January 2023 - My First Post

Games played this month

• It Takes Two
  

  14 hours playtime

  20 of 20 achievements

• Caster
  

  2 hours playtime

  no achievements

• 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
  

  83 minutes playtime

  no achievements

• Factorio
  

  2 hours playtime

  0 of 38 achievements

• Super Hexagon
  

  4 hours playtime

  5 of 6 achievements

• Beat Saber
  

  14 hours playtime

  16 of 26 achievements

• World of Warships
  

  343 hours playtime

  21 of 45 achievements

NOTE: Playtimes might be slightly off since this post is late. Oh well :D

Gameplay summary

Completed: It Takes Two

This month was the month I both beat and completed It Takes Two, a fun cooperative game with a somewhat depressing story. I played through the whole game 100% with a friend of mine to take a break from our usual game (World of Warships). I highly recommend this game if you like puzzle platformers.

Beaten: Caster

At long last, I beat one of my oldest Steam Gifts wins. Though I recommend the game, the ending is slightly frustrating from a story standpoint and left the game feeling unfinished. It also takes a little configuring to get the sensitivity just right, but that’s minor if you figure it out early enough.

In Progress: 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel

This one is a doozy. My friend and I (same as It Takes Two) tried to go blind into a game, and we spent nearly the entire 83 minutes of playtime making a spaghetti of alternate timelines trying to figure out the rules without a significant strategy. I will play this some later when my brain hurts less.

In Progress: Factorio

As a gift from a certain Secret Santa on the Play a Game You Won on Steam Gifts (PAGYWOSG) Discord, I started working through this gem. Though I have spent nearly two hours and have only completed 60% of the tutorial, I can tell this is right up my alley. As a software engineer, I have optimization baked into my thought process, so it will be a fun challenge to work on clearing this over the coming months.

In Progress: Super Hexagon

One of my favorite ways to kill time and compete with family, this game is one that I am so close to yet so far from completing. I have gotten to the point where seeing the speed of the final level is easy, but precision pressing the keys to move is sometimes an exercise in both reflexes and patience at the same time. This is one of the games I will continue playing as part of the backlog category for the February PAGYWOSG event.

In Progress: Beat Saber

Being the only VR game I have played for a good chunk of time, this is the first month I have (tried) to get myself organized and get some sort of exercise regimen in place. I spent time both trying to work through Hard difficulty levels on my own, including the Camelia songs, and playing some friendly competition against my mom. This will be a recurring item in BLAEO posts, so I will try to come up with noteworthy achievements as part of this recurring item.

In Progress: World of Warships

This is another item that will take some time given how long the achievements will take to complete and the nature of it being an online free to play game. This is the main game my friend mentioned above and I play during our time online, so you will hear a lot about this. This month’s achievements include finally unlocking an Aircraft Carrier along with general grinding toward unlocking more ships and completing campaign missions. As with Beat Saber, I will try to come up with unique progress points to include each month.