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#YokusIslandExpress! It was a very short and sweet game with a frustrating map/navigation system. It played great on my #SteamDeck!
One of my likings in #gaming seems to be »basic puzzle embedded in story.«
I spent more than an hour the other day figuring out the sliding boxes puzzle in #ChainedEchoes. I wouldn’t have had the patience in a pure/abstract puzzle game.
Second example: pinball. As cool as mechanical pinball machines are, I get bored by them very quickly. But I tremendously enjoyed #YokusIslandExpress, which build a platformer and adventure around the pinball mechanism.
Probably applies to #boardgames as well.
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October 3, 2023 - Day 276 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 296
Game: Yoku's Island Express
Platform: Steam
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Installation Date: Sep 7, 2019
Unplayed: 1487d (4y26d)
Playtime: 15m
Yoku's Island Express is a sideways-scrolling Metroidvania... pinball mash-up?
I've been playing a LOT of Cyberpunk 2077. Sorry, Bethesda, CD Projekt Red is my master now. I quit out of CP2077 at 11:55pm last night, and was like "oh no!", and randomly grabbed an unplayed game.
The thing about this project is stumbling across a game that blows my mind with just how bad it is... or how good.
Firstly, if you've known me for any period of time, I have a bit of a thing for pinball; there's one specific pinball machine that if I see it in an arcade, I WILL play it until I'm dragged away.
As usual, I opened Yoku's Island Express without any idea of what I was getting myself into. I assumed it was some kind of cutesy 3D platformer, which is why it had sat unplayed for so long.
I have regrets. Four years of missed opportunity.
You play as a bug rolling a ball (a la dung beetles, but it's a *white* ball) around a tropical island, in which you've just taken over the role of postmaster. You're given a delivery quest to a part of the island obscured by clouds.
You need to traverse the island by rolling your ball, collecting fruit bubbles, completing quests, and navigating via flippers and bumpers.
Honestly, I'm not sure I can really do it justice with words. The idea of a Metroidvania using pinball mechanics seems too wild to work, but it does. It's so damn fun.
Note: You absolutely want a controller for this game.
For reasons that are not entirely clear, it's recently jumped up to AUD$29, but accordingly to gg.deals, it normally sits around AUD$5. The demo is available on Steam for free, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Yoku's Island Express may be one of my favourite games this year. It's:
5: Excellent
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And of course, a few more immediately come to mind:
#Sable
#YokusIslandExpress
#EnvironmentalStationAlpha
Also #Inmost isn't quite in this grouping but it's close. And for completeness sake I should mention a few games that are more well known:
I also haven't included older/mainstream games, but basically along the lines of #Metroidvania / #JRPG. Special mention to
#Marvelous (Another Treasure Island) which only every got an indie translation to my knowledge and which has done very refreshing mechanics.