Monthly Report - May/June 2018

Lately have been quite slow on gaming so I group May and June (and even for those I’m late !).
Not much gaming, not much winning either :).

So, new games those months :

Won : KT Tunstall Song Pack (won on Rocksmith Twitch stream)
Free : The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, Hacknet - Deluxe Edition
From bundles/gifts/sales : We Were Here Too

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided™

42 hours playtime

32 of 81 achievements

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided™ - unfinished

Won this one on SteamGifts with the Playing Appreciated group so I had to play it within a month. This means that I started to play it without having played any other Deus Ex game (though I own Human Revolution).
So this was a bit spoily for the previous games but I don’t care too much.
I like this game, I’m trying to play non-lethal (and targeting the “no kill” achievement) which is a bit of a challenge. I find the story interesting even though I’m often a bit lost between the main story and side missions, as I tend to be easily side-tracked :). Moreover I like exploring levels and this game is great of handling that : the dialogs/events may change depending on which order things happen or based on information you may already know or not. Which I liked a lot.
But I encountered several bugs that were really annoying (enemies seeing you through obstacles, these kind of things) but not blocking issues.
Thanksfully you can reload a game ^^. I’m amazed how much people send or share their password through unsafe means in this world :).
So not much to say, I enjoy the game and will finish it in July.
Achievements : I’m not focusing on that right now, especially because it seems that some of them require to do some uncompatible choices. So I play how I want it and will do another playthrough with achievements in mind. It looks like a game that could be completed, we’ll see about that.

Divinity: Original Sin 2

54 hours playtime

29 of 97 achievements

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - unfinished

I’m playing it with 3 other friends, so it may be a different experience than as a single player.
It’s been very long since I didn’t play a RPG game like this one. It is a bit overwhelming, all these choices, but having only one character to manage make it… manageable. I can’t imagine how it would be if I played all four characters ! I like this kind of game and… I don’t like it. It is very fun and all those stories are interesting, but all this freedom makes me always feel like I’m missing something. One of the player is used to that kind of game and is saving before most of our actions but I think this is a bit cheating. If something bad happens because you messed up you should carry the weight !
But for the genre I think this is a good one. The combats are fun, not too repetitive. We started with the first level of difficulty but we raised it as we were attacking everybody without even thinking about the danger. The difficulty above is still a bit easy but it can go bad quite quickly.
Maybe it’s a little too RPG, being used to “modern” RPGs (in the style of WoW or Skyrim), I like the small UI helps to keep track of things (who is a merchant, what are the quests….), having to take notes is not the fun part of the game, also because we played together once a week so it can be easy to forget what happened before.
But overall a nice game, especially with friends.
Achievements : I didn’t check them that much as there are probably some spoilers in it. Not sure if I could get them all, there seems to be quite a lot and probably some things we missed and I’m not sure I’ll do another playthrough alone. That said, I heard there will be a significant update at the end of the month, so you never know.

We Were Here Too

4 hours playtime

19 of 20 achievements

We Were Here Too - beaten

I played We were here with a friend, and we liked it a lot (see my January review). This is pretty much the same game, slightly longer, with some different puzzles. Not really hard, but this kind of asymmetrical gameplay is nice, maybe it’s slightly too short, but it can’t be too long as you need the other player to play. A few puzzles were harder because we missed something in the UI that could help, and maybe the controls could be slightly improved, but it was a good moment.
We played it twice (to try each side), the second playthrough is obviously easier but still interesting to fully enjoy the game. Even if it’s short I think it is worth its price.
Like the first game I’m still disappointed by the end though ! I want a third choice ! It would be awesome with a third choice hidden somewhere !
Achievements : Nothing hard, you get most of the achievements with the full playthrough and a quick one on the other side. But I’m still missing one : we missed a lever somewhere, I need to replay it :).

Action Henk

3 hours playtime

3 of 21 achievements

Action Henk - unfinished

I won this one on SteamGift a long time ago, and played it one night when I was looking for something new to play !
It is a simple running game, but the controls feel nice, the visuals are great, the levels are fun and so far they seem to add interesting mechanics (I just got a grapple hook which feel great to use). Only down side so far : my hand hurts :). The levels are a bit stressful and I had some issues holding my controller too tight !
I think this is a sign that the game hooked me !
Achievements : I don’t think I’ll even try to get them all. I see one that require to be better than 99% of the players ! It might have been doable when the game was released but right now, I don’t think it can happen, there are way better players. I’m too old for this sh*t ;)

Next Month - July

I don”t play that much lately so probably nothing new. I’ll finish Deus Ex, and probably continue on Divinity.