https://x.com/draw_the_dice/status/1869366488664264766
It doesn't look like anybody made a new /mggt/ and I don't want to risk messing something up so I'll just post about it here because the game is about ghosts anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz1NpnYvpi0
I started Awaria a few days ago. As the trailer states: it is a game about playing as a (cute) maintenance girl working in haunted tunnels. Stations break down and need to be repaired with parts which can be collected throughout the level. All this must be done within a time limit for each broken station while dodging the attacks of the ghosts who haunt the tunnels.
Mittsies' soundtrack pairs well with the frantic gameplay, keeping the pace up but still matching the vibe of cold and haunted tunnels littered with unreliable machinery.
I don't claim to be good at games by any means but even on easy this game is really hard. It is engaging though and I appreciate that the difficulty setting applies to the individual chapters instead of the entire game. It means you can switch back and forth to your liking.
I feel like the hitboxes are rather generous too. The wirecutters seem like they have properly slim hitboxes while the flames have larger ones. Nothing feels deceptive so the difficulty comes across as honest, which I greatly appreciate.
The story seems pretty simple so far, I am on chapter 9 so far but I am almost done too so I doubt a whole lore bombshell will drop. So far the game just has you playing as a cute girl who wants to rizz ghosts.
Speaking of cute: the ghosts are cute too. My favorite is Nikita because I like flamethrowers and I like older women and I like tall women and Nikita is all of those things. Unfortunately, she still gets a thrill out of trying to kill me, as do all of the ghosts.
I suppose that is it for my review. If you play this game I would highly recommend relying on your joystick instead of the d-pad since diagonal movement will become imperative very quickly.