Aquilla

Finished in March (4-6)

I’m going a little late on my reviews for march, I should do them earlier and now do month’s summary. Oh well - I just wanted to finish the game for One Big Game A Month theme. I did it, and boy, what a big game it was.

  • Gibbous

    GOG

Gibbous

7/10

A classic aadventure game. It definitely has a charm of old adventure games, like Monkey Island and Broken Sword. And this specific adventure game type o humor which for me may be hit and miss. Add some Chtulhu myths, snarky talking cat, transylvania legends… It was playing very smoothly, has some interesting puzzles, likeable characters, suprisingly good voiceacting, very nice graphics and animations. My only problem is… how to put it without spoilers… I feel that at the ending they had some plot holes so they tried to patch them “smartly”. I’m not 100% convinced.

  • The Secret Order 7: Shadow Breach

    3 hours playtime

    32 of 32 achievements

The Secret Order 7: Shadow Breach

7/10

Won on Steamgifts. It’s HOPA. It has everything good and bad that is in HOPAs. I already barely remember it, but HOPA from time to time is my brain rest, when I don’t want anything challenging.

  • Tokyo Xanadu eX+

    60 hours playtime

    34 of 55 achievements

Tokyo Xanadu eX+

8/10

I decided, that I will clean my Stemgifts wins backlog a bit. I’m trying to play games that I won, but I have a few which I didn’t touch yet. And most of them are HUGE. Just like this one. I’m not 100% sure, but I think I discovered new game genre - japanese games about teenagers jumping between our world and magical one. I played Persona, I played Digimon, and now this one. Xanadu is very Persona like. You play as a teenager who found enter to the other reality, you are collecting a team of friends and you are fighting with anything that can come from this another dimension. In the meantime, you are going to school, meeting with those friends - standard Persona stuff. The main difference is that when Persona is classic turn based jRPG, this one is action RPG - you are fighting monsters with your agility, in real time. The game is long and VERY story heavy. Cutscenes went for 20-30 minutes (another thing characteristic for this kind of games I suppose). But the characters were likeable, story was engaging enough, even if predictable, fighting was nice, there was impressing variety of enemies - all in all I really enjoyed it. Although I think I will rest from those kind of games for a bit - I fell like I run a marathon.

Zelrune

Ahaha I’m working on my SG wins as well, none of them are less than 20 hours. We shall suffer together!
I’m glad you liked Tokyo Xanadu, I’m pretty sure it’s on my WL.
I’ll get it as soon as I finish my backlog.. probably. QQ

Aquilla

I’m slowly starting to loose options for games that are less than 40 hours. Mass Effect 2, Pillars of Eternity, Dragon Dogma, Yakuza 0, Elex…. Small one evening games :D

Zelrune

I have Dragons Dogma in my SG backlog and i’m a bit scared b/c of the speedrun achievement lmao. We got this!

Adelion

Hm, 60 hours is actually quite fast. Although if you don’t care for achievements you can skip on the talking marathons each chapter and also the new game+.

Did you play the After Story and unlock the true ending?

Aquilla

Yes, I finished everything including halloween autumn event, also did every side quest (accept propably one or two hidden ones - I won’t be suprise if I missed some), and use every chence to bond with others. The only thing I didn’t do is playing New game+ - I never do this in games.