February 2018 Update

February was cold, rainy and windy, so that meant a lot of time to spend inside playing games :3

I’m really satisfied with this month’s progress, as I beat 3 SG wins while also finding time to play the games that were given to me as birthday gifts and some extras that I just felt like playing. Great month overall (^・ω・^ )
I wanted to prepare a full post with reviews like past months but I kept procrastinating, so I ended up being late and still without a proper update T_T

The month started with 2 more games for the monthly challenge, Tacoma and The Norwood Suite, played again with a still anonymous sheep. I was really glad to see both of them when they popped up in the Monthly, as I had both of them wishlisted.

Anyway, stay warm and keep slaying your backlog, cat out :3

Tacoma, from the creators of Gone Home, felt like a straight-up better version of the latter, with a really nice setting and a lot of characters that you get to really care about. It’s not going to change the mind of anyone who’s not already into Walking Simulators, but for those that like them it’s definitely a good way to spend a couple hours.

The Norwood Suite is harder to recommend, not because I didn’t like it but because I believe the completely surreal experience of this game would be very hard to stomach for most people. I liked it enough to actually look into the dev and their previous work (which seems to be a less-refined free game with a similar style).

Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?! was a bit of a weird one for me: I saw it pop up in a bundle and I just thought “even if it doesn’t seem like my usual cup of tea, I have to get it and play it right now”. Maybe it was the space cat, who knows! I just know that I ended up sinking 18 hours into it and I had a lot of somewhat mindless fun. I wouldn’t want to play any game like it any time soon but it was a nice little obsession for a week or so.

As you probably could tell from my Rakuen review last month, I have a really soft spot for games like it and Finding Paradise, which I won and played right away.
I had high expectations after loving To The Moon but I also felt A Bird Story wasn’t up to par, so I went in rather cautiously. Without spoiling anything I have to say Finding Paradise manages to tie the previous games up in a really nice way while also delivering a beautiful story of its own.
I find it really hard to pick a favorite between Finding Paradise and Rakuen, but I’m absolutely glad I got the opportunity to play them ^^

Monster Slayers and Slay the Spire fill both a very similar niche, so it’s kind of weird to see them both on the same update post.
What happened is that I got obsessed over the idea of Slay the Spire but I didn’t want to jump in this early, as I felt like it was not anywhere near finished and content-complete, thus I wanted to wait a few months.
When I saw Monster Slayers in a bundle I bought it right away and sunk several hours into it. While the interface didn’t feel as polished as StS’s it’s still a very valid game and I had fun playing it.
Then… my birthday arrived, and a dear friend of mine bought me the real deal Slay the Spire, triggering 12 more hours of playing card games in the span of a week :D
I’m adding both to the “beaten” list for this month but this is definitely not the last time I play Slay the Spire, I think it will become my “filler” game for a long time ^_^

Beaten/Completed

• The Norwood Suite
  

  2 hours playtime

  17 of 17 achievements

• Tacoma
  

  3 hours playtime

  12 of 12 achievements

• Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?!
  

  18 hours playtime

  48 of 101 achievements

• Tavernier
  

  5 hours playtime

  4 of 15 achievements

• Magic Flute
  

  3 hours playtime

  22 of 23 achievements

• Pavilion
  

  2 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Finding Paradise
  

  6 hours playtime

  1 of 1 achievements

• Monster Slayers
  

  10 hours playtime

  6 of 22 achievements

• Thing-in-Itself
  

  43 minutes playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• Lily's Day Off
  

  2 hours playtime

  19 of 19 achievements

• Slay the Spire
  

  12 hours playtime

  16 of 32 achievements

• Shark Dating Simulator XL
  

  19 minutes playtime

  no achievements