Play it on: PC
Present objective: Get extra stuff for the backyard
I’ve copies of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge and Astro Bot sitting right here, simply ready to be performed. Black Fantasy: Wukong, in the meantime, is freshly put in on my PC’s exhausting drive, nonetheless ready for me to present it the eye it deserves. However this weekend, I concern these three video games will get scant little consideration from me, as I proceed sinking most of my gaming time into the extraordinary UFO 50.
What retains me coming again to UFO 50 isn’t simply the video games themselves, although clearly that’s the primary factor, the factor with out which nothing else would matter. It’s the way in which that, for every of its 50 video games, there are three completely different objectives to try for. The best is often incomes a recreation’s “backyard” merchandise, an object that then goes right into a backyard the place just a little mascot character lives, puttering round of their home and yard and interacting with all of the completely different objects you’ve earned for them thus far. Then comes incomes a “gold” cart for the sport, which usually occurs while you beat it, after which there’s the very best achievement, incomes the “cherry” cart, which often calls for you not solely beat a recreation however accomplish that with explicit mastery or aplomb. For an arcade-style recreation, it would imply incomes a sure variety of factors in your solution to its conclusion, for example, whereas in an journey recreation, it could require snagging a specific merchandise en path to victory. With so many video games to swap between and so many objectives to try for, I at all times really feel like I’m making progress towards one thing, even when some challenges nonetheless elude me.
Particularly, this weekend I hope to make extra progress within the dungeon-crawler Valbrace (I’m at the moment on flooring 4), full some extra levels within the modern sacrificial platformer Mortol, snag the cherry cart for the splendidly summery arcade shooter Seaside Drive, and possibly full my second escape from the planet within the resource-harvesting Zelda-like recreation Pilot Quest. A gap display screen in UFO 50 reveals the previous machine for which these video games had been ostensibly launched, captioned with the textual content, “PLAY FOREVER.” Within the case of UFO 50, I believe I simply may.—Carolyn Petit