Same! And I’ve been actively trying to provoke it! Which now that I think about it is probably the ultimate tell.

I’m getting old and irrelevant because looking at the Keighley Awards list I’d only played like two of those games. But also I know I missed 100 indies :(. This year I really liked:

Avowed
South of Midnight
Kulebra
Shantae Risky Revolution
Sword of the Sea
Ruffy and the Riverside
Wheel World
Hades

“In the pink” is one of those phrases I only ever see in newspaper headlines, used as a pun because something is literally pink (and figuratively in the pink, which is a posh British phrase from hundreds of years ago meaning “winning”). Nobody ever says it in any other context. It should be banned.

This entire summary and judgement is very funny. I feel like people would care about it, if it could be packaged up as some kind of dramatised recreation.

But the extra cool thing is you can control the scale in the settings. If it's on a huge TV or you're close to your monitor it's a bit much to look at, so you can make it smaller. And if you're playing in 1080p, since 7x is only 1008 high, you can choose to stretch full screen or leave it sharp.

Halfway is pretty damn optimistic tbh.

Update: now that I believe I’ve seen all the clips, it’s a much better concept than my original theory of an alien transmission interrupting weird Earthlings. I love this campy 90s-style FMV game. Can’t wait for the update.