Update 21: Third week of September
Third week of September and my backlog did not take as much of a nose dive as last week, but it still is not pretty. 4 wins and 3 purchases, well if you leave the DLC’s in form of study guids and flash cards for Learn Japanese To Survive out.
And as the last week I’m still playing several long games. So my backlog is suffering because of that.
Wow, what a great game :) Definitly worth the money I spend. The story is engaging and I really liked the characters from the get-go. It is a stealth-adventure game that drops you in the middle of a 1349 France, riddeled with black death. You start with Amicia, the 15-year-old sister of 5-year-old Hugo, who likes her slingshot and her dog. She's out on a stroll with a dad and her dog and everything looks like a nice autum day, until it doesn't anymoe. The dog gets eaten by rats and everything takes a turn for the worse. For anyone wanting to try the game I hope you do not have a problem with rats, because you will see a whole lot of them.
Pros:
- really beautiful landscapes and nice cut scences
- great music
- nice character developement: they never forget that this are children and not some battle hardend warriors, with all the little details like Hugo running away because he saw something intersting, like a lot of 5-year-olds will do. Also the side charaters are nicely developed, the kids more so than the villains.
- encountered no bugs
Cons:
- if you missed something on a side path/road you cannot get back most of the time since the doors simply close. This means that you will have to replay the whole chapter again for the achievement and/or material or whatever you forgot.
- the savepoints are sometimes rather far away and you won't ever know when one comes up or not
- you sometimes die a lot, until you know/remember every move you need to make. Also once you are spotted there is next to nothing you can do to survive.
I will definitly complete the game, though I might need a guide for the missed collectibles.
Short little point'n'click. You play two young kids (brother and sister), whose house is run over by alien monsters.
Pros:
- short
- funny
Cons:
- broken achievement: last achievement can't be obtained since you would need to load a save game of a game that does not exist yet
- missable achievements: you can save the game, but without knowing when to save you'll have to replay the whole game to get the achievements you'd missed.
- on alien planet there are several rather long "chat" sequences, that consist of just chatting back and forth with the alien for several minutes
It is the most boring and frustrating game I have played in a while. It has nothing to do with hacking (except the weird back story) and consists entirely of badly done minigames that are nearly impossible to beat.
Pros:
- not sure there are any
- thought of one: you can disable the annoying music
Cons:
- the mini games: either they are boring (hitting random keys to get some "code" that does not even make sense) or badly done versions of known games (Snake, Battleship, Breakout), which most of the times solely relies on RNG
- bugs: had to sometimes restart the game several times to get it to load properly
- the music: but then I do not like electronic music much
green = PoP thanks enkabard & Cjcomplex for the picks
red = Challenge Me thanks Tristar for challenging me
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
yellow = completions
Overall Backlog Progress:
Overall SG Wins Progress:
SG wins: Gifts:
none
Other games I've redeemed:
A dog! I should buy this game soon!
Oh. :I
And a cute one at that. And then he gets eaten and you see him being draged into a hole.