Update Three Hundred and Fifty-Three: 27 November 2019
Lumino City
.6 hours playtime, No achievements
Did Not Finish/10
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Lumino City is a perfectly lovely point and click puzzle game with minimal story and maximal puzzles, all cheerfully created with real-life photographed assets. The typography at the beginning is crisp and modern and so stylish, but unfortunately that inventiveness doesn’t stick around. The setting is gorgeous, the animations responsive…
But the puzzles were kind of a drag, there’s not really a through line of a story to keep my interest, and when BLAEO user JaffaCaffa surprised me with some (late) wedding and (early) holiday gifts, of course I’m going to drop what I’m doing to play them!
Next up: THANK YOU JAFFA!
See you soon!
oh i thought you brought them. I was starting to think I was the only person who didnt buy things for once
Nope… though I do think I will buy some games in the sale, because I got some very good news and want to celebrate!
oh may as well
As Mr. White Rabbit once said, “I’m late, I’m late! For a very important date!” 💖
Enjoy, hope it treats you better than Lumino City. (Oh no…sorry for slightly ruining that one for you!) Games like these always pull me in with the beautiful graphics and are normally hit or miss depending on how impatient I am feeling. Either I soak everything up & am immersed, or might as well stop once I’m getting antsy… Still have my eye on it to give it a go one day.
Oh, yes, EXACTLY - it was lovely and cute but I felt SO antsy while playing it (I’m shocked I only played for 40 minutes? It felt much longer.)
I do think it’s a game worth TRYING, though for me I need a strong story throughline and not just pretty graphics.
I already like A Case of Distrust - the way the typography and graphics flow is lovely, and the rotoscoped portraits remind me fondly of Hotel Dusk.
You had me at Hotel Dusk. Funnily enough I’m playing through the sequel atm!
It was SO good. While I’m sure it would never happen, I hope it’s ported to PC somehow or the switch somehow - it’s a really special pair of games that I don’t want lost to the sands of time.
Ooh haven’t heard of Hotel Dusk before, but after looking up some gameplay it looks really good! The music is great as well. Something about detective games really draws me in.
It is VERY good, I like it a great deal. The art style in particular is lovely and remains vivid in my mind even though it’s been a long time since I played it.