samwise84

Update 54: May 18th to May 24th

4 games this week and great fun with some friends. Also it’s vacation time. So I guess this week went rather well.

8.9 hours
8/10 ⭐
Played on Steam

I had great fun playing this game with some friends (thanks MouseWithBeer, PV and Jip). We started out to play a bit and ended up playing for nearly 9 hours. RIP Saturday.
It is a fun puzzle game, though I am not sure how you are supposed to do some of those puzzles alone.
I was lucky enough to have people with me that actually have played the game more than once before so they gave me great tips on how to move, which is not an easy feat in this game. You basically look like you are drunk all the time or doing the macarena XD

If you have the possibility, play it with some friends. It is great fun. I will probably get back to it again. Just to get some more achievements ;)



Half-Life 2

The Night of the Rabbit

5/10
15.0 hours
14 of 17 achievements

This was just not my kind of story. On the surface it seems like an innocent story, but especially with the ending it gets a lot darker, overall I found it kind of akward. And some of the achievements are just meh. I mean why make you search for dew drops that are barely visible most of the time.
If you are into point'n'clicks it is a solid game.

Half-Life 2

Orwell: Ignorance is Strength

5/10
5.5 hours
8 of 19 achievements

Found the first game better. Here I was stuck a lot of the time, having to upload irrelevant data to progress. The story did not grip me like the first time around and I was not a fan of the two new features. It was hard to find the correct terms for the search bars, so basically just dragging various possible terms on them over and over again, until you find the right one. Also the dragging of the datachunks did only sometimes work. I nearly got stuck on episode two because I did not upload a picture that had a phone number in the background.
And then you have the 3rd episode where they introduce "The Influencer" a completely new feature, where you can influence the people with either truth or lies via social media. I will not understand why this feature was only introduced in the last chapter of the game shrug

Half-Life 2

Shuyan Saga

7/10
4.9 hours
9 of 9 achievements

I liked this game. Story was good and the battles were a nice addition, though some of the special moves are kinda hard to do. Though you do not really need them. I was able to do the tournament before after episode 1. It was feeling like an interactive comic.
Overall it was a fun experience.



green = PoP thanks to Aldowuj & Laura for challenging me
red = Monthly in a Month
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions/for fun games

Overall Backlog Progress: -0,36% unfinished/never played games :)

12.02% (110/915)
11.15% (102/915)
5.46% (50/915)
68.96% (631/915)
2.40% (22/915)
Overall SG Wins Progress: +0,56% unfinished/never played games :(

32.66% (65/199)
21.11% (42/199)
1.51% (3/199)
42.71% (85/199)
2.01% (4/199)
Here are the games I'm currently working on. Reviews will follow once I'm done with the games:
I've won 2 games in the last week. And I've beaten/completed 4 games, so that makes a -2 for the last week and a total of +2 for May.

SG wins:
  • Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt

    0 hours playtime

    0 of 22 achievements

  • Prodigy Tactics

    0 hours playtime

    no achievements

Games I want to play within the next few weeks:

BLAEO Monthly:

PoP: thanks to laura & Aldowuj for challenging me

PAGYWOSG:none more planned for now

Just for fun:
Jaded

Oh I have also played a little bit of Human Fall Flat this month! A group of 4-5 of us started a game and we ended up having a few random people join us which made some areas such as jumping up platforms extremely difficult. We didn’t get very far….. :P

samwise84

Yeah no rando people for us. Mouse hosted and said only friend invites, because randos can fuck it up too badly. Especially if you are going after achievements. And also having someone with you that knows what they are doing is invaluable. I don’t think I would have gotten quite as far without mouse and PV.

RikkiUW

That’s what I love about Human Fall Flat. I generally play solo but I played that with a friend the first time. I replayed it solo and it was like all of the puzzles were new again because I had to figure out how to do it alone. A bunch of new levels have been added since I played, I’ll have to go back and do them at some point.

MouseWithBeer

before so they gave me great tips on how to move

You are welcome :P tho my explanation was bad :D

And if you need some help with the rest of the achievements you know where to find us ;)

samwise84

well they were good enough so I could understand what you wanted from me. Though the next time just tell people to do the Macarena :P

And PV said the same thing :D

MouseWithBeer

Not sure doing the Macarena would help whole a lot :P

samwise84

run around like a mummy then? You know with arms strechted in front of you.

MouseWithBeer

That seems more accurate :D