AlolanYoda

I've only played the original Freeware title. I can definitely recommend this. At the time I played it, it had an incredible impact on me, opening the door to the world of indies and the freeware scene in general. I can credit it with having a direct influence on me trying game development as a hobby. It's wild how amazing of a game and how much polish it has for a free game made in 2004 by one dude. 20 years ago!

... Also, I've been reading forum threads debating if this is a metroidvania since at least 2010, possibly even earlier!

It's not like this makes up for everything else, but there is gravity on Mars

I understand. I thought you had a better way of implementing the high jump with different properties, instead of just removing it altogether. To be fair, I'd remove it too and a double jump would probably be my preferred approach!

I like Mario 64's triple jump, but I don't think it'd be a good fit for a colectathon like this. I can't put to words why I think it'd be different in YL, but I have a feeling that I'd get really annoyed if it asked me to use multi-jumps often to reach specific ledges. I don't think triple jumps are ever required in Mario games, are they? I doubt YL would ever introduce a move and not flood the levels after that with obstacles that you need to use the move on to progress

Thanks for your write up! I never finished the game, it didn't really pull me in as I expected it to. But on this topic:

My main gripe is just that they seem to have mapped controls in a retro way for nostalgia reasons and it holds the game back. Rather than triggering the moves organically through context, the left trigger is again used as a face button modifier. Jump with A, high jump with LT+A. Sonar ping with Y, Sonar explosion with LT+Y. They didn't need to do that but at least the animations are short to trigger so it isn't too painful.

How would you have done it? I don't think I'm against the LT being used in this way. For instance, how would you have implemented a high jump like what they have? Or would you have removed the move entirely?

I was not expecting giveaways on Lemmy!

Honestly I haven't seen much of this game (having a PhD to finish and all, I haven't allowed myself to hahaha), but I am hopeful that it will allow me to try to solve conflicts with diplomatic and out of the box thinking instead of just combat, and having it feel like I haven't cheated myself out of content: it bothers me that I can't avoid conflict in most games without feeling like I'm missing out, and Star Trek is the perfect IP to make it work.

Thank you for the giveaway! Best of luck!

Edit: Is this valid for all regions?

Not true at all, there were plenty of trains built on the Earth. The one on the moon will be far from the first.

Yes. That implies you are on the same level as Stephen King.

You should publish as Steven Emperor ;)

Remember white spy? This is him now. Feel old yet?

When thinking of space games with limited graphics, the first thing that comes to mind is ASCII Sector.

But the Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters (or whatever it's name is now) gets my strongest recommendation. And Starsector looks inspired by it, so I'll have a look!

Good to officially know the Switch will have a sucessor, by Nintendo's silence I would not have been surprised if the Switch remained Nintendo's main console until after the heat death of the universe!

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