Update Two Hundred and Fourteen: 19 August 2018
She Remembered Caterpillars
4.1 hours, 13 of 13 achievements
7.5/10
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She Remembered Caterpillars is an interesting, lovingly animated little puzzle game. You control fungal creatures called “gammies,” navigating them across 40 maps through color-coded challenges.
I was kind of expecting for there to be more narrative, but the only hint of story you get is different, very tiny bits of writing—usually dialogue, but not always—at the beginning of each chapter. While it’s not always so easily pieced together, the story gives you a loose idea as to what the gammies actually are, and what you might just be doing with them. The atmosphere itself is very unique—it’s haunting. I don’t know about you, but there’s something a little offputting to me about like fungi and bacteria and industrious living things so so small, but the cuteness of the gammies and the aura of the game make it seem almost homey, and definitely benign.
The puzzles are a good spread of challenges—never punishingly hard, but some do involve a lot of round-n-rounds to get the right-colored gammy to the right spot. You can combine gammies and recolor them to navigate paths that could require a certain color or won’t allow a certain color. The animations are lovely to behold, though the AI sometimes isn’t the best.
I would definitely recommend anybody who wants some good puzzling to pick this up!
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Edgelands was a trippy game. Not too long to play through either.
Yeah, it’s very weird. Spooky. I like it…
except there’s no achievement documentation D:
I think I know what a few achievements are, but I’ll probably have to shelve this to come back to another time after maybe nudging some people on the discussion board for help.
That book I was reading about bacteria actually went into depth about the psychology of being fearful/uneasy about it and some of the history behind it with the reactions of scientists discovering bacteria in the human body for first time (aka bloody terrified), which was fascinating! So you’re definitely not alone in it giving you the heebie jeebies. :P
I love puzzle games, but sometimes ones like these can get repetitive quickly. Hard to resist when the art style is fantastic, especially love the line work and tiny details. Glad you ended up enjoying it after all!
That really IS fascinating! It’s just great that they could take something pretty deeply embedded and make it seem really cute and friendly.
I would never say it gets repetitive - it stops before that point, mercifully. There’s enough variety in stuff to do that it keeps picking your brain to keep trying. The little gammies running around are SO cute, too…!