June '19 Play Log
Nothing terribly interesting this time. I finally feel like I’m making a dent in my unfinished list, albeit a small one. Too bad the same can’t be said for my wishlist unplayed list.
Overall I quite enjoyed this game, even though I’ve never seen this even though I’ve never seen the show or the comic books. There were several points where I didn’t like either of the options and would have liked to do something different that wasn’t an option, but it’s understandable that they can only provide so many choices. There are definitely some hard choices to make, and the story plays with your emotions quite well.
Pros:
- Good voice acting
- The characters were well done and felt like they had their own unique personalities
- Relatively interesting story
- There are definitely points that make me wonder what would have happened if I’d made a different choice, so the game definitely has replayability.
Cons:
- The camera angles were frequently quite bad, and made finding things awkward
- The ‘last time on’ could have been done better. I played the first episode long before I finished the rest of the game, and there kept being references to things I couldn’t remember and wasn’t reminded of at the beginning of the second episode.
Verdict: 8.5/10
Play or pay pick. Overall I quite enjoyed it, but not as much as Tales from the Borderlands. I do wish I had played it all in one go though rather than only playing episode 1 then abandoning it. Something tells me I couldn’t play the rest of it, either because they weren’t out or I didn’t have them, I don’t recall though. That’ll probably be a recurring theme as I try and work through my abandoned games backlog.
Overall I enjoyed this game, especially the scenery. I’m not big into platformers though so I found it quite difficult. If you’re not good a platformers the main game is challenging enough. The achievements are more challenging still.
Pros:
- Brilliant graphics and scenery
- Good voice acting
- I really like Maddie
- The controls work very well
Cons:
- The story really only exists as an excuse for the gameplay
- It would have been nice if the towns/cities were larger and more interesting to explore, especially the second one
Verdict: 8/10
Another play or pay pick. Pretty fun, though fairly difficult in parts. The scenery is amazing. I really did finish the story, but there’s no achievement for it. The achievements for this looked way too difficult considering I struggled in parts as it was, so I don’t think it’s worth trying to get any of them.
This game is very difficult. The good news is that if you die you usually resume near where you died, but you can only do that so many times before you have to restart the level. That doesn’t help though if you fall to the ground from a higher platform that’s really difficult to get to. I found myself frequently playing the same section over and over until I finally managed to move on through sheer luck. Eventually I got to a place I couldn’t move on from. Based on a Youtube playthrough I was a quarter of the way through and it was only getting harder, so I opted to drop it. I dislike giving up on games without beating them, but if I’m not enjoying it then there’s really no point.
SG win. This was originally a play or pay pick that I had to drop due to the difficulty. I opted not to leave a review on Steam since I’m not exactly the target market and was unable to get very far. What do you think the chance is that I’ve finally learned my lesson regarding platformers?
Fairly decent but not amazing, same as with the first game to which this is a sequel. The story is better thanks partly to it being longer, but it still wouldn’t win any awards.
Pros:
- Good voice acting
- Fairly decent story (better than the first game)
- I quite liked the ending. FYI there’s an after credits cutscene.
Cons:
- I don’t think this one had a button to view all interactable areas. There are achievements for each chapter for getting all of these and despite doing my best to find them all I didn’t get any of the achievements.
- The game warns you it’s better on controller but that’s no reason for the mouse/keyboard controls to be finicky. It felt like they put in the bare minimum effort and couldn’t be bothered to improve them.
- Requires a second playthrough to get all achievements, despite having no replay value.
Verdict: 7/10
This game was on my wishlist for a while before I picked it up, and recently got and beat the first game so I could finally play it. It’s better than the first, but honestly I’m not convinced it was worth the time to play given there are so many amazing games out there. On a different note, why on EARTH do developers feel the need to put mutually exclusive achievements in games with NO replay value whatsoever?
One of the best games I’ve ever played. It has an absolutely brilliant story, and is very much worth playing. It continues the story started with To The Moon and free DLC, as well as A Bird Story, but you don’t have to have played them to enjoy this game.
Pros:
- Brilliant story with twists that kept me guessing until the very end, which is quite rare in my experience
- Great soundtrack
- Well animated; I found the facial animations particularly expressive
Cons:
- Started getting a bit dry around the 2 hour mark, but it picked back up again quickly after that
Verdict: 9/10
SG win. I actually beat this last month, but forgot to include it in my last post. Overall I enjoyed it as much as the first game (To The Moon). I generally avoid RPGMaker titles, but this is proof that it is in fact possible to make good games with it.
Recent Acquisitions
- Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest: Adventure Game
0 minutes playtime
0 of 72 achievements
Hell yeah! Keep chipping away at those unfinished games!
What was the most difficult choice for you in the Walking Dead game?
Haha thanks. 3 fewer this month so far so I’m pretty happy.
I think I’d go with the choice with Ben when escaping the school. It turned out I was in the minority. I kind of regretted it given that it didn’t turn out to help the situation.
i love seeing what others choose especially when I feel like something should be way less yet everyone does it and I’m like seriously? were playing the same game right why would you choose that!
I looked at my screenshots and I guess you let him die? since I choose the opposite same with 66% people at the time. Frankly I wonder what happens in episode 5 if I choose your choice since where does kenny go? the way I had it everyone came with me and of course kenny disappears when ben does so how does that happen if he joins you. Is it like screw it ZOMBIE PARTY!!!! With the choices it always does make me wonder what would happen if you play through every game then went back and choose the opposite choices. Would you notice a difference or would it just kinda gloss over everything and just be a waste of time. If they weren’t so long I would happy to go back through but playing wolf among us with my brother I can’t say the differences really accounted for anything except they acting and looking different from my way
Yeah I think most things would be the same but with subtle differences. I’m still curious about replaying, but not enough to actually do it. And yes, that’s what I did with Ben. I figured we’d get out faster, but Lee still took his time so it kinda backfired. For me there was a point on the roofs where Kenny slaps Lee on the back and he drops the walkie talkie. Christa jumps down to get it, Kenny jumps down to save her but then can’t get up and is missing presumed dead. I guess for you Ben dies the same way?
for me the railing collapses when ben is jumping he gets impaled by it and then kenny goes down to help him but he’s impaled so thats not happening and of course he is presumed dead after using the only bullet left to kill ben of quickly (at least thats what lee assumes when he returns to the roof again). I can’t really say if it felt like it took long to save ben, it felt quite quick but all the shit you get later yeah that’s the fun part but yeah its like the carley and doug? yes think doug situation in the end you end up with the same thing happening except different things happening like how ben should’ve been killed instead of doug while carley gets shot and ben wasn’t even on the table we all know who everyone choose from that
In the end we all know our choices don’t really matter and thats what made me love new frontier even more since that whole thing changed the ending. Like how you treat people change who comes with you on episode 5 that whole game decides from your choices and apparently season 2 for how the ending will go. I’ve mentioned it before with guardians of the galaxy how I felt like my choices did effect the game until episode 5 where the one I avoided and hated me was suddenly the only one who trusted me like what?
Since I have to replay walking dead final season 4 twice that was what made me wonder what would happen if I did the opposite but they are such long games and sure I could change my game slightly but I also feel like in the end clem will still be the same
Ah, finally somebody like me who struggled with A Story About My Uncle! It was the toughest game I’d ever beaten until Ori (which I played on Easy). Despite my struggles, they are two of my favorite games.
I liked Finding Paradise, but not nearly as much as Too The Moon, which I enjoyed but not as much as some.
IKR? Amen to that.
I don’t know that it’s the toughest game I’ve beaten, but only because I’m too stubborn for my own good lol. I liked the look of Ori, but being a platformer I managed to resist the urge to get it/enter GAs for it.
I played, like, 5 minutes of A Story About My Uncle and I was like ‘uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I’m good’. I don’t think I got out of the tutorial area. My old laptop didn’t help, but still! So difficult!
It definitely took me a few falls to figure out the controls. My horrible reflexes didn’t help since you frequently have to do a grapple that’s only in range for a split second, especially in the ice caves. Though maybe I’d have had more time if I were better at timing my grapples and releases.