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Milkmaid of the Milky Way

2 hours of playtime, 6 of 6 achievements
User avg: 100%

The most warm and fuzzy point and click adventure I've ever played =) You play as Ruth, a young woman who lives on an isolated farm in the mountains in a company of four cows. You live simple life by taking care of your cattle and making cheese and butter, but one day everything changes because of an unforeseen strangeness. The game is short and relatively simple, but it makes you smile a lot, because all the texts and dialogues in it are rhymed, and there are some pretty good jokes, including the ones which break the fourth wall. I got stuck maybe two or three times by not finding a pathway to some locations and by not clearly understanding a puzzle, but it didn't reduce all the enjoyment I've got from the game.

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

16 hours of playtime, 31 of 34 achievements
User avg: 98%

A visual novel/bartender simulator, good enough to take place among my Favorites. You live in a cyberpunk future, where corporations rule the world, parts of the former countries went underwater, artificial humans live along the real ones, crime rate is high, and there is a shortage of real food. Despise all that, people are trying to live their everyday lives, they are still meeting, socializing, relaxing and having fun, and some of them come to the bar you're working at, where you talk to and listen to them, while mixing cocktails from peculiar ingredients. The game is nice and relaxing (it makes you feel kind of a bond with your "regulars" at the bar), and I especially loved the art, which reminded me of Toyoi Yuuta's works.

SUPERSHORT

5 hours of playtime, 19 of 26 achievements
User avg: 85%

An entertaining concept, which unfortunately didn't fulfill all of my expectations. Superhot is a first person shooter with static time, where everything is almost stops while you're not moving. It creates an aura of a puzzle game, but it only looks like that, so it's nothing like Braid or other time-manipulation games. Although it is very exciting to play, the game feels somehow limited in what you can do, and while you're thinking about it, the game is already over. It takes 2-3 hours to finish the storyline, and all that's left is challenges (same maps as the story, but with limited weapons/time) and endless mode (you just kill as many enemies as you can) - both interesting, but not very appealing to me personally. One of the other memorable elements of the game is its DOS-type interface with weird applications (like Carpet generator) - good idea, but it's far from the effect Pony Island's interface creativity left on me. So, I recommend you to win it, or to buy it with a big discount, because it's not as hot as Carolina Reaper, more like a Tabasco Pepper.

Oh, sorry, I almost forgot (you'll understand when you play it):
SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years. 

P.S. I wrote a short Colored bars guide, if someone's interested in using those in their logs.

Added:

Lucky Thirteen

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

I wonder if it’s intentional that the title reads “Valhalla” (although with double “L”)? There should have been vikings! :D

TopDeer

Yep, they call it “Valhalla” among themselves =)
It’s a bar chain, so there’s also VA-11 Hall-B and Hall-C somewhere - they are mentioned a few times =)

Lucky Thirteen

Ah I see :)

Mully

supershort

Adelion

I think I will keep an eye on the Milkmaid of the Milky Way. I like to play some short adventure games from time to time.

☽ Coraline Castell ☾

In a single post you’ve managed to:

  • Dazzle me with your formatting skills once again;
  • Introduce me to an adorable point-n-click who's existence I was unaware of and now desperately want;
  • Make me want to become a pixelated bartender;
  • Save my ass by giving me the name of an amazing artist who's identity I was seeking for longest of times (seriously, SO DAMN LONG);
  • Turn me into a jealous kiddy by saying you've "added Diluvion" and
  • Last, but not least, you've made me uber happy by giving me the secret to your Krabby Patties in clear form; I've always admired your formatting work.

Thanks for the great update, Deer!

TopDeer

Thank you! I sometimes lose track of time while changing, adjusting, tweaking and doing all over again web-related stuff, and I still never get totally satisfied with the result =(
I monitor most of the new releases, and The Milkmaid was love at first sight (and there was also a discount for it) =)
Oh, I’ve found that artist by accident myself =o
Diluvion could be anything really, either good or bad, so I took a gamble here - I hope I’m not mistaken.

☽ Coraline Castell ☾

Oh I know that feeling of lacking self-satisfaction. I’m very picky with the things I do, especially my art and writing. So I feel you.

Woah, I’ll monitor you while you monitor new releases so I can monitor while you monitor!

And if Diluvion at least has the heart Ballpoint Universe has, it’ll be worthwile!

EvilBlackSheep

“The most warm and fuzzy point and click adventure I’ve ever played”

aaaaaand you got me convinced ;) I read the rest of the review for good mesure though, and it really seems like my kind of game :3