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While I was gone… (1/3)

April 2018:

A Date in the Park - It seems I’ve actually completed this one not too long after my first post ever happened. I can recall it being a nice and calm point-and-click, albeit with a really “Huh?!” ending; I’ve yet to play the DLC attached to it, which I bought quite a while later.

May 2018:

  • Doki Doki Literature Club
    Doki Doki Literature Club

    7.0 hours playtime

    no achievements

Doki Doki Literature Club! - Ahh, here it is. The - now - dead meme. To be honest, I did enjoy it for what it was (it did keep me thinking about itself for quite a while), but I think the praise might have been overexaggerated.

July 2018:

Dear RED - Extended - Man, I remember playing this one back when it was still a valid entry on VNDB. Don’t really know what to say about it though, other than that it’s a very short RPGMaker adventure.
DEEP SPACE WAIFU - Got this one as a joke gift from a friend and picked it up immediately. I’m not much for bullet hell and/or top-down shooter games, but this one was fairly easy and enjoyable.
Port of Call - The story of this one must have been really convoluted or symbolism-heavy, because I can not remember anything other than helping souls in some way or another.
Pretty Girls Panic! - A fairly light arcade-type game about uncovering cute (or pretty, as the title implies) visual novel heroines. I had fun with it while it lasted.
Radiator 2: Anniversary Edition - Yes! Finally! I got the last achievement! Time to throw this one into the Completed pile now and never look back :D This might sound weird, but I really enjoy homosexuality presented in that form - still can’t understand why so many people don’t…
ROMBY - Won this one on SG and I have to admit, I had no idea what I was getting into. It turned out to be a pretty clever and challenging puzzle game with not-so-pretty pre-rendered character models… and just when I thought it was going to sit in my Grind list, I somehow managed to complete it, so… yay for me!
Super Sports Surgery - Totally got this one in some Fanatical bundle. Judging from reviews, it’s a blatant knock-off of Amateur Surgeon, which I’ve seen before, but I suppose that didn’t stop me from enjoying this one. Not the best language-wise (not made by native speakers) and a few of the levels got tedious towards the end, but all in all, I completed it fairly quickly.

August 2018:

Deponia - Hussa - The Chorus-Guys Rule! …what was I talking about again? clears throat Ah, yes, Deponia. After I finally sat down to play it, I was strongly reminded to play more point-and-click games in the future, since I love them so (we’ll see how that goes in the future…). As for what seems to be the main problems people have with this game - 1) the protagonist, Rufus - I tried really hard to like him, but all I could say after the first game was just a “…meh?”; I think I’d have to play the next games to see where that gets me; 2) the achievements - since I haven’t gotten them all, I’m marking this game as Beaten and… maybe I’ll return some day. Maybe.

BAD END - Truth be told, I expected something more out of this one. I was really curious about the horror aspect of it, but at the end the creators turned out to have some explanation that, in my opinion, lacked something. A more avid visual novel fan will notice that, for example, the classroom background is a stock image used by many other visual novels out there. All in all, judging by the initial look you can get at the game, it can’t be worse than another VN from the same developer - Sorcerer’s Dream …which I bought at some point anyway.
CAFE 0: The Drowned Mermaid - This was one of the first visual novels I had tried out on my phone (I assume?) back when I was starting out my journey as a consumer of the genre. Now I can finally breathe out a sigh of relief as, after all those years, I’ve read it all. But was it worth it? Maybe back when it would have been one of my first, yes. Now I have to say that it’s too short and too samey in its length, and that the art style involuntarily looks ugly, or even scary (YMMV)… But I know that there’s still worse out there… It’s waiting for me… It’s out to get me… Kyaaa! :D
Flix and Chill - Sort of based on the Netflix and Chill “meme”, Flix and Chill has you matchmaking couples left and right… but beware! You can make them get together or you can make them not get together! Did that scare ya? Or did you think of something… else? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Loading Screen Simulator - Not the best free game out there, that’s for sure. I don’t even know why I picked it up. It sat on my Grind list for a while, until I finally got the last achievement… and here we are now. Goodbye to you, Loading Screen Simulator. May you piss off someone else now.
Replica - Cheap. Short. Pixelated. Not sure why people are so adamantly comparing it to Papers, Please when there aren’t many comparisons to be made, in my opinion. I’m just glad I don’t quite have to be in the main character’s shoes.
Wander No More - A short kinetic novel set in old-timey Japan. It has voice acting, which was certainly a positive surprise. My gripe with it though, is that it felt like it had been cut short. The last scene seemed like it had more going for itself, if I recall correctly. Really good quality for a free product.

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