I've been playing Wolfstride after getting it in the Summer Sale and I am enjoying it so far, enough to not want to save $1.40 by refunding and buying it again at this price. I highly recommend giving the
demo a try. It has a very distinctive style unlike anything else I've played and the writing is much better than most. The minigames are meh, although that goes with the general feel of the game; it is best if you like a game focused on the narrative and mood, although there is some decent strategy with the robot battles (shown in the demo). Of course, hard to say for sure how I will feel about it by the end.
For some reason it made me think of The Longest Road on Earth, maybe mostly the anthro thing but also the focus on mood and it being a very distinctive thing. Oh yeah, the grayscale thing too. I had only tried the
demo and didn't even like it that much at the time, although trying it again I appreciate it more this time. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood for it last time. It is basically a movie where you push arrow keys to walk through various mundane situations, more walking simulator than the average walking simulator. A review mentions it is maybe two hours and it looks like 78 minutes of music, standard length tracks not the ususal short game tracks (Wolfstride has some nice music as well but mostly short tracks). I'm thinking I'm likely to enjoy enough of the tracks to make it worthwhile as a music purchase at this price.
P.S. GOG, it would be wonderful if you could in some way highlight the demos available for games in a particular sale, either in the news post or on the sale page (maybe with that "featured games above the game list" thing that some people complained about but I like personally).
Oh yeah, NORCO has a
demo and is also quite a distinctive game and seems to have good writing (but isn't discounted much). I'm going to wait for a lower price but even avoiding most adventure games at this point I'll get it at some point.
I got The Longest Road on Earth and watched it (took me almost exactly two hours with a short break); a lot of the lyrics are fatalistic and I could see how that can rub people the wrong way if you aren't in that mood or just don't like that kind of thing. But I appreciated it and I think it does go better with Wolfstride and NORCO than it might seem at first glance. Not on sale and I haven't played the full game yet but Golf Club Wasteland seems like it fits this mood as well.
