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It may not meet your criteria for non-violent, or I suspect your kids requirement for interest but... you never know. "Return of the Obra Dinn" has some of the
by somat 4y ago
It may not meet your criteria for non-violent, or I suspect your kids requirement for interest but... you never know.
"Return of the Obra Dinn" has some of the finest game story telling I have ever experienced, the story it told was ok, a good serviceable story, but nothing exceptional. However the way it was told was amazing, I found it a highly satisfying experience.
Made by Lucus Pope who also made "Papers Please"
- anotheryou 4y agoIt's pretty graphic (nothing for the kids), but also came to my mind immediately.
- germinalphrase 4y agoI was really enjoying Obra Dinn until I took a break from it. A few weeks away, I simply couldn’t find my place in the story/puzzle/mystery and was too stuck to move on.
- somat 4y agoI had to binge it for that reason. I kept telling myself to slow down, take the time to enjoy it, while actually going, hurry up or you will forget important details. I also find I have to read books in one or two settings, I just loose the plot if it takes longer than that.
- WalterGR 4y agoGames really, really need something to solve this. I can't tell you the number of games I've had to start over.
- kadoban 4y agoA lot of games I feel like just need a way to place custom notes and pictures on the map. Kind of like pins/stamps in Breath of the Wild, except better.
- bluefirebrand 4y agoMore and more games nowadays have a little recap during the loading screens when you load a save file. I've even seen games that explicitly say "you haven't loaded this save in a while. Do you want a refresher?" It's a cool idea and seems to me to solve the problem of "where was I" after a break, but it hasn't caught on fully yet.
- beebmam 4y agoThe FFXIII series did this really well. I took a year to finish FFXIII, and even with its complicated plot I was able to follow it because of the recaps that would be presented to me every time I'd start the game up. I think it's the best Final Fantasy ever made.
- scott_s 4y agoDragon Quest 11 did a great job with these recaps. Someone else already gushed about how great they are: https://www.usgamer.net/articles/dragon-quest-xi-recap-feature-long-games-rpg https://www.usgamer.net/articles/dragon-quest-xi-recap-featu...
- jtr1 4y agoObra Dinn is fantastic! I've not encounter anything similar to its mechanic elsewhere and I totally agree on the storytelling. It is definitely a bit gruesome at parts (although in a lofi way), but in service of unraveling a mystery in retrospect rather than enacting any sort of violence.