Video Game Book Club - Slay the Princess

Alright!

My apologies for the delay. This weekend was busier than expected. Without further ado, here's the full list of games!

These games will join the seven games left over from last time for a total of 19 games!

Vote for the games you want to play first here: https://forms.gle/7fHV1dX4AgZNjDvLA

Voting will be ranked choice, and is fully explained in the form.

Voting will close Sunday, October 20th at 12am PST, but this is as loose as any other deadline here so no stress.

The thread OP will be updated with all of this information as well.
Whoever put Slay the Princess on here is based.
 
Sent in my 4 votes :miiverseyeah:

I submitted Shredded Secrets. For anyone here who doesn't know, it's the winner of a game jam hosted by a video game camp for young girls called Girls Make Games. Four 12-year-olds created a playable game of their concept and it won the game jam, so the game was given a rework by professionals and then released on Nintendo Switch (the four girls were still able to work on the final product).

It's a platformer set in school starring three students and a teacher, who are each dealing with their own fears. They manifest as other students hurling word bubbles at them that deal damage, though also in more abstract ways. The game has a hand drawn art style.

It got promoted on the Nintendo of America YouTube channel, so I'll post the video here for anyone else who's curious. It might have gotten more attention if the video mentioned "oh hey btw this was originally made by four 12-year-old girls".


Edit: to be clear I haven't played it myself yet. I just thought this video game book club would be a good excuse for that.
 
I have made my submissions. Lot of interesting nominees mostly voted for games I haven't really played much of that piqued my interest. I say that having voting Layton 1. And played a decent bit of the puzzles but that was over a decade ago.
 
My submission was The Walking Dead, and I picked it because I've actually never played any of them but I've read the comics. It's spooky month, so a zombie game feels fitting, and the fact that it's episodic felt like it makes for a good book club game.

Kinda wanna see what all the hype was about, honestly.
 
Sent in my 4 votes :miiverseyeah:

I submitted Shredded Secrets. For anyone here who doesn't know, it's the winner of a game jam hosted by a video game camp for young girls called Girls Make Games. Four 12-year-olds created a playable game of their concept and it won the game jam, so the game was given a rework by professionals and then released on Nintendo Switch (the four girls were still able to work on the final product).

It's a platformer set in school starring three students and a teacher, who are each dealing with their own fears. They manifest as other students hurling word bubbles at them that deal damage, though also in more abstract ways. The game has a hand drawn art style.

It got promoted on the Nintendo of America YouTube channel, so I'll post the video here for anyone else who's curious. It might have gotten more attention if the video mentioned "oh hey btw this was originally made by four 12-year-old girls".


Edit: to be clear I haven't played it myself yet. I just thought this video game book club would be a good excuse for that.
man thats fascinating to watch

also got curious what helens mysterious castle was so i also took a peekies at that and found that interesting

neat stuff

voted for mine, ghost trick, shredded, and helens in that order :sip:
 
My submission was The Walking Dead, and I picked it because I've actually never played any of them but I've read the comics. It's spooky month, so a zombie game feels fitting, and the fact that it's episodic felt like it makes for a good book club game.

Kinda wanna see what all the hype was about, honestly.
Tbh it's probably one of the games I'm most excited for. All I remember is watching Pewdiepie (pre-racism) play it when it was big. Or maybe it was Markiplier? Either way it was someone big, but since then I've hardly thought of it.

Season 1's really all you need to play since that's the one that blew up, so it really is perfect. Great suggestion!
 
TWD season 1 is legit fantastic, there's a damn good reason it put Telltale on the map way back then and the choices can lead to some neat discussion based around what we end up picking.
 
I forgor to sum up the votes

View attachment Bleh.mp4

Anyways, the winner of the vote, and the first game we'll be playing is...
Slay the Princess!
with a total of 14 points!
After that, the next three most voted games were:
2. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones,
3. Pikmin 2, and
4. Signalis
Fun fact: games 2, 3, and 4 all tied at 10 points, so I had to tiebreak based on the amount of first votes.

If anyone wants full vote tallies I can provide those, but for now I'll get to work announcing this on the Discord and typing up our first preparation post!
 
Oooh Slay the Princess seems like it'll be fun. I heard nothing but vague good things such as "Just Play It. Trust 🙏"

Am also interested in the full tally
 
Oooh Slay the Princess seems like it'll be fun. I heard nothing but vague good things such as "Just Play It. Trust 🙏"

Am also interested in the full tally
The full results were:
  1. Slay the Princess - 14 points
  2. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones - 10 points (2 first votes)
  3. Pikmin 2 - 10 points (1 first vote)
  4. Signalis - 10 points (0 first votes)
  5. Halo Reach - 8 points (2 first votes)
  6. Shredded Secrets - 8 points (1 first vote)
  7. Void Strangers - 7 points (1 first vote)
  8. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - 7 points
  9. Digimon World - 6 points
  10. Helen's Mysterious Castle - 5 points (1 first vote)
  11. Professor Layton - 5 points (1 second vote)
  12. Ace Attorney Investigations 2- 5 points
  13. Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator - 4 points
  14. The Walking Dead: Season 1 - 4 points
  15. 999 - 4 points
  16. Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope - 2 points
  17. Wario Land 4 - 1 point
  18. Vampire Survivors - 0 points
  19. Kirby Super Star Ultra - 0 points
Fun fact: Slay the Princess got no first votes whatsoever, but got enough second votes to shoot it into first place immediately.
The first and second votes in parentheses are used to denote tiebreakers, of which there were multiple. Of course, none of these'll really matter come next vote, but neat to know I guess.

Preparation post will be up soon(tm).
 
The first post has been updated with the necessary information on buying the game!

Generally, with preparation posts I'll be aiming to provide
  • Where you can acquire the game and how much it'll cost
  • Approximately how long the game is
  • When we'll begin, and after starting how long we'll spend talking about the game.
Generally though, the amount of time is largely up to y'all and when we don't have much else to discuss.
 
The full results were:
  1. Slay the Princess - 14 points
  2. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones - 10 points (2 first votes)
  3. Pikmin 2 - 10 points (1 first vote)
  4. Signalis - 10 points (0 first votes)
  5. Halo Reach - 8 points (2 first votes)
  6. Shredded Secrets - 8 points (1 first vote)
  7. Void Strangers - 7 points (1 first vote)
  8. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - 7 points
  9. Digimon World - 6 points
  10. Helen's Mysterious Castle - 5 points (1 first vote)
  11. Professor Layton - 5 points (1 second vote)
  12. Ace Attorney Investigations 2- 5 points
  13. Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator - 4 points
  14. The Walking Dead: Season 1 - 4 points
  15. 999 - 4 points
  16. Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope - 2 points
  17. Wario Land 4 - 1 point
  18. Vampire Survivors - 0 points
  19. Kirby Super Star Ultra - 0 points
Fun fact: Slay the Princess got no first votes whatsoever, but got enough second votes to shoot it into first place immediately.
The first and second votes in parentheses are used to denote tiebreakers, of which there were multiple. Of course, none of these'll really matter come next vote, but neat to know I guess.

Preparation post will be up soon(tm).
Happy that Shredded Secrets placed 6th, I never see it talked about so I'm surprised it managed to beat out some of the other games on this list.
 
Happy that Shredded Secrets placed 6th, I never see it talked about so I'm surprised it managed to beat out some of the other games on this list.
It's a really cool game tbh. Here's hoping it gets picked for the next set :silquepray:
 
slay the princess is something i've always been interested in and avoided for intention so its a good chance for mysel
 
ooooh... This is a good reason for me to get off my butt and see if I can grab it and play it
 
Tangentially related sidenote.

Whoever put Void Stranger, SWOTS, and 999 respectively: I see y'all, and I heart y'all.
 
Slay the Princess can be obtained on the following platforms:

thats....out of my budget for now damn, dued to a lot of saving spending here i don't really have spending cash for luxaries anymore for the past few months

granted if things go well next week and i'm back to working it won't be a problem, but it'll take a hot moment for that to kick in then just 2 weeks

@DaybreakHorizon is it ok if i'm like...late to book club by a month?
 
thats....out of my budget for now damn, dued to a lot of saving spending here i don't really have spending cash for luxaries anymore for the past few months

granted if things go well next week and i'm back to working it won't be a problem, but it'll take a hot moment for that to kick in then just 2 weeks

@DaybreakHorizon is it ok if i'm like...late to book club by a month?
🦈 She wont need to wait
 

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