#Phoenotopia Awakening

[simplyghosting]

I will not stop talking about this game

[robotoooo]

Starting to notice a trend in the games I've been playing lately...

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today's disabled character of the day is Balo from Phoenotopia Awakening, who is an amputee and uses mobility aids

[Image Description: Pixel drawing of a man using brown crutches. He is scratching the back of his head with his left arm. He is shirtless and is wearing green pants, brown belt with gold buckle, a brown shoe on his left foot, and bandages on his right wrist. He has bandages on the end of his right leg where his foot was amputated. He has short brown hair and a brown beard. Lastly he has a medium skin tone, black eyes, and is muscular.]

[ceramic-galanter]

phoenotopia enemies tierlist

there are multiple enemies that were cute at first but now all I want is their blood

[reveastral]

Why doesn't anyone play Phoenotopia Awakening. It's So Good

adorable main character who goes squish when she thinks and does a little yawn + stretch whenever she wakes up

you can pet cats

wide variety of puzzles including musical sudoku

many enemies drop cookable food

fishing minigame

humour everywhere

adjustable combat difficulty

incredible music

fun worldbuilding

free Steam demo!!

If you are reading this, at least try the demo!!

[yourfaveisfriendshaped]

Gail from Phoenotopia Awakening (which i guess also includes Gale from the original phoenotopia too)

Gail is friend-shaped!

[yurye]

gale

[scrumpyfan43]

Wanna post a review of Phoenotopia Awakening because it's been two months and I'm still thinking about it, but it'll take a while to write. Two disorganized thoughts real quick though: "imagine if Chrono Trigger was Cave Story"; and "it's post-apocalyptic without being bleak or depressing, and while engaging extensively with the world that was lost in the apocalypse."

It's real good and I recommend playing it

[the-bearer-of-bad-ideas]

any time i listen to thomas's theme this is the mental image i immediately get

[liminalitycarb]

Gail has reached the Sphere and explores the city within the domed city.

With this episode we are now in the end-game of Phoenotopia.

[robotoooo]

Castellan Mawile - It performs beautiful dances to lure in unsuspecting prey, who quickly find themselves ensnared in thorny vines and devoured.

Castellan Sableye - It subsists on a diet of otherwordly gems that glow with moonlight. These stones give it the ability to teleport over small distances, but as a result, its physical body has weakened significantly.

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today's disabled character of the day is Aella from Phoenotopia Awakening, who has amnesia

[Image Description: Pixel drawing of girl with long orange hair and black eyes. She is wearing dark green shorts, black shoes, black head band, white Dobok like top, and black wrist bands. She has a light skin tone.]

[harmonizedhero]

I just got In Stars And Time, and im wondering if theres any like, blind guides out there? Stuff that points me in the right direction or give hints on how to reach side content that i can possibly miss without outright telling me what it is or what it entails. Because knowing me, i will miss it, but i don't want to just play next to a guide which tells me everything about the event leaving no room for suprise.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

[satoshi-mochida]

Some indie game recommendations from ones I’ve played or know enough about them to suggest them to others(mostly in no particular order), Part 3, since Tumblr stopped letting me add more for some reason:  

Parts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Icey

Transiruby  

Little Witch in the Woods

Bug Fables

Mechstermination Force

Faith: The Unholy Trinity

Doki Doki Literature Club/Doki Doki Literature Club Plus

HoloCure(Hololive Vtuber fan game)

Shantae Series

Slime Rancher

Gris

Undertale

Deltarune

Heart of the Woods

OneShot

Cris Tales

Phoenotopia: Awakening

ANNO: Mutationem

Tokyo Dark/Tokyo Dark Rememberance

2064: Read Only Memories

VA-11 Hall-A

Light Fairytale Series

A Hat in Time

ABZU

Azure Striker Gunvolt Series

Bastion

Carrion

The Henry Stickmin Collection

Mighty Switch Force Series

Papers, Please

Please, Don't Touch Anything

Sayonara Wild Hearts

No Straight Roads

Sierra Ops

Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius/Sunrider Series

Skullgirls

Solar Ash

TUNIC

[prokopetz]

I think everybody who's hand-wringing about Silksong not having a demo out for Next Fest needs to bear in mind that metroidvanias (and metroidvania-adjacent genres, e.g., Zelda-likes) are some of the most labour-intensive games to produce, and that most well-regarded indie examples of the type were in development for a very long time.

Phoenotopia: Awakening was in development for seven years; Ghost Song and Owlboy, for nine years; Iconoclasts, for eleven (if you count the development period of the cancelled Ivory Springs prototype; eight years if you don't); and if Radio the Universe makes its tentative 2023 launch date it'll have been in the works for thirteen years.

Of course, the elephant in the room is Hollow Knight itself. By all reports, it only took four years to produce. There are a couple of caveats that need to be attached to that, however: first, that how quickly Hollow Knight was turned out is one of the most notable things about it – many AAA studios would struggle to turn around a game of that scope in so little time, much less an indie studio! (For reference, four years is also about how long it took Nintendo and MercurySteam to turn out Metroid Dread.) Second, anyone who remembers how janky Hollow Knight's gameplay was at launch will understand that such extraordinarily rapid development came at a cost.

Point is, Silksong, which has been in development since 2019, is only just now reaching the point of having been in the works for as long as its predecessor, and even if it does take until 2024 or 2025 to come out, that would still put it on the extreme low end of expected development times for a large indie metroidvania. Missing the 2023 Next Fest is not a sign of danger ahead.

[meggannn]

big-budget game companies have been pissing me off lately (no female mc in persona 3 portable, assassin's creed china being a mobile game, bioware gutting tons of longtime staff) so here are some indie recs, mostly rpgs

backbone (apparently renamed as tails noir???)—detective/scifi rpg where you play as a raccoon in a world of animals with gorgeous pixel-art style

phoenotopia awakening—a truly magical pixel zelda-like where you play as gail, a young girl who gets caught up in saving the world after all the adults in her village are mysteriously abducted

the red strings club—a cyberpunk rpg where you play as a bartender, a hacker, and an android investigating a corporate mystery in a cyberpunk world. also your choices actually matter

toem—a photography game with adorable landscapes and biome settings

heaven's vault—a mystery/anthropological rpg where you're hunting down a missing person across the galaxy with a robot companion while deciphering an ancient language

donut county—literally the best game ever please play it

also a suggestion to follow Best Indie Games on youtube if you're into the indie sphere because they have introduced me to so many new games. they are so on top of indie game updates and releases, post videos several times a week, and every video is full of 10+ games i've never heard of and they rarely overlap. the amount of stuff out there is truly amazing and my wishlist/backlog is so long thanks to them