Trilled Meow

Acquisitions

  • Shenmue I & II
  • The Turing Test
  • Forgotton Anne
  • Black The Fall
  • Children of Zodiarcs


  • Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand

    8.7 hours playtime

    0 of 0 achievements

  • LiEat

    14.7 hours playtime

    30 of 30 achievements

  • Richard & Alice

    11.7 hours playtime

    21 of 21 achievements


Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand

"Archaeology" and Anthropology At Least Somewhat Historic Detectives! Mystery! Murder! Educational Folklore & Mythology USA

This was my first time playing this one. It's set in a museum featuing a Mayan exhibit in Washington, DC. The exhibit is focused on K'inich Janaab' Pakal. There are several locations within the city you can go to outside of the museum.

Typical hunky Mexican Consulate guy teaching history in a Nancy Drew game


This game had its ups and downs. As for the downs, there is a lot of annoying back and forth when you are trying to answer trivia questions based on infomation in the museum. Lots of phone calling and alarm setting, too. I seriously think I spent more time talking to people on the phone than talking to actual, physical characters. On the other hand, I learned how to count like a Mayan and sent morse code messages over a ham radio.

Mayan body modification


While this game predates the checklist, as an intern, you do have a task list at your desk that covers the early parts of the game.


LiEat

Detectives! Mystery! Murder! Vampires

First of all, I left this on at some point--it didn't really take as many hours as my time shows. It was alright as a story-based game, but it wasn't much of an RPG. It's divided into three short chapters. You don't keep anything between those chapters--levels, items, equipment all goes away and you start each chapter fresh. On the other hand, none of that stuff matters much and will be easily reacquired. The chapter scenarios were interesting and had the feel of fairytales.


Richard & Alice

Detectives! Mystery! Murder! Good Reads Post-Apocalyptic Winter

I went into this blindly. I didn't even know the premise, which turned out to be a pleasant surprise. While this is a point n click game, it felt more like a visual novel sometimes. I played it for the Noirvember monthly theme, but I'm still not sure how noir it is.

If you have this sitting around your library unplayed like I did, I recommend starting it up without reading the description on the store page. It's a good winter game and only takes a few hours, though there are multiple endings (a guide on Steam indicates where to make saves to get all endings efficiently).

"Look, Barney, there's a shoe on the ground."