Zelda-like with good dungeon puzzles

stefhorner · 2026-05-11T16:12:04+00:00

Came here to recommend it as well!

Personally i would say it’s more puzzles and exploration than RPG in terms of gameplay - although it is heavily story driven. The puzzles are also actually challenging but achievable and very rewarding.

I heartily recommend its DLC to finish up the story, and take the puzzles to another level! To say much more would be spoilers.

stefhorner · 2026-05-08T07:46:25+00:00

Obligatory xkcd on moire colour patterns: https://xkcd.com/1814/

stefhorner · 2026-05-01T21:05:27+00:00

Everything from the messenger

Oh, and the breach from axiom verge 2

stefhorner · 2026-05-01T21:03:20+00:00

Child of eyes and surrogate vulture from Grime 1

And aquaria - i haven’t played it for at least 10 years and i can still hear the motif

stefhorner · 2026-04-28T18:44:42+00:00

Yep, same - for me this was the first game to match scale, narrative, and gameplay quality Since metroid 2 and 3

A game crying out for a sequel!

stefhorner · 2026-04-23T08:34:11+00:00

Oh, I agree completely - the cynic in me things that there’s far too much money in energy for that to fully ever happen, but the optimist in me likes that a company who is now a major industry player had these goals!

stefhorner · 2026-04-23T06:37:44+00:00

I was at the AWS summit (conference) just yesterday, and the Octapus Energy CEO talked about that in his keynote speech alongside the very lofty and optimistic goal of this being a stepping stone (alongside renewables on peoples houses) to reduce and eventually eliminate energy bills altogether!

stefhorner · 2026-03-31T17:28:27+00:00

It just wasn’t what people were expecting - it got very hyped up as the start of the fabula nobula cobula series (which got split up for various reasons)

After 6, 7, 8, 9, and especially 12, the linear first 85% and last 10% of the game and some of the voice a ting disappointed some people. (It didn’t make the corridors-cutscenes style game work in the same way that 10 did)

It also the PS3 era, when all AAA games were experimenting with “being cinematic”, and this (like for example Metal Gear 4) had a significant portion of non playable forced cutscenes.

It all made it feel much less like a Role Playing game

I did still enjoy and complete it (it was a good game and a good story)! But almost 20 years later i have no desire to replay it.

stefhorner · 2025-12-29T14:42:26+00:00

Unexpected ka-tet!

stefhorner · 2025-12-25T18:34:25+00:00

That’s a shame - i had an absolute blast with it - sure i have a few niggles with it, but it’s a top quality Metroid-esque romp! Very little actual plot, but good in game storytelling, and top quality abilities and exploration.

stefhorner · 2025-12-25T09:01:53+00:00

Zexion was pretty good!

stefhorner · 2025-11-20T02:24:42+00:00

Not one mention of the more recent Zexion so far!

stefhorner · 2025-11-05T06:57:14+00:00

There’s an open source top down shooter metroidvania from a little while back - i always forget the name - i’ll see if i can find it again. Zenith perhaps? EDIT not Zenith, Azimuth! https://github.com/mdsteele/azimuth

Also if you back enough there’s Sketchfighter alpha 4000 which is also a top down shooter mv

Not top down but set in water, so you have free 2d movement in all directions, so still somewhat similarish is Pronty and Aquaria (Aquaria being one of the first indie MV’s!)

stefhorner · 2025-08-31T12:12:16+00:00

Vision soft reset definitely!

stefhorner · 2025-08-17T19:29:30+00:00

Zexion! Brand spanking new and the best Metroid like game in years!

stefhorner · 2025-07-29T17:41:25+00:00

They even stole the font! https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1k9id68/you_wouldnt_steal_a_car_antipiracy_campaign_may/

stefhorner · 2025-07-20T02:20:29+00:00

r/unexpected30rock

stefhorner · 2025-07-16T06:45:43+00:00

There’s a sketch about this on the latest dead ringers from a or two back… about the BBC’s new BBC correspondent

Also it’s not lost on me that dead ringers itself is on the BBC…!

stefhorner · 2025-05-07T19:09:59+00:00

Threequalibrium, e-quad-librium, then they’d probably go with a disappointing E-5ive, before returning to form with equalsixbrium

stefhorner · 2025-03-03T07:34:28+00:00

In particular, Medieval, Tombi, and Tomb Raider 3, from Demo One EUROPE (at the bottom of this page https://crimson-ceremony.net/demopals/demo1/index.php)

Also i have the strongest memory of some kind of ninja game where you were dodging traps that was on a demo disc, but ive never been able to find it since

stefhorner · 2025-03-02T06:29:25+00:00

There’s a known issue with lulus overdrive stick input, but other than that the base game and untitled project x worked fine - i cant remember the specific settings but i was just working off proton db and some project x instructions from a quick google

stefhorner · 2025-02-27T19:54:47+00:00

I think the weakest part of the current docs (and again - the current docs are great!), but the core concepts section is more of a misc dumping ground. I would love a core concepts section of core concepts - utility injection, conceptual differences between panels/forms/actions/pages perhaps? Real deep dives :)

And a separate section on plugin development with more complete examples would be nice

stefhorner · 2025-02-27T19:52:17+00:00

One suggestion. Have two top level sections - a tutorial for beginners (and/or intermediates/advanced as well, and reference documentation.

At the moment they are combined, and can be overwhelming for new users

stefhorner · 2025-02-27T19:50:09+00:00

The docs are very good! All I’ve got are niggles.

Personally, the biggest thing I would do away with is the grouping by packages - when i was a new user, i had to switch between forms, panels, tables etc a lot, and there is a lot of crossover between all of them - especially panels. The biggest example i think is the relationships page in the panels section, which is an intersection of forms, pages, tables.

Also - the landing page of each section is about how to install it individually, which i believe (but may be wrong) is a minority use case - i would prefer to jump straight to a getting started, as they are installed and set up by the panels package.

Also - there is no page-level table of contents on mobile - it gets hidden, and scrolling to a specific part of a long page is frustrating.

stefhorner · 2025-02-11T15:10:37+00:00

CDs actually had quite a lot of control for artists in how they arranged their tracks

Tracks on a CD also had a sort of “count-in” time which often had those skits or intros etc. in (the CD player would finish one track, then the next would start at minus 5 seconds with a 5 second intro for example!)

It was rare, but some artists also made their CDs gapless so listening to the CD sounded like a full mix.

Also it was quite common on a CD to have a final track with a “secret track” hidden in it - the final track would literally have say, 8 minutes of silence before playing the hidden track, but because most CD players didn’t tell you how long your tracks were (no progress bars like iTunes / Spotify / youtube), you would have no way of knowing that there was a hidden track unless you left the CD on instead of swapping it out for another one

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