So my gaming hiatus is slowly coming to an end. I've been following everyone's posts over the past few months but had too little on my side to update on anything. But no more! I finally seem to be enjoying gaming again but I'm still lazy af so gonna keep it as short as I can :P
ONE PIECE PIRATE WARRIORS 3
Well there's not much to say about this. It's a typical Musou game where you play through the canonical story of the popular manga/anime. Hordes of minions for you to stampede, the same 3-4 combos again and again and again and again...
Bounty Train
A game where you inherit a small train and have to go around America during I think the Civil War(?) looking for your family in order to gain access to your riches. All that while managing your resources, taking jobs transporting passengers and cargo, fend off against indians and outlaws etc etc. Was fun for a couple hours but quickly became repetitive.
Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders
Much as I wanted to like this I just couldn't. Everything about it is just passable. Managed to lose me in mere minutes.
Ray Gigant
Bought this thinking it was a Visual Novel with battles cause I'm too stupid to check store tags. Turns out this is a Dungeon Crawler, one of my most detested genres because of its tendency to get extremely repetitive. Off you go to the pile of eternal Limbo.
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
This I actually liked. However I am completely garbage at figuring out how to manage my squads and self so I got stuck in places for 20-30mins at a time. Hopefully I'll revisit this one day and figure out how to proceed cause it really looks like a good game.
Loot Hound
Interesting, little game where you just take your dogs out in various parks and find random stuff in the ground. Good enough to kill a couple hours when braindead but nothing more.
Action Henk
My latest SG win. Now that was an awesomely fun game! However there are some stages that need some serious skill to progress further. I'm unfortunately quite garbage in anything that needs reflexes so I've hit a wall I can't go over and continue the game further.
The Age of Decadence
Start the game. enter the wrong room. Die!
Start the game. Enter the right room. Take on a quest. Die!
Start the game. Enter the right room. Decline a quest. Go outside. Go with the merchant that is offering you a deal. Die!
Start the game. Enter the right room. Decline a quest. Go outside. Tell the merchant to f himself. Go talk to the commander. Get a quest to talk to a pleb. Talk to the pleb. Die!
Nu uh! Maybe in another life!
Flat Kingdom Paper's Cut Edition
Cute platformer with an interesting "shapeshifting" mechanic. But as with every platformer with subpar plot I was immensely bored.
Displaced
Think "This War of Mine" on the road. It's not bad but it's not that good either. Much rather spend my time on other titles.
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
It's a nice game but it gets repetitive through the multiple playthroughs you'll have to do. There's only so many routes you can follow and the gameplay is nowhere near deep enough to justify investing too much time in it. Next!
The Unending!
Also tried my hand at
Ticket to Ride and
Gremlins Inc. but as board games they don't really have a campaign to beat to make it easy to categorize as beaten or not. So like others of their genre I've decided to set them in an eternal state of unfinished. Both very nice games but the have the style of multiplayer matching I dislike with "rooms" you need to join, not an autoqueue. Also spent a few hours in
Armello as usual.
The Completed!
Thea: The Awakening
One of the games I fell in love with in the past few months! It's an amazing fantasy version of Civilization with battles happening with a weird card battle system. You start with a small village and a few people and gotta build from there, gathering resources, sending out exploring parties, fend off monsters attacking your settlement and parties etc. All while you're trying to resurrect/destroy your God(yourself) who has been weakened and frail. Fell in love with it so much that it made me finally jump into the crowdfunding scene and actually pledge on its sequel's kickstarter. Certainly the highlight of my Summer Sale purchases!
EARTHLOCK
Such a charming game! Colorful, vibrant, setting a very interesting world through it's story and lovable characters. However that's pretty much it. The battle system is quite shallow and repetitive and that's coming from someone who loves turn based combat. It's also quite short for its genre so the plot is pretty bare bones, not much meat on it besides the essentials. Still, a very enjoyful experience.
Leaving Lyndow
A very short walking sim with a single frustrating puzzle. It's quite nice on the eyes and the world shows promise. It's just a short technical demo to give you an idea about the upcoming game of the company which will take place at the same world. Maybe that will be worth it but I can't in good conscience recommend this one.
The Sexy Brutale
Another little gem! Adorable graphics, funny characters, decent mechanics. It's not very long but what is there is a pretty fun game even if you're always literally, racing against the clock. If i had to complain about something that would be its linear progression. It'd be very interesting(and possibly overwhelming) if you didn't have to do things in a certain way, in a certain order but instead be free to follow any path you wanted and resolve it in multiple ways. But even so, a very enjoyable game!
The ABC Challenge
I've been silently doing
one of those as well! Not using any special rules for it, just adding and removing as I feel like.
80 Days
Interesting game where you play a version of the Jules Verne book choosing where to go and what to do there in order to go around the world in 80 days and win the wager. It's interesting for a couple playthroughs but quickly gets repetitive. Still, enjoyable just enough.
The Banner Saga 2
Well, if you've played the first game it's pretty much the same. Only this time it somehow managed to make me care even less about even characters I cared for during it's predecessor. I dunno what went wrong exactly but even though nothing changed seemingly it just felt like it didn't deliver.
The Descendant
Ever played a Telltale game? Well that's exactly what this is but a bit more unpolished. Interesting enough, but nothing breathtaking.
event[0]
this actually might be a good game for some people. For me it was incredibly boring. And there were times that I felt like talking to one of those chatbots that you ask them the time and they tell you they like hentai. blegh.
Lume
An extremely short(>1h) puzzle game. Sure, the cardboard art is pretty but nowhere near sufficient to justify buying this. Again, blegh.
The Next BIG Thing
I was starting to develop a soft spot for 3D point&click games. I'm over it. First ABC, now this. It's a relatively fun one but most characters are completely one dimensional and unlikeable, the plot juvenile, social/moral beliefs shoved in your face(not that I disagreed with them but they were too forced) and generally a waste of time.
Oxenfree
This was another one I liked. Great art, likeable characters, weird plot, wtf surprise at the end. Can't say much about it without spoiling stuff but it's a very interesting game I'd like to revisit sometime. My one problem with it is how you can't have a completely different "starting point" with other people each playthrough but you have to traverse the map in the same order(apart from the 1-2 branching choices). But certainly recommend this one!
Pyre
Where do I start with this one? I'm absolutely in love with it! Supergiant really delivered once again! Unlike its older cousins this is a Visual Novel with a Sports game in place of battles! Sounds weird but it works surprisingly well. The soundtrack and visuals are astonishing as usual and the characters very well made and likeable! Finished my first playthrough yesterday and immediately jumped back in to play it in Ironman mode! Oh! And there's no game over in the game! If you lose a match the story just continues while altering the narrative to reflect that! So it's possible to actually finish the game by only losing! Ofc that won't give you a good ending but it will give you an ending nonetheless which won't be "the world is destroyed and you suck".
Tomb Raider
Soooo... I liked the reboot actually. For the first time I felt like Lara Croft was relatable. Also was a nice change to see her having a "squad" with her even if they were there only for cutscenes. Plus, unlike the previous ones I didn't completely suck at it and managed to finish it instead of getting stuck at like stage 3 or 4 xD
So that's about it for my past 4 months. Dunno how regular my upcoming updates will be. Until next time~
What a nice batch of games! Congrats for the progress in the past months. I’m always glad to see other people who played Thea and loved it! I got so addicted when I played it last month!