Forum Overview :: Mischief Maker's Maker's Mark :: #20-11

[quote name="Mischief Maker"]#20 <A HREF="http://www.chroniclogic.com/index.htm?gish.htm" TARGET="new">Gish</A> (Shareware) Cartoony physics-based platformer where you play a 12-pound ball of tar using your properties to fling yourself across levels. Your quest is to save your busty human girlfriend, the implications of which are disturbing. #19 <A HREF="http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/index_e.html" TARGET="new">Warning Forever</A> (Freeware) A shmup that consists of neverending boss fights. Each new boss adapts to your playing style. Concentrate on attacking from the front, expect armor plating in the front of the next boss. Get picked off by a beam cannon? Expect the next boss to be bristling with them. #18 <A HREF="http://silverspaceship.com/chromatron/" TARGET="new">Chromatron</A> (Freeware) Puzzle game by a former caltrops alum. It's like the Incredible Machine, but only using light puzzles and running with the concept to amazing extremes. It used to be only the first episode was freeware, now all 4 episodes are. #17 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.jp/pooytwo/" TARGET="new">Twin Seeds DX</A> (Freeware) Shmup in the style of the Shanghai Alice games. It's really not fair to call it a clone because its emphasis on bullet scratching takes the gameplay in a direction the Touhou games never went. #16 <A HREF="http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=cavestory" TARGET="new">Cave Story</A> Possibly the most beloved indie game of all time. It's a fantastic metroid-alike with a weird but interesting plot. #15 <A HREF="http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/x_xgameroom/Works/works.html" TARGET="new">Blue Wish: Resurrection</A> (Freeware) More like Blue Wish: Res-<I>Erection!</I> This is a bullet hell game in the style of the Cave brand shooters. Doesn't make for the pretty displays like a Shanghai Alice game, just keeps the pressure on fast and furious. #14 <A HREF="http://www.getmagi.com/" TARGET="new">Magi</A> (Shareware) A fun real-time strategy game of ritual wizard combat with some of the best music I have ever heard in a video game, indie or mainstream. Note that this is referring to version 1.3, which greatly sped up the pace and made the gaining of spells and stats more straightforward. If the version you tried had a white main menu, you tried the old version. #13 <A HREF="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/content/games/yahtzee/artoftheft" TARGET="new">Trilby: The Art of Theft</A> (Freeware) A 2D game of stealth by the author of Zero Punctuation. The graphics are pixelly and the controls are wonky but damn if this isn't the most fun I've had with a stealth game since "Thief." #12 <A HREF="http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th10dl.html" TARGET="new">Mountain of Faith</A> (Import) The most recent of the Shanghai Alice games and the most beautiful by far. The gameplay is back to basics where collecting powerups gives you options which can be sacrificed for bombs. Also includes a flamethrower weapon (Black Witch #3). #11 <A HREF="http://www.telltalegames.com/samandmax/lincolnmustdie" TARGET="new">Sam & Max: Abe Lincoln Must Die!</A> (Freeware) Sam & Max live! In episode style! And they've released the most highly praised episode of season 1 for free! Note that the cockroach can be used on a person and can later repeat what they say.[/quote]