Depressed animal financial collapse journey Night In The Woods exists in a wierd place in my consciousness. While I completely love a lot about it, from the characters to the artwork to the music and past, it’s not notably my type of sport – I’m extra of a hands-on, resolve issues kinda man.
I’ve additionally seen nearly all the pieces the sport has to supply, because of pals streaming it a number of occasions over, and now I might need to tune in once more to see what’s recent, because of the sport getting it’s very personal director’s lower model, prolonged and expanded to coincide with its console launch. Welcome to Weird Autumn.
The largest addition to the Weird Autumn version of Night of The Woods is the total integration of Lost Constellation and Longest Night, two shorter promotional video games that had been launched totally free over the course of NITW’s lengthy improvement cycle, every providing a singular, if temporary spin on the setting. Now, they’re a part of the story, when you don’t thoughts having despondent troublemaker Mae take a break from her crime-spree to take a seat down for a city historical past lesson from time to time.
On the topic of crimes, there’s extra of them to do. Lots of Night In The Woods’ interactivity got here from hanging out together with your estranged pals, moving into hassle and embarking on petty acts of revolt and vandalism as a result of there’s nothing higher to do within the gods-forsaken city of Possum Springs. So sure, this in all probability means extra alternatives to lift hell with Gregg, and may lend all of it slightly extra replay worth if you wish to see all of the scenes.
There’s additionally a number of extra additions. Players on the Steam boards are already reporting a number of additional dialogue choices right here and there, plus Mae’s room now comes outfitted along with her previous bass, so she will reminisce musically when chilling out at dwelling. Yes, it’s the characteristic so many have been clamouring for: You can replay all of the musical minigames, simply in case you needed to listen to Die Anywhere Else once more, when you’ve not had your fill of fan-made vocal covers, that’s.
The Weird Autumn replace is reside and free now for all variations of the sport, together with Steam, GOG and Humble.
Night within the Woods is one in every of RPS’s favorite video games of the yr, incomes a spot on the advent calendar.