Monthly Report - July 2019

• Won : Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY
• Free : -
• From bundles/gifts/sales : Mafia III: Season Pass

• Seasons after Fall
  

  8 hours playtime

  21 of 21 achievements

Seasons after Fall - completed

I like the mechanism of that game, the puzzle are solved by changing season which have different impacts on the environment. This part is really great ! The visuals are nice, the music too.
I also like the voice acting, very soothing voice, it is a quite “zen” game : not much danger, just running around, completing puzzles.
But the running around is the issue of the game : a LOT of backtracking, a LOT of running around for nothing, levels where you get very easily lost. I probably spent more time looking for the exit in levels, feeling lost, than solving puzzles.
So although I started by liking it, at the end I was mostly relieved that it was finished. Not a great sensation.
Achievements : The flower one was a bit annoying as I missed a few, but I couldn’t find them even after backtracking so I needed a guide for a few of them.
This is nice that they display the number collected when you enter the level but you still have to backtrack a lot, which was quite annoying.
I also needed a guide for “A bird” as there is no way that you unlock it by chance and it is very very specific.
The other achievements unlock mostly by playing and exploring.

• Wolfenstein: The New Order
  

  21 hours playtime

  44 of 50 achievements

Wolfenstein: The New Order - beaten

I had that one in my playlist for years and finally decided to play it !
Great game. Loved it. The world is interesting (even if we don’t explore it a lot, there is some reading you can find that develop it… Seeing it would be better though - show don’t tell !). Perks unlock as you perform actions, I like that, it means you can unlock almost everything quickly or do that at your own pace. The shooting feels very nice, you almost never run out of ammo, weapon selection with unlockable addons are nice too.
The story is a bit basic, but I didn’t expect it to be noticeable so it’s okay :).
I was slightly surprised by the amount of stealth involved in that game, when I expected a very straightforward shooter. Not really a problem but sometimes I’ve been annoyed that I didn’t have all my weapons available at the beginning of the level.
The main downside is that the game doesn’t explain you the different enemies and how to take them down, nor is great to give you visual feedback about your weapon effectiveness. If you don’t use the right weapon they are very bullet-spongy (or invincible), and in the chaos, it’s not always easy to know if your attacks work or not. But after a few encounters, you get it.
Also the last boss and the whole end of the game is a bit underwhelming.
I was a little disappointed by the music though. I heard it was great, but although sometimes it is, most of the time it doesn’t really stand out.
Achievements : Pretty straightforward, a lot of them are unlocked by just playing and unlocking the different perks. I still need to replay with the other story path, but not much difficulty here. Even finishing the game with the hardest difficulty is not that hard, as you only have to do the last mission (but even doing the whole story in that difficulty is not really hard). So after replaying the level a bit I managed to get it quite easily.