UFO 50 is the antithesis to Void Stranger. Both titles are essentially modern takes on the "retro" genre, and UFO 50 attempts to make the "treasure hunting" of thrift store finds into a game, while VS just aims to make one really good game.
The majority of the titles in UFO 50 are shit. Some of them are alright, but all of the good ones could've used longer in the oven, they are mostly half baked. The standout title is Mini and Max for me, and I wish there was more of it. In UFO 50 you play games you don't really enjoy for the sake of the cheevos, and while this occasionally leads to some fun you weren't expecting to have, a lot of it is just a slog. Good games don't need to trick you into playing them, they're just good. I gave up on UFO 50 after probably around 40 hours, with maybe half the games cherried, because I had mostly ran out of games I enjoyed playing. VS, lasted 60 hours and I enjoyed the majority of that time, unprompted by cheevo hunting.
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UFO 50 didn't fulfil my expectations, despite being an impressive collection. 50 games is insane and the amount of work the guys had to put in here is mind-blowing.
But honestly, this game only made me frustrated seeing the way critics and consumers really interact with games. A perfect analogy for how I feel is a scene from an episode of South Park, where one of the oldfarts sees the kids playing Guitar Hero and he gets excited thinking he could share his guitar hobby with them, but as soon as he shows them the real guitar, the kids just say "so what?" and go back to the game, because their interest wasn't in the guitar, but in Guitar Hero.
I see UFO50 as a collection of 50 indie mini-games with a limited colour palette, and that's it. I can't delude myself that I'm playing retro games from a parallel dimension, these games literally feel like indie games from the 2010s-2020s in every respect, from gameplay to amateurish art style. Just copying some famous sprites from the 1980s-1990s didn't do much to create a simulacrum.
But what really frustrates me is to see how much people praise the project excessively, even though a huge number of the games are worthless if removed from the collection (imagine buying Star Waspir as a full game on Steam, lol), and at the same time retro games of much better quality are ignored, or sometimes massacred by the reviews on Steam, coming from people who I imagine, as soon as they leave UFO 50 which is a famous project made by celebrity devs, suddenly become super demanding and start posting negative reviews on games that make UFO50's indie mini-games look like amateur projects.
But honestly, this game only made me frustrated seeing the way critics and consumers really interact with games. A perfect analogy for how I feel is a scene from an episode of South Park, where one of the oldfarts sees the kids playing Guitar Hero and he gets excited thinking he could share his guitar hobby with them, but as soon as he shows them the real guitar, the kids just say "so what?" and go back to the game, because their interest wasn't in the guitar, but in Guitar Hero.
I see UFO50 as a collection of 50 indie mini-games with a limited colour palette, and that's it. I can't delude myself that I'm playing retro games from a parallel dimension, these games literally feel like indie games from the 2010s-2020s in every respect, from gameplay to amateurish art style. Just copying some famous sprites from the 1980s-1990s didn't do much to create a simulacrum.
But what really frustrates me is to see how much people praise the project excessively, even though a huge number of the games are worthless if removed from the collection (imagine buying Star Waspir as a full game on Steam, lol), and at the same time retro games of much better quality are ignored, or sometimes massacred by the reviews on Steam, coming from people who I imagine, as soon as they leave UFO 50 which is a famous project made by celebrity devs, suddenly become super demanding and start posting negative reviews on games that make UFO50's indie mini-games look like amateur projects.