Monthly Report - May 2019

Great games completed !

• Won : -
• Free : Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
• From bundles/gifts/sales : LEGO Batman, LEGO Batman 2, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, The LEGO Movie Videogame

• 12 is Better Than 6
  

  13 hours playtime

  46 of 46 achievements

12 is Better Than 6 - completed

I had this game laying in my library for a long time, but didn’t really know what to expect. And it was a quite pleasant surprise. The game feels a lot like Hotline Miami, which I enjoyed (although didn’t completed it, a level is still resisting me ^^… and this game made me want to go back !).
The game is fun, fast, the different weapons are nice and I enjoyed the fact that each weapon handles slightly differently and are very satisfying to use.
Like Hotline Miami, you die fast and often, but you restart as fast, it is much shorter and a little easier than Hotline.. but still enjoyable. Maybe it feels a little unfair sometimes (impossible moves happening, etc.).
The main issue I have with the game is its stability : it crashed a lot, I sometimes lost some progress (and once had to restart from the beginning, although I wasn’t far yet), and there are some performance issues (often when using a gatling gun which generates a lot of particles), which is annoying, especially for a game that doesn’t have really advanced graphics.
The story is pretty basic, I started to follow it but stopped caring at some point. Moreover it stops a little bit suddenly, I was really surprised and maybe slightly frustrated when the end credits appeared.
But overall a nice moment, and the music is great, exactly my jam !
Achievements : Most of them were unlocked by simply playing the game normally, although I missed Crackjack (Get all perks) as I didn’t have the money and thought that the town was a hub, so I expected to be able to go back. So I had to replay the game (which I didn’t mind ^^).
And it looks like the hat achievement is bugged, I unlocked it but I barely grabbed a few ones (thankfully, as the hats are not easy to spot).
So no real difficulty here.

• The Sexy Brutale
  

  9 hours playtime

  18 of 18 achievements

The Sexy Brutale - completed

I heard a lot of great things about this game (mostly from Total Biscuit which praised it almost as often as Brothers ^^), managed to win it on SteamGifts and finally decided to play it.
And indeed this is a very good game, and I loved (almost) every minute of it.
First, I love the concept (people are killed in a house and you live the same day again and again trying to save them), I was just a little bit frustrated as I wanted more of it (and a couple of times I saved someone without really meaning it, so maybe some were a little bit too easy) !
At first, I expected to have to take notes (and started to) but the game and the map are well designed and convey most of the information you need (I just regret that the connections between floors were missing - this is the only part I didn’t like : finding your way around the house at the end of the game is a little bit annoying), and I liked the story a lot.
And this is another game with a great music (I especially enjoyed the “music room” soundtrack, but all of it is great), part of the few ones where I listened to the soundtrack outside of the game.
Achievements : I had most of the achievements at the end of the game (yes even the cards), I only missed some invitations. Finding them forced me to play a little bit longer, and this is there that I was the most annoyed by the map missing some navigation information. But overall, all the invitations can be found if you pay enough attention, except one I had to look on the internet, and I would probably not have found it as this is the only one where the game doesn’t give you any hint about where it is (or maybe I missed it but I tried hard ^^).
Also, I expected a “Save everybody on the same day” achievement, which would have been a real challenge but thanksfully, no :).