Grissallia<p>September 14, 2023 - Day 257 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 278</p><p>Game: Patch Quest</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: Mar 3, 2023<br>Library Date: Sep 14, 2023<br>Unplayed: 0d <br>Playtime: 24m</p><p>Patch Quest is a top-down 2D twin stick roguelike-metroidvania-monster catching bullet-hell mashup.</p><p>This is the fifth game in this month's Humble Choice bundle.</p><p>With cutesy cartoonish graphics, you run around a "patchwork land" armed with a lasso and a gun-that-is-not-a-gun-but-really-it-is-a-gun, to capture monsters and ride them while you shoot others with the not-gun that makes them "fall asleep" and disappear. </p><p>Unlike last night's game, it's not that I'm too tired too understand it, it's just that it just all feels kind of bland.</p><p>There's a basic story to try and provide a reason to want to care about this odd maze full of monsters and give me a reason to catch or not-kill them, but I was kind of glad when I was done.</p><p>Patch Quest is just kind of:</p><p>2: Meh</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/PatchQuest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PatchQuest</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TopDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopDown</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Twinstick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twinstick</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Roguelike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roguelike</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Metroidvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metroidvania</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HumbleChoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumbleChoice</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>