Lucky Thirteen

Update number unknown + 12, about the games I played (who would have guessed!).


Serial Cleaner Serial Cleaner
⌛ ~10 hours | ✪ 25/28 | ☑ Beaten
good!
Serial Cleaner is a SG win from like 4 months ago. I finally played it, and I'm glad I did! It's an awesome stealth game in which you play as the titular cleaner (for the mob). If there's some blood, dead bodies or evidence that needs to disappear, the cleaner is the man for the job. One day, he gets a new client and troubles soon follow...
I can wholeheartedly recommend Serial Cleaner to fans of the stealth genre, it's very worth the time and money, although there is one "minus": the store page advertises trading cards, but the game doesn't drop them.


Yesterday Origins Yesterday Origins
⌛ ~7 hours | ✪ 15/36 | ☑ In Progress
hmm
Yesterday Origins is an interesting point and click adventure following the story of John Yesterday and a few of his past incarnations. The story is intriguing and the gameplay would be great IF the damned developers bothered to implement a proper mouse controls.
I mean, the game is playable with a mouse, but there are some issues with the cursor disappearing on close-ups or just feeling unresponsive while trying to rotate objects... As you can imagine, that's quite a problem in a point and click adventure. There's a message that the game is "best played with a controller" on the starting screen, but I call bullshit. Who in their right mind would want to play a point and click adventure, on their PC, with a controller?


The Ghost of Joe Papp The Ghost of Joe Papp
⌛ ~1 hours | ✪ 4/4 | ☑ Completed
bad!
Oh boy, this game... This game is a thing O.o The Ghost of Joe Papp is a short visual novel about a group of friends(?) rehearsing for their Shakespeare play performance, but no one takes it very seriously and everyone keeps kind of randomly talking about... nothing relevant or engaging, really. A part of all that is a young woman, who is the ghost of William Shakespeare and loves to smoke weed with one of the characters. Don't ask me why, I have no idea.


Mystic Saga Mystic Saga
⌛ ~5 hours | ✪ 28/53| ☑ In Progress
hmm
Mystic Saga is another recent SG win. Being the HOG fan that I am, I couldn't say "no" to adding another hidden object game to my collection. I... maybe should have said "no". It's one of those Facebook games - with the stupid energy system and microtransactions and all, except it costs 4.99€.
The hidden object scenes themselves are perfectly fine in my opinion, but I just can't recommend paying money for it, because games like this are meant to be free to play.


Monster Slayers Monster Slayers
⌛ ~38 hours | ✪ 11/22 | ☑ In Progress
good!
Another great rogue-like (lite?) that I enjoy very much. You know, I wasn't a fan of permadeaths and loosing your progress before. I never understood how that is fun, but the more modern rogue-lites I play, the more fond I grow of the genre :)
Your goal in Monster Slayers is to slay three legendary monsters (=bosses) at the end of three short, randomly generated dungeons. You can choose from 14 classes in total randing from a knight to a beastmaster to a dragon. Yes, a dragon would also like to join the Monster Slayers' guild, it seems. You do that by building your little deck of cards and playing those cards against AI opponents. It's a very enjoyable game, can very much recommend :)
= Liked   = Disliked   = Mixed Feelings

Trent

Oh wow…thanks for the warnings about Mystic Saga and Yesterday Origin. I had already marked “Not Interested” for Mystic Saga, so maybe I’d already heard about it, but it doesn’t ring a bell. LOL at kb+m being minimally supported for a PC p-n-c! I guess I’ll use a controller if I ever dig it out of my backlog. Still need to play the original Yesterday, though.

Lucky Thirteen

Lol indeed, though it’s more sad than funny :D The game is (would be) otherwise enjoyable though, so do play it some day. With the controller. Haven’t played the first Yesterday either, I wasn’t even aware of its existence untill a few days ago to be honest!

Forsaken

It’s really nice to see a positive review about Serial Cleaner. I’ve been interested in it since it’s a stealth game but I still wasn’t really sure. I’m wondering if guards have random pathing or if it is fixed though. Random pathing is what put me off from The Marvellous Miss Take.

Congratulations on your progress :)

Lucky Thirteen

Thank you, Lenor :)
Guards have fixed paths which you can slightly alter by moving obstacles in some levels, just like it should be. I think you’ll enjoy it, go right ahead and get the game when you can, in my opinion :)

Forsaken

Thank you so much for confirming that :) I’m much more interested in it now. I’ll keep an eye out for a decent deal in the future ;)

Lucky Thirteen

You’re welcome, enjoy (when you get it some day)!

Lucky Thirteen

Hey Lenor, you can get Serial Cleaner for 1€ in the Fanatical’s Pick & Mix bundle now. Pretty awesome deal :)

Forsaken

I’ll check it out, thank you so much for the heads up :)

Lucky Thirteen

No problem!