Ducky Obrien Show 039 - Indie Games Galore (Sunlight Scream, Pretty Girls Escape Plus, Final Stardust Cosmic Nexus)

Video Game News, Reviews, and Guides (and sometimes random things)

Sunlight Scream

Sunlight Scream is a visual novel set in a small town university. The story and visuals seem heavily inspired by anime. There is one major problem however. The original language was not English and let's just say the text feels like it was made using Google translate sometimes.

The inconsistent translation makes reading the novel very awkward at times. The occasional spelling error and sloppy grammar would have been OK but the word choices definitely take you out of the story. They use words the average English speaking person would not have in their daily lexicon. Those words may have fit in the narrative exposition of Sunlight Scream but not so much in the dialogue between people. No sane person would speak like that.

►Steam Store Page : https://store.steampowered.com/app/2608440/Sunlight_Scream/ ►Article: https://duckyobrien.com/2023/12/13/sunlight-scream-gameplay-preview-ok-visual-novel-with-translation-errors/ ►Video: https://youtu.be/6wG_550tQjU

Pretty Girls Escape PLUS

Pretty Girls Escape PLUS is another fantastic puzzle game from the friendly folks at Zoo Corporation featuring some well endowed anime girls.

The puzzle design in this game is actually fantastic. I usually blaze through most of their games in about two hours or so unless it has a challenge mode. The later puzzles in Escape PLUS require more thinking and strategy. I was actually stuck on a few levels and had to come back to them later to get past them.

►Steam Store Page : https://store.steampowered.com/app/2670340/Pretty_Girls_Escape_PLUS/ ►Article: https://duckyobrien.com/2023/12/14/pretty-girls-escape-plus-gameplay-preview-i-am-bad-at-this-game-but-it-has-booba/ ►Video: https://youtu.be/t7lm31mWWMg

Final Stardust: Cosmic Nexus

Final Stardust: Cosmic Nexus is a simple card game that features monsters with elemental properties much like Pokemon. I'm playing the preview build so not a lot of features are in the game yet but I can write about what I've played so far and how it feels.

For starters the game is very simple. The playing field only has three character slots and the main cards you have are your basic monster cards, evolution cards, and some spell cards. The monsters have a health and attack rating. The way to win is to defeat all of the opponent's monsters and attack the player directly until their health is brought down to zero. This is very similar to other card games such as Yugioh, Magic the Gathering, and Hearthstone.

►Steam Store Page : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1896570/Final_Stardust_Cosmic_Nexus/ ►Article: https://duckyobrien.com/2023/12/15/final-stardust-cosmic-nexus-gameplay-preview-simplified-pokemon-like-card-game/ ►Video: https://youtu.be/7Y_a5-Z4T4c

Thanks for listening!