kubikill

May 2018 Progress

Finished games:

Minit

4.6 hours, 27 of 27 achievements

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Oh, what this lying on the ground? A pen? I definitely could use an another one…
Oh no! The pen is cursed! The pen won't allow me to write anything for longer than 1 minute! Looks like I'll have to write multiple reviews of this game!

Review 1:
A Zelda-like game, where each life lasts only 1 minute. You walk around, solving puzzles, collecting items and trying to figure out how to remove the curse from the sword you picked up. It's a

Review 2:
In this game, you picked up a cursed sword that shortens each of your lives to 1 minute. Once 1 minute passes, you die and return to your home with all items you've collected in your previous lives. I would say tha

Review 3:
A puzzle adventure game. There isn't much to say about graphics - it's black and white, but nice. The soundtrack is great and the game will run on a 15 years old potato. If you ask me, I'll say that this game i

Review 4:
A game that you complete 1 minute at a time. A pretty short game - it can be completed in just under 2 hours and you can get all achievements in just under 5-6 hours. Once you complete the game, you unlock the second run mode which makes the game harder. Perfect for those, who don't have much time for game

Review 5:
Just play this game already.


Bully: Anniversary Edition

25.4 hours, 32 of 32 achievements

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An open-world action-adventure game. It's Grand Theft Auto, but you're a 15 year old in a school. I wanted to play this game a long, long time ago and I never got to play it until this month.

There's a ton of things to do in this game - you can play minigames at the carnival, participate in races, do pranks on fellow students, help the local people with their errands or just give wedgies to a teacher or a cop (which usually ends with a Benny Hill-style chase with every prefect/cop in school/town going after you). The plot isn't really special - it isn't really interesting, but it isn't terrible either. However, the missions are an another story - most of them have you do fun stuff, like vandalise the town hall, booby-trap a football match or bust out a teacher from the asylum. The music in this game is great, but unfortunately it's underrated. The touch screen controls are decent, however I've had a couple of issues with it - you cannot resize the "turn left" and "turn right" buttons and the automatic lock-on system will keep you locked on a opponent even after you knock him out, which is something you don't want while fighting multiple opponents.

If you love games similiar to Grand Theft Auto, definitely play this game. I've had as much fun as with the other GTA games. If you want to play this game on a PC, make sure you do some modding first - I've heard that the game doesn't run well out of the box.

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Please, Don’t Touch Anything

4.8 hours, 15 of 15 achievements
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A short point-and-click game. In front of you is a panel with one, big, red button and you're asked to not touch anything. If you do push the button, you'll realize that the panel holds many secrets…

The puzzles in this game are pretty simple and it's fun to watch the consequences of pushing random buttons. The music isn't outstanding, but is pretty good. The only two things I hate in this game is that in some of the parts you're required to press a specific button hundreds of times and if you press it once too much, you'll have to start from 0. Another thing I hate is the Perfectionist achievement, which requires you to get all endings in the game without pressing any unnecessary buttons - one wrong button press and you'll have to restart the whole playthrough.

Personally, I think this game is decent. Do play this game if you're looking for a fun point-and-click.


Poly Bridge

13.6 hours, 10 of 22 achievements
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A bridge-building simulator.
I am amazed by the stuff people make in this game. However, when I gave this game a try, I could only complete the first "chapter" of the game without getting stuck. The tutorial does explain you the basics of the game, however once you reach the third "chapter" of the game, things get very difficult. I gave up on this game during the fourth "chapter", because I could not figure out the correct "answer" for one of the levels and using someone else's solution from the internet does not always guarantee that the bridge you build will pass.

By all means I don't say that this is a bad game, it's me who's bad at it. If you're good at building bridges, you'll have tons of fun with this one.


Games with progress, but still not finished

There’s some progress on CSD2, but I’m still very far from getting all gold medals from C4H shifts, especially since a big update is coming out in June.
I’ve finally managed to beat Just Cause 2, but I still have 6 achievements to go, 1 of which will require me to do 1 more playthrough.
I’m getting further in L.A. Noire - I am now in the Arson department, the final desk in the game. However, I still have tons of stuff to find and collect.
I’ve reached level 20 in Borderlands 1 and I’m close to finishing all quests in the Arid Badlands.

Games added to the "currently playing" list this month

Current progress

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Garcias

Great update!
About Bully, I had no problems with the game (except not being able to use the steam overlay) and I’m running w8.1.
I couldn’t actually enjoy Please Don’t Touch Anything but maybe I was expecting other type of gameplay…
I’m at 7 hours in playing Borderlands too but it appears that you are way ahead of me (I’m not even close to finishing all the quests in the Arid Badlands) :/

Wolf Among Us was great and I couldn’t put it down. Hope you are enjoying it as much as I did!
And I’m currently playing Punch Club too and having great fun with it.

Good luck :P

kubikill

Thanks, mate! :)
From what I’ve read, seems like Bully crashes the most often on W10, but this mod supposedly fixes that.
I’ve read your review of Please Don’t Touch Anything and I do agree that some solutions just don’t make sense.
If you’re looking for someone to do the co-op achievements for Borderlands, feel free to message me! There’s a lot of games that I still have to play, so I can wait for you to catch up.
As for The Wolf Among Us, I’ve completed the first episode 2 days ago and so far I’m loving it! Glad to hear that there’s a sequel coming out.
And Punch Club… I’ve abandoned Punch Club 1 year ago. I have no idea why, as I was close to finishing the game. But I did have fun with it.

Garcias

To be honest I don’t really care about achievements but I guess it would be cool to have someone to play co-op with making it a little less boring. I’ll try to focus on it a little more now but it may take a little while since I’m on the final month of my degree and gaming is not my main focus :P

kubikill

Alright then, take your time :)

EvilBlackSheep

Congrats on the progress!

Your review of minit actually makes me curious about the game now!

I need to go back to Poly bridge, that sits in my unfinished category since forever ago, but it helps to read I was not the only one struggling to build the correct solution. That game was way harder than it first seemed.

kubikill

Thanks! :)
I definitely recommend Minit, I’ve had tons of fun with it! Too bad that it’s so short, though.
I agree with you on Poly Bridge’s difficulty. I thought that I’ll love this game, but after the big increase in difficulty I just gave up. I gotta git gud, I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯

godprobe

Loved your Minit review – it’s going on my wishlist now! :D
And I don’t think I’ve ever read a bad review of Bully… still have yet to play it though!
I think I’ll finally end up having to look up a guide or hint system for PDTA, I’ve played it once on PC and once on mobile a year or so later and gotten stuck at the same point on both.

‘Grats on nearly wrapping up L.A. Noire! Just finished it myself recently! Haven’t tried after all the collectibles much, apart from the cars (I still have five to find), but I think I’ll be going along with a guide if I really want to get all the acheivments.

kiseli

Haven’t heard of Minit so far, it looks interesting :) Added to wishlist, thanks :D