Hello,
I’ve also recently played Beneath a Steel Sky. I didn’t really see the guys as ‘space-nazis’, rather I saw it as a bunch of schmoes living in an environment where they haven’t seen anything else; I got a weird British humour sort of feel from it with things like the fire exits, and some of the strange stuff that happens. The NPCs seem more like lazy or institutionalised workers rather than a malicious enemy (apart from the guys near the end of the game). The player character feels a bit like a ‘John the Savage’ from Brave New World in how he’s dropped in to this place.
Tyrian2000 I enjoyed playing again. I played it when it was shareware, though only the first chapter (back then it was difficult for me to get the full version, especially as it was before we had an internet connection) and enjoyed it then, though I forgot about it until it appeared on gog.com. I like the upgrade shop for the ship, which gives a sense of progression that is different from an arcade game based on pickups. Tyrian2000 and Xenon II are two shmups by western developers that have a shop system rather than all pickups (Xenon 2 had a few pickups as well as the money though), while all the Japanese shmups I’ve played are more pickup based (apart from a few that don’t use pickups at all, like Ikaruga).
I don’t think I like Adventure Games. The only ones I liked were maybe a few from LucasArts games like The Dig with its fabulous music. Adventure games sold because they were graphical showcases for the machines at the time. I think Adventure Games age worse than any other game out there today.
“What! You don’t like the Adventure Games? Madness!”
I thought so at first too, but then I realize that Adventure Games died and are not coming back despite massive effort. My views on Adventure Games aren’t odd. They’re likely closer to the mainstream.
I couldn’t take it anymore and deleted all the ‘free’ Adventure Games from my GoG page. Alas.