So it's over me. I am somewhat confused from the whole experience. The story was nice, I would say sometimes even a little bit captivating. I liked the graphic design of different times and the music was pleasant. My favorite "mini-game" were cards, also there was best music track. X) And now to the bad side. I didn't like the 3D era much, as you couldn't change your point of view you could easily miss something hidden behind tree or rock. Also the fighting in 3D was tiresome due to the looking area. Next part are "mini-games", mostly not optional, they are just part of the story flow and you must go through them. There was a lot of them - Platformer, Shoot 'em up, Brawler, 2D fighter, Match-3, Rhytm... Most of them tested my patience to the limit as I got really frustrated and almost broke down my keyboard - that was not really what I have expected from this game. I have played on middle difficulty "good old arcade". When I was far after half of the game I lost it and put the difficulty to "an adventure" mode, I meant to left it just for one particular mini-game, then I forgot and completed the game on it. Honestly? I should have played it on this mode from the beginning, maybe I wouldn't be so hateful towards it. Also I wonder how hard would it be on the last difficulty? I don't mind that there is no voice acting, but I didn't like parts when there was some serious talk and no sound, music, anything, just the tapping of character dots. I know that sometimes is better no sound, for the tension to rise up, but here it seemed unnecessary, also most of the time I wished for those talks to be over soon. My next big problem are the characters, well to be precise, if there wouldn't be that one particular girl I would have rated it higher. Through the time I have started to really hate her, also I have found it disturbing that she (and everyone else, but her was the most disturbing) had the same expression all the time! I just can't bring myself over the fact that the developers couldn't made three different face sets for (at least) the main characters.

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I have finally completed Banished. Great building strategy, for me one of the best. You have to build up a village and sustain its population. Easy to say, hard to achieve. If you build houses too fast you will condemn your population to starvation, if you grow too slowly you will watch your citizens dying out of an old age without offsprings. It's hard to find the middle point and balance everything if you aim to survive for a few hundred years. There is a community workshop which adds new buildings, jobs or adjust AI and even though some of them are nice addition I have not used them. For me the game was satisfying as it was. Also, I have read some complains about little action = warfare. I don't mind it, for once I am happy that I didn't had to concentrate on that part. I find Banished to be very captivating, even if sometimes a little bit frustrating, and it's hard to pull yourself away from it, my playtime speaks clearly. ;)

Steamgifts win. This was an enjoyable game, I liked the story. Even the graphic and music were nice. First story of the collection is not voiced, the voicing for the second one is rather good. I have played on the "hardest" difficulty and the puzzles + hidden games were pretty fair. Although I got stuck in the second extra game and was really frustrated for a moment. Still a good casual game.