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"content": "<p>June 22, 2023 - Day 173 - NewPlay Review<br />Total NewPlays: 191</p><p>Game: ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!</p><p>Platform: Epic Games Store<br />Release Date: Mar 1, 2019<br />Library Date: Oct 14, 2022<br />Unplayed: 251d (8m8d)<br />Playtime: 34m</p><p>Way back on the 1st of January when I set out on this misbegotten journey, I wrote in my toot that I was open to suggestions.</p><p>Today, on day 173, a friend suggested "Have you played ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!"</p><p>I had not, however, I did not have a copy of the game in my Steam library, nor do I have an unused Steam key.</p><p>"I'll buy it for you!"</p><p>Friendo, adding to my pile of unplayed games does not reduce the size of the pile. However, I considered the offer, and took a look at GG.Deals, because the last thing I wanted was for friendo to pay full price.</p><p>It was at this point I made a terrible discovery. The game had been given away free on the Epic Games Store last October. As I have collected most of the games given away by Epic, the chance was... yeah. I do own a copy of the game.</p><p>EGS is the anti-Steam. It takes anything that's good about Steam, and does it in the worst possible way.</p><p>Steam handles a large library well? EGS handles a small library terribly.</p><p>Steam makes moving a game to a different drive incredibly simple? EGS requires 15 years experience in tech support.</p><p>Steam makes buying a new game almost dangerously easy? EGS makes it laborious enough to question whether you even want the *free* game in your cart.</p><p>The free games given away on Steam have literally become little more than demo versions, to see if I like the game enough to either use the Steam key I might already have, or buy the game on Steam.</p><p>Yes, I despise using EGS so much that I've bought games on Steam that I already received for free on EGS. I resent the exclusivity arrangements that force me to use EGS for Tony Hawk 1/2 and Alan Wake Remastered.</p><p>Of course, collecting all these free games on EGS means I have *multiple* piles of shame, across different launchers (I won't even get into GOG).</p><p>However, this is a review of TJ&E:BITG!, not EGS, and now that I've gotten my EGS rant out of the way on Mastodon (as seen in less detail on :birdsite:) this is the first game from my EGS pile of shame this year.</p><p>TJ&E:BITG! is an isometric platformer, that has you searching islands, & shaking trees looking for bits of an exploded ship.</p><p>The main thing I'm looking for in a game is fun; maybe it was in one of the trees I didn't shake.</p><p>Having never played any of the previous three(!) games, I felt utterly bewildered for most of my playtime. </p><p>I understand that people love this game, I just don't understand why. Respect, though. If it's your cup of tea, more power to you. It's most definitely not mine.</p><p>I'm sorry, friendo, but I'm glad I saved you the purchase price, because for me ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove! is a big:</p><p>1: Nope</p><p><a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/ToeJamAndEarlBackInTheGroove\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ToeJamAndEarlBackInTheGroove</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/Isometric\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Isometric</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/Platformer\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Platformer</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/Gaming\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/Project365\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>",
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