Shadows Of Cairn (1994) is one of the worst games ever made, but specifically from that in-between tier, the most unfortunate one. It's not that it's a broken pile of shit - it's no Super Monkey Daibouken or Action 52. It's a perfectly playable game, it's just not fun to play - but it is aspirational, utterly unique, and it could have been a masterpiece.
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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
This game sounds awesome and also miserable. Two of my favorite adjectives a game can simultaneously have
Great write up Gravis. You weren't kidding about the music, this playlist rules
This game seems like it is a massive city begging to be filled with game. Or heck, games. A huge diorama eishing that someone could reach through the display glass and give its streets life.
The fact that the game world is so huge with so little interaction involved reminds me of Nihon Falcom's Asteka II from 1986. The world is made up of 225 screens but only 6 of those screens have anything to actually do in them, with the rest being slight variations of "jungle area" that exit to all the cardinal directions.
in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
wow, seemingly every other game these devs made was a solitaire or casino game for Windows. I even own one of them.
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