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oldladygreybun

ladygrey

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An old lady newbie, with gnarly hands, slow reflexes, and a potato.

: Casual. Gentle. Story. Adventure, puzzlers, PnC, HO. Indie.

: Dexterity, speed, stress, unkind. Tearjerkers, pink-o-mania.
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I like games that are casual and gentle. Prefer a proper story with some thought behind it - can be explicitly told or show-don't-tell. Adventure, puzzlers, point-and-click, hidden objects. Happy to support Indie games. My potato laptop prefers smallish games <5GB. And I play with only KB+M, no controller.

With a strong dislike of being subjected to scares, and with no dexterity or speed, no skills, and only very basic gear, I am unsurprisingly not a fan of :
platforming, arcade, combat, killing, timed, creepy, stress, jumpscares (argghhh!), blood-n-gore, cruelty, unkind, "-ist" of many kinds, and such.
Nor am I a fan of heavy-handed "lessons learned" or the-moral-is. Or cutie-pie adorability and pink extravagances, including manga/kawaii/anime visuals. Or obvious emotional manipulation. And very tired of sexist tropes and other stereotyping.

Really, really don't like pixelart (yeah, I know!) . And my oldish eyes prefer an artstyle that is reasonably well-lit. Be that bright colours, or a more subdued palette, or greys, browns or black-and-white. Even if for nothing else, therefore not keen on space settings, caves, nighttime urban, or dungeon crawlers.

I wish, wish, wish that developers would make games that are consistent in style and content. I hate non-skippable arcade minigames in a PnC adventure, for example. Or a sudden jumpscare thrown into an otherwise kind and gentle game. Please DON'T do that. Hmpfff!

And while we're on the peeves and rants: What's with those stupid typewriter sound effects, and text presented at any rate slower than instant. Line-by-line, word-by-word, or - OMG !! letter-by-letter, is just tedious, highly annoying, and headache-inducing. Cut it out already. And - come on devs - manual saving is NOT too much to ask for in a game. Nor legible fonts. Nor grammar and spelling checks by someone competent in the language.

But to end on a positive note: Wow, I'm so grateful for the thoughtful and helpful reviews posted by so many people. Both on curated sites and on individual player profiles. A wealth of useful information and guidance for a newbie like me. I especially appreciate those who take a moment to mention if a game is OK to play on KB+M without controller. You make my day! Thank you to all

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I'm not on Steam to 'collect' friends. Am very reticent on friending, especially random strangers.
But if we seem to share same interests in kind and gentle games, or you're another newbie oldie, then leave me a couple of lines in my comment field, and I'll consider it

And please don't leave random hi's or season's greetings or such. Or text art . That's really not my cup of tea, at all - and will be deleted, if any.
Thanks !

I love reading other people's thoughtful reviews, so decided to make mine open for public view too.
Such as they are...
Here's hoping my tuppence-worth of opinion may be helpful to some

A poem - to share:

Now summer's come, and the sound of children playing outside put me in mind of this poem, with it's evocation of the bittersweet of growing up...

Caitlin Doyle : NOT IT

“Not It!” we’d shout before a round
of backyard hide-and-seek,
the last to say it left behind
to count down in the dark

of covered eyes from ten to one,
from one to Ready-or-Not,
the Here-I-Come that comes too soon,
the day that turns to night

because the game’s gone on and on,
and now you’re It, you’re It,
and now you’ve always been alone
without a hiding spot,

with friends to find who can’t be found
because it’s late, too late
for anything but how the wind
makes ghost-chimes of the Not

as night turns day and day turns night
and you’re not not the one
in grown-up clothes that don’t quite fit
who can’t stop counting down

from ten to one to Ready-or-Not
to Here-I-Come again
as night turns day and day turns night
and you’re not not the one

who’s never not been running out
of breath the more you count
from ten to one to Ready-or-Not,
who’s counting backward now

from Here-I-Come to Ready-or-Not,
and you’re not not the one
in grown-up clothes that finally fit
who shouts “Not It! Not It!”

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Previously:
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson :'In Memoriam'.
- Emily Dickinson: 'The saddest noise, the sweetest noise (No 1789)'

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Flavius Claudius Julianus 8 minutes ago

As a fellow oldie on Steam, sorry! I had to add you.

Dancingberrie 10 Jul @ 6:33am

Hi tysm for your help I rlly appreciate it !!

Scythesickle 25 Jun @ 12:46am

Appreciated your thorough review of A Little to the Left

löyly 18 Jun @ 4:47am

It's from Grow - Song of the Evertree, taken from the background story when the people traveled to follow the song of the tree

Killer 17 Apr @ 9:39am

Hi Lady Grey

I am pleased to leave a guide for you about 'Stick to the plan', for the level 7 and 10 in the Firefly Forest chapter. I am not sure if others need it, so just make it for you only, you can share for others as you want

Level 7: WQESD E_A_D QDQEE EDDQ_ AWWSD _EDD
Level 10: DSQ_W _SQQE WAQAA A_D_A SQ_S_ EDEQD Q_A_D _A_DS _WASD SA_SD QSDD_ DDWDW ASAA_ D

PS. That's not the only way to resolve the level, hope you will enjoy the game

mirrordances 21 Mar @ 1:46pm

Hi! Not sure how Steam profile comments work, or if you'd see my reply to your comment on my profile, so I'll say here too - thanks for the warning about the visual noise in Wise Garden; I've removed it from my wishlist.

Your reviews look really interesting - I'll have to browse through them at some point! I like how in-depth they are. :)

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