Mark of the Ninja released on GoG for 6 Bucks, 66% off the original price. Metacritic has it highly acclaimed at 91 out of 100. A Trailer, cause everyone loves those. There's a basic edition and special edition DLC, about $1.50 for the upgrade. It has a developer commentary, a new level, with other odds and ends. Here's TotalBiscuit's Review, if you need to know more.
I'll see if I can do a playthrough video for this sometime this/next week.
I've seen some playthroughs of it. Outside of the exploration side switching to First-Person, it's what you'd expect for its sequel: An HD-Quality Campy Adventure game with a nice long list of dialogue options and some ridiculous situations. It's so bad it's good. At the very least, live-action is a breath of fresh air over character models or CG models.
The Midsummer Promo still has 12 hours left: I can vouch for Overlord: It's a Flawed-But-Fun game that's great at getting your evil mwahahaing on. It's $3 for 2 games that were once $60 each, so there's that.
I finished Mark Of The Ninja, and it was very satisfying. It's sort of like Thief: The Dark Project turned into a 2D Side Scroller and thrown into a ninja setting. There's a lot of infiltration options, tools to your disposal, and the controls feel pretty tight to me.
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The story didn't blow me away at first, but it does come with a clever twist.
It's roughly 4-6 hours, I think. The Special Edition is pretty nice for a buck and a half. There's a LOT of commentary, and you don't have to stop and read it all during the game - it gets collected for later reading. The extra level has a neat pick-in-any-order level structure and adds a bit more lore to the original. And in a sudden twist of shameless self-promotion, I did a playthrough of the game to boot.
I love GOG.com and I am glad that some of these wonderful old games are now available to share with new generations. I want to see classic games treated with appreciation, like classic movies.
My suggestions of what to grab: Psychonauts, Dust: An Elysian Tale, Teslagrad. Witcher 1&2, Giana Sisters, Valdis.
If you like Tim Schafer's sort of comedy and anything delving into psychological mind-bendy stuff, go ahead and grab Psychonauts. Dust: An Elysian Tale has sort of an anime look going for it with extremely slick animations. The combat is sort of like a 2D God of War, relying heavily on Juggling/Magic Abilities. Teslagrad is more puzzle-focused than action-focused, but it does require a decent amount of reflex. The boss fights can be fairly challenging but are satisfying too.
Waking Mars is a neat idea, as it's on a foreign planet but the game's main mechanic is based on plant growth instead of blowing up aliens or whatever. Never finished it, got about halfway. It's kinda got a Metroid thing going on, as you go deeper and deeper into the planet's underground which tunnels out in different directions.
Witcher is Witcher. Go play it if you like "Fantahistorical" Action RPGs.
Giana Sisters is... it's like a Sonic game with a female protagonist. It also warps reality to switch between the two characters with varying abilities. It's a cool game. Knights of Colour bought me the game for my birthday.
Unepic...lives up to its name. It's a D&D parody game The humor is decent, but the game's combat isn't amazing and neither are the graphics. I never finished it, got bored.
Valdis Story: Abyssal City is very fun. It's a metroidvania game with a weird setting, that has some great variety to it and multiple classes. Boss fights are fun, though some of them seem wildly difficult near the end.