86maylin

This month I finished a bunch of games that I normally wouldn’t want to touch, so I’m proud about that. :3

2019 February update

Day of the Tentacle Remastered

5.5 hours of playtime, 58 of 58 achievements
Personal rating: 7.5/10
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This is a Challenge Me game. I have confirmed the optimal way for me to play a point and click game is following a guide.

I played the entire game following a 100% achivement guide, and still enjoyed the story and characters quite a bit, despite the problem of character's slow walking speed still being there. I think the game is based on a comic? Cuz the storyline and characters are certainly very comic-like and full of comic tropes. I don't mind that actually. I grew up on Japanese manga more so western comics are pretty interesting.

Gameplay wise, the game is the typical point and click. I would've gotten pretty angry trying to figure things out myself tho since it's not like typical point and click in that there's 3 people and 3 inventory, so I could've easily missed a crucial item and just gets stuck there. Yet I actually liked the 3 people system. It's pretty interesting and them being at different timeline gives the dev the opportunity to bring in different side characters and have different aesthetics. Personally I enjoyed Hoagie's timeline the most cuz of the Washington dudes. They are super funny! The music in that timeline is also pleasant. Bernard's present timeline would be the second except that in order to get an achievement I had to have this loud repeating music turned on and it's really unbearable so everytime I switch there I had to mute the sound. Laverne's timeline is the most boring one. The only interesting person is Harold. Out of all the 3 main characters, my favorite is Hoagie cuz of his chill attitude, although I hate that he burps when he's idle. Bernard is alright, just a typical nerd dude. And Laverne is really kinda cuckoo in her head isn't she? She feels super weird. I don't like her. :/

Overall, I enjoyed the game. The gameplay is ok, story is fine and characters are pretty good.

Fruit Sudoku🍉 2

20 minutes of playtime, 5 of 5 achievements
Personal rating: 4.5/10
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This game replaces numbers with fruits in a normal 3x3 sudoku game. It was alright, although the whiteness of the board made my eyes kinda hurt, and the fruits looked a little bit too similar. There's no feature really to differentiate it from paper sudoku so I'd still recommend people that, but if you want a quick 100% like I do and to knock a game off from your backlog then this'll be pretty ok.

Loot Hero DX

3 hours of playtime, 20 of 20 achievements
Personal rating: 6.5/10
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This game is actually pretty good. From the thumbnail and store rating I thought it's gonna be one of those shitty games, yet it's surprising fun. You play as a knight that needs to defeat dragon to save the world. You move right to progress and moving into monsters automatically attacks them and they drop gold. There's 4 attributes that you can upgrade using gold at the inn. The most fun one is speed. Speed in this game is an attribute you can adjust, so you can turn your speed up super high and just watch your knight zoom back and forth killing monsters. You can even zoom through the boss without killing it which is pretty funny. I would strongly recommend using a controller tho, since you can only click to move with mouse and keyboard which will be pretty uncomfortable.

Now, the downside of this game is one that can only be experience with me being a completionist. The final achievement requires you to get to level 100, which is just such a grind to do. I ended up muting the game and putting on my playlist to pass the time, but it's still super boring. Maybe I should prepare some audio books or listen to some podcasts next time I come around to these kinda achievement grind. But still, the game is good and I recommend people to give it a try if you have it.

How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness

37 minutes of playtime, 16 of 16 achievements
Personal rating: 4/10
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This game is kinda cringy.....The worst part is Nigel's voice. I just, really hate it honestly. lol The songs are pretty impressive tho. I guess, this game is an unique experience? You just have to try it out to get what I mean. xD

Masky

3 hours of playtime, 11 of 16 achievements
Personal rating: 5/10
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Won this game from Playing Appreciated. This is a simple game about balancing. You move left and right using arrow key, and touching people sticks them to your line. And then the balance starts to shift if one side is heavier than the other. Concept is simple and is executed really well. I especially love the extra touch of adding a person that'll give you a (mostly) bad side effect when you add him to your line. It becomes a decision of whether I should touch it and risk getting a really bad effect that caused me to lose, or go the other way and make it really hard for myself to balance.

The only complaint I have with this game is achievements. Particularly, the multiplayer and the hour played achievements. There's basically no one playing the online multiplayer and AFAIK from the forums, they don't unlock correctly. The other thing is the playtime one. I tried idling at the start of a match thinking that maybe it would count(thus the high hour count on my account), but nope. I think it only counts after you've put on the mask? I'm still really uncertain but my tactic now is to use the most balanced character and try to make the balance in the middle. Leave it there and go do other things. lol Let's see if the 5 hour one unlocks that way. If not I'll probably just give up. There's even a 24 hour one. Pretty stupid imo.

Overall I enjoyed this little game. It's a good filler in between games where you can play for 5 minutes or so. If the achievements aren't this bad the rating would probably be higher but oh well, that's the consequence of me being an achievement hunter.

Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior

1.8 hours of playtime, 2 of 2 achievements
Personal rating: 8.5/10
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This is a Monthly Theme game. This is basically the same as the the previous one I played(Santa's Rampage), where you play as a janitor that needs to clean up a place. This time however it's set in world of Shadow Warrior, and the janitor has lines of the main character apparently? I only found that out after looking at the description of its steam store page. I originally thought they gave the janitor a personality or something, which I actually really like. I think it adds some characteristic into it. This game however is shorter since it has less achievements and less objects to clean. I don't really mind that tho since the two achievements it has are quite manageable and fun, although I do wish it had more, like collecting shuriken stars or something, cuz that sounds quite fun.

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Minamimoto

I remember playing Day of the Tentacle on a disk with the internet still too young for us to have a connection to it… Today I wouldn’t even try never using a guide, especially when you get to the point you can send every. item. to one of the other. x_x It was a very frustating time.
There’s also a fan project for a sequel now. Haven’t tried it myself out yet but it looks really cool!

86maylin

Never played the original, so I know nothing about it really. :P
I know myself too well to prevent getting angered by these kinda things. xD Although the downside is I don’t get to enjoy solving the puzzles myself. :3
Sounds interesting. :o Although I probably wouldn’t play it unless I win it on sg.