January 2, 2024 - Day 367 - RePlay Review
Total RePlays: 12
Game: Mind Scanners
Platform: Steam
Release Date: May 20, 2021
Reviewed: Dec 17, 2023
Original rating: 1 - Nope
New rating: 3 - OK
Playtime: 4hrs30m (5h)
When I reviewed Mind Scanners a couple of weeks ago, I found it icky. I tagged it for the trading cards, and as with many games that have trading card drops, it has to be played to collect them.
I've sold enough of them to buy whole DLCs with the proceeds, so at least it feels like I got something out of the game. Usually this just reinforces my opinion of the game, and makes me more determined to recover the storage space, but sometimes things go differently.
I started playing this last night, and then kept playing it this morning. It turned out that I'd missed a part of the user interface, and thus gameplay, and instead of just turning everyone in mindless zombies, there's a whole gameplay aspect of also maintaining their personalities in the process.
Which took this from icky to "Ohhh, NOW I get it!", which makes my original review a bit harsh. I'm still not a fan of the pixel-art, but the gameplay is actually interesting, and in getting this part of the gameplay right (effectively restarting the game from scratch), the narrative has now revealed itself.
I was wrong about Mind Scanners. It's OK.
