Playdate’s second season sucked me back into the little yellow handheld

The seasonal structure is one of the unique aspects of play. When The Handheld was first launched in 2022, the owners managed to reach a group of 24 games released over time. It was a great introduction to the device and its unique features-The Little Display, black and white graphics-but it did not start earlier this year. (I must point out that this does not mean that there were no new games for The Playdate, where a digital store was launched in 2023, and there are a lot of addresses to download Sidelouad from markets like ITCH.IO.)

The second season started in May, while it is smaller-you get 12 games for $ 39, in addition to anything else based on FMV Blu BlueS is – as it started with a very good start. Since then it has been expanded with a variety of games. There is an adventure post -terrible adventure called WaliotAnd the game of exploring and clicking it Shadowgate PDIt is actually a new edition of the eighties. Dozens in the second season do a strong job in showing the possibility of Playdate game.

But what surprised me most is the toys that use a smart signature feature: Crank it. For example, Little turnip It is a climbing game where it plays the role of turnip with weapons. Wandering means using facial buttons to seize things, then move your body around the forearm. I felt some embarrassment at first, perhaps because I did not play anything just like him before, but in the end I managed to enter into a strong rhythm in moving my path through the risky terrain. It is really sick that moves smoothly on your way across the world by spraining Krak.

Taria and Como It provides something similar to a more typical platform for side pass. You can move and jump across the pixel art world, but in order to move in the most risky areas, you can help you with a kind of drone / struggle targeting karnak. You divorce her and then swing yourself where you need to be. You can also use karnak to pull yourself up or down. Taria and Como It is a relatively slow physics platform with some difficult puzzles, and the inserts of Karnak adds a satisfactory layer of tact to experience.

It may be said that my favorite game is the strangest. It is called Long puppyAnd it is almost similar to the spiritual successor Nobel Nubian boy (And if it is not developed by Keita Takahashi, which is out of exotic things). The goal is simple: you are a dog that needs to be brought in the ball. But it always seems to be in a difficult place, and the only way to reach it is to stretch. For a longer stretch, you need to eat a lot of food. Thus, each level becomes a race to eat as much as possible so that you can reach the ball before an angry, angry ghost dog appears.

In nature Long puppy It is a game around the puppy, you are moving more like the participation of Catpeberler on its way across the levels to give up everything that can be able to quickly. Again, it takes some accustomed to that, but the time limits forced me to really get good in the expansion and it was an explosion. Also, at the end of each level, Karnak is used to go stools.

Of course, these games were still enjoyable if they stumbled through them in the catalog store. But there is an exciting thing about the big moment created by Playdate seasons. Every week I expect something new, and I am not really sure of what it would be already. It can be more channels for a strange fictional TV service, or it may be the most wonderful (and wonderful) game (and wonderful). This fixed rhythm of strange and fun makes Playdate more difficult.