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Honorable Mention: Else Heart.Break()

This game attempts so many cool and difficult things and fails at almost the same amount. It's weird and quirky and frustrating and worth experiencing.

The main pitch of the game is that you are able to hack nearly anything in the world with programming code. Lamp posts, doorways, and soda cans are basic examples. The awkward curveball is that you don't get to do that for hours- or ever- if you don't look up a strategy guide.

For a while it plays like a gestalt of the sims, a point and click adventure, and shenmue. You're a student that shows up for an extremely undemanding sales internship on a small island town, and the game gives you a lot of freedom. There's a day/night cycle on top of a week/weekend cycle, stuff around town seems to often glitch or break, and ominous government men are quick to tell you to move along. It's kind of neat.

I personally spent hours wandering around town kind of confused, going to house parties and interacting with the characters of the island, hoping to figure out what progressing the game even looked like, and above all how to get a hacking device. When I caved and looked it up, the solution made me laugh: Stalk a normal girl you meet at the bar, find out where she lives, and get caught. The only hint was your character dreaming about her. Wow!

Anyway, once the game opens up you can start hacking. At this point, your goal is not only to simply progress, but to progress without breaking the scripting of the game so badly that not even a guide can save you.

I broke Else Heart.Break() so badly that not even a guide could save me. It does not get to be on my list of completed games.

Next post will be a pair of anticlimactic dishonorable mentions.
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You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.