May Roundup

It’s been a rather slow month again, but I did manage to finish some stuff. Here’s the lowdown:

• Bayonetta
  Won on SteamGifts

  15 hours playtime

  18 of 50 achievements

• Replay - VHS is not dead
   

  28 hours playtime

  12 of 14 achievements

• The Butterfly Sign
  Won on SteamGifts

  5 hours playtime

  8 of 13 achievements

• The Ball
  Won on SteamGifts

  14 hours playtime

  10 of 17 achievements

• House of 1,000 Doors - Family Secrets
  Won on SteamGifts

  10 hours playtime

  no achievements

• House of 1000 Doors: The Palm of Zoroaster Collector's Edition
   

  8 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
  Won on SteamGifts

  4 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Wishmaster
  Won on SteamGifts

  7 hours playtime

  0 of 10 achievements

• Hell Girls
   

  2 hours playtime

  8 of 92 achievements

Best game: Bayonetta. Worst game: The Butterfly Sign. Most frustratingly long and boring game: Replay: VHS is not dead. Game with the most silly jokes: Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.

Need I say more... okay:

• So glad I won Bayonetta on SG. Otherwise I would have waited for a 50% off sale. That would be a mistake. Buy it now, it's worth it.
• The Butterfly Sign is not the worst pile of crap I've ever played, but it needs work and is only the first part of a story. Not for people that experience nausea as it has a serious lack of optimization.
• Replay: VHS is not dead is actually a pretty good game except that you repeat the same things over and over and over and over... The idea is that you have to play coop with yourself. Run one character through its paces, rewind and then have another character do its thing while the first is replaying your actions. It's very repetitive in order to puzzle out the exact actions. Maybe try it for a bit and then realize that it doesn't ever get any better or change. If it had not been chosen for me for Play or Pay 6 I would have stopped after about the first 5 levels.
• Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People has lots of nostalgia and outrageously silly humor. I'd recommend it.

Let’s get to the numbers: