Usually when we in the gaming press say a game is 'immersive', we mean that it pulls the player into an experience.
When you play Skyrim, you enter a fantasy world and take on the role of the hero. In Mass Effect, you travel to a distant future and become its savior. You forget where you really are, and let yourself be the Dragonborn or Commander Shepard. Analogue: A Hate Story takes an opposite approach to achieve the same effect: its world instead reaches out to you, turning your computer into an interface for spaceship communication. During the course of play, the world you interact with becomes just as real as the mountains of Tamriel or the plains of Eden Prime as you piece together the story of a long-derelict spaceship, but is the effort worth your while?
Now that Valentine's Day is coming up, Humble Bundle is treating us to the love of cute anime games! And Hatoful Boyfriend themed love pillows. You read that correctly.
With the Steam anime sale, Twinfinite has decided to detail some of the best games that are on offer.
It's focused on the games in this weekend's steam sale, so it's limited by design.
I think the only one worth playing in that list is Ys Origin
This week Ian Riley and Joshua Wise talk about Eufloria, Gunpoint, Analogue: A Hate Story, both Amnesia games, Rogue Legacy, and Battlefield 4's continuing problems. Then they continue with critical readings of press releases, and a discussion of the problems with our multiplayer identities.
