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

    spicycreatortips_18q76aBy spicycreatortips_18q76aJuly 13, 2025No Comments4 Mins Read
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    Playdate’s second season sucked me back into the little yellow handheld
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    The seasonal construction is among the distinctive facets of the Playdate. When the hand held first launched in 2022, homeowners obtained entry to a curated number of 24 video games that had been launched over time. It was an incredible introduction to the gadget and its distinctive options — the crank, the little show, the black-and-white graphics — but it surely wasn’t till earlier this yr {that a} second season kicked off. (I ought to observe that this doesn’t imply there weren’t any new video games for the Playdate, as a digital store launched in 2023, and there are many titles to sideload from marketplaces like Itch.io.)

    Season 2 kicked off in Could, and whereas it’s smaller — you get 12 video games for $39, plus regardless of the heck the FMV-based Blippo Plus is — it additionally obtained off to an excellent begin. And since then it’s expanded with fairly quite a lot of video games. There’s a post-apocalyptic journey referred to as The Whiteout, and a point-and-click exploration sport referred to as Shadowgate PD, which is definitely a remake of a sport from the ‘80s. The dozen titles in season 2 do a strong job of exhibiting off the vary of potentialities on the Playdate.

    However what has struck me most are the video games that make intelligent use of the hand held’s signature function: its crank. As an example, Tiny Turnip is a climbing sport the place you play as a turnip with arms. Getting round means utilizing the face buttons for grabbing on to issues, after which shifting your physique round with the crank. It felt just a little awkward at first, in all probability as a result of I hadn’t performed something fairly prefer it earlier than, however ultimately I used to be in a position to get right into a strong rhythm of cranking my means throughout perilous terrain. It’s actually satisfying easily shifting your means by the world by twisting a crank round.

    Taria & Como gives one thing comparable inside a extra typical side-scrolling platformer. You’ll be able to transfer and soar by a pixel artwork world, however with a view to navigate essentially the most perilous areas, you’re aided by a type of drone / grappling hook that’s aimed with the crank. You fireplace it off after which swing your self the place it is advisable to be. You too can use the crank to tug your self up or down. Taria & Como is a comparatively slow-paced physics-based platformer with some difficult puzzles, and the inclusion of the crank provides a satisfying layer of tactility to the expertise.

    Maybe my favourite sport can also be arguably the strangest. It’s referred to as Lengthy Pet, and it’s virtually like a non secular successor to Noby Noby Boy (albeit one not developed by Keita Takahashi, who’s off doing his personal bizarre stuff). The aim is easy: you’re a canine who must fetch a ball. But it surely all the time appears to be in some hard-to-reach spot, and the one method to get to it’s to stretch. To be able to stretch longer, it is advisable to eat numerous meals. And so every stage turns into a race to eat as a lot as you’ll be able to so you may get to the ball earlier than a weirdly offended ghost canine exhibits up.

    Naturally, you employ the crank to each develop and shrink, so though Lengthy Pet is a sport a few pup, you progress extra like a caterpillar inching its means by the degrees to gobble up the whole lot they will rapidly. Once more, it takes some getting used to, however the deadlines pressured me to get actually good at stretching and it was a blast. Additionally, on the finish of every stage you employ the crank to go poo.

    In fact, these video games would’ve nonetheless been satisfying if I stumbled throughout them within the Catalog retailer. However there’s one thing thrilling concerning the massive second the Playdate seasons create. Every week I anticipate one thing new, and am by no means actually positive what it should really be. It could possibly be extra channels for a weird fictional tv service, or it could possibly be essentially the most difficult (and lovely) sport of fetch I’ve ever performed. That regular cadence of bizarre and enjoyable makes the Playdate a lot tougher to neglect about.

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