deKay's Lofi Gaming

Grow Home (PS4): COMPLETED!

So many people were excited for this game, and voted it way ahead of two other potential PS+ titles this month as a result, but the majority of views of people after they’ve actually played it seem negative. Apparently, it’s “ruined” by screen tearing. It’s boring. The controls (specifically the climbing) are terrible, and so on. I’d like to suggest, that those people are idiots. Yes, there is screen tearing. But I only noticed it when it was pointed out …

Super Metroid (Wii U): COMPLETED!

And that’s it. Samus saved the day (although, in the end, all she saved was herself – spoilers). The game was completed in 7 hours 40 minutes, and with a collected items percentage of 79. I’m surprised it’s as low as 79%, as although I didn’t attempt to get 100%, I did search pretty much everywhere and only knowingly missed three upgrades – two missiles that I saw but couldn’t figure out how to reach, and a Reserve Tank that I …

Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland (DS)

I seems I only needed a couple of thousand more rupees in the pool for it to grow another level – to so high I’ve opened up a whole new continent. There, I found an island covered in marsh gas, and spent a fair while blowing up the vents spewing the gas into the air. With that done, I’d pleased a queen bee (as the flowers could grow again). I also found a hole to fall in, to find it …

Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland (DS)

After eventually figuring out how much Duke the Gay Workman wanted for his spade, I could start digging stuff up. Stuff like sweet potatoes and rupees! Well, OK – only sweet potatoes and rupees. Although I did dig some holes I could fall through and found some treasure chests with more rupees in. Then the tower shrunk! I didn’t know it did that! It seems if you don’t keep chucking rupees in, it shrinks again, undoing all your rupee-earning. Rubbish! …

Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland (DS)

First off today I went and cooked a load of stuff using up most of my ingredients. Then I wandered round the map for a while picking more ingredients, and collecting some Snatched Pearls and other stuff of value. Selling these things, and more food, I scraped together enough rupees to make the tower grow another stage. This gave me access to Lon Lon Meadow, which is full of evil cows and mushroom things. Wandered round there for a bit, …

Completed 2017

Lego Dimensions: Doctor Who (PS4 03/01/2017) Lifeline: Whiteout (iOS 08/01/2017) Lego Dimensions: Ghostbusters (PS4 08/01/2017) Lego Dimensions: Sonic the Hedgehog (PS4 14/01/2017) Mr. Pumpkin Adventure (Wii U 15/01/2017) SteamWorld Heist (3DS 02/02/2017) Pokémon Sun (3DS 06/02/2017) Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair (PS4 09/02/2017) Lego Dimensions: Portal 2 (PS4 12/02/2017) Grow Up (PS4 19/02/2017) BioShock Infinite (PC 19/02/2017) Lumo (PS4 23/02/2017) Monster Loves You! (PC 25/02/2017) BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode 1 (PC 01/03/2017) Thirty Flights …

Daisy is one month old!

Tomorrow, my gorgeous baby daughter is one month old. You might be wondering why I’ve not posted much about her here, well, since she was born, but that’s because she has her own (private) website for friends and family. I’m not keen on posting lots of pictures and information about her in a public space like this for obvious reasons – not least because she already appears to have attracted an unwanted stalker. Anyway. It’s amazing how the month has …

Tinykin (PS5): COMPLETED!

Well, what a lovely surprise this turned out to be! It had been on the periphery of my want list for a while, but I was sceptical that it was just going to be a Pikmin clone like the reviews suggested it was, and Pikmin is fantastic so that’s a hard wall to break through and every likelihood it’d be a bit pants. And, while there’s definitely a Pikminny taste to Tinykin, it’s certainly its own thing. You’re a little …

The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo (Switch): COMPLETED!

Back in the 90s, Channel 4 in the UK would sometimes show strange animated short films from abroad. I think they were part of some animation festival or something. This game immediately put be in mind of one of those. It’s a weird, nonsensical, abstract cartoon but it’s also a point and click adventure game. There’s no (recognisable) speech. Little in the way of explicit instruction, no narration, and certainly no explanation to the events. But it works! Assembling the …