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> While the game is a bit on the short side, there's enough depth to its mechanics to feel satisfying to master, and the realization that a game that gave you so much trouble at first has turned into a total cakewalk can't be matched.

Yeah, if I recall, once you figure out all its mechanics you are able to hack anything in about a month of game time. This is marvelous once but obviously does hurt replayability.

It is fun to think I can never really replay uplink, short of some rather severe amnesia.

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> It is fun to think I can never really replay uplink, short of some rather severe amnesia.

That's the feeling I got out of Return of the Obra Dinn. Turns out that a carefully crafted whodunnits becomes a lot less interesting when you already know who's who what the "it" is that they've dun.

lol I guessed so much on my playthrough of Obra Dinn, that I imagine a second playthrough would not be particularly smooth either

I absolutely adore Obra Dinn, but its got the replay ability of a really, really good crossword puzzle.

But not all is lost - I get almost as much enjoyment out of watching other people play through it and uncover the mystery.

> It is fun to think I can never really replay uplink, short of some rather severe amnesia.

Maybe I suffer onset dementia or something, but I enjoyed that game back then, but absolutely remember shit about it. Like, absolutely nothing. Maybe it would all come back 5 minutes after firing it up again, but I doubt it.

Once you figure out you can pretty easily hack top level bank accounts for effectively unlimited money, the game loses a lot of its replay value.

I absolutely loved this game when it first came out and I played it on my Snow iBook G3. I subsequently re-bought it on Steam, and it’s had about five minutes of playtime since then. I want to replay it, but every time I start it back up again I’m just like, “Nahhh.”

It will, as it was relatively simple.

For me it would be like 20 years ago last time I opened it. It would take me some time to get back but of course not as much as when I played it as a teenager. But I don’t think I remember it in such detail to just plow through.

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