Morgan Park of FTG: Hot Tin Roof: The Cat Who Wore A Fedora is so close to being a great game. The world it constructs is charmingly odd, its mechanics well-designed (though absent of much polish), and writing sharp as hell. The concept is feels ripe for a fresh blend of puzzle-solving, platforming, and LA Noire-like investigations. All the pieces are there and I’m ready to dig in. Then the frustration sets in—crippling frustration brought about by a halt in progress. Hot Tin Roof lacks flow.
BNR: Video games have been flooding into Steam, Valve’s digital distribution service, at an unprecedented rate. There are all sorts of games now- it can be tricky to decide what to pick up during the Summer Sale, which brings deep discounts on a great many games. What should you grab? Here are the top ten games to pick up in the 2015 Steam Summer Sale, as selected by the staff of Blackman ‘N Robin.
Additionally, we’re giving away some Steam keys- right now we’re giving away Beatbuddy and Dungeon Defenders (with all DLC)- we’re also giving away Canabalt on our Instagram page, check it out! The above giveaway lasts until the Steam Summer Sale ends; we may add extra games to it if some developers are up for it.
Have you ever wondered what life would be like working as a Private Investigator? Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you were working as a Private Investigator in a world where cats and rats and all other kinds of animals talk and partake in everyday life and one such cat happens to be your recently promoted assistant who has a fondness for bubbles?
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Of the innumerable dangerous professions that fiction twists, it's hard to think of one viewed through a goofier lens than the private-eye. We're all vaguely aware, for instance, that secret agents don't have time to swirl Martinis in gaudy casinos because they're too busy sitting in a darkened room, listening in on phone conversations. We know, despite the flights of escapism, that reality is far from glamorous, and yet, thanks mostly to the lingering effects of film noir, we seem to have trouble shaking off the idea that private detectives get all their work done by hanging around at night in a trench coat, following around other people in trench coats, engaging in rooftop chases and inexplicably finding clues that a trained team of forensic police investigators somehow missed. Consequentially, congratulations go out to Hot Tin Roof, a game that wears noir like a clown wears a big red nose, for really capturing the clueless, hopeless, desperate slog of detective work. If it...
