On a roll ….

another Steamgift wins finally completed years later. Also a game about … um … drugs I assume:

• Deadlight
  

  17 hours playtime

  31 of 31 achievements

• Small Radios Big Televisions
  

  2 hours playtime

  9 of 9 achievements

Deadlight: Deadlight is the story of a hobo on search for his family which can for strange reasons only move left or right during a zombie/shadow apocalypse with some light puzzle elements. On your way through the sewer and the suburbs of seattle you find a lot of dead people and possibilities to die and you even see living people although the majority tries to kill you too. There is not much more to say about the gameplay. It is solid and controls work for the most part. As it is typical for the genre though, there are a lot of cheap death situations if you don’t exactly know what to do (meaning first time …. and second time …. and third time you face certain death). However, there are a lot of checkpoints which are fairly placed.
Like said, it was another game (even Steamgifts win) which was beaten long ago (August 2014) but still had one achievement left (another fun no dying achievement). As I have issues deleting games which are not completed I was eager to one day do the final achievement. And the day has finally come. It is not pure no death. The game is separated in three acts and at death you just have to restart the act. Still, act II is about 50 minutes long and as such the most difficult part in the game. Also has the most annoying situations (like a helicopter chase). I first replayed the whole game to get an impression for the difficulty. Then I started going for the achievement. First act was beaten in second try. The second act though took several days (computer was shut-off inbetween so I had to replay act I again). But I have to admit after a while (and the help with a little video) I found more or less reliable ways to beat most situations. And as I finally reached act III it was just a matter of patience (still died 10 times or more, luckily act III is only 15 minutes and so I was back at point in less than 10 minutes). So yea, DONE. And deleted :P
With this I have completed most of my SG wins. The ones remaining are either due to broken, unobtainable achievements, general issues with achievements or because they have been in Early Access for the last 5 years and have not been finished from developer side. But I like my stats now that 140 and Deadlight are finally blue.

Small Radios Big Televisions: I’m not quite sure how to explain this game. As a door clicker? You always start with an image of some kind of plant/fabric on one side and one or more doors. You can enter those and can click yourself through more doors, solving small puzzles and searching for tapes. First time those tapes show relaxing scenes and you have to click a green orb, helping you to get further inside the plant. Then you will find magnets, which can alter the tapes and suddenly they get kinda creepy and trippy. There is some kind of story but um ….. the game is mostly trippy …. Game can be completed in about 2 hours without guide (although I had to search a bit and even guess at times). There is one collectible per plant and three tapes in different versions which have to found all for all achievements. Apparently, there are issues with the achievements if you miss some sequence previously. After beating the game, you can revisit earlier plants and recollect missed stuff (unless you missed the sequence). Game also tells you what you missed, so for most part I think it is fair.

Well, now back to: What to play next. I still have two games I got because I had their pre-versions in the library. While I’m still mad at Devil’s Dare it annoys me more that I have Streets of Red in my unplayed list. I just hope this time all achievements work as intended. Other than that I also have the Borderlands GOTY Enhanced in my library. I could just use my saves from normal Borderlands. But even then I would have to replay the game at least once. So I may do the whole thing again as I’m not generally opposed to it and it has been a long time since I played it. Problem is here that it consumes quite a lot of hours and also has multiplayer achievements. So I would need help -_- Also I would probably play Lilith again since I can do most stuff alone with her. Maybe I will also go and give a try for the versus achievements in Resident Evil 5. Although I would need some staged multiplayer help here too.

On another note, I recently reached 10,000 hours played on Steam -_- And as I don’t idle for cards this actually means real playtime ….. Oh, and also reached 98 % completion rate. Well, at least before I started Streets of Red and it went down again.