Curate of Curiosities

December 27, 2023

Happy holidays! Here's two new pages:

First, we have a new page on that one RPG. Sure, our party still hasn't completed their rescue mission, but not only do they have a new member, but they have a decent lead!

And then, we have a page on the first chapter of one of the most famous Flash RPGs ever made, that, despite being made in the 2000s, might still hold up today. Might.

December 6, 2023

Another page for a certain Belgian comic for tweens is up!

Featuring: a quest for sex! Pixar mom figures! Christmas stories! Horrible dating advice! Freudian psychology! Catfishing!

December 3, 2023

So, the page for volumes 2-3 of Tamara is almost ready, but there's still a problem. Content-wise, these volumes are a bit spicier than volume 1 was, and tackles subject matter that has yet to be seen on this site so far (at least, in relation to something aimed at children), so I might have trouble effectively discussing it. How do you feel about a panel with what looks like two dogs having sex in a comic for tweens?

November 14, 2023

Another page for a certain indie RPG is up. While not much progress is made on the main character's rescue mission, we do meet someone who can be called a villain, as well as a boss fight that sort of poses an actual challenge.

November 11, 2023

Sorry for the lack of updates, but rest assured, I'm still hard at work on future pages.

Regarding that one Earthbound-like RPG with the long title, I've gotten pretty far. I think I'm about halfway through the game. While the writeup isn't quite ready yet, I do have a few boss videos uploaded over the past few days:

• An irrelevant miniboss,
• Another irrelevant miniboss,
• And lastly, a boss with some plot relevance and buildup.

October 8, 2023

The page for Raider Zero and Beast signer is up! On the one hand, you have its creator's first attempt at a Metroidvania stype platformer, yet with RPG elements shoehorned in. On the other, you have the next iteration of his RPG formula, this time drawing inspiration from Pokemon rather than Final Fantasy. And set in a virtual world in the post-apocalypse for some reason.

October 1, 2023

Just finished Beast Signer, Cornwall's attempt at mashing up his existing RPG formula with Pokemon. It's somehow even more unfinished than Deliverance was. Writeup coming soon.

September 21, 2023

Remember the promotional video for a certain Belgian comic that I brought up last month? The translation is officialy uploaded, and so is the page for it! And it's just my luck that Odysee starts stuttering the moment the video comes up. I am seriously considering joining a PeerTube instance at this point...

September 10, 2023

The page for Deliverance is up! Come see Cornwall's first serious project, filled with misguided design choices, unbalanced gameplay, and a derivative premise.

September 4, 2023

So, I just finished playing through Deliverance, one of Tobias Cornwall's early RPGs. Even though it was his first "developed" project, he still didn't know much about good game design, and it shows. Proper writeup coming soon.

August 26, 2023

As it turns out, editing videos is quite hard. I was planning to upload the page on Volume 1 of Tamara alongside a video on Odysee, but for now, I've decided just to upload the transcript on its own. Don't worry, you can expect the video pretty soon.

August 12, 2023

First off, did you know Class of '09 had a standalone expansion released this June? I don't plan on doing an in-depth writeup on that game, but I have added an addendum, showcasing what this expansion has to offer.

Now, on a different note, the page on Volume 1 of that Belgian comic with the fat girl is almost ready, but there are a couple things I'm planning to upload alongside it:

• A video review, for which I've already recorded six minutes of audio,
• An English translation for a brief promotional video.

Expect both of those within the next two weeks.

July 26, 2023

The page for the first 15 minutes or so of that game with the long title is up! See how this game measures up to the cult classic SNES RPG that inspired it.

July 11, 2023

First, I started an account with Backloggd, basically Letterboxd but with video games.

Second, I uploaded the page on Tobias Cornwall's early games.

July 1, 2023

Yesterday was a big day for this site! Two new starting pages just got uploaded:

• First, we have one for Tamara, a Belgian comic that you most certainly have never heard about.
• Then, there's the one for Weird and Unfortunate Things are Happening, an indie RPG with a Lovecraftian twist and a long, unwieldy title.

Can you guess which of these pages has been in the pipeline for longer?

June 26, 2023

Nostalgic Flash Game Summer is here! The starting page on Tobias Cornwall, the creator of the hit Flash RPG MARDEK, is up!

June 19, 2023

I'd like to announce a new development for this site. From here on out, I will no longer be working on one writeup folder at a time, instead, I'll be working on the ones I have in the pipeline offline, and upload the pages when they're ready.

Currently, I'm working on entries about the following subjects:

• The works of a browser game developer who was most active when Flash was still supported,
• An RPG Maker game that answers the question, "What if Earthbound leaned all the way into the cosmic horror aspects from the get-go?"
• And a European comic that pretty much no English-speaker has heard of, probably with good reason.

The start pages for all three of them are just about ready, so expect to see them before the end of the month.

June 17, 2023

Testing out spoiler tags. How's it look?

June 3, 2023

Sorry for the lack of updates. I still have a few more pages in the pipeline, but they should be almost ready.

May 23, 2023

Uploaded my final words on Molleindustria! Here I pose the question: have the devs sold out, or is it society?

May 20, 2023

The page for Democratic Socialism Simulator is up! Be sure to watch the accompanying Odysee video on the recently released Green New Deal Simulator!

May 13, 2023

I was planning something else for the last Molleindustria page, but they released a new game a week ago that's more worthy of a writeup than what I had planned. Expect an upload within the next week.

May 7, 2023

Sorry for not updating in a while. I've already written up pages on three more of Molleindustria's games:

• Every Day The Same Dream, an artsy monochrome game about work culture,
• McDonald's Videogame and Unmanned, two flash games that, although playing very differently, have the same basic theme at their cores.

April 23, 2023

Finished the writeup on Oiligarchy, the game that introduced me to Molleindustria's games.

April 9, 2023

The start page for my writeup on Molleindustria is up! Though I ought to warn you, their games are more overtly political than anything I have covered so far.

April 2, 2023

I've got writeups for three or four different works coming down the pipeline. For the most part, things are going normal, but one of the writeups is about a foreign-language comic that has never received an English translation, and is mainly about the really messed up, careless way that Google handled its availability where I live--which has only gotten worse since I started working on it.

March 23, 2023

Finished Moe Era's remaining two routes. Kind of a dud, to be honest.

March 19, 2023

I'm going to go back to Moe Era soon, but so far there doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about the second playthrough. Expect a writeup this coming week.

March 11, 2023

Class of '09 had an update last fall that added some new content. Naturally, I just finished a writeup on it.

March 8, 2023

Added an addendum to my Class of '09 writeup, in light of both a recent update to the game and watching an interview with the game's creator.

February 26, 2023

Finished the writeup of both Full Bokko Youchien and Mikoto Nikki, by the same developer.

February 15, 2023

Started the writeup of Full Bokko Youchien, the visual novel all about getting bullied by kindergarteners.

January 23, 2023

Got a lot of things done this January!

Firstly, finished up the writeups on Nicky Case's games.

Secondly, if you thought I was done with Moe Era, Think again!