Videogames about the immune system, you say?
I worry this will train a generation of future biologists to underestimate the dangers of autoimmune disorders.
Your connective tissue is collateral damage.
I'm looking forward to the day when teachers assign video games to students instead of textbooks. I played Valiant Hearts: The Great War recently, and I think its the kind of thing that should be assigned in history class. It has a potential to reach students that wouldn't necessarily be receptive to a WWI history lesson by other means.
How did you find it? I heard that the game parts of it were not so good.
I quite enjoyed it. Compelling characters, interesting variety of activities. I do tend to get frustrated at puzzle-solving games when I don't get the puzzle after a few minutes, because I missed something obvious, or perhaps not-so-obvious. So I'm usually pretty quick to cheat on a game like that by referring to a walk-through text, which I think makes for a more enjoyable experience.
I did play it on the PC, though. I heard the tablet versions had problems.
I find playing puzzle/adventure games with a walkthrough quite a dispiriting experience. If the puzzles are that obtuse, I'd rather just watch a video to get the narrative/art.
On the whole, I didn't find the Valiant Hearts puzzles to be overly obtuse. But I am a man of very little patience, and I'm only willing to bang my head against a puzzle in a game for so long. So I tend to be pretty quick to hit up the walkthrough.
The other puzzle game I've played recently was Brothers: A Tail of Two Sons, which is a brilliant game in many respects. But I hit up the walkthrough a _lot_ on that one.
Huh. I can't really imagine getting stuck in Brothers. Most of the puzzles just involve pushing the thumbsticks in the appropriate direction. Maybe in that underground forge part, I suppose.
It actually turned out that a number of my problems in that game were due to glitches in the game itself. Unfortunate.
Also, like I said, I don't have a lot of patience for mucking about. I gave up on Legend of Grimrock II because there was too much cryptic shit going on. Obtuse puzzles with lame clues plus confusing maps and overpowered monsters isn't a great combination.
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Looks like a place for it. Anime Report!
Ikuhara is baaaack. The creative mind behind Revolutionary Girl Utena and Mawaru Penguidrum has a new 1-cour 12 episode series with a title that can be translated as "Lesbian Bear Storm" which is about umm, Lesbians, teddy bears and a storm. Now this is extreme ecchi (and apparently Ikuhara is pushing the broadcast envelope) I can get behind, because he uses his visual materials to actually say something, even if nobody is ever able to determine what he is trying to say. Symbolism!
Yuasa (Mind Game, Tatami Galaxy) also had a series in 2014, and Ping Pong The Animation is indeed excellent and visually exciting as far as I have gotten. It's about...you know. An adaptation, so content constrained.
Other recs, haven't seen much, are Mushishi 2nd season and Barakamon. Parasyte is 2-cour ongoing.
warming up to NGNL, since it was described as "Game theory made Epic!" Still too much color.
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Did something happen with the video in the OP? I saw the kick-starter video earlier, but now I'm seeing the video from a few stories back with the football players.
That's a common issue with videos here. Try reloading the page.
Looks like its a problem for me in Firefox, but not Chrome.