Image courtesy of Digital Sun Retro never really goes out of style, does it? This is evident in the clothes people wear, the music they listen to, the movies they throw on, and the notion has even pervaded the games we play. Moonlighter is a great example of a retro-style game developed in the last several years that fills that retro niche so many people look for. Others that have come out to great success in recent years would be Children of Morta or Sea of Stars . All three of these games tackle different elements of the same void, but with their similarities it could easily be said that the latter two were the games that turned my head towards trying Moonlighter. Moonlighter is a little adventure roguelike where the protagonist, Will, heads to the dungeons near his hometown ever night. It's in these caverns that Will moonlights as an adventurer, gathering loot and exploring the secrets of these dangerous chambers so that he can come back to t...
Image courtesy of me A chill lingered in Tartarus's spring air. With a drowsy mind and clumsy feet, Xander stepped off his hay-stuffed mattress and scratched idly at a louse in his unkempt hair. The Thalassan lieutenant eased his weight back and forth on unsteady legs. His right leg still ached where a Gaian shortsword has punctured his calf muscle and just his own body weight was discomforting, to say the least. He glanced at his armor heaped on a chair. It seemed wrong to avoid wearing it, especially given his surroundings, but another twenty pounds of armor would only aggravate the wound only just fully sealed. It took over a month for it to heal properly because Xander continued to tear the struggling muscle open repeatedly. A good remedy for that? A few days doing nothing besides lying in bed. However, that did little to boost the ego or alieve the clumsiness Xander felt with his every move. His hands lumbered about too. With broken bones in his left wrist that rendered his ar...