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Crystal Towers 2 - Obsession
Jun. 25th, 2011 06:56 pmI think it's safe to say that I can forget any hopes of actually having this game ever out of my life. I've set up Google alerts and analytics and I still can't stop searching for myself. And that's when I'm not looking at the scorecards and seeing how fast people are making progress. Here, for the purposes of cataloguing and boasting, is a list of significant articles I've seen so far:
http://indiegames.com/2011/06/crystal_towers_2_released.html - Indiegames (pleasantly surprised)
http://www.extraguy.com/2011/06/crystal-towers-2-is-out-today/ - Sort of a repost of the Indiegames one
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/19/this-weeks-best-free-pc-games-5/ - PC Gamer's list of free games (mentions enjoying the storyline and dialogue. Not bad being on this list despite not being free, is it?)
http://www.giantbomb.com/crystal-towers-2/61-35736/ - Wiki entry on GiantBomb
http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/ahoodedfigure/impulse-buys-and-a-crystal-towers-2-profile/30-83312/ - Blog on GiantBomb (the word "love" is used)
http://mediocritycodex.blogspot.com/2011/06/indie-cred-david-k-newtons-crystal.html (Flowery but enthusiastic - and you can comment to get a chance to win a free copy)
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/15/celestica-crystal-towers-2/ - Rock Paper Shotgun (Appreciative yet patronizing)
Out of everything I've seen written about it, however, this is pretty much my dream. To have someone who discovered the game on their own be sufficiently enthralled by it to fill in the map that I gave out to a couple of people, to write a guide to finding each level, the objectives and the use of the spells (notably finding some of the less obvious uses of them, as shown in his comments) and soon, how to get each item in the game. Given the accidental size of the challenge it's helpful to anybody to take notes, but it's a wonderful feeling that anybody cares about the game enough to produce or use such a guide.
I'm also relieved that people seem to be able to work out what to do on the final boss. I'd worried that I'd be faced with a heap of people entering the level called 'Silent Void', seeing nothing there and just standing around stuck.
http://indiegames.com/2011/06/crystal_towers_2_released.html - Indiegames (pleasantly surprised)
http://www.extraguy.com/2011/06/crystal-towers-2-is-out-today/ - Sort of a repost of the Indiegames one
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/19/this-weeks-best-free-pc-games-5/ - PC Gamer's list of free games (mentions enjoying the storyline and dialogue. Not bad being on this list despite not being free, is it?)
http://www.giantbomb.com/crystal-towers-2/61-35736/ - Wiki entry on GiantBomb
http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/ahoodedfigure/impulse-buys-and-a-crystal-towers-2-profile/30-83312/ - Blog on GiantBomb (the word "love" is used)
http://mediocritycodex.blogspot.com/2011/06/indie-cred-david-k-newtons-crystal.html (Flowery but enthusiastic - and you can comment to get a chance to win a free copy)
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/15/celestica-crystal-towers-2/ - Rock Paper Shotgun (Appreciative yet patronizing)
Out of everything I've seen written about it, however, this is pretty much my dream. To have someone who discovered the game on their own be sufficiently enthralled by it to fill in the map that I gave out to a couple of people, to write a guide to finding each level, the objectives and the use of the spells (notably finding some of the less obvious uses of them, as shown in his comments) and soon, how to get each item in the game. Given the accidental size of the challenge it's helpful to anybody to take notes, but it's a wonderful feeling that anybody cares about the game enough to produce or use such a guide.
I'm also relieved that people seem to be able to work out what to do on the final boss. I'd worried that I'd be faced with a heap of people entering the level called 'Silent Void', seeing nothing there and just standing around stuck.
