Challenges

• Mass Effect™: Andromeda
  

  35 hours playtime

  16 of 55 achievements

Report #410: Mass Effect™: Andromeda

Wow, this has been a long time I actually “finished” a game. Have been playing a lot of coop sessions and other endless games.
Anyway had this for a while on my bucket list. Enjoyed the previous games and was okay with this one. Although I kind of rushed the story at the end, the additional mechanics and exploring just felt a bit too repetetiv.

Off to new adventures!

• The Curse of Monkey Island
  

  7 hours playtime

  no achievements

Report #409: The Curse of Monkey Island

Life of Daerphen Challenge Year 1997

Played a bit of a nostalgia game. Not really sure which of the Monkey Island games I played at a friends place back then. For sure not right after release but a few years later.
Its a nice game, the graphics of course are not too great compared to current point & clicks, but its solid. And it had no weird game closing bugs as other modern games.

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
  

  9 hours playtime

  no achievements

Report #408: A Plague Tale: Requiem

Game crashing bug

Been a while that I marked a game as broken/not playing anymore.

The game itself was really cool. Until it crashed to desktop after a cutscene. And is not startable again. As soons as the game loaded the checkpoint it stops again. Without error messages. A shame of error handling. Really glad it is “just a HB choice” game

• Nanotale - Typing Chronicles
  

  8 hours playtime

  34 of 34 achievements

Report #407: Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

Learning to type very very fast

This is this kind of games where I midway through the game think “why the hell am I playing such games”. Typing a lot throughout my work day I then go in the PC in my free time to run around a beautiful world and killing enemies, collecting lore by typing words above their heads.
It is similar from the gameplay as Epistory, but it has some new modificators and elements that you can use to either kill, heal or build something.

• Syberia 3
  

  20 hours playtime

  40 of 40 achievements

Report #406: Syberia 3

Here we go, number 3 of the syberia series done. Somehow I thought I already completed this part, when I purchased the forth game (Syberia: The World Before) in the summer sale.
The story is nice and was happy to play it. But the controls sometimes made me hate the game. I soft locked myself twice. First time was a real bummer, because I did not know of the soft locking possibility and the game only has one autosave slot. So I lost about 4 hours of progress.
The second also was annoying, almost at the end but forgot to backup my autosave for maybe 2 hours and had to replay those.
But with a guide I managed to get all the achievements and happy to continue with the next part sooner or later.

• SUPER CRAZY RHYTHM CASTLE
  

  30 hours playtime

  26 of 27 achievements

Report #405: SUPER CRAZY RHYTHM CASTLE

Totally forgot to write about this game. Finished last month in a group of 4 players. We went almost for all achievements, but we currently not planning to get the very last one.
The game is absolutely brilliant. A lot of fun, frustration and eye pain on the way.

There are some levels that really took a while to complete 3 stars on, even on regular difficulty. Recently they released a patch to nerf exactly those levels.

• The Talos Principle 2
  

  64 hours playtime

  87 of 87 achievements

Report #404: The Talos Principle 2

Life of Daerphen Challenge Year 2023

Oh hello Report 404, the report that is supposed to be missing….
Nevermind, just being silly after finishing the second game of the Talos Principle Franchise.

I enjoyed solving the puzzles, I did not enjoy having to walk for hours to get all the collectibles :D
The base game is rather a chore at some point than very challenging. Each set of level you learn a specific feature, which you can sadly forget in the next area.

Anyway, story is nice and the DLCs absolutely worth it. Especially the Into the Abyss is adding real challenging puzzles to the game.

• Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps And Beans 2
  

  6 hours playtime

  6 of 33 achievements

Report #403: Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps And Beans 2

Played through the second part of the series. I liked that it also had synchronized characters. If I remember correctly the first one did not have that as a feature.
Still missing a lot of achievements, but probably will not go for them. I liked the story and game but there are too many parts that I found annoying in regards of the fighting.

• The Forest Quartet
  

  2 hours playtime

  no achievements

Report #402: The Forest Quartet

Quick, spontaneous bought game during the summer sale. Looked nice visually and was supposed to be short. So I installed and played it through. A sad story but well written. Liked the game style and “puzzles”

• L.A. Noire
  

  36 hours playtime

  60 of 60 achievements

Report #401: L.A. Noire

Life of Daerphen Challenge Year 2011

Installed this game, deinstalled it, installed it again, and back and forth. Had to be very stubborn to finally get used to it. The main issue I had in the beginning was the controls of driving the car. It was just not moving, turned out that I had my driving wheel still connected with the PC and this caused issues. The game really has compatibility issues with newer Windows versions. If you have two monitors, it will always start on your second screen, but after changing resolution in the menu back and forth it sticks to the primary display.

Game was nice, took me probably around 25 hours to complete the story. And then another 10 hours to grind all the collectibles.

The end of Batch #39