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im over here reeling my rod i got bait on my rod right now im just stroking my rod im hungry as ♥♥♥♥ man im a fisher

Chants Of Sennaar is about language and connection. Division and community.

Learning languages and piecing them together is for one a really cool and intriguing gameplay concept but is also a fantastic way to create depth and immersion for its setting, and making the payoffs all the more impactful.

I don't want to go into further detail. I already told here more than I knew when going into it, I only played it because of its artstyle!

Go ahead and play it. Maybe you won't love it as much as me, nothing wrong with that. And don't let the frustratingly and unusually difficult math problem before the final bit discourage you.

This is may be one of the best games of all time.

A genuinely wonderful game. A vast desert, where your objective is on one hand exploration but on the other hand find out more about yourself. As Sable discovers more of this world, you further discover what her future will be, after the credits hit. Or maybe you do that. Maybe you see it as an exercise in freedom and are then overrun by having to make a choice in the end. These things are all plausible and viable ways to approach it from the game itself.
Now, there are technical issues with the game. Sound can get weird, loading issues occur on the fastest bikes and some objects can lack all collision. Frankly, none of those impacted my enjoyment.
With this striking atmosphere and this almost dream-like calmness and peacefulness of this world, it becomes a meditation of identity and self discovery to me. Gliding through those dune seas becomes a calming exercise and the scarcity of points of interest make all of them worthwile.
A freedom and childlike wonder, experienced one final time before you have to choose the path of your adult life. But there are things within the world suggesting that a choice is not final and set in stone. An angler turned vivarium keeper, a guard who sets to explore the world again after retiring, a famous poet once again uncertain about their destiny.
Sable embraces freedom, and finding ones destiny in life, but also questioning said destiny. It wishes the best for every individual, resulting in the best of communities.
It is no surprise that the only place with injustice and corruption is the only city in town. The biggest looming threats in this world, despite what should be a dooming apocalyptic setting, is the same threat of our world - corrupt law and capitalism.
Otherwise, this is a world that feels almost utopic in the calm and peace, especially considering its history and details. There a few fictional worlds where I feel like living in them would be nice. This is one of them.

I genuinely think this is a perfect short experience that absolutely succeeds at the horror it goes for.
Stuck in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ submarine not built for this expedition that slowly falls apart, tasked with photographing weird things, some you cannot begin to understand or explain. Navigation relies on numbers and a map where you have to do a lot of calculating yourself, photos with very limited visibility provide less help than your radar telling you whether or not you are near a wall. All while being stalked and hunted by a hostile monster.
Roughly 70 minutes of a tense, grabbing experience. Nothing dragging it down, nothing that could possibly improve it.

This was a really unique game. And I really loved it.
The combat was nothing special but it was solid. The only parts that were a bit jarring were boss fights, but luckily those never got too frustrating or annoying.
The level design is really good and screams metroidvania, with lots of shortcuts to unlock, getting new tools to access previously inaccessible areas and multiple levels connecting with eachother.
The heart of this game lies with the atmosphere, aesthetic and nordish folklore, as well as some of the unique aspects and gimmicks.

I really wish more type of adventure games of these are made, because this was an absolute blast.
If this looks interesting, I definetely recommend it.

For one, this is very worth playing due to its unique and greatly executed concepts, mechanics and puzzles. And the story paired with the ending cement it as one of the best games ever made. The very same can be said for the DLC.

You can dual wield the shotgun, I don't really feel the need to say a lot more.

Except for the fact that Episode 3 especially has some extremely cool and interesting levels.

It's quite cool how this game keeps improving in terms of aesthetics and stays innovative gameplay wise.

Undertale.
Ein Spiel, was dich auf die Probe stellt, ob du alles um dich herum wirklich töten willst oder nicht und theoretisch sogar dich mit ihm befreundest, was auch zu verschiedenen Enden führt. Entweder bekommst du das ganz normale, noch etwas schöne Ende, das mega emmotinal schöne Ende, oder naja... das ein bisschen unschöne und eher gruselige Ende lol.
Ein echt tolles RPG, echt lustige Charaktere, wunderschöner Soundtrack und für den ein- oder anderen echt lohnenswert.

Mal wieder ein Spiel, das zeigt, dass man nicht gute Grafik braucht um ein gutes Spiel zu machen (also wennes nicht auf gute Grafik ausgelegt ist)