Monthly Report - February 2019

This is a completion month :).

So first, new games :

• Won : Rock of Ages 2
• Free : -
• From bundles/gifts/sales : Magicka 2, LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham Season Pass

• LEGO® Batman™ 3: Beyond Gotham
  

  44 hours playtime

  70 of 70 achievements

LEGO® Batman™ 3: Beyond Gotham - completed

Most of the game being okay, when I saw a huge discount on the season pass, I decided to get it.
When I finished it last month, besides a lot of issues and an annoying end game, I thought it was a fun game so I expected more fun from paid missions.
And it was a real disappointment. At full price, this would be a real rip off. The missions are very short, and uninspired, everything has long narrations instead of cut-scenes, and most of the VOs are not great. The only mission I enjoyed a bit is the Bizarro one, because the characters are fun but the level is as the others, short and not great.
The worst part is that they are trying to be funny, but I don’t know why, the jokes don’t work (maybe because of the poor VO).
So, get it only at very low price and only if your goal is to have the achievements, in other cases you shouldn’t bother, it’s not worth it.
Achievements : Nothing difficult or fun, they are only there to force you to buy the DLCs, you only have to finish the levels (Although I giggled with the achievement “Darkseid on the Moon”. Well thought).

• Oxenfree
  

  17 hours playtime

  13 of 13 achievements

Oxenfree - completed

I liked that game a lot. It’s quite short but a bit intense, so I played it over a few days.
The gameplay is pretty simple, it is mostly walking and choosing dialog options, but the story is well presented, intriguing. During the first playthrough I wasn’t sure if what was really happening and I built several possible scenarios until I got to the end.
The voice-overs are great.
But, I’ll still complain a bit :). I felt that the dialog options disappear too quickly on my first playthrough, and as the game is built around the idea of replaying it, when you do that you notice that most of the dialog options don’t really matter. A few ones are key, the other are changing a few dialogs, but when you do a “silent” playthrough (you don’t speak at all), you see that the response are the same as if you said or asked something.
Don’t get me wrong, the game hides it very well, on one or two playthroughs, it works. The questions and answers flow nicely and it looks like a real conversation. But the achievements force you to do more playthroughs, and it starts to show.
But overall it was a pleasant game, I was just starting to be a little bit annoyed during my fourth playthrough :).
Achievements : Most of them are unlocked through the main story. I only spent quite some time to find all the collectibles, but they are important to fully understand the story and the game gives you in-scenario hints to find them so it’s not that hard, maybe just a little too much walking if you missed some (a few times I hoped for a quick travel).
As I said, some achievements require to replay the game as some outcomes are incompatible (I think you can’t complete the game with less than 3 playthoughs). But as I did my first playthrough without reading any of them, I missed a few ones. Which means that I had to play it four and a half times (I missed something for the achievement and restarted). And I think this game work for 3 playthroughs, 4 is just one too many ^^. The playthroughs are quite short but not much new happen.