![]() Honor Mizrahi was once a beloved television-detective personality. The game was revealed through the Mediatonic's YouTube page where they uploaded the game's first trailer. And now, as of October 9th, the team has announced their follow-up to Hatoful Boyfriend: Murder by Numbers a 1980's-themed murder mystery taking place on the Hollywood set of a popular detective show. It only requires two input buttons in addition to the joystick, and using the stick to dodge incoming bullet attacks makes me marginally better at the battle system.Mediatonic won their way into indie-lovers' hearts with their localization and remake of deceptively charming bird dating simulator Hatoful Boyfriend. The game practically seems designed for the stick. I seriously sat thinking about the decision for about five minutes and had to ask Boyfriend’s input on this crucial choice.īy far my favorite thing about playing Undertale on my PS4 is the fact that I can painlessly use my arcade stick to control it. I’m playing with the dynamic border because I’m curious to see how it changes as the game progresses, but I was sorely tempted by the sepia border because it’s so nice to look at. …or an objectively beautiful sepia-toned floral frame. It also deals with the aspect ratio difference by providing the option to use surprisingly attractive frames around the gameplay screen, giving you the choice of a dynamic frame that changes as your location changes… It’s got PSN trophies, if you’re into that (which I am). I am replaying the game on my PS4, and the port is perfectly serviceable with no issues. I’ve spent almost a thousand words on all of the stuff that came with the game without saying much about the game itself, but you can click on the first link in the post if you’d like to read my original 2015 impressions of my first playthrough. So far, I’d say the purchase was worth it if only just for the soundtrack. Granted, a few of those tracks are 10-20 seconds long, but most of them are substantial, amazing compositions that have seen me through several long nights of both cleaning my apartment and copyediting. Not only is the music a veritable feast for the ears, it’s a 107-course feast because that’s how many damn tracks are on those discs. ![]() I’ve been listening to it in exclusive rotation with my Hamilton original cast recording for the past few weeks. I’m a little perplexed by the fact that searching “Toby Fox” in Google brings up this list of frequently searched questions, all of which seem perfectly logical things to ask aside from the first.Īnyway, the soundtrack is deeply excellent. (I would in fact occasionally take the raft to the waterfall level and let the music just play while I caught a few elusive hours of fitful sleep.) I loved the idea of an RPG in which you didn’t have to kill anyone or anything, and I thouroughly enjoyed the quirky characters, the font-based humor, and the gorgeous music. ![]() I knew it had been getting nothing but glowing press, though, so I installed it, began it, and it enthralled me all through the long dark of my sleepless nights. They responded by sending me some weird games in return (notably Shower With Your Dad Simulator and There’s Poop in My Soup), but one student thoughtfully sent me a key for Undertale, a game with which I had only a passing familiarity. It wasn’t uncommon for me to receive Steam games from some of my ex-students as soon as the small cadre of nerds in my college writing class discovered that I was a gamer, they clamored to add me to their friends list, something I had only allowed once they graduated and which I celebrated by sending them graduation gifts of weird Steam games (including Hatoful Boyfriend and Secret of the Magic Crystals). One of my recently-graduated students sent me a Steam Key for the game during Steam’s Winter Sale. This meant that I had a lot of wee-morning hours to kill, and while I spent a lot of them taking long, solitary walks on the nearby golf course while talking to then-brand-new Boyfriend on the phone, I needed something to do in the rest of my downtime. The three hour time difference between Virginia and the West Coast, the fact that my parents’ house was so full of relatives that I had to sleep on a mattress in the living room, and the fact that I was feeling awful because I had been forced by necessity to travel without my medication conspired in a perfect storm of insomnia that prevented me from getting more than two or three hours of sleep a night. For one thing, there are no lattes in my hometown, but the larger issue was that I didn’t really get any sleep for the entirety of my stay. It was great to see everyone, but in many respects, it was a pretty miserable trip. Over the holiday season of 2015, I went back home to Virginia to visit my family.
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