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Game #15 Complete! DYG

Throw This Quote On The Back Of The Box: This game really captures the endless repetition that comes with digging a grave. Most realistic grave digging simulator to date.

Final Thoughts: I had a work trip I had to go on so I spent roughly 2 straight hours playing this at night and slowly spiraling into madness. By the end, I think I liked it more than when I started, but that could also just be the Stockholm Syndrome talking.

I've played enough crank vs non-crank games on the Playdate now that I feel like I can definitively say - using the crank is just kind of fun. Games that don't use the crank on this do so at their peril because I've played straight up bad games where they let me use the crank and my thought always is "well at least the crank part was kinda fun". That's the case here too. I don't think this is a good game but there was something about using the crank for that precision timing that was pretty enjoyable. Like I kept going "ah I can do better" and got stuck in this cycle of playing over and over again trying to top my score.

I got on the leaderboard, which was sort of my goal to consider this one "complete". https://play.date/games/dyg/ Sixth place aw yeah. In your face onedanband. All my homies hate onedanband. But damn, lost to ThrillhouseVH both in grave digging prowess and username awesomeness level.

I got my fill of DYG though. Don't think I'll ever come back. It almost feels more like a mechanic than a full game. You know that part where you have to start the generators in Dead By Daylight? This game is basically just that without the game part around it. You just use the crank to match the movement on the indicator over and over again, and you really need to chain them together. So doing one in a row means nothing to your score, and it isn't until you start digging out 10/12 inches at a time that you're really going to make a run for the leaderboard. That person at the top of the leaderboards probably never missed a single swing.

It is definitely repetitive as hell, too. Like you're always doing the same movement. From top right to bottom, then from bottom to top left. That second bit is only for throwing out the dirt though so you don't need to time it like the first half, but it is that same movement over and over and over. It's borderline maddening after a while. I'm not sure why I played it as long as I did. If someone asked me what I was doing, I would've said, "digging a grave" and if they asked why I would've said "because ThrillhouseVH won't stop taunting me from his deeper grave."

Oh, and the interface to this game is awful. You don't actually see how deep your run is after you finish it unless you were watching the bottom of the screen to see the number you were at. That straight up disappears once you lose and then you don't see any number after that so if you weren't looking you just have to guess. The game doesn't show you your all time high score for reasons I can't begin to guess at. And then the in game leaderboard only shows you the top two depths of all time by showing you how tall the gravestone is without any numbers attached to it. At the end of every run too (although you can skip it). Why? Why is it like this? Why do I have to go to the website to see the top ten overall depths with actual numbers attached? Why can't the leaderboard be in game, with numbers?

Also, if you aren't in the top ten you don't actually see where you're placing. I know Playdate has the ability to do that because I was tracking my progress in Snak. Any game with a bad leaderboard is going to get yelled at going forward because I know it isn't a hardware issue now. You can do leaderboards on the Playdate, and if you are a score chasing game you have to. That's the rules. No leaderboards, no score chasing.

Should You Play It? I'd say no, probably. Like...ok, the crank is fun enough but there are other games that do that and do a better job. Do you really want to be the best grave digger in the world? That's a borderline cry for help, honestly.

Final Score: 3, again. Slightly better than Whitewater Wipeout because I like the precision cranking here a bit more. Slightly better than Snak on account of it not feeling broken when you start scoring high enough. Just below Lost Your Marbles as that was at least better than endless non-stop grave digging.

Games Completed: 15/118

Game Rankings:
15) Boogie Loops
14) A Joke That's Worth 0.99 Cents
13) Whitewater Wipeout
12) Snak
11) DYG
10) Lost Your Marbles
9) Demon Quest '85
8) Flipper Lifter
7) Questy Chess
6) Echoic Memory
5) Omaze
4) Sasquatchers
3) Casual Birder
2) Pick Pack Pup
1) Crankin's Time Travel Adventure