To the Moon (2011)
Wow. Okay. So you crazy cats have now elected my "pick" for the fourth time in a row. Amazing!
You play as either Dr. Rosalene or Dr. Watts (and you might switch around mid-game). They have an odd job: allowing people to relive their life, all the way from the very beginning... but only in their heads. And it will be the last thing they remember as they draw their last breath. As a result, this procedure is only performed on people on their deathbed, to allow them to rectify their regrets. This particular patient, Johnny, wants to go... to the moon.
You can find the wikipedia page here, usual spoiler warning apply. How Long to Beat estimates about 4 hours to completion, but it felt shorter to me back in the day.
Available on Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch (release slated for this summer I believe). Currently very deeply discounted on Steam (1€99).
You can find the main thread over this way. We'll be playing To the Moon in July 2019, with an extra month if needed. Enjoy, folks! And keep the tissue box on hand.
Cool.
PSN: Bubblefuzz
3DS: 1521-6850-6962
It's been installed on my MacBook for quite some time, and I'm ready to go! Since this is short, I think I can fit it in my schedule.
Currently playing: Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS5), Tomb Raider I-II-III Remastered (PC)
Started this a long time ago, and never finished it. Looking forward to giving it another shot.
AWESOME! Just installed it. Can't wait to start, but think I'll wait til I have a chunk of time to devour it in one sitting.
Oh, I already have this one.
And it's got one relatively easy Steam achievement.... Perfect Game Possibility!
I can't resist. I will do this when I get back from traveling.
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Just tagging for now. Dont know if I'll get around to actually playing it again - but then I said the same about Baldurs Gate 24 hours ago, and it is basically all I have been doing today, so what do I know.
To the Moon is an absolutely awesome 'game' experience in any case.
There's some lovely humour in the game.
I hope you like thrill rides - Luis Serra, Resident Evil 4 Remake
Uncharted 4 Multiplayer: Half Nelson
I just finished the game... chewing on a lot.
Progress! I've installed the game.
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Hoorah!
I hope you like thrill rides - Luis Serra, Resident Evil 4 Remake
Uncharted 4 Multiplayer: Half Nelson
Also just tagging in until I get home from vacation in a few days. Barely started this years ago and got distracted, glad to have a solid reason to revisit it.
Grouvee
Thinking that starting is often the hardest part, I squeezed in 15 quick minutes of this today. So far so good. I got a little confused at the very first section because I misinterpreted some artwork, but once I sorted that out everything went fine.
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Been pretty quiet here the last week, how's everyone coming along? Seeing as it's really story heavy and short, I'm guessing a lot of you who finished it are still mulling over your thoughts?
I myself haven't gotten around to it as I'm saving it for next week when I'm on vacation and away with my laptop.
I started in last night, seemed like the perfect thing to wind down with before bed. Didn't get far into it yet, due to impending keyboard faceplant, but I did at least get farther than I had previously.
Grouvee
I was hoping to play this three weekends ago. I might push it to next weekend though. I'm also playing Nier Automata for the (main) JRPG Gameclub, and I think this will be a nice short game to put between the first and second playthroughs.
It's already installed on my MacBook and ready to go though.
Currently playing: Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS5), Tomb Raider I-II-III Remastered (PC)
I have never heard of this one. I will play it on iPad, shame it is not on the Switch yet.
Just finished. I absolutely loved the story and the music (though it was maybe repeated too frequently), though I was not at all a fan of the way the game was executed. Anything that was game-related seemed contrived and was often maddening (particularly the action sequence).
Dr. Watts annoyed me most of the time as I found him arrogant and seemed to be trying to prove how "cool" he was at any given moment (though that may just be my general annoyance with hipsters shining through). I enjoyed the other characters well enough, but my favorite part of the game was the relationships between them. It was when interacting with Dr. Rosalene that Dr. Watts actually seemed human to me (and thus far more tolerable). The unexpected and perhaps sometimes irrational love of Johnny and River was portrayed so empathically that I found myself feeling the bond between them as a certainty, which gave the motivations of the characters and the resolution of their stories a sense of inevitable beauty.
Overall A+, though I hope next month we get something a bit more puzzle-heavy. I think I'm done with walking simulators for a while.
Regarding the diagnosis (not really a spoiler but tagging it in case someone's a purist like me):
And now back to fancy graphics and playing with my new video card!
Steam SW: 7131 7174 9337
(Kudos to Jayhawker)
Help me! I am trapped
In a haiku factory
Save me, before they
Started this game a long time ago but didn't finish. Maybe I should give it another shot.
What Stele said ^ -mortalgroove
Switch: 6273-9936-5107
So I played this back in, I think, 2012 and it has its flaws but ultimately I really like it. It's earnest and heartfelt and aims at some difficult subjects in a way that not a lot of games do (outside of the very indie space).
I played the sequel, Finding Paradise, just a couple weeks back and it was...fine? Some of the rougher edges of the humour that were sometimes grating in To The Moon but also gave it a lot of its personality felt sanded off. The whole "see how a life was lived" thing is still broadly effective but the specific case itself didn't get its emotional hooks into me the way the first game did.
Welp, I ran into a pretty big issue, which I'd completely forgotten about. When I first played To the Moon, my PC and the Windows account I was using was simply "Siona" (all my PCs have Dune names, my laptop is Sheeana). Except now, with Windows accounts using real names, my first name has an "é" in it. And To the Moon will not hear of it. There's no patch or anything, this has been a known issue for years now, and the only workaround is creating a guest account and playing it from there.
I'm still on the fence about it all, I'm not sure whether or not I'm double dipping on the iPad, or going through the guest account thing, but it has put me off a bit.
Really? That's weird: I have an 'é' in my last name, and I was able to play a few minutes of the game with no problem (I played it through Steam though, I don't know if it's the case for you as well). I double-checked, and there is an 'é' in my Windows user account as well... Is this something that happens right away, or is it a problem that shows up later in the game?
Currently playing: Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS5), Tomb Raider I-II-III Remastered (PC)
That is a really weird issue indeed.
Also this is awesome.
Oh no, it’s a known issue which the dev has addressed in the Steam forums. It has to do with the Windows pathfile.
I was confused why it would use the windows username for anything, but yeah, makes sense now.
Seems like some people have fixed it by changing the games savefolder through registry. No fix here for windows 10, but maybe it it reasonable to figure out how to change it manually.
https://freebirdgames.com/forum/inde...
Still weird that I did not run into the issue with the game despite my user account having an 'é' in it. I just finished it, and had zero problem (outside of the fact that even at fullscreen, all I could use what a tiny rectangle in the middle of my TV, probably because my TV cannot do 640x480 or some small resolution like that).
Overall, I really liked it. I have some grievances with the gameplay (the action sequence near the end
is somewhat painful, especially I could not use the d-pad on my controller and had to use the analog stick, which is not very precise for 90 degree movement), and I found Neil annoying at first, but he grew on me overtime.
The music was fantastic. The art was super charming. The story was great as well (not the tearjerker I expected though).
So yeah, this was great! I'm glad I have played it. Not a bad way to spend 4 hours on a muggy weekend! I may even play 'A Bird Story' in the next few weeks (which I think is even shorter).
Currently playing: Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS5), Tomb Raider I-II-III Remastered (PC)
It is!