Goals for December

Not much progress happened as I predicted, well, we’ll go for what we have for now. There’s still next month!

• Tales of Symphonia
  

  102 hours playtime

  19 of 39 achievements

• The Mummy Demastered
  

  10 hours playtime

  37 of 37 achievements

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I already thoroughly enjoyed Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Zestiria in the past, so Tales of Symphonia was no exception. Very fun, very detailed and nostalgic even though I didn’t grow up with Gamecube at all. They did a good job with cinematics and in-game camera angles. The Mummy Demastared was disappointing, probably one of the least exciting Metroidvanias I’ve ever played. It had many problems when it came to presentation and some minor yet very important details, so I couldn’t give it a pass.

I’m sure that I’ll be done with CLANNAD this month, and go back to some other games I intend to complete. Learn Japanese to Survive! Kanji Battle is on hiatus until I get to where I want to be in my Japanese studies. Finally, I wanted to play more of my won games, so I’ve recently added Dungeon Rushers to the list.

• CLANNAD
  

  76 hours playtime

  10 of 22 achievements

• Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat
  

  4 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Dungeon Rushers
  

  3 hours playtime

  6 of 23 achievements

Goals for November

November marks my one-year anniversary on BLAEO! Since I started my assassination journey, I’ve managed to complete over 40 games, and have beaten over 10. Let’s hope I can reach 100 completed games before next November or so, one can always wish…

• Cook, Serve, Delicious!
  

  30 hours playtime

  52 of 52 achievements

• Thief Gold
  

  55 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Steredenn
  

  16 hours playtime

  37 of 37 achievements

• Langrisser I & II
  

  88 hours playtime

  42 of 42 achievements

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Cook, Serve, Delicious is a must-play if you like cooking games. Thief still feels so fresh even after 25 years, I really enjoyed it. Steredenn is a fun shoot-em-up with randomized stages, weapons, and eye-candy pixel art. Langrisser I & II was the least enjoyable apple of this bunch, I have mixed feelings about it. Definitely go for any other turn-based strategy RPG game if you can, it has way too many routes and in the end most of them turn out to be irrelevant and time-wasting, just look at my playtime…

This month might be the least productive one of the year, given that the current games on the list are not quick to finish at all. I’ll try my best anyway!

• CLANNAD
  

  40 hours playtime

  5 of 22 achievements

• Tales of Symphonia
  

  36 hours playtime

  7 of 39 achievements

• Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat
  

  2 hours playtime

  no achievements

Goals for October

Decent amount of progress with some good games and some bad games.

• Vampire Survivors
  

  43 hours playtime

  190 of 190 achievements

• Hero of the Kingdom
  

  4 hours playtime

  38 of 38 achievements

• Astronarch
  

  35 hours playtime

  47 of 47 achievements

• Wasteland Remastered
  

  32 hours playtime

  35 of 35 achievements

• Cook, Serve, Delicious!
  

  24 hours playtime

  46 of 52 achievements

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What can I say about Vampire Survivors? We all love that game indeed. Hero of the Kingdom was a complete letdown and I didn’t enjoy its simplicity at all. Astronarch is a unique roguelike with auto-battles and I’d love to see a sequel happening. Wasteland Remastered is another letdown, it’s completely different from 2 and 3 and gameplay is pretty archaic with grindly achievements. Cook, Serve, Delicious! is probably the best cooking game I’ve ever played since childhood. Very fun game, though it has some unfair achievements as well and I’ll be surely getting them one by one.

These are the games I’m currently playing. I’m so close to finishing Thief and need to get better at Steredenn, it’s a nice shmup game so far. I’ll also be playing Langrisser II, which is another half of the game for the rest of the achievements.

• Thief Gold
  

  50 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Steredenn
  

  7 hours playtime

  21 of 37 achievements

• Langrisser I & II
  

  38 hours playtime

  17 of 42 achievements

Goals for September

Oh lord, lots of progress happened and I don’t know when or how! But these are the games I beat/completed in August:

• Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs
  

  109 hours playtime

  23 of 23 achievements

• planetarian HD
  

  6 hours playtime

  21 of 21 achievements

• Blazing Chrome
  

  13 hours playtime

  39 of 39 achievements

• Hue
  

  7 hours playtime

  13 of 13 achievements

• There Is No Light
  

  35 hours playtime

  39 of 39 achievements

• Langrisser I & II
  

  38 hours playtime

  17 of 42 achievements

• Torchlight
  

  22 hours playtime

  23 of 66 achievements

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I’ve talked enough about Umineko and how spectacular it was. Planetarian is another short but great novel with a captivating story. Blazing Chrome is a well-written love letter to good old retro shooters such as Contra and Metal Slug. Hue has a very interesting game mechanic involving the manipulation of colors, recommended for cozy gamers of all ages. There Is No Light was a bumpy start but with a great finish, The pixel art is breathtaking and the gameplay is challenging in a good way with 2D souls-like style.

Both Langrisser and Torchlight are going well so far, I found the latter more interesting and entertaining than the former though. It’s also the fact that Langrisser is a remaster of an old strategy game from 90s or so, still a good game.

So far, September’s goals only consist of completing Thief Gold and Vampire Survivors, but of course there’s always the chance of me playing other unexpected games if I end up finishing them way earlier than expected.

• Thief Gold
  

  20 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Vampire Survivors
  

  12 hours playtime

  90 of 190 achievements

Goals for August

Totally went out of plan with some beaten and some completed games. Without further ado…

• Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War
  

  10 hours playtime

  24 of 24 achievements

• There Is No Light
  

  26 hours playtime

  37 of 39 achievements

• Blazing Chrome
  

  3 hours playtime

  20 of 39 achievements

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Currently I’m studying Japanese and I played Learn Japanese to Survive! - Katakana War as a practicing source. There Is No Light first felt so off and uninteresting but it got much better as I found myself being immersed in it. I need another playthrough to get the two remaining achievements. Blazing Chrome is a pretty good arcade shooter, inevitably reminiscent of the Contra series. I’ll be getting the rest of the achievements later as usual.

This month I’m definitely finishing Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs. On the other hand Langrisser I & II is a pretty long Tactical RPG, and I’m going slow but steady. Other than that I’ve also managed to do another playthrough of La-Mulana and got some of the remaining achievements as well!

• La-Mulana
  

  98 hours playtime

  57 of 64 achievements

• Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs
  

  101 hours playtime

  17 of 23 achievements

• Langrisser I & II
  

  11 hours playtime

  3 of 42 achievements

Goals for July

June started pretty slow, except for the last 10 days or so lol. I almost forgot how many games I was able to beat/complete in that short amount of time;

• Infinite Adventures
  

  65 hours playtime

  74 of 74 achievements

• Chasm
  

  30 hours playtime

  20 of 20 achievements

• PictoQuest
  

  15 hours playtime

  26 of 26 achievements

• Alien Shooter
  

  9 hours playtime

  17 of 17 achievements

• Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
  

  13 hours playtime

  15 of 15 achievements

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In the end, Infinite Adventures did not disappoint me at all, and Dungeon Crawler fans should definitely give it a chance. Chasm is a short but good Metroidvania. PictoQuest is just okay, decent Nonogram game. Bloodstained - Curse of the Moon is a wonderful ode to good old Castlevania games, probably the one I liked the most from june’s games. Alien Shooter, on the other hand, I did not like it. Personally I found it boring, unfair and very weak but I still respect the nostalgic sentiments other players hold for this game.

Aside from Umineko which I’m already reading, july’s new games (for now) consists of Langrisser I & II, and ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery). I might go back to La-Mulana for another playthrough so I can get some more achievements. I also dropped and removed Onmyoji from my library, because I realized that I shouldn’t waste my time with free-to-play gacha games, when I already have a library of wonderful paid and won games.

• Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs
  

  64 hours playtime

  12 of 23 achievements

• Langrisser I & II
  

  69 minutes playtime

  1 of 42 achievements

• ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
  

  72 minutes playtime

  0 of 83 achievements

Goals for June

In May, there was only one game I managed to complete;

• Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs
  

  107 hours playtime

  22 of 22 achievements

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As I said before, Umineko - When They Cry is a masterpiece in the Visual Novel genre, so I definitely recommend it if you're interested. Right now I'm reading the other half of the game, and playing several other games.

• Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs
  

  20 hours playtime

  2 of 23 achievements

• Infinite Adventures
  

  38 hours playtime

  41 of 74 achievements

• Onmyoji
  

  46 hours playtime

  41 of 121 achievements

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I should be done with Infinite Adventures by July, and so far it seems like a very promising Dungeon Crawler game. Onmyoji on the other hand, is the best Free-to-Play gacha game I've ever played (haven't played any of those Genshin stuff though, so take my words with a grain of salt lol).

Goals for May

April went by pretty fast, with lots of beaten/completed games:

• Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends
  

  5 hours playtime

  28 of 28 achievements

• Demon Hunter 4: Riddles of Light
  

  4 hours playtime

  22 of 22 achievements

• Hero Siege
  

  27 hours playtime

  37 of 59 achievements

• Heroes of Hammerwatch
  

  27 hours playtime

  18 of 114 achievements

• Astronarch
  

  12 hours playtime

  34 of 47 achievements

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Both Eventide 3 and Demon Hunter 4 are your typical Hidden Object games, nothing special. Heroes of Hammerwatch is pretty fun with friends, and Astronarch is a short but sweet Roguelike.

I have to take a break from Warhammer 40,000 - Space Wolf because my old PC can't really handle it. Maybe in the near future I could go back to it, with a new and way faster computer. I'm sure that I'll be done with Umineko before June, and I'll also be starting a new game called Infinite Adventures, a Dungeon Crawler game.

• Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf
  

  11 hours playtime

  5 of 75 achievements

• Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs
  

  89 hours playtime

  17 of 22 achievements

• Infinite Adventures
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 74 achievements

Goals for April

I thought March was going to be a slow month but some unexpected wins changed my whole assumption. Here are the games I've beaten/completed in March:

• Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
  

  63 hours playtime

  29 of 50 achievements

• Hero Siege
  

  20 hours playtime

  26 of 59 achievements

• Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones
  

  8 hours playtime

  32 of 32 achievements

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Icewind Dale is a timeless RPG masterpiece, whereas Hero Siege and Nightmares from the Deep 3 - Davy Jones are decent games in their respective genres (the former is Action RPG and the latter is Hidden Object). Both Icewind Dale and Hero Siege will require several playthroughs for all achievements.

This month I’ll be focusing on my Steamgifts wins and Umineko - When They Cry, which is another spectacular visual/kinetic novel.

• Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs
  

  34 hours playtime

  6 of 22 achievements

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• Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf
  

  6 hours playtime

  4 of 75 achievements

• Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 28 achievements

• Demon Hunter 4: Riddles of Light
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 22 achievements

Goals for March

February felt like the month of visual novels, and a slow one. Here are the games I've completed:

• Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition
  

  110 hours playtime

  49 of 49 achievements

• Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
  

  20 hours playtime

  14 of 14 achievements

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Both were excellent visual novels and strongly recommended. The games in the plan for March are Icewind Dale - Enhanced Edition and Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs (will be buying it on the upcoming spring sale).

• Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
  

  37 hours playtime

  11 of 50 achievements

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Icewind Dale - Enhanced Edition is not possible to complete in one sitting, so it requires several playthroughs.