Re: FREE GAMES: "Industria" and "Lisa: The Definitive Edition"

On 4/27/2024 6:47 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:15:35 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

On 4/25/2024 9:00 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

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Greetings and salutations, fellow humans. Free games time again. You
know the drill; head on over to Epic and click the 'add to library'
links. Remember, a cluttered video game library is a happy video game
library.

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* Lisa: The Definitive Edition
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/lisa-the-joyful-219c24
     A 'complete' edition that includes "Lisa: The First",
     "Lisa: The Painful" and "Lisa: The Joyful", two Indie
     RPGs with a side-scrolling retro-graphic'd viewpoint.
     I don't know anything about the game and it generally
     has good reviews... but on first glance, I can't say
     this is a game I'd want to play. It just looks ugly,
     not only because of its old-school graphics but
     unappealing character and monster designs, and boring
     map layout. I guess it has a sort of weird Lynchian
     vibe that might appeal to some, but I'm not sure I'm
     in the target demographic.

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So I picked it up, and was going to install it and give it a try but in
the Library it only lists
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Lisa: The Painful - Definitive Edition
Lisa: The Joyful - Definitive Edition
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I don't see "Lisa: The first"
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When I search Lisa in the store it only shows "The Definitive Edition"
not either of those.  I'm scratching my head on what to do here.

 Apparently "Lisa: The First" is a free prologue. I based my info on
the "Lisa:Complete Edition" found on Steam, which does include "The
First". Apparently Epic's "definitive edition" does not. (there's no
'definitive edition' listed on Steam; I just assumed the two were the
same. Well, you know what they say about assuming...)
 But if you want the full "Lisa" experience you can grab "Lisa: The
First" for free here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2743030/LISA_The_First/
 

So I decided to try Lisa: The Painful as that's the first that was free.   It brought me through the prologue, I'm not sure if that was Lisa: the First or not, but it felt like I didn't need anything more anyway.
The prologue is annoying though as it's basically an in game cutscene which is fairly long for what it was.  I suppose it's to build into the main game and can be forgiven.
*mild spoilers of the premise of the game follow*...
The setting/text is dark and disturbing.  Some sort of apocalypse (no explanation) has left the world a wasteland, and there's no women. Except one baby girl you find in the wasteland and raise to a child, then she gets kidnapped and your friends killed.  She appears to still be a child at the time of the kidnapping. You go out to get her back. Constant comments from raider type enemies on what they'll do if they find her really turned me off.
As to the gameplay, it's JRPG combat and some rather crap side scrolling when not in combat.
I won't be continuing it.  The subject matter while compelling, isn't something I'm interested in exploring, and the gameplay itself feels like it would be some shovelware in the 80's at best.
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-Justisaur
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