86maylin

Happy new year!!! Can’t believe it’s already another year. Time flies past fast. :o And yep, still on the 2 games per month train. I did plan on playing more(especially since I have 2 short games downloaded) but let’s just say that it didn’t go as planned. But oh well, life has been giving me crap(more like I’ve been giving myself crap) and next week is finals so aaaaa! On to the reviews.

2018 December update

Frederic: Resurrection of Music

2.5 hours of playtime, 15 of 18 achievements
Personal rating: 2.5/10
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This is a Challenge Me game. I originally thought I would like this game, since I like to play rhythm games. But unfortunately, I didn't like it.

The biggest issue about this game is its controls. As a rhythm game, two things are important. First, your note map must be good and on point. Second, your controls must be responsive and comfortable for the players. To me, it's very much like platformer games where the player must be in full control of the game and the controls must feel natural. This game doesn't do that. The default setting that you'll naturally start with is all keyboard and asdf as white notes and wer as black. You can probably tell that this is not a very good set up since your hand will be cramped. You can ofc, re-map keys. But since it's a piano you're hitting notes with, the visual and instinctive reaction would be what the default mapping is. Guides suggested several different ways of playing including separating white and black keys, using mouse for black and using all mouse. In the end I found that using all mouse is the best for me.

Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage

4.5 hours of playtime, 13 of 13 achievements
Personal rating: 8.5/10
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This is a monthly theme and challenge me game. I have played it before in high school on my friend's laptop(pirated btw)I really enjoyed it the first time I played it, and I still enjoyed it a lot the second time playing it now.

The premise is simple: You have to clean up santa's workshop. It's interesting how fun it is to clean up in videogames compared to real life. I've always hated tidying up my room since I more often than not spend a lot of time yet get very little done. Maybe I'm just not very good at it. In this game however, it is not tiring to clean up(since you're just controlling the player) and you have very obvious progression that you can see. It's kinda like idle games in the sense that it's using the quick progression and great accomplishment feeling for the fun factor. But oh well, I wouldn't have played so many idle games if I don't like that, so yeah, I enjoyed it a lot.

I kinda cheated using commands for playthroughs after the first where you can't break anything and clean out everything, and burning everything. The first playthrough I aimed to get burn everything achievement but didn't know that items in my box also counts. Since I didn't want to repeat it all over again and have the possibility of turning my like to dislike for the game I used commands. For "Tower of Babel" however I did it fair and square. It was really hard to have good position when putting new stools on, and only half way did I remember I can actually save to not redo eveything, but alas it was done. Pretty proud.

So yeah, liked the game a lot. Will probably play the other games in the near future. Would recommend to anyone who likes idle games or farming games since you'll feel accomplished.

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MouseWithBeer

Best of luck with your finals!
I had the same problem with Frederic, I could not find a single good way to bind the keys so I just abandoned the game. Congrats on Tower of Babel! I gave up on that one at 3 stools :D

86maylin

I don’t really give up on a game that easily and since it’s a Challenge Me game I’m determined to at least try my best to finish it. :P
Tower of Babel really was a challenge! But it felt so good when done. :3

Mskotor

I dumped bunch of games into finder. I will try to add rest 1,5 years of updates tomorrow.

I did not see you add steam store pages without “game end”, and they end with number. So first few games are added with whole Steam store link. Sorry D:

86maylin

It’s alright~Any format is ok. :P It’s just me being nitpicky about format. xD Thanks for adding some more reviews!
Oh and I’ve updated ratings. :3

Trilled Meow

I just finished playing Viscera before I challenged you and really enjoyed it, and I’m glad you did, too. I loved how straightforward/routine the game played, throwing us in there with no instruction. Then, clueless, you find you naturally gravitate towards burning all the bodies in the fireplace. I actually had to look up what to do with the used buckets, because I didn’t know the fire would burn them, so I had a whole mess of blood-filled buckets for a while, which I kept accidentally knocking over.

Honestly, I might like cleaning irl if it were gamified. When I was a kid, sometimes my mom would have us do a cleaning day, and she would write chores (as well as rewards) on pieces of paper we could draw out of a cup. It was actually fun, and some of the tasks were to do things like play video games for an hour or to read, or the paper might have said to wash the baseboards in a room or to clean all the light switches in the house.

86maylin

I kinda already knew beforehand what to do due to past experience, so didn’t get the discovery feeling. :P It’s still a fantastic game tho! Somewhat relaxing while cleaning. Kinda reminded me of washing the dishes(although I don’t really like it that much) since it’s just tasks that doesn’t require brain work so your brain is free to rest or explore on its own.

That’s so cool! Your mom is clever. :O Sounds like it was so much fun. x3