86maylin

2022 May update

Most Enjoyable

Most Looking Forward To

  • Amulet of Dreams
    Amulet of Dreams

    3.2 hours playtime

    7 of 7 achievements

    Rating: ★★☆☆☆

  • Everhood
    Everhood

    48.1 hours playtime

    64 of 78 achievements

    Rating: ★★★★☆

  • NORTH
    NORTH

    52 minutes playtime

    no achievements

    Rating: ★★☆☆☆

  • Professor Watts Memory Match: Cats
    Professor Watts Memory Match: Cats

    3.3 hours playtime

    1 of 1 achievements

    Rating: ★★☆☆☆

NORTH

52 minutes of playtime, no achievements
Personal rating: 3/10, Date of finish: May/15
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A pagywosg game, yes I'm rejoining some event stuff, getting back to playing more games and slaying backlogged ones, which is always fun. :3

A bit of a boring walking simulator-esque game. The environments are super dark that if it isn't for looking up guides I wouldn't know where the elevator even is to progress the game. The models looks cheap unpleasant to look at(tho the game isn't trying to be pleasant so I guess that works). The work part I also had to look up a guide on exactly what I need to do since I've ran around several runs without any idea of where to go, and the fast paced music and the speed of movement made my heart felt weird and I started to hold my breath again(I've found that I do that with some games that has dying effects like heavy breathing or are very tense like FPS PVP games. I'll instinctively hold my breath and then hyperventilate when I ran out of breath, rinse and repeat all without me noticing). I think the game is a metaphor for middle easter people's oppression? Or perhaps I'm totally missing the point but it's so vague(not a good vague) that I don't really like it. The reveal that the letters you wrote weren't getting sent out and they were fabricating your letters instead I did not expect and quite liked that actually, which bumped up the score by 1, but overall I didn't really enjoy the game.

Amulet of Dreams

3.2 hours of playtime, 7 of 7 achievements
Personal rating: 4/10, Date of finish: May/16
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Another pagywosg game. A HOG with absurd story that contradicts itself and bad voice acting, and some of the solutions made me go "Oh bullcrap why does that item solve it? The other item I tried would work so much better". But the good thing is there's no "don't use hint" achievements and hints recharge quite fast so I've just been spamming them when I get stuck. lol The actual HOG scenes are also kinda poor quality? The whole game feels a bit blurry. I do like that there's many locations and worlds with their own aesthetics.

Game was alright, tho there's better HOGs out there to play than this one.

Everhood

48.1 hours of playtime, 64 of 78 achievements
Personal rating: 9.5/10, Date of finish: May/21
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This game is so freaking good, it's kinda what got me back to like, actually playing new games and back to steamgifts and here. Just the excitement of playing and finishing a game and having it on my mind for a couple of days, and looking up playthroughs of the game to sorta, extend the length of thinking about it and consuming more of its content cuz I wanted more, if that makes sense? And I completely stumbled upon it by accident, just one day decided to redeem my humble bundle, saw it and out of the blue wanted to play it. It's meant to be I say! x3

This is a rhythm-esque adventure game where you dodge the notes instead of hitting them in combat. And the reason I added "esque" is because the notes aren't arriving to you on beat, they come out on beat(most of the time), so you have to time your moves with a slight off beat which throws me off quite a lot at first and at some certain moments, but when you get used to it it's a really great gameplay system.

It's heavily inspired by Undertale I'd say, with quite some winks and nods to it, but is by no means a "clone" of it as the gameplay and story stands on its own. The gameplay is so good that I went back and attempted no hit achivements for most of the fights, which I almost never do unless I really love the game(like Ori) since restarting over, and over is just so tedious and I get angry easily, but I loved attempting them. The story gripped me really hard, but that is because I accept the narrative and the story setting that it has and doesn't really, insert my own morality into it? I have read some people's comments when watching playthroughs that it didn't resonate with them quite a much especially the ending, so I think it depends. The game does have flashing lights and nauseating effects tho(which there's a setting that reduces it but still), and that's kinda, a charm of it? xD Like, I doubt I would ever get to experience what acid is like, but in a sense I can get a feel of it when playing the game and oh boy it's fun! :3

I haven't mentioned the soundtrack have I? It's so, so, fucking good!! Every single song is a banger with multiple different genres of music sprinkled in. If not for the banger soundtrack the no hit runs would be just that much more tedious, but since the songs are That good, it doesn't even make me that mad that I have to restart.

I didn't really go into much detail of the game because I feel like it's a game played best blind, like how I got into it. :3 The twist in the middle changed the entire perspective of things and made it really refreshing even tho it's the same really, which is super cool!(and that's all I'll say. xD) I highly highly recommend checking the game out if you have the chance.

Professor Watts Memory Match: Cats

38 minutes of playtime, 1 of 1 achievements
Personal rating: 2.5/10, Date of finish: May/30
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Won this from Playing Appreciated. I know it's a cheap asset flip game, but sometimes it's just "fun" playing these sorta short asset flip things. xD

During my playing I've observed some things regarding the game:
1. You can click on the same card twice and it'll count as matched lol
2. You can unflip the cards that you've already flipped and matched
3. The timer counts down into negative so it could deduct points even tho it says 0
4. Seems to be a random infinitely generated levels thing.

So yeah, that was quite interesting to kinda, break it apart, I suppose. :P

Debated on participating again in Monthly Theme and Challenge Me, but decided to take it slow and pick some that I want to play alongside the pagywosg event for now, just to avoid it becoming a “chore” for me again. ^^; I did pick some nice puzzle games for the event and I’m especially looking forward to(and actually played already) Sudoku Universe since I can play with Remote Play and I unironically enjoy sudoku in my freetime. And also Nonogram, and minesweeper. xD