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Currently Playing: Nightingale

What Is It? That horror game I said I was going to play earlier even though I was pretty sure it wouldn't be that good. It wasn't that good.

Gameplay Overview: I mean, it's an indie adventure game. You play one of those before? This is that.

Here's The Game Page! https://play.date/games/nightingale/

Here's Some Pictures!
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Thoughts:
-Nightingale is next on my list. Im a sucker for indie horror. Sorry.
-This one is the first game Ive played for the Playdate with a content warning. And yet they didnt warn me about Boogie Loops. Curious.
-Opening scene has me being pushed in a hospital bed. I think. This is another one of those someones first attempt at art games.
-I also have a sound option to turn off the tinnitus if it bothers me. Nah. Im too tough for your tinnitus warnings!
-My character wakes up saying their hands hurt which might be a clue as to whats going on or might be a sign our protagonist likes complaining about things.
-There are little flashes in this room and Im assuming thats the stuff I can investigate.
-Elly: They say the trip only takes a few days, but they still put you to sleep for it. Hm. Wait am I on? WHERE AM I?
-Theres also something behind the bed but I cant reach it. Oh hey we found our first puzzle!
-Oh Im on a spaceship. I find a brochure that basically tells me. Beyond the Cosmic Portal Adventure Company is founded on one principal: Adventure isnt just for the brave! Thats right you dumb ugly cowards can have adventures too.
-With our proprietary space folding technology, we can bring you right to the heart of adventure and still have you home in time for your youngests birthday. Uh oh were going to have some sort of event horizon type scenario going on arent we?
-I find a hook that can theoretically close the window, I guess? But it sounds like the kind of thing I can use to grab whatever is hiding behind my bed.
-The plants name is apparently Chuck. Hiya Chuck. Please dont scare me.
-I go to wash my hands because why not? But I am told there are bits of dried blood and metal shavings. Uh. Ok. First creepy things.
-I cant wash them off. OUT. OUT DAMN SPOT AND METAL SHAVINGS.
-The door wont open and theres a computer here but I cant access it without my ID card. Time to hook behind the bed, methinks.
-Ok so I nab the ID with the hook and I can go into the computer now. It has been 78 days since my last activation, so I mustve been sleeping for that long. I can open the door from here, but theres other stuff here too so I check that first.
-One of them is urgent alerts. Uh. Ok maybe let me check that first.
-Esteemed Travelers: This message is to inform you of a malfunction within our folding drive system, which has caused us to deviate from our course and experience significant complications. UH OH. UH OH.
-They go on to promise there is no need for alarm. Mightve wanted to send this under non-urgent totally normal alerts then guys.
-I can also check the pump status and it says the central catheter line has been compromised and may result in irreversible damage and loss of vital functions in subject. I dont like any of those words.
-Ok finally I open the door. Oh no wait psyche I dont. It says thats damaged too. Damn my whole system is a mess here.
-Hm maybe I close the window? Oops cant do that either because the hook is broken. THIS WHOLE ROOM IS FAULTY AND I DEMAND A REFUND.
-My characters name is apparently Elyham. Which might be a Pokemon name I cant remember.
-Ok so the replicator thing in my room says I have five credits. A metal bar is four credits and everything else is way too many credits. Guess Im getting the metal bar.
-Ok I bust out. This looks a lot like a hospital wing, guys. I see a wheelchair over in the corner. We sure this is a spaceship and not a fever dream?
-Hm so someone smashed the control pad outside my door. I have made enemies somehow.
-Hm looks like bad stuff happened. The monitor station is abandoned, kind of a mess, and food is left behind. I cannot snatch the food no matter how many times I try.
-That better not be what I think it isYep. Thats a corpse. *Fuck* Fuck is an understatement there, Elly. Maybe try running away screaming?
-Also the elevator is radiating some weird lines. Dont want to use weird eldritch elevator.
-It looks like his head was caved in by brute force. Well at least it wasnt dull force. That slow head crushing would be so annoying.
-Ok well I can take his ID. Hes a crew member so maybe I can get in more places?
-Ohhhh I can use it to use the terminal over here. Ok, look at me, solving puzzles before they even pop up!
-Well I cant use the replicator here, so I may need to go back to my room because Raymond was rolling in credits and had 26 of them. I can read his messages though. Might want to check them and let people know he wont be responding on account of him being dead with a brute force crushed head.
-Can you check the freezie in JJ? Her vitals have been going nuts. Well, thats me. I dont appreciate being called a freezie! I do like the game came up with this bit of lore though. Like putting in a derogatory nickname for the crew members to call people theyre transporting is a fun touch games like this dont always think of.
-The messages go on with Raymond apparently complaining about noises coming from my room, but no one else (including this Tien person) can hear them. Interesting. Spooky. Or maybe I was sleep farting, who knows.
-The first five messages are pretty normal, then the sixth one is: In the primordial nothingness, an eye opens. Sees nothing. Closes. Again opens. Perceiving nothing, shuts and weeps. It wept so deeply with what it did not yet understand to be longing that white hot bitter tears pooled until they became a flaming sword, so bright and painful that it cut through noting till form and light were bo- -Hey guys can we not send chain letters through a work email or Im going to have to let HR know. Guys? Guys whats all that screaming?
-I go back to my room to use the replicator and the outside window is all smashed. Space goblins? Were you the ones making that noise?
-Oh actually my whole room is messed up. Theres blood places there wasnt blood before and the plant is leaking some sort of black ooze. Poor Chuck.
-I go to the replicator and I do not have enough credits for the next thing. A guiserme or something like that. BUT I can recycle the iron bar, which gives me four more credits and is just enough for the word I dont recognize. It prints out and is some sort of polearm with a slice tool at the end. This will help with the monsters I shall soon be facing.
-Uh oh. Raymond has an urgent message that pops up on the computer from Captain Newell.
-Okay so apparently 64 days ago they quarantined certain wings while investigating the cause of the drive malfunction for the safety of the crew. Didnt help Raymond or his brute force caved in head any.
-More blood in the hallways now. I still cant use the thing I have to open the room next to me. JK. Ill have to wait until I get some even more insane weapon, I guess.
-Ok, this elevator is definitely radiating even bigger lines now. I do not want to go in but Im assuming I have to. Stupid eldritch elevator.
-The weird lines have started covering the body. Im guessing undead zombies are soon to be on their way.