UPDATE NUMBER UNKNOWN +24 AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Just like the last year, I once again couldn’t bring myself to write updates these past months. I just feel like I have nothing to say. Y’all are writing insightful descriptions and reviews and I’m sitting here with my bullet points of liked/disliked saved in a .txt document, waiting to be posted… It’s quite depressing.
But hey, I actually played some games in the meantime, so there’s that?
The (NOV) label indicates games played for the November monthly theme. No games played for December theme.
🕒 ~13 hours
⭐ 16/20
⁉️ STATUS: Beaten
✔️ LIKED: This game is much better than I expected! Visually pleasing with fluid gameplay, responsive controls and fairly easy levels with a bit of platforming.
❌ DISLIKED: Can’t rebind controls. The Vandheer Lorde (one of playable characters) seems oddly slow, as if there was always a slight delay to his movement (might be just me?)
🕒 ~34 hours
⭐ 9/12
⁉️ STATUS: Beaten
✔️ LIKED: Cats! Enough said ❤️
❌ DISLIKED: Can get repetitive after a while, also there’s quite a lot of running back and forth (luckily, the map isn’t that big).
🕒 ~8 hours
⭐ 28/55
⁉️ STATUS: Almost Beaten (2 out of 3 chapters) (NOV)
✔️ LIKED: A good mix of VN and point&click adventure with a noir touch to it. Interesting story with dialogue choices that affect the output.
❌ DISLIKED: Frequent switching between 3 or 4 different characters without a good reason. Not a fan of that.
🕒 ~1145 hours
⭐ 9/9
⁉️ STATUS: Endless
✔️ LIKE: A unique idle/clicker game with slight ARPG elements. Developers are active on Discord and doing an OK job of listening to feedback. The microtransactions so far are tolerable for a F2P game.
❌ DISLIKE: Looks like a mobile port (even though it’s not), that might turn some people away.
🕒 ~11 hours
⭐ N/A
⁉️ STATUS: Beaten (NOV)
✔️ LIKED: Solid point&click gameplay all in all. I liked the “deduction” scenes where you have to match 2 relevant pieces of information to progress.
❌ DISLIKED: For a P.I., the protagonist has a radical anti-guns stance. Now I’m not some trigger-happy gun enthusiast either, but it just doesn’t match the tone of the game when the stereotypical gruffy deadbeat detective “forgot the code to his gun cache because he didn’t touch the thing since he bought it”.
🕒 ~16 hours
⭐ 15/15
⁉️ STATUS: Completed (NOV)
✔️ LIKED: A great point&click adventure set in a bleak future. Good story. Decent voice acting.
❌ DISLIKED: The “action” parts are mildly annoying, especially when going for the “no damage” achievement.
🕒 ~91 hours
⭐ 20/61
⁉️ STATUS: In Progress
✔️ LIKED: A very solid RPG with slight choices & consequences elements. Lets you chose your playstyle thanks to classless talents. The stealth is not only workable, but quite enjoyable. Aged really well, people aren’t lying when they say this game is a bit of a hidden gem.
❌ DISLIKED: Could use more dialogue options in conversations and vanity armor slots.
🕒 ~19 hours
⭐ 48/48
⁉️ STATUS: Completed (NOV)
✔️ LIKED: A very good detective adventure. The graphic, the story, the deduction puzzles, the voice acting… I have nothing to complain about here.
❌ DISLIKED: Alright, I do have something to complain about. The demons that you have to either kill via a QTE or sneak past, they serve no real purpose other than to annoy the player. There’s no good narrative reason for them to be there and they only break the otherwise excellent experience.
🗒️ NOTE: Luckily, you can easily edit a config file to make the demons less aware to your presence or have them ignore you altogether.
🕒 ~176 hours
⭐ 19/40
⁉️ STATUS: In Progress
✔️ LIKED: No durability system! Thank God, one game that doesn’t insist on your stuff breaking after you use it for 5 bloody minutes.
❌ DISLIKED: Very limited inventory space. Small and inconsistent stack sizes (for example, dirt blocks stack to 400, whereas stones only stack to 200 and most materials only stack to 50). Makes no sense imho.
🕒 ~24 hours
⭐ 31/31
⁉️ STATUS: Completed
✔️ LIKED: Simple yet oddly addicting gameplay. Lots of costumes to choose from. Tons of amusing references.
❌ DISLIKED: The last level requires quite a lot of grinding to pass. Some people may dislike the mobile-like gameplay.
I always try to write something cool and catchy, but it’s just my simple view of point in the end. I am speechless when I see what can some users write, I would love to, but I am mostly short writer. Just putting my two cents here. ;)
The important thing is to enjoy it, whatever you write if it pleases you, then it’s perfectly fine! :D
Happy New Year! :3
The important thing is to enjoy it, whatever you write if it pleases you, then it’s perfectly fine!
You’re right, thank you :) And happy new year to you!
Trust me when I say there’s nothing worse than trying to fluff up your reviews for length or perceived impact. If bullet points get your message across succinctly that’s great.
Have somewhat delayed best wishes for 2020. :D
there’s nothing worse than trying to fluff up your reviews for length or perceived impact
Yes, I think that’s true :) Thank you, and have a wonderful year, yourself!
Other have already made the point more or less, but I also would like to add that organizing your reviews in a way that a few precise bulletpoints are enough to bring across the message you want to transport is a art in itself. People see bulletpoints and often think they equal low effort, but that’s far from the truth. And personally I don’t always have the time to read lengthy reviews, even when they are great and enjoyable. So it’s a good thing to have some variety in the post types.
That’s a fair point actually :) Thanks for the comment and again, happy new year to you!
I can relate to you when it comes to the updates. I always feel like I keep writing the same reviews over and over again with the same sentences and words. You at least got your post out while I’m still sitting here with 7 reviews I need to write for the games I completed and I also have to write about those demos I played during The Game Awards and AAAAAAA IT’S THE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR! So much to write, so little time!!!
So don’t worry if your reviews are just a bunch of bullet points with likes and dislikes, you’re still showing all the progress you make to us. Don’t worry too much about it and have a happy New Year!
Time to panic! :D
Thank you, I would give you the same advice: don’t worry too much about being “late” with your reviews. And if it does happen to be the same sentences over and over again? No worries, chances are that people won’t remember you already wrote something similar :D
Happy new year!
Thanks! :D
Funny thing was I read this yesterday about three hours before midnight and went “holy shit, he has work cut out for him”. :D
Lol yeah xD I started writing a bit but there’s still so much stuff left to cover. It’ll take me a while but I hope I’ll be able to get it done in a week… or a month… or, y’know, sometime in this decade.
Well I’m certainly looking forward to it.