![]() You are looking down at the whole island, and overseeing this pilot as he wants to try and get home. ![]() However, you aren’t playing either the downed pilot or a character itself, but rather a god-like figure. 30 years have passed since that landing, and presumably ‘you’ show up. The game starts by playing you a cutscene of a plane flying into a storm and crash landing on a tropical island. Down in Bermuda, is a very tactile puzzle game, at least that is how I am choosing to describe it. ![]() ![]() What is this game, and did I need to spend two paragraphs explaining why I played this game? Well obviously ‘NO’ to that second question. However, in this instance I needed something else to take my mind off the depressing state of the world. Some nights I am able to pass the time, sitting in their dark room, just looking at the news. See, I’ve technically spun “Dishonored” and “FF6” as the games I am supposed to be playing, but both systems I have the games for (X360 and the PS1 Version) are not something I can play portable in their room. That night, while waiting for him to fall asleep, I fired it up on my own to see if it was something I could help him play. One of my kids started it up first, on a whim, and when the first puzzle popped up, I realized that this is maybe not a game he is ready for. I found “Down in Bermuda” on sale, but I knew nearly nothing about it. I’ve told this or similar stories a million times, and this isn’t a blog about being a parent, so I don’t need to retell the stories here. Then that all changed with becoming a parent. That isn’t to say, it didn’t occur to me, because I didn’t know the Switch was portable, but rather, it didn’t occur to me, because video games belong up on the big screen. Even when I split time playing Mario Odyssey with my wife, we just loaded different saves on the TV, and it never even occurred to me that the person playing could play it handheld while the other person uses the TV. I got the Switch simply for the games it offered, and the first few years I played it exclusively on the TV. Even when I first purchased the switch, I liked the fact that it was portable, but to me, portable meant like road trips or playing the game on vacations, like I took my Gameboy or Gamegear when I was a child. 5 or so years ago, I was strictly in the camp that all of my game playing would be done on the big screen, with the big audio that comes along with it. Which is a crazy realization, but it’s true. ![]() Now to be clear, I did not spin this game on the big wheel of games, as much as I want all my decisions of games to come from the unforeseen hand of chance and luck, I always NEED to have one portable game in the works at all time, because there are so many instances in my life where that is the only game that I will even have access to play. Well this game wasn’t on the agenda, now was it? It turns out that I own hundreds of games that can easily be beaten in just a handful of hours, and all I have to do is dig them out. This is an ongoing list where I attempt to do the following: Play, Complete, and Rank every video game in the known universe in order to finally answer the age old question "What is the greatest game of all time?" For previous entries find the links on the attached spreadsheet. ![]()
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