Playdate Season 2 Review: The Whiteout and Wheelsprung

Panic is not tampered with the second season of Playdate. after On the right foot with holes! holes! Dino!and Legal defender The sudden amazement of Blippo+Follow the team with another strong pair of games for the second week. and It is, like the first week of games, the polar opposites of each other: the post -terrible and narrative adventure and the Dirtbike game with realistic physics (ISH).

If you are looking for any Through a line between them, I got you. It is a squirrel. You will see. (Well, it has originated, but as a journalist and rehabilitation of the wildlife that is currently raising the orphan squirrels, just allow me to get this).

This week also brought up an update to “Galax TV Service”, “,” Blippo+And it seems that we will get new content for some time. The second season team wrote in an e -mail that accompanies the last decrease.Blippo+ It will be updated itself every week for eleven weeks (!) Every Thursday at 10 am (1 pm Each time). “Once everything is over, it will be restarted. We will get the countdown to that in the 12th week, as the team says. Now, let’s get into the new games.

Waliot

Minutes after running stunning road programs Oiot, I became sure that this will be another game that makes me cry. The narrative tone is heavy, the atmosphere is dark and nothing at all indicates that anything will improve … it is a hopeless feeling from it from the beginning, but you have to continue installing anyway. (If you have read before RoadThe feeling should be familiar). When I finally reached the end, I was not crying – I was completely unable to speak, in “an open hanging mouth, empty inside.” It is amazing.

Waliot It is a paid narration, and the post -terrible arid version of the United States, where a snowstorm began in one spring and did not stop. Events are set at the current times – the appearance of ice in the spring of 2025 – which gives it strange, near the type of quality. Everything about that seems to be something Be able to It is happening. While it plays through its five chapters, the story is listed through the reflections of the playable character for the past and the present. Everything is beautifully written, with many emotional moments that felt real sadness.

I managed to remove some smiles from me; The character makes a sarcastic joke here and there, and a thorny hand called wood carpentry is simply known as “The Peckers”, which got me every time. The appearance of the squirrel is just a kind of dumping in the background as a refreshing sign of life in ruin. (I wondered while playing if the squirrel was a checkpoint, but I must deal with everything again to find out for sure.)

The game often requires a linear exploration, search for resources, solve puzzles and take options about your following moves. There is not much in the way of working, and most of the game is spent only walking with slow madness. However, although I was definitely the best option to speed up even little (cute rolls, perhaps?), Lethargy helps to clarify how difficult it is to continue with such conditions. The decline several times to get all the resources you need to advance in some areas is painfully boring, and therefore relief when completing the procedure is real. Patience is the key in this game.

I am afraid that some people will give up this title early because of speed, and I ask you no To do this. It is worth every minute. It is also worth playing with headphones, as recommended, to let yourself really immerse the setting. I stayed waking up the half of the night and woke up early the next morning to end it, and I am still thinking at the end that I came to. There are multiple ends according to the creators, so it is possible to dive again on another trip once I had more time to digest. Waliot It is undoubtedly an unforgettable game in each of the play seasons so far.

Wheelsprung

So, I played Waliot And now you are depressed. It seems that the Playdate team has prepared for this, because the other game that decreased this week with the second version of the second season may be the antidote. Wheelsprung Cute, charming and ridiculous like hell. It is also a very difficult (frustrated) physics game, but I love a game that gets a little angry with me.

art Wheelsprung It can be recognized immediately as Jolly Purnskov, one of the creators and Escape from the corridorsThis means that he is visiting a whim. Make this one one with the programmer Nino van Hooff. The story is very simple: a family with a child Love Nuts – like, enough to excite them all over the place in joy – left her home for a short period, and you are from the squirrel with a silly flexible dirt bail that takes place on a mission to collect the largest possible number of nuts in its absence. There are approximately three levels to complete, each of them is an obstacle path you should know how to move on the two wheels. There too To create your own paths.

Dirtbike’s Squirrel is basically Dr. Souss, and is capable of some impressive maneuvers. In any of the two directions, you can use a D-Pad and can do a cushion. Press the arrow down and immediately turn you into the other direction. But you should always be aware of your balance. Allow the squirrel helmet as much as handle An obstacle to this will erasure the termination, as of course it will collapse. This game forces you to become very creative to pass complex paths. There is the leading plate, perfectly, you want to finish as quickly as possible, but for a few levels, my main goal was at first to discover how to reach the end at all.

I don’t want to give up a lot of hints on how to excel in this game, but I am sure I have spent a sudden time to drive my bike upside down from one wheel, or shook the bike back and forth to crawl forward like an inch worm. It is very ridiculous, and a lot of fun (which stimulates anger some extent).