In an attempt to free this thread from The Last of Us clutter

I've moved on to Assassin's Creed IV aka A Pirate's Life for Me

I have to keep reminding myself that Edward Kenway is no Lara Croft... in oh, so many ways. I do enjoy a good, solid double hidden blade assassination. Probably a little too much.

I've been dabbling in SpaceChem again. Finished Micron and unlocked a bunch of bonus levels which is great. The cure in Miasmata is still alluding me but at least I haven't seen the beast in two or three days. And I've started two new games on Android called Kami and Hoplite.

Alan Wake is great, I really liked it. Also, for my tastes, the best looking 360 game I've played.

I've been playing the ever loving crap out of Virtue's Last Reward (the sequel to 999) on my Vita. Having never really done the visual novel thing before it's been interesting, but I haven't been able to put it down since getting back into it. I'm going to have to dust off the DS lite in our apartment after I'm done to play 999.

I finished Virtue's Last Reward - one of the crazy-weirdest things I've ever played. Quite enjoyable though.

Playing it without having played 999, I've reverse spoiled many things, but that doesn't bother me.

Anyone else played 999 or VLR? There's obviously going to be a sequel too. Some games are sissies and are like here's a six second tease at the end of our game hinting at its sequel!

Whereas VLR's just like here's an hour long Epilogue's Epilogue's Epilogue discussing, in detail, the already insane events of not-yet-created sequel - suck on that, games that do the six second tease thing.

In all seriousness though, the epilogue (I'm calling everything after the last puzzle epilogue) was longer than a lot of games. As I started to barrel down the path of VLR's epilogue you could have gone and played Portal, or Journey, or Gone Home which I hear is a short game. No, seriously, you could have. I finished the last two puzzles in the game and played it for almost 5 more hours. Say whaaaaaaaat?

What about...what about...that...thing Capcom made recently...that was good...maybe...like...the new Phoenix Wright?  Maybe?

They published Remember Me, which I quite liked, but they didn't develop it.

Synonamess Botch said
I tried picking up Penumbra: Overture again.  I'm not sure I can go on.  These physics-based puzzles just infuriate me.  How are they better than a simple point and click adventure?  More interactive and hence more immersive?  Negative.  Unless your idea of interactivity means fumbling around like a quadruple-amputee.  Look, video game physics suck.  Hey developer, why are you forcing on me something that sucks?  There's not even any skill to develop, just picking up things with my two elbows and flinging them about in the hopes that they'll land over that electric fence so I can just bloody climb over the thing

Overture was my first review for Tap some years ago and for what it's worth, I really enjoyed the physics, particularly for opening doors and drawers and cupboards which are usually resigned to a single key press. In a horror setting carefully opening a door can be pretty hair-raising. The physics also gave world items some real weight and tactility too which I think is something that's lacking these days (I blame the widespread (ab)use of Havok! Case in point: the Souls games and the floppy ragdoll corpses). I've heard a few people say how infuriating they found the physics (or the puzzles in general) in Penumbra but I totally fail to see why given how simple/logical most of them are. I certainly have no memories of getting angry with any of them. Oh, hang on, there was a chase sequence with puzzles which was a bit trial and error, and quick to kill you, but other than that. I found if I was having difficulty with something then I was usually doing it wrong.

Sorry! I didn't mean to imply that you're doing wrong, you're just not good enough.

Only messing! Seriously though, I tried a few things that seemed damned counter-intuitive before realising that I was going about it all wrong. I've just been watching a video of the most stressful section in the game (for me) and the Let's Player named it 'Supernova of rage'! I died a lot trying to work out what I was supposed to do but once I worked it out it was a cinch. I did get angry with that section though. The Let's Player just tried brute-forcing it which just made him even angrier. Earlier on I saw him dragging a ladder around, it jostling about and stuff, and I dig all that stuff! Admittedly, Overture could do with a rotate function but I think Frictional added that for Black Plague (and took out all combat, which obviously paved the way for Amnesia). I made a few .ini amends to make combat less stupid which I think I mention in my review or in the comments.

https://tap-repeatedly.com/2010/01/review-penumbra-overture/

I think it's more similar to Heroes of Might & Magic, personally.  I played some Armored Princess a couple years ago and that's by far what it reminded me of most.