these new boards for only $100 (if you can get your hands on them. Only 2 batches have been sold so far and they sell out quick). Plus Taki is planning on using this new board to make a handheld Mister which I’m super stoked for.




  • I suppose I have to ask how linear. Like can it be mostly linear while having the chance to explore off the beaten path very briefly? Or like straight up hallway simulator.

    Ive been using a site actually to rate games I’ve played so I’ll start listing some of my 5 and 4.5 star games that I would personally consider linear.

    5 star games

    • Astrobot
    • Silent hill 2 (enhanced edition mod for PC, remake I’m still working through but it’s good)
    • Rayman origins
    • Mario and Luigi superstar saga (borderline linear)
    • Kingdom hearts 2 (you can pick the order of worlds at times and have the option to backtrack but not necessary
    • Mother 3
    • Re4 (og and remake both 10/10 to me)

    4.5 star games

    • Chants of sennaar
    • Kirby super Star ultra
    • Halo 2
    • Rayman legends
    • WolfenStein the new order
    • Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
    • Dead Space
    • The last of us
    • the last of us 2 (has one shortish open area section)
    • Alan wake 2 (has some open exploration areas at points)
    • Celeste
    • The case of the golden idol

    I could go on, and some are borderline linear, but these are my faves that mostly involve going from one moment to the next

    Edit: the site I’ve been using. Feel free to check out my list of played games ordered by rating if you want more. I have a lot on there: https://backloggd.com/u/chloyster/games/user-rating/type:played?page=1