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Saw Lonely Mountains: Downhill pop up on a few end o' year lists and hadn't heard of it til then. Been meaning to pick it up for a few weeks now, but never occurred to me to check if it was on Game Pass. Lo and behold, it was
Spent an hour with it there and it's very much my... (prepares to ban self)... downhill jam.
Designers have gone for an interesting balance between relaxing cycling / sightseeing game and challenging, precise arcade high-score chaser. It works somehow! Firstly, the game feels really great to play - hitting the breaks to narrowly avoid the rocks feels exactly like it needs to. And then the structure's really interesting too: each track begins with a leisurely, non-timed trip down, and then you gradually unlock more challenging runs each time you pass it. It's the best of both worlds: chilled out experience if you want it, but extremely challenging if you hop up to higher difficulties.
Visual design's clever too - the main path will lead you down the main path, but lesser explored routes can lead you down riskier shortcuts that can shave many valuable seconds off the timer.0 -
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Bug-eyed weirdos ranting about how bad "pedo" or 'sexist' stuff in Japanese games are usually the biggest creepers out there, honestly. Glad Japanese creators never listen to em'.Canis Lupus wrote: »That's so ****ing creepy Rob....
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one armed dwarf wrote: »Is Japan that same country that had to have specific train carriages just for women because weirdos keep abusing people on the way to work?
Yep.
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Completely going off topic, and I admit this ...
... I was watching a podcast, so subject to potential mangled facts & bias, but apparently Japan's legal system is interesting in that arrests rarely go in front of a judge. Not unless the police have overwhelming evidence as to the suspects guilt. Therefore the judicial system is mostly a rubber stamping exercise; the consequence of this approach is Japan having a conviction rate that's (one of) the highest in the world, higher than most dictatorships. Needless to say this is ripe for corruption, with some judges simply ignoring the evidence for mistaken innocents because of this formality. Lord knows what then the Yakuza influence has on arrests too.
Hence Japan's famously low crime rate, the podcast inferring that it's mostly because unless there's a smoking gun, literal or otherwise, most suspects don't face a judge. And if they do, they must be guilty cos the system says the due diligence was done. Classical "he said, she said" crimes like sexual assault then must be a nightmare to convict under this requirement of absolute guilt & evidence, as they're nearly always built upon testimony of the accused & victim.
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johnny_ultimate wrote: »Saw Lonely Mountains: Downhill pop up on a few end o' year lists and hadn't heard of it til then. Been meaning to pick it up for a few weeks now, but never occurred to me to check if it was on Game Pass. Lo and behold, it was Spent an hour with it there and it's very much my... (prepares to ban self)... downhill jam.
Designers have gone for an interesting balance between relaxing cycling / sightseeing game and challenging, precise arcade high-score chaser. It works somehow! Firstly, the game feels really great to play - hitting the breaks to narrowly avoid the rocks feels exactly like it needs to. And then the structure's really interesting too: each track begins with a leisurely, non-timed trip down, and then you gradually unlock more challenging runs each time you pass it. It's the best of both worlds: chilled out experience if you want it, but extremely challenging if you hop up to higher difficulties.
Visual design's clever too - the main path will lead you down the main path, but lesser explored routes can lead you down riskier shortcuts that can shave many valuable seconds off the timer.
Downloaded this off gamepass as well over Christmas after seeing in feature on a few peoples GOTY lists, I really enjoyed it, but the one qualm I would have is that sometime the perspective makes jumps / landings not as intuitive as I'd like. Its sort of like Trials in a way, but more about steering left and right rather than maintaing balance.
There is a great sense of satisfaction from blindly going down an unmarked path and making it back to the main trail successfully though.0 -
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