ninglor03

Ninglors Log 135

08.10.19 – 14.10.19

October Progress:
3/6
3 games where deleted from my BLAEO backlog, bc they where just from an event in my lib

Completed Games:
Ladykiller in a Bind
Modern Tales: Age on Invention

Won/Gifted Games:

Bought Games:
Chasing the Stars – but not part of the backlog…

Played this week:
Farm!

Ladykiller in a Bind

19 hours, 20 of 20 achievements
2/5

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Bevor we get into this, we have to talk about the fact, how I never ever wanted to play a game from the devs again. Thanks to Hate Plus and two improbable achievements. One not meant to be done and the second only with baking an actual cake and sending a pic to the devs. An absolute no go imo. So I decided to boycott them. Then this game was introduced, I got intrigued and realized it were the same devs. So conflict inc. Still I decided to give it a go. Boy, I shouldn't have. I was not happy with the game.
Let's start with the most obvious: The looks. How can a game be all about girls (ok, there are actually four guys in the game), but they all look like boys, apart from boobs? How is this possible? It's not even pretty or anything. They just all have super masculine features. Even when his one girl makes herself pretty… oh, right, she is wearing a dress, can't see the makeup. That's it. Didn't like that.
Secondly the characters. Nope, they don't work out for me. They all followed a certain schematic, no depth no nothing. As character I liked the Boy best. But still, that was just stupid.
Thirdly: The sex scenes. So if we go after this one girl, we end up in a bdsm situation. No problem so far. Only it's just… this ist soooo… waves around with the hand it doesn't work out for me. It's not good. I might not be a pro on the subject but the stuff I've read about it so far was… ugh. what ever. Then the other route you have this girl who seems to be super shy only to be super into stuff and worried she might scare the MC off? I guess? It's the complete opposite and still completely stupid somehow.
Yes, I like sex in games. My MC totally went after every possible sex scene. No problem there. If only they had been nice. Also I really wonder about the devs and their knowledge about female orgasms, buuuuut I guess I should stop here right now :D
Was there anything nice about the game?
Oh, right. It as over at some point. That's right now the most positive thing I can say. Sadly.
Bc the end was in the end the worst thing ever.
Hidden LEWD rating: Well not very hidden. It has loads of sex and we get to see some stuff.
Gay-Ship: Well I guess the Boy and the Prince, but that's just me trying to clutch a straw (does this work in this case?)
Recommendation? Meh. If you love the devs: Do it, I guess
Ps: Why is there no proper guide? sob


Modern Tales: Age of Invention

3 hours, 24 of 24 achievements
3/5

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A HOG that plays in the past but is more advanced in a way then today is. At least in a few things.
Also we get to meet Albert Einstein and Coco Channel. And they meet each other, which seems weird.
And what was the most irritating thing: We are the heroine of the story. Our dad is an inventor who goes into hiding, bc there is this villain who tries to steal inventions and sell them. Probably killing the scientists on the way. So far so good. Daddy is gone. Obviously we go looking for him. Only leading he bad guy to daddy. And once we find Daddy he is not even pissed, bc we brought the bad guy along. Why wouldn't he? Doesn't he realize how the bad guy never would have found him, without the MC? Weird. Weird.
No LEWDness nor Gay-ship included
Recommendation? Quick HOG, so sure why not?


Cat Story ahead!
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So for some reason my health is currently screwed. I seem to be constantly sick. This time it started on Monday, was on Tuesday that bad I had to go see the doc and yeah, struggled with it for the rest of the week. At least I got to some chilling farming :)

So much from me :)
Have a lovely week!
Queen Ninglor

Amitte

Girl, you don’t even know. I bought the Hate games quite a while ago and I wish I didn’t, knowing that the dev created an achievement that’s “purely for the narrative” or whatever. People care about their achievement completion, dammit!

petpasta

I was somewhat upset about that one achievement too, but I’m over it now. At least the story turned out to be fairly interesting, despite the plot being slightly confusing/convoluted with all the korean names and gay romance subplots of debatable necessity.

Amitte

I still haven’t played any of the dev’s games, but I can’t help but want to say “that’s the dev for you”…?

Cece09

damn i knew about the cake achievement but not the hate plus. that sucks so much plus looking at discussion sam doesnt even work… triple screw over
it really makes me glad im not interested in their games because I couldn’t handle not having my 100%

ninglor03

Yeah, me neither. I still hate them for it. I bet that’s why it’s called Hate Plus ^^

Amitte

At least you can input a code in-game to get the cake achievement, now that the dev stopped managing the cake pic email… the other one is just unnecessary BS.

ninglor03

We should really get some compensation for the trauma -.-

Amitte

And imagine this: that achievement is only on the dev’s account (which is private - surprising, huh?), because I guess she just wanted to be a special snowflake; also to the point that when someone actually figured out how to get the achievement and did it at some point she got Steam to remove it from their account (or so I gathered from the huge discussion about it on Steam).

ninglor03

Yeah, I know. I looked into it at the time. It’s just so stupid and bullshitty (sry, not sry). So yeah, I wanted to boycott them. I will go back to that :D

Amitte

Too late for me to do that (still really curious about Ladykiller either way), but then I will also continue to do so, I suppose :D

ninglor03

Well I would play it again too, if I haven’t bc of backlog and stuff. So I get that :)

Amitte

Ahhh… the scariest word of them all… b-… b-b-b-… BACKLOG! covers ears in fear >.<

My backlog’s been growing a lot recently, it’s truly terrifying…

ninglor03

It’s October, apparently it’s allowed to do scary things :D
Still, sry. Didn’t mean to do that.

At some point you will win over it though! Hopefully :)

Amitte

Nah, it’s okay. Just joshing :D

Let’s face it, if I were actually that terrified by the word, I wouldn’t be here at any point in time xD

But yes, yes! Let’s hope that’ll happen some time in the future!

ninglor03

I guess this is true :D

GiseIIe

I still haven’t got around to play Ladykiller in a Bind but it’s a bummer by how you described it. I probably won’t like it either.
The dev Christine Love some time ago said she’s not gonna make visual novels anymore, so maybe that’s positive news to you?! XD

Amitte

That does sound like positive news, alright xD

ninglor03

Woho! Lucky us! :D

Bangledeschler

I certainly understand the frustration with the Level Four Materia achievement not being unlockable. I even took the time to email them, and looks like it was always meant to be impossible which feels like an abuse of power ;_;. Still, I can’t hate them enough, because I really enjoyed both HATE games. It’s only a shame that, considering your review, their other works aren’t so great. Great reviews though, hope you get better, maybe farm some herbs to treat it .:3
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ninglor03

I did enjoy them too. Very much so - WAY more then I could enjoy Ladykiller in a Bind tbh.
Sure feels like an abuse off power ;(
I’m only kinda glad, I’m not the only person who is rly annoyed by this whole thing.
Ha, yeah, all better by now, but I did harvest a few herbs. Not many, since the games apparently doesn’t have that many… without the DLCs. I should probably get DLCs to treat illnesses thinking