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085 - A Realm Forgotten by Lockstitch

661 - Granite Gardens by Lockstitch

gosh, but Lockstitch's levels were always just fantastic. Interesting shaping, kinda geometric, kinda organic, excellent material choice, and a limited but extremely well-implemented palette of stickers & decos all add up to a visual experience that's distinct and interesting wivout skittering over to being distracting from the gameplay. That gameplay is silk-smooth throughout, low-end challenging, but maintaining a nice, quick pace. On top of all that, there's a fair amount of quite nicely done mechanical movement in all their levels, and i do love me some good old-fashioned mechanicals. Just a top notch creator.

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i guess we played through the whole lot of @internet-toon 's Broken Safe of the Forgotten Archipelago on stream? Which i'm pretty sure makes this the longest Streaming Pile episode we've ever done?

Now, wiv all honesty, i probably should have chopped out the mid-stream break from this video, but i was tired and that would have been extra work. Still, maybe an hour-forty minute video could use a bit of intermission. At any rate, this one will always sit near to my heart; it just nails so much of what it's going for, and it has this, like, palpable melancholia and loneliness to it leavening the wonder of the setting (and knowing, broadstrokes, what it took to achieve it) that really speaks to me. Honestly, right up there wiv Chapter Zero by chronos453 for LBP experiences.

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