ABC Challenge 2018-2019: The 27 Labours of Nicknames
Last month I made a list with the games I’d play in the challenge (with some changes here and there), and now that I have some free time (god bless paid holidays) I gotta start it. I plan to do this yearly, but since there’s no way I’d complete all the games in just 2 months I’ll extend it to these 2 months + 2019. As you might guess the first game I started with 12 Labours of Hercules
12 Labours of Hercules
6.5 hours, 22 of 22 achievements
This game surprised me in a really good way. I started it with little expectations since I never played a time management game and by the time I realized it I was already past level 20 with 3+ hours spent in the game. Needless to say I finished it the same day I started it and loved it, to the point I also played its sequel The Cretan Bull
12 Labours of Hercules II: The Cretan Bull
7.4 hours, 20 of 22 achievements
This one was a bit longer and had some extra features that made it even more challenging. For starters now you have to be careful of thieves trying to steal your stuff or making Hera stop scaring your lackeys (her hubby would probably not cheat on her at every chance if she focused on him as much as she does at making Hercules' life a PITA =P). Also they added hidden puzzle pieces you have to find on each level to unlock hidden levels. The only reason I didn't try to get all the achievements is there's one achievement in particular which is a royal pain in the ass to get (actually there are two, but I got lucky and managed to unlock one by pure chance) and I don't have the patience to try to get it ^^; I'll also give the rest of the franchise a go, but not now. I don't want to get burnt out too soon.
Since I finished 12 Labours of Hercules in a day I went ahead and started Assetto Corsa and well… this one is going to take “a bit more” to finish
Assetto Corsa
4.2 hours, 5 of 709 achievements
First thing first, the way the menus are done is a bit confusing. I have the habit of heading straight to the options menu to check the controls and any stuff I can tweak and all I got was a headache. Also it doesn't detect my controller (probably because it's a generic one) so I have to deal with playing with a keyboard. That aside it's a very decent game that takes a bit to get used to, and I'll definitely try to finish the career mode. Don't expect me to get all the achievements though ;)
Unrelated to the whole challenge I also finished Gravity Badgers
Gravity Badgers
13.6 hours, 18 of 18 achievements
This game was decent and it kind of remind me of those flash games that are on Tremor, though there were some levels that were unnecessarily hard (as in, you're 1 milimeter off and you screwed it up). Also don't pay much attention to the time spent on this game, there's 1 achievement that requires you to play the game for 10 hours and well, I idled it =P)
Achievement to IDLE game past 10h? How long it’d take you to 99% it then? How Long to Beat shows 3h.
That’s interesting way for devs to try and “fake” game is longer than it is in reality :D
I estimate it’d have taken me around 5 hours to get all the achievements except that one (I wasted way more time than I wished on those levels that require milimetric precision to obtain 3 stars). It’d probably have taken me the 3 hours that appear in HLTB if I didn’t care about getting all the stars.
Oh, ok. Then HLTB estimate is quite right here.
Yeah, Assetto would benefit from full controller and wheel support. I think it has the latter, but I know my gamepad would never work when I tried playing this before.