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Is anyone else playing this? I'm actually pretty surprised not to see a thread on it here already. Given this game's indie background, adventure game sensibilities and off beat sense of humour, I figured you guys would be all over it already.

I bought this after being intrigued by a thread for it on Something Awful, and it turned out to be one of my favourite games in a while.

The creator describes it as "..like a mashup of Zelda: Link to the Past and Ultima VI." Having never played an Ultima game other than Underworld, myself, I would describe it as "The best Zelda game since Majora's Mask". The graphical style is... primitive, but I don't think it detracts from the game at all. If anything, I'd say it matches the game's goofy-but-sincere tone perfectly.

The trailer can probably explain what the game is going for better than I can:

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I bought it, but I confess I have barely touched it (other recent games in this category: Drox Operative, Resonance, Avernum: Escape from the Pit).

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I bought it, but without a computer at home I haven't touched it, I was going to talk about it at one point.

The giantbomb quicklook sold me on it and bought it right afterwards.

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I also just bought it because of the Giant Bomb quicklook but haven't been able to play it yet. Looks really awesome though.

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So the answer is that you all bought it... You just didn't get around to playing it. Well, I suppose that's better than nothing.

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We're part of the Jake "Video Games" Rodkin fan club, we just talk about how we like and buy games but never play them.

edit: Perfect, apparently I had 7 days to download and then got cut off. Didn't have my computer or time to play it until tonight and I was cut off. Going through support now... bleh.

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I bought it, told my friends they should buy it, and haven't played it myself. But I hear tell there's a weekend on the horizon, so that'll give me some time.

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Awesome, I get to be the 2nd person on the forums to actually play it despite everyone on the forums having already bought it.

So anyway, yeah, it's a pretty cool game. I have a hard time playing it in long stretches because it's kind of clunky and navigating the world can be kind of frustrating but I still think it's worth getting. It's so odd that I'm having fun just exploring the world.

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I started it yesterday, and it's a great way to have fun so far. I like how chill most of the music is. It just lets you relax and play a weird game. I also like the way clothing works. You can layer on up to three (I think) different pieces, so you could wear a normal shirt, a vest on top of that, and a bowtie. Also, you can take off your pants and underwear and run around naked. So I've been doing that.

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Korax, I'm wearing a swan dress and being the prettiest cowboy.

I've been playing it all weekend and I think I'm pretty close to the end! Pretty fun game overall except for the mine. Shame about all the typos and misspellings though, I can't help but cringe at them every time.

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