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neutral games

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:31:22 -0800

Japanese Myst-like escape games from neutral (Flash)
Vision - Hints
RGB - Hints
Sphere - Hints

By: pineapple

pineapple — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:52:13 -0800

I got hooked on the genre of escape-the-room games back when someone posted The Crimson Room at 3WA (discussed previously at Mefi), and they all have different charms... but I'll say this: I thought that "Vision" was hands-down the best I've ever played. Better even than Samorost -- which is almost outside the genre, it's so good.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:33:01 -0800

samorost is a really good game, yeah. I'd never heard of neutral games, but I really dig escape flash games. thanks for the link, I'm gonna try out vision now.

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:15:32 -0800

These are awesome, that East Manitoba....

By: DU

DU — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:25:48 -0800

I love escape the room games. I hate escape the room games.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:54:37 -0800

wow, that vision one was great.

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:34:17 -0800

I'd just like to point out that I normally hate, hate, hate those confounded escape-from-the-room games for their arbitrarily illogical puzzles, but the Vision one is actually pretty awesome.

By: pineapple

pineapple — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:44:09 -0800

neckro23, that was one of the things I liked best too. None of the annoying, arbitrary pixel-hunting.

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:00:30 -0800

I too normally don't like these things, but in Vision the creator never requires trial-and-error and has minimized its effectiveness, and everything is tied together so well in such a small space, and there's nothing that feels like it should work but doesn't, and I love it and want to have its intellectual babies. Plus there's no terribly-acted FMV inside magic books.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:42:02 -0800

Oh sure, emrjkc94 gets n favorites. I gets nada.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:43:29 -0800

Plus there's no terribly-acted FMV inside magic books. how dare you! blasphemy!

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:19:36 -0800

I'm sorry, I take it back. Myst fans, please call off the attacks.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:17:24 -0800

No. You can't be forgiven for a thing like that. (many many more here)

By: unSane

unSane — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:02:08 -0800

Oh, THANKS. no work today. I played all these plus samorost plus crimson room, viridian room and white room. like I say, THANKS.

By: pineapple

pineapple — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:55:31 -0800

Wow, unSane. Most of us have experienced that same "sucked into an escape-room for a couple hours," but here and there over the course of years. You managed to mash it all into one day. Well done!