#Strayed Lights

[alpha-beta-gamer]

Strayed Lights is a visually stunning parry-focused Souls-like where a being of light ventures through a dark oneiric world!

Read More & Play The Beta Demo, Free (Steam)

[sharkblaj]

Graphic Designs: Me vs my partner

Small content creator here. My partner is the more responsible one and I'm the AuDHD.

My partner made me my logo and the static assets, which I love:

E.g.: banners

Meanwhile, me:

I love her to bits, but it only emphasizes the crackhead energy in me.

[fancypantsrecords]

Austin Wintory - Strayed Lights | G4F Records | 2023 | Blue Translucent + Orange Translucent

[gay-catra-draws]

Strayed Lights sona/OC, because someone has to make fan content for this game

[2-d-rogue]

Finished Strayed Lights.

[lclupus]

Strayed Lights

[gamefanatics]

Strayed Lights Review: A Dreamlike Action-Brawler with a Heart

Strayed Lights is a stunning action-adventure game that takes you on a journey of discovery and transcendence. You play as a tiny being of light that grows and evolves as you explore a beautiful yet dark world of nature and ruins. As you delve further into this world, you will face a variety of enemies and bosses in fluid and rewarding parry-based combat. I initially got my hands on Strayed…

[satoshi-mochida]

Strayed Lights releases today for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG.

[b3crew]

The PAX East 2023 One-On-One Special! | B3 - Boston Bastard Brigade

King Baby Duck took on PAX East 2023 with great tenacity, and he's got the audio to prove it! Join our host as he chats with many developers on the con floor (and maybe one or two in a different location)! From a League of Legends spin-off and pro wrestling RPGs to horror dating sims, there's something for every kind of gamer!

Chapter Listing:

Intro (00:00)

Retroware for Toxic Crusaders (02:58)

Ysbryd Games/Necrosoft Games for Demonschool (08:59)

DreadXP/MANGLEDmaw Games for Amanda the Adventurer (16:46)

Embers for Strayed Lights (26:41)

Snoozy Kazoo/Graffiti Games for Turnip Boy Robs a Bank (33:11)

Area 35 for Felicity's Door (39:06)

LimboLane/Serenity Forge for Smile For Me (45:34)

RageCure Games for Goons: Legends & Mayhem (56:19)

Tic Toc Games for Wrestle Story (01:01:17)

Wired Productions for Gori: Cuddly Carnage and The Last Worker (01:09:49)

NERDS Clothing (01:25:45)

Akabaka/DreadXP for Sucker for Love: Date to Die For (01:32:54)

Mooneye Studios/SomeHumbleOnion for Shumi Come Home (01:42:43)

Riot Games/Digital Sun for The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story (01:49:06)

Click here to listen!

[darkest-lune]

Part 1 of me being dramatic because I am very easily emotionally touched:

"...If I were to use a metaphor for playing the game for the first time, it would be that the game was a piece of flint, crashing against the steel that is my mind. Sparks of imagination flew, and from those sparks a fire of passion was born. Fueled by gameplay, that fire grew and grew, burning higher and higher, providing my thoughts an inspiring warmth that kept them running..."

"...The heart is a very... naïve thing. Naïve and fragile. It can soar higher than the clouds, or it can sink into the deepest depths of the sea. It can provide a soft, healing glow, or it can shatter all over your being, bringing you an almost unbearable pain.

I was born without a heart, you see. And from what I heard about others' experience with one, I never thought I'd get one. I'd rather live a life of reliable apathy than one being puppeteered by it's strings. The strife simply didn't seem worth it."

"But when I first saw that world, while I didn't know it at the time, the game had given me a heart. Its beat was strong, brisk, and rhythmic. God, it felt like it wanted to jump out of my chest and touch the sky, taking me with it.

It was exhilarating. It was romantic. I... loved it."

"But while I was running with my new heart and watching the flames and their shadows shudder and dance, I subtly forgot how little fuel I really had.

As quickly as it was given, the game stole the still beating heart from my chest. I didn't even know it gave me a heart at the time - I just thought I was following my train of thought!"

"I thought I was smarter than that - that I would know when a game was trying to give me a heart, and that I would be able to reject it. But when I found myself kneeling, unable to stand, with my hands on my aching chest, surrounded by falling ash and dying embers, I realized three things.

One, that I wasn't as smart as I thought I was.

Two, that despite the pain I was in, I didn't regret having a heart.

Three, that I couldn't go back to not having one. No, not without trying to get it back."

"And so, I scoured. Sure, I still had the piece of flint from the first time, and I'm sure that if I struck it again, it would reignite everything. But merely looking at the piece of flint made the hole in my chest ache. And I knew that the fire would never burn as high, as hot, or as bright as the first time. And when the flint was struck so many times that it wore down into nothing, then what? No, I have to think about the future. I have to find a new piece of flint, one that can stoke a fire just as great, or even better, than the first one."

"I look for a new heart. One that's different from the first, in strength, rhythm, and speed. One that's similar enough that I could fool myself into thinking it never changed. One that can easily replace what I lost. But some of them beat too slowly, or maybe they beat too quickly. Some might have a pulse that's too soft, and others might have one that's too violent. But whatever the reason, none of them cut it. None of them fit.

I look for a new flint, but I always just keep finding the same ones. A few I'm sure could stoke a beautiful flame. But for most, I'm... skeptical, as to what they can do. Some I believe to be far too short to start anything meaningful, while others I fear to be unreliable. Hell, some of them I doubt they even have a piece of flint at all! And while I could try something with just a heart, I'd... rather not experience what that could be like."

"I don't want to stoke a lesser flame, or to run with a slower heart, for I fear that if I do, it will smother the embers and cauterize the former home of their respective predecessors. But I also fear that my caution and hesitance has led me to forgo something that could be greater than anything I've seen yet, all because of my paranoia of the former.

I know that my patience, instead of allowing me time to find something new, had led to the death of many embers, and for the wounds of where my heart was to heal somewhat. And I know that because of these progressions, it will be much harder to replace either, let alone both of them. But what else could I do? Try in vain to find something that meets or exceeds their predecessors' standards? Or allow the embers to die and the ache in my chest to fade, only to repeat it all again?"

"...Though perhaps... that last thought isn't such a bad idea; To let the mind forget and the aching to heal, just to feel it all again, stolen heart and all. To feel those highs in their former glory, even if it meant reliving the lows just the same. Oh, perhaps it's my forgetting mind and the twinge in my chest fading that's allowing me to consider the idea, but if I humor the thought, even for a moment... it doesn't seem so bad."

[sableeira]

And Dazai is like: omg how did he figure it out?!?!?!?

[sharkblaj]

Our Collection of Dumbass Thumbnails

IT GROWS!

[lotus-pear]

the day i picked up dazai or smth idk i've never read it

[wolfleblack]

Strayed Lights Review - A Spark of Brilliance

Strayed Lights is the debut title from Embers and they’ve certainly come out swinging. It’s a beautiful adventure that has a unique take on combat, pushing you to defend rather than attack. Not everything works, but there’s plenty that does, so let’s review Strayed Lights, shall we? The story is tricky to summarise as it has an ethereal and deliberately vague vibe that’s only obfuscated further…

[xboxissues]

New Xbox Games for April 24th to April 28th 2023

[beastgamerkuma]

Beastly Weekend Report Jedi Survivor Sony's new Portable device and mu...