Another game from Spring Thing: this time it’s Jim Aikin’s A Flustered Duck. But first, we must fill this space with something for the RSS feed. Perhaps I can interest you in a recipe for tea-smoked duck? Or duck with pomegranate sauce? If cooking isn’t your thing, perhaps you’d like to order duck in a dark-chocolate demi or a crisp duck cake small plate?
Oh, all right, I suppose live ducks are okay too. Forward we go, and there are more than usually SPOILERS ahoy.
New Homer in Silicon is now up. (Yeah, it’s soon after my previous column, but that one was a bit late coming out, I think to avoid overlap with the GDC coverage.)
I am looking at another Spring Thing game, this time Richard Otter’s Vague.
Here is where we fill in the RSS feed with meaningless chatter of some kind. I’m going to use this space to mention that apparently PlayFirst is having an April sale, so if you’re thinking of trying Emerald City Confidential or one of the Chocolatier games, this is a good time to do it. I haven’t posted my review of Wandering Willows yet, but I’ve tried that too — it’s very cute and a bit more grind-y than I prefer, but very well polished; if you like the demo, you’ll probably really enjoy the remainder of the game. And in general I am in favor of PlayFirst’s branching out and sponsoring many styles of game beyond the typical match-3/time management/hidden object stuff associated with that market.
Anyway! With that spoiler-free bit out of the way, let us proceed to the game.
My fuller analysis of Emerald City Confidential is now up.
My take on the latest Chocolatier game (“Decadence by Design”) is now up over at GameSetWatch.
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