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Monthly Report - January 2019

A very lucky month with 4 wins (!), most with the Playing Appreciated group, so a lot to play !

So first, new games :

  • Won : Sniper Elite V2, LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, FEAR 3, Oxenfree
  • Free : Deponia: The Complete Journey
  • From bundles/gifts/sales : -
  • Train Valley

    26 hours playtime

    39 of 39 achievements

Train Valley - completed

I already completed most of the game in September and liked it but I was missing the DLC and a few achievements.
Now the game is completed ! I think the DLC is worth it (but I got it very cheap on sale), as it adds a few interesting challenges that are different from the main game, so I liked it.

Achievements : The DLC achievements are not hard, but I had a few from the main game to complete and I spent quite some time on it (having 10 trains running at the same time, having 300 tiles and finish the space shuttle level with 3 stars). Replaying it fresh made them a little easier, maybe I was too annoyed by my fails. It was easier after a few months pause !
So… Take a break :)


  • LEGO® Batman™ 3: Beyond Gotham

    40 hours playtime

    40 of 70 achievements

LEGO® Batman™ 3: Beyond Gotham - beaten

I won this one on SteamGifts. I had LEGO games in my wishlist for a while now, but never played any. It just looked like fun little games, with nice characters and a funny take on stories we might already know… So I can’t compare it to other LEGO games, I’m fresh :).
And indeed, this is not a bad game. The story is not awesome but the characters are fun and there’s a bunch of funny jokes. The main issue is the gameplay by itself, it is very cluncky, the controls suck and it is often hard to do what you want, several buttons are reused for different actions depending on context (it’s not like there are multiple buttons that were not used) so you mess up often, and a lot of actions can get you one-shot killed. Thanksfully the game is not hard and not punishing at all. Dying has no consequence.
Sadly, you are often stuck in the scenery or objects, most of the time you can use the other character to free the other one, except when the one stuck is the only one that can do something…. I lost several hours of progress due to the numerous times it happened. And the game crashes… A little bit too much… Again a couple hours of progress lost.
Also, maybe the game lack a bit of explaination (but this is the third Batman so maybe things are explained before). Like how to enable the red brick bonuses… I spent some time looking. I found the thing, bought the thing, and I didn’t have the bonus ! Well you have to enable it in the start menu. A little odd. A lot of things are like that, a little odd, not optimized (like the numerous confirmations you have when you load a game, how you quit the game…)

But I liked the puzzles, they are simple and the visual cues are enough (usually, sometimes they are too well hidden), and the fact that you have to come back with other characters to unlock the full level, the game is fun, not too long, the music is great, as well as the voice-over. I also quite enjoyed the “classic Batman” levels. So overall an enjoyable game…

Until… Until the end of the end game. I’m a completionist, so of course I tried to get all the collectibles (and there are A LOT)… And I found it fun to replay the levels in free play, being able to choose my characters, trying to find the right one for the job and all the hidden things. So far so good. But at one point you can visit some planets, and there are quests and collectibles there too. But the planets are so boring ! They are exactly the same reskined level : same quests, almost same dialogs… So the first one is nice, the second one, why not, but after that, it is just annoying. And the camera on those levels really suck. On “normal” levels, the camera is pretty much locked, and it works pretty well even if sometimes you are frustrated because you can’t look where you want. But once you played the planet levels, you’re glad they locked it :).

So, a lot of negative comments, but overall, it is not THAT bad, just sad that with a little bit of more work, it could easily be a better game.

Achievements : I got all the ones I could with the base game, because of course there are DLCs. And of course, 40% of the achievements require the DLCs. So I’ll wait for a big sale on the season pass. Maybe. Other than that, they are easy to get, it is just a matter of finishing the game and unlocking everything.


  • Sniper Elite V2

    8 hours playtime

    18 of 47 achievements

Sniper Elite V2 - unfinished

I also won this one on SteamGifts. I’m currently playing it and didn’t finish, so I’ll keep my judgement for next month.

Achievements : Sadly there are some multiplayer achievements, and I don’t really play MP¨so I’ll probably not complete this one !