VIDEO GAME: Dinner with an Owl (2021)

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Dinner with an OwlYear: 2021Rating: N/ATime Played: 0.5 hours Dinner with an Owl feels like one of those throwback games from the era when adventure games just started having point-and-click capability and good enough sound cards to do voice acting. Of course, the length of this game is more on the side of a demo than a full game. If anything, it shows that small or solo teams of developers can release games of all sorts these days. It’s functional, even if there isn’t a lot of it to experience. One aspect of point-and-click games I always found frustrating was how many different things you had to click to find the right item to progress the story. Dinner with an Owl is peculiar in that you can’t interact with much. Again, it’s a simple game that doesn’t get bogged down in the extras that don’t add to the narrative. This also means the interaction options with the characters are fairly limited as...
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VIDEO GAME: Mom Hid My Game! (2016)

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Mom Hid My Game! Year: 2016 Rating: E Time Played: ~1 hour Mom Hid My Game! is one of those simple puzzle games that feel like they would easily fit into a larger mini-game structure (like the WarioWare series). Its simple gameplay makes for quick rounds of play, which comes in handy for the iterative process of determining the solution. Even its simple visual style hearkens to the peculiar games in the WarioWare franchise. Of course, with such limited objectives in such a game, there wasn’t much to do in Mom Hid My Game! once I completed all the puzzles. The premise of Mom Hid My Game! is explained in the title itself. A young child is trying to find the handheld gaming system that his mother has taken away (likely due to how obsessively the child plays it). The obstacles that separate the child from his game are as simple as doors and drawers and as complicated as an enormous hole in the living...
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