The seasonal structure is one of the unique aspects of the play date. When the handheld first launched in 2022, the owners had access to 24 games created selection, which were released over time. It was a huge introduction to the device and its unique features-Krick, small display, black and white graphics-but did not have the second season until the beginning of this year. –
Season 2 launched in May, and when it is small-you get 12 games in $ 39, as well as whatever hack is based on FMV BilipoThis is – it also started a very good start. And since then it has been extended with quite different sports. A later adventures named White outAnd is called a point and click research game Shadow Gate PDWhich is actually a remake of a game since the 80s. Dozens of titles in Season 2 do a concrete task to showcase the possibilities on the play date.
But the thing that impressed me the most is the game that smartly use the handheld signature feature: its crank. For example, Small turnip There is a climbing game where you play as a turnip with weapons. Going around means using the Face Face buttons to catch things, and then walk your body with a crank. At first he felt a little strange, maybe because I had played nothing like him before, but eventually I managed to go into a solid rhythm to crank my path in dangerous regions. It is really satisfactory that you easily twist your path in the world by twisting the crank.
Daria and Como The more common side offers something inside the scrolling plateframers. You can move and jump into the world of pixel art, but to navigate the most dangerous areas, you are helping a kind of drone / griping hook that aims with the crank. You fire it and then swing yourself where you need to be. You can also use a crank to pull yourself up or down. Daria and Como With some challenging puzzles, relatively slow is a slow -moving physics -based plateframeter, and adding a crank involves a satisfactory layer of experience delay.
Maybe my favorite game is also strange. This is called Long dogAnd it’s almost like a spiritual successor Nobe Nobe Boy (Although Kata Takahashi has not been prepared, which is far from doing his strange things). The goal is easy: You are a dog that needs to bring the ball. But it seems that it is always in a difficult place, and is the only way to reach it. Long Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely To a long long -lasting part. And thus every surface becomes more and more food race as you can, before you show a strange angry gast dog.
Naturally, you use the crank for both growing and shrinking, so though Long dog Is there a game about a pip, moving like a caterpiller you go through the surface to rotate everything quickly. Once again, it needs to have some habit, but the limits of time really forced me to pull me. It was a blast. Also, at the end of each level you use the crank to get it.
Of course, these games were still pleasant if I stumbled into their catalog store. But there is something interesting about the big moment of the play date. Every week I expect something new, and I am never sure what will happen in reality. It can be more channels for strange legendary television service, or it can be the most difficult (and cute) game of recovery I have ever played. This stable cidens of strange and entertainment makes it very difficult to forget the play date.


