If you grew up in the era when PC games were still sold on discs, UFO 50 will feel familiar. As a kid, my dad bought us multiple CD-ROM collections that came with 50, or 100, or even more, games. Full games, a༒t that. They were always older games, usually a decade or more past their launch date, but still full games. I was always excited when I first popped the disc into the tray. And ౠthen, just as quickly, I was stressed TF out.
Because there was so much! I remember getting a Sega collection at one point that had a bunch o▨f Genesis-era games on it, ⛄like Comix Zone and Altered Beast. I didn't know where to begin. And, once I did, I knew that there were dozens of other games I could be playing instead. Was I playing the wrong game? Was there a better way I could be spending my time?
UFO 50, Like Modern Life, Offers Way More Than You Can Handle, All The Time
This was a helpful preview of how we would all be spending our adult lives. Netflix ensures we have more to watch than we ever could, Spotify ensures we have more to listen to than we ever could, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Game Pass and PS Plus ensure we have more to play than we everꦓ could. From a commercial perspective, at least, we live in the era of too much, where we can pay one low, monthly price for more content than ✤we could ever hope to consume.
UFO 50 is something better than that. Each of its 50 games was hand-crafted by skilled developers and assembled thoughtfully so that each flows logically into the next. It's the absolute best form꧋ of that Sega CD-ROM I had because, whereas Sega's output was the product of multiple studios figuring it out in real-time, by being the product of a fictional company, UFO 50's developers had the benefit of thinking through the studio's legacy prior to release, then smartly assembling games in the order they wanted.
UFꦯO 50 Is Like Reliving Playground R𓃲umour Gaming
UFO 50 makes me feel like a kid again.
The collection being well-made doesn't mean that it stresses me out any less. I started my first play session by jumping into UFO Soft's first game, Barbuta — the only one I had seen gameplay of prior to buying UFO 50. It's a platformer that casts you as an intrepid explorer navigating a castle f♕illed with traps. If you die, you start over by hatching from a speckled egg. If you die five times, game over.
I liked Barbuta. I was having fun exploring (until, that is, the Spelunky-like ghost appeared and took all🐎 my egg-lives away). But as I played, I couldn𒐪't help wondering about the other 49 games in the collection. Shouldn't I be checking those out instead of staying on this one for so long?
‘So long in this case, meant 10 minutes max.
Finding Your Shining Force
So, I jumped down the row and picked Ninpek. Also a platformer, but much speedier, more of an infinite runner than anything that actually existed in 1983, which is fine. The says that "it was important to us that UFO 50 was fun and surprising for modern players, so we chose not to limit ourselves ♛to the genres and design conventions of the past." That decision pays off. This one seemed good, too, but it was much faster paced, so I got a bunch of deaths within the span of a couple minutes, got the gist of it, and moved on.
After briefly dipping into Paint Chase, which is just Pac-Man meets Splatoon, I doubled back to the second game in UFO Soft's fictional chronology, Bug Hunter. This one is my favorite I've experienced so far, an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Into the Breach-like tactical game about murdering bugs. I stuck with it, and have put a full hour into it, while the othe🍃rs only grabbed my attention for a few minutes each. Even then, I'm still only scratching the surface.
Once I found this game, the stress melted away. It reminded me of my experience playing that Sega collection back in the day. At some point, while poking around, I stumbled upon 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Shining Force. I fell in love with that Genesis strategy RPG and played hours of it on PC, then eventually bought the Game Boy Advance remake, too. The point of the collection, looking back, was not to introduce me to 100 games that I finished and liked equally. It was to help me find o꧙ne or two games that I really loved. After that, all the other games were gravy. Though I have many more UFO 50 games to play, Bug Hunter is my Shining Force. The rest is free to be very good gr🌜avy.
