This War of Mine

These guys like to make, make you feel bad about your choices.

So yeah, it was This War of Mine, is what it was called.

Yeah.

And this, this wa- the...

Yeah.

A- and that's kinda where I'm at with this one, is, like, I'm thinking, uh, w- in early access I was like, "Eh, I'm not convinced I need to play this in early access if it's, like, this story, narrative-driven game.

Kinda wanna just play it at the 1.0 release." But it seems to be a mix of This War of Mine and, like, a more...

There was a couple o- uh, I think there was, like, a, a tango, like, game.

Because usually their, their games that has this one feature on one theme, like in Frostpunk, apocalypse.

In This War of Mine, war.

Alters, the time travel with consequences.

Like, they al- they're always targeting this one harsh topic that makes this game viral.

all right my number six not i'm not trying to be a downer here in this sense but my number six is scary because it's one

of the most realistic ones and i would not ever want to be in this situation also from awakened realms but this is their first game this war of mine So this

is a game about living in a war zone as an ordinary person.

No soldiers, no guns, no heroism.

dies.

So this is the only game of mine that's really like this on this list.

But I still thought it was worth mentioning this war of mine.

Okay, all right, so this is, it's funny, I went through this list, and like you, I didn't put Lovecraft on here because it's so just over the top, just crazy.

Oh, go ahead.

Well, the other one I had was sort of the horror of the self that comes up in Spec Ops: The Line, and This War of Mine, and Papers, Please, where, like, very overtly in Spec Ops: The Line, less so in the other games, but where the horror is at our own actions and what the game has encouraged us to do, as we realize in retrospect that we are the monster.

Mm.

Yeah.

Okay, that's interesting.

Because I've always been curious about board game adaptations of video games because many years ago they released This War of Mine.

It was a really good video game.

But Steve and I played it and it felt like, well, if you're going to play a solo game, just play the video game.

Um, yeah.

What about This War of Mine? I was looking.

That's, that, this

I've not played it.

No, but I think I probably would enjoy that in, in the fact-

Yeah

... that it's very thematic and I think, um, Jakub, um, who works, well, is part of Glass Cannon, I think he wrote or did a lot of the narration for, for This War of Mine back in-

Brilliant

Tell us, what is it and why do you love it?

This War of Mine is the game It is absolutely very different to the other ones.

I mentioned this before in that I'm quite interested in community.

And I really loved this game in particular because instead of being the frontline person, like, you know, the shooter or whatever, in this kind of war-torn story, you play the civilians.

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Okay, Unaming, let's go through your consoles.

So we've got Final Fantasy IX, Hotel Dusk, Room 215, Persona 4 Golden, This War of Mine, and Salt Sea Chronicles.

How are you feeling about that?

for me no well not every game is for everybody but at least you've had a try of it and if you don't like it then yeah fair enough i don't think i'm gonna play any more of it sorry brad It's like I played this game a few months ago or tried to play it because I had it free on PlayStation Plus.

It's called This War of Mine, Little Ones, I think it was called.

Right.

And the premise is it's set in the middle of a war.

I'm not gonna just say do The Last of Us's story, The Last of Us I or II, in a Metroidvania.

What I would like to see is a game that essentially just rips off This War of Mine from back in the day.

And I know that wasn't a Metroidvania, but I would essentially take that style of living in this, uh, like, you know, difficult, war-torn conflict where you're doing everything you can, um, to possibly survive and making tough choices.

I would kind of take that framework, put it on a Last of Us game with new characters somewhere in the world of The Last of Us, um, and then add in the 2.5D Metroidvania elements of new abilities, new items that you get that allow you to get, you know, to different areas and, and take on, uh, bigger infected and stuff.

But punctuate all of that action with the hard-hitting choices that you got in This War of Mine, and the moral dilemmas, and the resource management.

I think that would work really well, and you don't have to have Ellie or Joel anywhere in it at all.

You know what you could do? Oh, actually, I take it back.

Um, I saw it, of course, but I didn't plan an answer, so I'm pretty pleased with that answer overall, 'cause I would've just gone a survival horror Resident Evil or Dead Space like you did.