May & June Report
Heyo,
Well, this has been pretty horrible 2 months when it comes to beating my backlog š¬ During Steam Spring cleaning event I made a huge mistakeā¦ I started playing The Binding of Isaac again! All because Steam told me so. Well I only had to launch it but I decided to play one run but it didnāt stopped thereā¦
This game is such a time sucker and so addicting I added another 100 hours of playtime in a month and week or two! I decided I might as well stick to it and 100% before the new and hopefully the last expansion (this time for real, please Edmund?) comes out sometime in decemberā¦
For this month I plan to play and beat at least four games to make up for the last twoā¦ Hopefully I can make it as Iām leaving for two weeks in August and aināt gonna have access to my games.
Here are few games I played before Isaac sucked me in.
Careful as my screenshots from Sakura Nova are NSFW (+18 patch)
At this point everyone should know what Sakura games are about, right?
Sakura Nova is yet another dumb VN from Winged Cloud where you, the young, handsome guy has to deal with pretty and horny girls that want to have sex with you.
This one is set in some kind of medieval fantasy, you live in a beautiful, white walled city guarded by an elite force of something that you really want to join.
And it just happens that you two classmates are hot babes with huge boobs and skimpy outfits that serve as their armor. Your teacher also has one of those and also is a hot babe, but she has an eyepatch which makes her a badass, wow!
Yeah this one is as dumb as the rest. Later on you train in school dungeons filled with monsters and girls always manage themselves to get caught and raped by tentacles. You save them, they start to like you and want to have sex with you. At one point out of blue the girl just says āLetās have sex here!ā and thatās exactly what happens.
I played with +18 patch and I really canāt understand what people see in those games? The uncensored art is pretty good I guess, but staring at it for 5 minutes while reading what noises characters make gets boring really fast. The writing is really bad, the characters are shallow, story is very simplistic, I think I saw better hentaiās than whatās shown in this. People really get off to this? I guess there is a specific demographic that is into this stuff, in this specific game your character is a dude who dual-wields katanas or something lol. The only thing thatās missing is a fedora on his head.
But hey, the cards are worth something. I got A LOT of these Sakura games in a very cheap bundle, I probably should get rest of them for next steam sale.
Stuck in a beautiful mansion on an exquisite party, you have to rescue your friends from staff conspiring to kill you all. However, you have an ability to reset the day and try as many times as you want in case you fail. But, you also cannot be seen by anyone, your friends or the staff. So you have to be a little helpful ghost that spies and plans how to save everybody without interacting with them.
Thatās the whole game and I think it was executed pretty well. Each character has itās own unique personality and outfit and you have to learn their daily routine, what or who kills them and how to stop it. The mansion is huge and pretty diverse and beside saving people you have to find out how exactly all of this started and why are you stuck in here. Itās fun and interesting as you progress until the very ending which is, well, pretty disappointing.
You donāt get to choose who you save first and as you save people you unlock some of their abilities that letās you access areas or containers previously unreachable. There are also collectibles to find and some are hard to find and can only be found at specific hour.
It could be an 8/10 game for me but unfortunately despite having above minimum requirements I would often get FPS drops below 30fps, sometimes even single digit FPS :| Thatās just unacceptable for me, especially since the game doesnāt look that good. Maybe it could be fixed if the game offered proper video options menu, instead all you can do is change resolution and pick windowed/borderless.
Lastly OST, which is amazing. A mix of Jazz, classical andā¦electro-swing, which in this game sounds pretty good?! Thatās a first time I can say that, as everything else I heard from that genre is just fucking horrible.
Favorite tracks:
The Sexy Brutale Theme
Tequila At Noon
Shattered Hope (Tequila's Theme)
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
Meme game.
Well I only launched this during Steam Spring Cleaning event to complete a task and it gave me an achievement for launching this gameā¦ And since I didnāt liked the idea of leaving this with just one achievement completed, I kept playing.
Itās a dumb game where you choose one of the three kids, white kid, black kid or Australian kid? Anyway after that you have to travel to a dad that matches your skin color and thatās most of the game lol. There are few secret modes you can unlock, like a flappy bird mode where you are in a bath tube and have to rescue your dad(s), a detective game with dad with no pants and a broken shower and a copy of frog fractions but with dadās to catch. Itās dumb and between game modes you get to read dad jokes.
Iāll give them that this game has a lot more content than I expected. I play it now for achievements but I keep unlocking new stuff O_O Most people will probably turn it off after 15 minutes, but thereās quite a lot of different pick-ups you can unlock. Also every time you go to wrong dad you get a big red text āWRONG DADā and this keeps making me chuckle every time this happens for whatever reason.
Achievement hunters just be aware that this game might have some achievements that are impossible to unlockā¦I did some reading and Iām not entirely sure, as some people seem to find solutions but they donāt seem to work for everybody, so be careful with this one. Might want to delete this if you grabbed it just because it was cheap and you have no interest in this game.
GOD I feel you about electro-swing. Youād THINK itād go hard as hell but itās really repetitive and basic andā¦ embarrassing?
Holy shit, best of luck on clearing the Binding of Isaac. I played it for a few months a while ago and that shit is HARD. I could never really get the hang of it.
86maylin recommended some electro-swing songs that convinced him/her to electro-swing, but my stance towards it didnāt change :( Funny how a theme from game that has just few electro-swing tracks in itās OST came close to changing my mind about that genre.
And Thanks, I almost did it once before Afterbirth+ came out :D Yeah itās hard at start, sometimes you get really unlucky and often you donāt really know what some item does straight away. If you decide to come back, I recommend watching Northernlion and his recent LPās, at least youāll learn how to dodge etc. from watching him.
Havenāt actually beaten The Sexy Brutale yet. Was given to me for free a while back by a generous SG user. I think I finished the first two areas and then basically called it quits since I wasnāt too fond of the puzzle elements. Gotta push forward with it though. The soundtrackās definitely the main attraction with this one for me.
Shower With Your Dad is pretty boring in my eyes. Sure, 10-15 minutes of decent arcade action, but after that it just got old for me.
Glad to have read your post!
I used to think similar things(albeit not thinking itās horrible, just Iām not interested) about electro-swing until I found Caravan Palace. Have you heard of their stuff? Iām in love with their music recently and they all just makes me really happy and wants to dance. :3 Although their recent stuff have gone more main-stream and pop, two old typical electro-swing songs of theirs I like are Dramophone and Rock It For Me, especially the latter.
Oh thats a lot of time on binding of isaac and from the looks of it I need to add it back to my account since there was not like 400 when I played it last
You removed it from your account? Also donāt get used to 400 achievements, thereās going to be more later this year X_x
Yes i removed that and a bunch of other games because i dont like them
Oh well if you didnāt liked it at first then Iām not sure if you gonna like it now. Did you played flash version or Rebirth?
Rebirth. I wouldnt say i totally disliked it but it also wasny the best. I didnt get why my friend spent so many 100s hours on that game it was a surprise