27 April 2020 / Summary of April

I’m finally done with the batch that took me so long:

• Legend of Grimrock
  

  11 hours playtime

  5 of 40 achievements
• Half-Life: Opposing Force
  

  8 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Mini Metro
  

  15 hours playtime

  22 of 49 achievements

• Legend of Grimrock: Acceptable. Although an interesting concept, I dropped it as puzzles got kind of tedious and I didn’t have will to go through it.
• Half-Life: Opposing Force: Outstanding. I loved it, thought it was better than the original Half-Life.
• Mini Metro: Acceptable. Nice little game, it’s probably going to be one of those games that I reinstall sometime later and play a bit again.
• UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune / PS4: Acceptable. The game would definitely get a bigger rating from me, especially considering that it was released back in 2007. I really liked the characters and enjoyed the story. However, there were two very frustrating things that almost made me drop the game. 1) Jet ski. Oh man, I thought the level where you swim through the city was bad, with all the bad guys and barrels. But then they introduced additional obstacle in a later level: fighting the current of the river. I’m bad in driving stuff as it is but jesus that was horrible. 2) Facing constant waves of enemies in a same manner was frustrating enough, and then they introduce the level full of “cursed” things, and if you die the checkpoint is wayyy back so you have to fight all of them again. God no.

Other stuff I finished:

• The Secret Order 5: The Buried Kingdom
  

  8 hours playtime

  29 of 31 achievements
• Demon Hunter 3: Revelation
  

  6 hours playtime

  24 of 24 achievements
• Papers, Please
  

  15 hours playtime

  13 of 13 achievements

• The Secret Order 5: The Buried Kingdom: Acceptable
• Demon Hunter 3: Revelation: Exceeds Expectations
• Papers, Please: Outstanding. Gotta admit, it’s not the first time I played this game - I finished pirated version back in 2013 or 2014 when I was still an idiot. So I have remembered this game and bought it, finally, to relive this masterpiece.

Next batch:
SG win: Thief™ II: The Metal Age
Game gifted by friends: Half Life: Blue Shift
HB Monthly/Choice game: Flat Heroes
Any other game not from above categories: Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Game NOT on Steam: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves