Monthly Report - February 2020

Got the Humble Bundle monthly, it’s been a while since I last didn’t pause my subscription ! :)

• Won : -
• Free : -
• From bundles/gifts/sales : Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Two Point Hospital, Unrailed!, GRIP: Combat Racing Launch, Bad North, Graveyard Keeper, Mages of Mystralia, Trailmakers

• Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
  

  52 hours playtime

  42 of 63 achievements

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - beaten

More Borderlands ! What can I say ? I loved Borderlands 2, and wanted more. And this is what I got.
Sadly they didn’t fix my main issue with the game (inventory management), but added a few interesting things. I liked the lower gravity and the verticality it added, sniping enemies midair has become my favorite move :). So far I mostly played the baroness (sniping + ice), which is fun to play, and a little bit of ClapTrap.
The story is quite basic but there are a lot of fun characters, and I liked seing Jack becoming the one we know in BL2.
Maybe I felt a little bit frustrated by the bosses because it is not always clear what is happening, and several of them have their shield regenerating / reset, and you don’t really know if it is normal or another phase. And a lot of times you are one-shotted but you’re not sure why, so it’s hard to fix your mistakes (happened a lot on the last boss). I don’t remember having this issue in BL2.
But overall nice game. Now I’m starting another playthrough in the harder mode, and I’ll probably play a bit of the other characters to see if I like them.
Achievements : Very annoyed by the achievements that require you to REALLY play with other (especially “Who You Gonna Call? -
Completed the Sub-Level 13 missions with 3 other players.”. Yes it’s a fun title but very annoying. Finding one friend for the small multiplayer actions (revive, duel…) is ok, but 3 for one specific mission !?
I’ve seen that it is possible to fire multiple instances of the game, but I’m not sure I’ll bother doing that…
Other than that, the achievements are similar to Borderlands 2, I’m slowly working on those.

• Graveyard Keeper
  

  13 hours playtime

  12 of 83 achievements

Graveyard Keeper - unfinished

I’m in the middle of it, and liking it so far. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed by the amount of things you can do and you have to track (pro tips : take notes ^^). The tutorial / helpers are maybe a little too “basic”. A lot of the time you’re not sure what you are supposed to do, but the game has been nicely designed so you often find your way to your objective.
The energy system is a bit annoying (but it’s the base of the game ^^), but I cook a lot, issue solved :).
So far I’m enjoying it !
Achievements : Didn’t check them yet. I just hope there is no speedrun achievement, I don’t like those, I like to take my time !

• Unrailed!
  

  8 minutes playtime

  0 of 40 achievements

Unrailed! - not played

Got it in the Humble Bundly monthly, it looked fun !
Played 2 minutes of the tutorial, and then it needs multiplayer… Stopped there, and went to Graveyard keeper…
That was short :). I didn’t see the game was MP only. I don’t like playing with people I don’t know so I’ll have to convince some friends to get it :).
So I’ll probably play that, but later.