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    The Whispered World Special Edition

    The Whispered World Special Edition

    7,5/10
    10 hours playtime

    It’s been a while since I played a Daedalic point&click game, so I got through The Whispered World, which I started back in 2015 and played it about a few minutes or so.
    I like the artstyle, animated cutscenes were pretty cool, but short.
    I found the original and english voices pretty annoying tbh, but a Russian voiceover was surprisingly decent and didn’t hurt my ears as much as these.
    The puzzles vary strongly from easy to straight up nonsensical. The game itself isn’t that long, but some of design choices will keep you stuck for sure. There’s also a “classic” locked door with key in lock puzzle, which, if you ever played point’n’clicks, you might’ve seen a time or two or a million times already.
    The game is filled with typical Daedalic achievements like do X a number of times like a dumbass. These were pretty annoying and felt unnecessary, especially the one with transforming your pet companion 500 (!) times. FYI, it didn’t take that long just spamming the buttons over and over, but it’s just stupid.
    A bit SPOILERY part: I didn’t really like the abruptness of an ending, and the meta element of it doesn’t have the setup and impact needed.
    Overall, it’s still a pretty good point’n’click.

    Cursed Treasure 2

    Cursed Treasure 2

    6,5/10
    18 hours playtime

    It’s your usual tower defense stuff, nothing fancy, but gets pretty much all things right. Gets a bit unfair without cheat skills near the end though, so I was kinda fed up with it. Might get back to it and complete it later.

    Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition

    Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition

    7/10
    7 hours playtime

    This is a superhero fighting game. I guess I’d be pissing my pants if I was a comic superheroes fan (and knew who 65% of the cast even are), but I’ve gone as blindly as possible. It was decent, even though the story mode felt waay too long for my taste. Didn’t even touch MP (I don’t even know if it’s still alive).
    Overall, pretty okay for someone like me who doesn’t even like fighting games/superheroes that much in general.

    Otaku's Adventure

    Otaku's Adventure

    8,5/10
    12 hours playtime

    This is another adventure game by the same guys who did Kio’s Adventure. This game is devoid of any weird ero-guro horror from previous work, but still choke full of silly humour.
    As I’ve said, it’s an adventure game with vn elements and many mini-games that diversify the gameplay a lot. This game has three routes with unique content, so you might want to play all of them. Just like Kio, this game has a pretty wonky english translation (it’s much better than Kio’s though) but it still adds charm to it. And there’s a lot of charm in this one. Some might not like the really, really dumb and simple nature of its’ humour, but I love it for whatever reason. I really loved both of these guys’ games, so I’ll be eagerly awaiting for the next one, which doesn’t happen that often.
    Also, there’s voice acting now!
    Also, after almost a year of waiting (for me, at least), the DLC finally got on Steam. It’s just as much of a wild ride as the original game, and it ties things together pretty nicely. It was linear, but I liked it too.
    Overall, might be not everyone’s cup of tea, but I loved it.

Also completed new endings for Needy Girl Overdose. Neat!

100 Completed Games Marathon progress: 78/100

Backlog progress status:

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5% (123/2631)
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72% (1900/2631)
3% (87/2631)
Zelrune

Congratulations on your assassinations! Glad you had a bunch of interesting games to play. Any plans for November?

petpasta

I started my journey through the rabbit hole that is (the new one) Hitman 3, so I won’t miss out on all the online stuff I did for the previous two. Back then I’ve beaten the first pack of levels and stopped on 2nd, because I wanted the full experience, and not just screw around for 100 hours in the first two games and wait for the third game to drop on Steam. Turns out I made the right call, since I lost my saves and progress, lol.
I also started with a pretty grim (though that’s an understatement) RPG called Fear & Hunger. So far it hits all the right notes with lots of disturbing stuff. It is also known to be ridiculously and intentionally unfair and even though I started on the beginner’s difficulty, I definitely felt that.
Also lots of time wasted in Vampire Survivors ahead, I’m sure.