samwise84

Update 41: February 9th to 16th
Second week of February over and my vacation is coming even closer, just one miore shift cycle and I am free :D Let’s see what I have been up to in the last week.

Half-Life 2

Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart

7/10
11.10 hours
15 of 15 achievements

A nice HOG with a pirate theme.

Pros:

  • nice puzzles
  • nice story

Cons:

  • no teleport, which means you have to walk everywhere, which can be tedious since sometimes you have to search for that one HOS that appeared
Half-Life 2

Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride

8/10
12.1 hours
24 of 24 achievements

Nice HOG.

Pros:

  • Beautiful backgrounds
  • a lot of minigames and HOGs
  • a cute little helper in form of a kitten

Cons:

  • a lot of backtracking
  • some odd animations
  • no savepoints, so you cannot get back to stuff you missed, without having to replay the whole game
Half-Life 2

Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan

8/10
6.3 hours
29 of 29 achievements

Nice HOG.

Pros:

  • Beautiful backgrounds
  • more minigames as HOSs (can be a pro or a con depending what you like more
  • more cute little helpers: bird, otter and a tree fairy (or something like it)

Cons:

  • game areas become closed off, so you have to search for the collectibles before that
Half-Life 2

Hero of the Kingdom III

9/10
12.4 hours
57 of 57 achievements

I won it just like it's predecessor and played through it in a day. Loved it just like the last installment.
One of the changes is that you now can cook your food with the ingredients you can buy or collect, can craft your weapons, brew your own potions.

As with the previous game some of the things that are annoying is that some of the stuff you need to collect is pretty small and not very visible (like the perls). Also if you are going for completion the crafting can get annoying, since you will have to get all of your skills up to 100. Some will come naturally like the cooking one, others will require you too hit the crafting button countless times without really needing the crafted items.

Half-Life 2

Edna & Harvey: The Breakout

6/10
11.5 hours
16 of 18 achievements

I have mixed feelings about this game. On one hand it is quite funny (though you should not make fun of the mentally ill), on the other hand I often did not know what to do next. And don't get me started on the achievments. Stuff like randomly put a cup of water on totally random places to get the achievement or squirt ketchup or mustard on random stuff.



green = PoP thanks to aragon789 & BarbaricGenie for challenging me
red = Challenge Me thanks JaffaCaffa for challenging me
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions

Overall Backlog Progress:

9.08% (78/859)
8.96% (77/859)
6.40% (55/859)
72.88% (626/859)
2.68% (23/859)
Overall SG Wins Progress:

24.05% (38/158)
22.15% (35/158)
3.16% (5/158)
47.47% (75/158)
3.16% (5/158)


Here are the games I'm currently working on. Reviews will follow once I'm done with the games:
I've won 2 games in the last week and bought none and was gifted way too many games, 12 to be exact O_O . And I've beaten/completed 5 games, so that makes a +9 for the last week and a total of +5 for February. So my backlog is screaming again, even though I i have beaten a total of 11 games so far. .

SG wins:
  • Yakuza Kiwami

    0 hours playtime

    0 of 55 achievements

  • Railroad Pioneer

    0 hours playtime

    no achievements



Gifts :

thanks steveywonder75


thanks Ninglor03


thanks Alvin04
Games I want to play within the next few weeks:

Challenge Me: Not taking part in this month right now, since I have to do more from the previous one.

PA: none

PoP: thanks to aragon789 & BarbaricGenie for challenging me

BLAEO monthly:

PAGYWOSG:

Just for fun:
Cece09

omg its not even ninglor gifting you stuff. where’s the people with my gifts! I never get gifts. Sam you need to start gifting me stuff

samwise84

I remember a little Santa gifting you stuff :p

Cece09

thats totally different to random XD

samwise84

well now you even got some random keys :P

86maylin

Ohh you got My Brother Rabbit! I hope you enjoy it. I loved it very much and it’s actually my favorite HOG game so far. :D

samwise84

That’s high praise :D