some great responses in this but also very AAA-centric. how about a round 2 specifically for indie and lo-budget games??
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Kieron Verbrugge
hello bluesky, I have a question and I promise it's not engagement bait I actually need answers for something
what's your all-time favourite, most memorable, most iconic level/chapter/mission/segment in a video game??
what's your all-time favourite, most memorable, most iconic level/chapter/mission/segment in a video game??
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Dredge - The 2 endings & reveal from good ending
Firewatch - Text opening & subject matter of it & also ending
The Messenger - 8bit to 16bit
The Witness - Stepping out into first garden realising everything’s a puzzle & no help
Unpacking - Degree
Neon White - Final Boss
The first time you lose a companion in Spiritfarer
When Doki Doki Literature Club shows its true plot
Happily Ever After in Slay the Princess
What comes after the moon.
If you know, you know.
Celeste - chapter 2 when you get chased by yourself. That song is burned into my brain.
Genuinely one of the most hype moments.
No particular level, & for both the earlier question as well as this one.
You spend almost all of Haven playing both halves of a romantic pair who use combo attacks.
Late in the game, they have a fight and one leaves - it really stuck with me how alone I suddenly felt from the mechanical change of having only one character to explore & fight with.
Still listen to it often.
The final mission in 420BLAZEIT2
Hong Kong protest scene in 1000XRESIST
First time you get scared in Mortuary Assistant
First time finding secrets in Immortality/Candy says song moment
Chapter 2 tone change in Inscryption
Taking down your first boss in Valheim
When you finally work out what’s going on in Until Then
Karaoke in Wanted Dead
Storm visual metaphor in While We Wait Here
…I could do this all day :^)