Aquilla

Finished in May(1-3)

  • Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery

    3 hours playtime

    12 of 12 achievements

Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery

6/10

This is my theme game, it was done in Poland and the publisher’s headquarters are like 20 km from my home. It’s Artifex Mundi HOPA. 100% standard, nothing new, nothing particularly bad. I don’t have anything more to say, who played one of them, played them all.

  • Rebel Galaxy

    29 hours playtime

    21 of 37 achievements

Rebel Galaxy

5/10

Oh boy… that was boring… I finished it, but only because I was using it as a distraction during watching You Tube. First of all I don’t like idea of any space shooter in which you are can fly only in two dimentions. I mean really? I cannot fly up? Second - every quest beside main story is more or less the same. Fly there, kill everyone, sometimes take something precious, go back, repeat. Buy better ship, then do basically the same during the whole game. There are some minor changes, like escort missions, but 90% of the game is just looting for a better ship, to be able to loot on higher paid quests. You can pirate other ships, you can be a merchant, buy low, sell high, but nothing was particulary interesting. For the pluses - the main story was fun, a bit predictable, but good sci-fi adventure, and the battle system is really nice. I mean, if battles weren’t fun, this game would be doomed, because this is what you are doing 90% of the time (when you are actually playing, not just flying through empty void), but doing basically the same battle over and over is getting tired quick.

  • The Invisible Hours

    6 hours playtime

    34 of 36 achievements

The Invisible Hours

9/10

Ok… Wow… That was an experience. It’s not a game, it’s a movie/play murder mystery where there are 7 actors. You can move free through the whole house, in which the action is placed, rewind, pause, and fast forward time, and just watch. On the first floor two people are arguing, in the meantime, on the second floor someone is finding an important clue, and in the garden another person is sneaking somewhere. Every person has his own motive, his own knowledge of situation, and you are the only one, who can see everything and piece together the whole story. It was brilliant experience, I was jumping through time, trying to see every scene, and listen to every dialogue. The story is really good, and fitting the media. There are a lot of moments when different people are interacting,then going different ways leaving you wondering - who spy next? I have only two problems - the ending is a bit underwhelming - there are some loose ends I cannot wrap in, and there is a little lack of tutorials - the game have brilliant feature in which you can check, what you have seen, and what not, but I discovered it after the whole first chapter, so my first hour or so was a bit frantic.

Trent

Thank you for the review of The Invisible Hours. I picked it up too long ago and your review makes me want to play it even more! :D
I’ve also played Lost Grimoires 2, but like all HOGs, I have no recollection of it. ;)

Arbiter Libera

Rebel Galaxy

Ain’t no Freelancer successor, huh? That’s a shame. I completely forgot about the game because of its Epic exclusivity.

Aquilla

Epic evclusivity? It’s on Steam. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is only on Epic - it’s a sequel :)

Arbiter Libera

My bad, I just defaulted to Outlaw for some reason. :D

Lex

For Rebel Galaxy it sounds like they got the core gameplay down, but forgot to make the rest of the game.

Did you play The Invisible Hours in VR? I love murder mystery novels, so I’ll have to pick it up when I can find it!

Aquilla

Quite good summary of Rebel Galaxy. I played Invisible Hours without VR - No problem there, although there are couple of little things which suggesting, that this game is mainly for VR.

Lex

9/10 without VR is even more impressive then! I will definitely be looking at getting this game. The screenshots look right out of an Agatha Christie novel!