samwise84

Update 23: First week of October

Not much to report this week. I completed 1 game and won one game. And made some headway in a bunch of other games.

Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden

Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden

6/10
10.3 hours
20 of 20 achievements

It's an average HOG with a nice enough story and some great puzzles, but don't get me started on some of the translations. Now I had it several times that finding something in one of the HO scences was impossible since the translation was fucked up: scale, which either means "Waage" something you can weigh with (which was used as translation) and "(Fisch-)Schuppe" (scale of a fish, which was actually what they were looking for).
The second one was spring, which they translated as "Feder" (if I hear "Feder" I think of feather which belongs to a bird, so I clicked on the feather in the picture). What they meant was the spring in a machine.
Next one according to the translation I was looking for a "Fächer", what they meant was a fan, some kind of AC unit.
That got quiet annoying, but in the end every time I could not find something I would simpy look it up in a walkthrough since using the hint function would mean I would loose an achievement, since you are not allowed to use hints for two of them.


green = PoP thanks enkabard & Cjcomplex for the picks
red = Challenge Me thanks stef for challenging me
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
yellow = completions

Overall Backlog Progress:

6%
7%
6%
78%
2%


Overall SG Wins Progress:
28%
16%
4%
47%
5%


Here are the games I'm currently working on. I'm working on completing American Truck Simulator. Reviews will follow once I'm done with the games:
I've won 1 game this week and bought nothing. So that makes 1 new game and 1 completed, meaning a +0 for my backlog this week. And +0 overall for this month :)

SG wins:
Games I want to play within the next few weeks:

Challenge Me:

PAGYWOSG:

PoP:

Just for fun:
Amitte

If the translation is that inaccurate, why not play in English? You could always learn new vocabulary that way :)

samwise84

Highly unlikely that I learn new vocabulary that way, simply because mine is pretty extensive to begin with ;) (I was that weird kid in school that read the dictonary just for fun and learning new words).
This one did not give me the option to choose the language (I usually switch to English, if given the opportunity), but I would have to do it via steam and I was already halfway in the game when the annoying language problems started.

Amitte

Oh, via Steam, huh? I guess that does explain why AM games never play in Polish for me, even though that’s my native language xD

samwise84

Maybe you should be glad about it 😆
Well I have to say that if you want to play that game, do it in English and not in German since there are a lot of translation bugs in the HO scenes.
But interestingly enough only there.

Amitte

I mean, not like I want to play them in Polish :D Reporting the mistakes might be good, but I imagine it could take a while…

Arbiter Libera

So what are your thoughts on Ash of Gods so far? I’ve seen many comment how it’s too similar to the Banner Saga, but they may have been talking more about the art style than anything else.

samwise84

Haven’t played the banner saga yet. So I can’t compare them. I actually like it. Basically you have a story that is told, where you have to sometimes make important decisions, though you don’t know which are important and which simply give you extra information.
You see the story from different angles, since you play it from the point of view of several people. You have to decide where to go next and this might decide what happens or not.
I can’t really say much more since I am only on day 5 of about 30, I think.