Spend your money. Spend it all.

[xyzzysqrl]

Hey folks. I'm back to point you at a couple of short term gaming deals.

First: Reccettear ON STEAM. HELL YEAH. For a limited time $18 gives you little girl and fairy running an item shop antics. I've already preordered.

Second, and questionably less awesome, The Telltale Charity Bundle. Potentially nineteen (if I add right) games for $20. Here's the rundown:

The Whispered World is a german 2D adventure. Hand-drawn and undoubtably gorgeous, but I've heard nothing about how it plays.

Jack Keane is like Monkey Island with a brain tumor. This isn't very good.

The King's Quest Collection... man, I know there's a backlash against Roberta "Let's Kill The Player Or Make The Game Unwinnable" Williams, but these -are- classics for a reason. I'm strongly tempted to binge-replay them one night. King's Quest 1-7. No 8. 8 does not exist anymore, I guess.

Penny Arcade Adventures - Episode 1. This one's questionable. If you like this sense of humor, if you can deal with "goofy adventure + RPG combat"... okay. Otherwise you will hate it. I found the demo funny.

UNLOCKABLE 1: At 5,000 bundles sold everyone gets Nelson Tethers, Puzzle Agent. Based on some creepy Youtube animations and the Professor Layton games. Short, weird. I've heard good things, but never bought it.

UNLOCKABLE 2: At some undefined point, everyone gets Sam and Max Season 2. Complete. This is the gem of the package, IMO. Unfortunately, uh... we already own it. Have to email Telltale and see if we could gift it to someone else.


So! Get spending, folks. I'm off to play the Recettear demo again. Capitalism, ho~!

Comments

[relee.livejournal.com]

Yeah Reccettear seems like just the sort of game for you, princess. I really ought to play the demo when I'm feeling well enough.

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

I'm actually just starting Nelson Tethers right now; I've done the first dozen or so puzzles. Great voice acting, animation that is what it is, puzzles that're okay but (IMHO) not quite as elegant or as good as Layton's. On the other hand, I haven't hit any sliding blocks yet, so there are points in its favor; YMMV.

[xyzzysqrl]

I picked up the recent remake of Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, a bit ago.

You know they actually -added- sliding block puzzles into a game made in 1996 that DIDN'T HAVE THEM? They -made it more stereotypically 90s adventure gamey-. I can't believe it.

(Of course, they also added cryptographic substitution puzzles, but it's not like I don't do THOSE for fun anyway...)

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

Man, I loved the Kings Quest games, and someone remade them to run on modern computers? If I had money at all, that'd be worth $20 right there.

[xyzzysqrl]

...so I have these...

Two
Links

for you.

[xyzzysqrl]

Pardon me.
Three links.

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

I keep waiting for you to add at fourth link to complere the Links. No Navi or Tingle, though, please. ;-) I'm trying to remember if I have any King's Quest in the house, actually...

[hat-of-nikitich.livejournal.com]

Ohboyohboyohboy! *explode, stock item shop with bits*

[mocha-mephooki.livejournal.com]

Several of those have definitely been on my want-list... hmm...