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Proper review's supposed to start at the beginning. Ain't so simple with this one.
Now here's a game that's been sitting unloved on a shelf, half a decade. Kid decides one day, he's gonna conquer it. It's been tauntin' him long enough. Problem is, he tried once before. Didn't get that long, that time. This time, though, the kid swears, is gonna be different.
Kid hadn't decided to do somethin' like this right away, when he was clearin' out those indie games. But he turned his head, saw it sittin' there like always, mockin' his failures... and the kid decides, why not. He's got a full head of steam, plenty of momentum built up in that downhill spiral.
Those first few steps are just like he remembers them. Smoother, maybe - kid's had a lot of practice. Not afraid t' patch up after a rough spot, or admit his weak points. He still has a lot of problems, though, especially in lettin' go. Used t'be, he'd clear somethin' like this in an afternoon, move on bright-eyed and bushy-tailed the next day to greener pastures. Not so, now. He's slowed down a bit, got more botherin' him.
Maybe his aim's not as good as it once was. That's fine... kid knows now that there's no rush on things, that you don't gotta do things right the first time. You can walk away, come back to it later. That's the biggest hurdle that stopped him last time - tryin' to do everything the minute he could. Instead, he's doin' it in stages... a little bit here, a little bit there. Writin' down these thoughts as he gets 'em, so that he doesn't have to think 'em all in one go. He's gotten twice as far as he got last time, though he already knows how the story ends.
The story was never the important part to this kid. The journey's just as big.
That's what it's all about, isn't it? The journey. A quest to make yourself better, to go through hell and come back out... not better, but stronger. You can't finish a journey without accomplishin' somethin', even if you just go right back t'where it all started. Even when all the books fit perfectly between the ends of the bookcase, you still learn more by findin' out what those books are.
And th' kid... he's learned a lot. Maybe it wasn't all fun and games, maybe he won't be aimin' to do somethin' of quite this magnitude again... but he broadened his horizons. He learned. He grew. He achieved. Takes a game like this to pull that out of a kid.
And maybe that's why I'm here, tellin' this to you now. Because at some point, th'kid decided that just tellin' you what he learned wasn't good enough. He wanted t'show you.
But I don't need to tell you what happened, do I? You already know. Or someone else is rarin' to tell ya.
Now here's a game that's been sitting unloved on a shelf, half a decade. Kid decides one day, he's gonna conquer it. It's been tauntin' him long enough. Problem is, he tried once before. Didn't get that long, that time. This time, though, the kid swears, is gonna be different.
Kid hadn't decided to do somethin' like this right away, when he was clearin' out those indie games. But he turned his head, saw it sittin' there like always, mockin' his failures... and the kid decides, why not. He's got a full head of steam, plenty of momentum built up in that downhill spiral.
Those first few steps are just like he remembers them. Smoother, maybe - kid's had a lot of practice. Not afraid t' patch up after a rough spot, or admit his weak points. He still has a lot of problems, though, especially in lettin' go. Used t'be, he'd clear somethin' like this in an afternoon, move on bright-eyed and bushy-tailed the next day to greener pastures. Not so, now. He's slowed down a bit, got more botherin' him.
Maybe his aim's not as good as it once was. That's fine... kid knows now that there's no rush on things, that you don't gotta do things right the first time. You can walk away, come back to it later. That's the biggest hurdle that stopped him last time - tryin' to do everything the minute he could. Instead, he's doin' it in stages... a little bit here, a little bit there. Writin' down these thoughts as he gets 'em, so that he doesn't have to think 'em all in one go. He's gotten twice as far as he got last time, though he already knows how the story ends.
The story was never the important part to this kid. The journey's just as big.
That's what it's all about, isn't it? The journey. A quest to make yourself better, to go through hell and come back out... not better, but stronger. You can't finish a journey without accomplishin' somethin', even if you just go right back t'where it all started. Even when all the books fit perfectly between the ends of the bookcase, you still learn more by findin' out what those books are.
And th' kid... he's learned a lot. Maybe it wasn't all fun and games, maybe he won't be aimin' to do somethin' of quite this magnitude again... but he broadened his horizons. He learned. He grew. He achieved. Takes a game like this to pull that out of a kid.
And maybe that's why I'm here, tellin' this to you now. Because at some point, th'kid decided that just tellin' you what he learned wasn't good enough. He wanted t'show you.
But I don't need to tell you what happened, do I? You already know. Or someone else is rarin' to tell ya.
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You learned and experience and wrote and you finished what you set out to do. I'm glad you wrote about it. And even if more big posts don't show up/you're exhausted and just wanna NOT play things/whatever, I look forward to whatever's next.
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They might be a little smaller, depending.
I'm not gonna clear a game if I'm not having fun with it, though I'll still chronicle if I play it for a serious amount of time before coming to that.
I'm not gonna stress about doing x amount of clears in x amount of time, though I am going to try to keep my weekly momentum going in some fashion.
...awards will probably happen later today or early (early) tomorrow.
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You set out with an ambitious goal that I would have had no chance meeting (I cleared 24 games this year and that's after counting AM2R and MMU twice each, so I'd have been less than halfway there) and you did it. And you got to explore some great games, some... not-great games, made some highly entertaining posts, even got us interested in some of the gems you'd found. A lot of good came from this quest, and you deserve to feel good for getting through it.