Oddsparks - An Automation Adventure
been wondering whether to admit to this new addiction for a whiles - not to protect anyone else from falling victim to it, hell no, the more ppl suffer similar debilitations the less lonely this existence gets, fill ya boots! - but now have reached a point where got to build own monorail in the game world. so, like a musician who avoided dying penniless on the streets as their album hits platinum, the social stigma and shame of a long term heroin habit's minimised enough to talk openly without risk of ostracisation - cos hey those songs already nestled in your warm fuzzy memory lobes, what you gonna do, remove them? tear them out like unsolicited leeches? that symbiosis shit's in for the long haul I'm afraid!
wtf was I...ah yeah, the game explains part - You know factory building genre? You know Pikmin genre? And maybe cosy village building-ish genre? Like all those mashed together, with a twee colourful aesthetic and upbeat xylophone soundtrack to ease the soul's default state of existential suicidal panic (oops accidental projection there) - Instead of conveyer belts, you have the various cute lil creatures you can throw at or in anything so they do, uh, stuff with or to it. is rather well tuned for console controller too, thankfully. however is still probably better with K&M i'd imagine, appreciated QOL tinkering nonetheless. the progression loop is kinda easy on the heart, town ppl wanna build, give you goals you go out in world to do, return and they add to your growing portfolio of machinations.
it seems like a single open world where exploration's linked loosely to technology progress, allowing as many vast interwoven spaghettified enterprises across the map as one can handle, seeding emotions from seeing your own growing empire of Byzantine resource extraction routes as you bumble back to the village like the regular exponential thought of "behold! pray witness t' majesty of thine divine arrangements atop ūre cosmic drapery!" (possible projection yet again, fckin sue me) It's whatever the opposite of diminishing returns is. biggerly yields? swole bunce?
anyways, kinda unexpected alright game have not seen even marketed let alone reviewed. don't play it, save yourselves from the void. I know I said I didn't care, but that was before telling everyone to fckin sue me, so now just a tad concerned about covering own ass from legal liability angle than originally planned
