Welcome to LeoTurambar’s profile
Hi! Just another one here, fighting his ever increasing backlog. Not a long history in gaming, so I try every genre…
I usually play solo, and I kinda like games with good stories.
Have a nice day!
March Report
Trying to get back to backlog killing, this month. I decided to try to attack my Epic and Twitch backlogs, as well as the huge Steam one. And I’m focusing on games I have already started in the past, and abandoned for some time. At the moment I have more than 30 games installed on PC: too many! I have to free some disk space.
Also, I’m beginning to use in a (hopefully) continuous way the GOG Galaxy 2.0 launcher, to manage all my games on different platforms in a single place. It looks really nice, and I think that in some months it may become a perfect and visually appealing tool for a gamer.
Steam Backlog
Won on SG
This is an interactive fiction, divided into 4 chapters. Each chapter is a short, somewhat spooky and very strange story, and they are all connected together in the last chapter, so that in the end you understand the senseless stuff happening in the first three stories. Some stories are really nice, also for the visual style and "gameplay" (like the first one, House Abandon, that can be also tried for free); others are far weaker and dissatisfying. In the end, it's a really short experience (it could be played in one long session), and it was worth its price.
Played on Epic.
22 years late, but I came to this game. It has nearly my age. And it can be seen and clearly felt. I know this game changed the rules of gaming, in the late 20th century. And you can feel its modernity, sometimes. But overall, in the year 2020, you mainly feel its being old and clunky. A game that is hard to appreciate, nowadays.
Played on Steam.
Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
The second chapter of a great, classic saga. A super funny game, really enjoyable even if it has some years. It is based a lot on dialogues - full of irony dialogues. It is pretty different from today's games, so sometimes it may be hard to know what you're supposed to do precisely... But it's good to have to use your brain, sometimes! Indeed it is a nice adventure, with an unexpected ending!
Played on Steam.
A nice, short puzzle game, where you have to roll snowballs in order to build snowmen, composed of one large, one medium and one small snowball. 30 levels in total, pretty short. Most of the puzzles are pretty easy, while a couple are much more complicated. Nothing special, nor in good sense, neither in bad sense.
Played on Twitch.
Quite meh. Yeah, LEGO and their funny sense of humour, The Hobbit and its nice story... But. The gameplay is quite boring and repetitive, destroy everything you find. The story is 99% equal to the movies, nothing is original. Legolas and Tauriel are a thing in the game. AND IT'S UNFINISHED! IT ENDS WITH THE SECOND CHAPTER, OUT OF THREE!
Played on Steam.
Finally I was able to get this DLC at a great price, and complete the nice experience that I had with Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna). This is a nice addition to the main game. It tells a new story - a shorter one, but still nice. Pretty easy, with the same little issues with physics and controls. And adds some new insights on the Inupiat folklore and culture, that are really nice.
Played on Steam.
A pretty nice discovery, this game. It may be considered a little gem. A good puzzle game, with some platforming aspects. Pretty hard, especially because it often requires that you do the right things, and you do them fast. There is some kind of funny story to link the levels, and it's always told in rhyme, like it was a nursery rhyme! And the funny music and the pleasant black and white graphics, together with this, create what is a pleasant experience indeed. Even if it's so hard.
Played on Steam.
First point: this has very little to relate to the great painter from whom the game takes its name. This is a casual game, inspired to the classic Breakout. Of course it adds a lot of evolution to the theme, but the main game is: bounce a ball to break all the bricks. Here you can unlock a lot of visual styles, colorful and retro, as well as changes in the behaviour of the ball and the paddle. All this adds variability to the game, but not that much. From the technical point of view there are also some strange bugs that make you miss the ball with the paddle, sometimes, even if the paddle is well placed.
Played on Steam.
No need to review PAC-MAN. This is a great version of a great classic, with different maps and music/video styles inspired to the various historical versions of the game. Great speed, great controls, great fun!
Played on Steam.
Let's March!
I was not really in the mood.Life of Pi
Jalopy. I won it on SG nearly an year ago, I tried it and then abandoned... And now decided to finish it. And noticed it could fit in the theme, great!
An interesting idea, performed so badly. An on-the-road experience, on an old car, from Eastern Berlin to Turkey, in the period just after the fall of the Wall. So many possibilities to tell stories, and create a great atmosphere here! So many different experiences, in the different states, that could have been caught! But this game fails completely in it, and the gameplay is a monotonous driving from a town to another, in a landscape where you can barely recognize anything, and also the typical things that you see are just useless. Adding to this the fact that the game is really buggy, and the physics and volumes sometimes act pretty senseless - this game becomes an annoying experience. Quite a pity, the idea was good, and it deserved to be performed in a far better way.
Played on Steam.
This is exactly why indie games will never die. Because any crazy idea you can have, can become an indie game. A kung fu fighting game, played only with the two mouse buttons. Simple to learn, hard as hell to perfect. Always harder, always faster, until you start sweating. And, of course, the only (?) game with the "No Luca No" mode.
Played on Steam.
This is the end.
February Report
Hard times for my playing part, and for my backlog killing! Lots of things to do, not much time, and a more or less free subscription to Xbox GamePass kept me away from Steam. I played a couple of nice games, anyway, very happy about playing Gris and My Friend Pedro.
Steam Backlog
Won on SG
Out of This World
This month I was unable to play any game fitting the theme, next month may be better!Love Is A Hurting Thing
Nothing to see here, either.
My Friend Pedro
This is a fantastic game. And I typically don't like shooters. Not much story, of course, but a lot of actions, new ways to move around and kill enemies, and of course a floating banana to help you, say senseless things and rate your performance at the end of every level. A great way to spend some hours.
Played on Xbox GamePass.
Gris
An amazing experience. Visually stunning, a real work of art. The vision, the colors, the sound... This is not precisely a game, the puzzles are quite simple. There is not a real story. It's an exploration, an exploration in the mystic landscape of emotions. Probably a couple of runs should be needed to get everything, to understand everything. Also because the first time it fills your senses so much with its beauty, that you may lose the underlying message.
Played on Xbox GamePass.
Silence
A nice, short adventure in a magic world. Visually it's pretty good, and most of the riddles are quite easy, so that the game results relaxing. But there are some absurd puzzles; the controls are sometimes clunky; and the story has some weak parts.
Played on Xbox GamePass.
September Report
My first month as an Assassin!
A successful month, I would also say, with 2 really good games, 2 nice games, and unluckily a not so good game. Also, a high percentage of achievements unlocked: 74%, not bad for not being a completionist.
Next month I will sure play Monkey Island 2, and maybe something scary related to Halloween… Might be a nice time to finally complete Dead Space on Origin!
And I’ll try to also face the monthly themes of BLAEO and PAGYWOSG… Wow, quite a number of games already!
Monthly Theme
Deal with the DLC
Just in time!
A nice expansion to the main story of "12 is better than 6", that is itself a really nice western game, with a very peculiar art.
It adds some variations to the base gameplay, and also some difficulties, but it results really enjoyable anyway.
Special: Play a game you won on Steamgifts
Yay, I was able to do it! Just one game, just in time - but it was hard.
A nice puzzle game, with an interesting setting in the norse mythology.
The gameplay is simple in its logic, but it can become really challening when going on through the different worlds, each characterized by its own element (water, fire) or obstacle. The only negative aspect is the graphics, that is not up to the rest of the game.
Played and Beaten
The story is inspired by the book by Agatha Christie, and it results very intriguing. In the game you are the inspector Poirot, and you have to collect hints and evidence, draw conclusions and solve the mystery using your most powerful weapon: your "little grey cells".
To be honest, there aren't many riddles in the game, and they are usually quite simple. More interesting are, instead, the logical chains needed to draw conclusions, and the interrogations of the suspects. The graphics is not stunning, and the controls are sometimes clunky. All in all, this is a good way to meet a nice Poirot investigation.
The hero: a catball rolling and jumping around!
The mission: finding Mr. Choo, following a track made of dumplings across different levels, also meeting new friends!
Funny, cute, colorful, relaxing and challenging in a balanced way: I say YES. The only flaw: movement controls are seldom lightly bugged.
Monsters from the "Goosebumps" book series are in town: save the world, and stay alive!
The idea is ok... The game is not. Nothing interesting in this point & click game: not the story, nor the graphics, neither the gameplay. The nostalgia effect alone cannot be enough.
Sintassi speciale.
Una bella BARRA DEI PROGRESSI!
Posso copiarla dalla pagina dei miei giochi qua.
Qua iniziano i giochi.
Da sinistra a destra:
Unfinished, Completed, Never played, Beaten.
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Baseball Mogul Diamond
26 minutes playtime
no achievements
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Last Day of June
4 hours playtime
21 of 21 achievements
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Deponia: The Complete Journey
3 hours playtime
0 of 105 achievements
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FootLOL: Epic Fail League
6 hours playtime
13 of 15 achievements
Qua metto IMMAGINE, LINK E SCREENSHOTS, VOTO, TEMPO DI GIOCO, ACHIEVEMENTS, e anche una RECENSIONE
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Azzurro = <div class="panel panel-info">
Arancio = <div class="panel panel-warning">
Rosso = <div class="panel panel-danger">
Bianco = <div class="panel panel-default">
La storia - ispirata al romanzo di Agatha Christie noto anche con il titolo "La serie infernale" - è molto intrigante. Il gioco ci permette di vestire i panni dell'investigatore Poirot, e di raccogliere indizi, trarre conclusioni e svelare il mistero utilizzando la nostra arma più potente: le "celluline grigie".
In realtà gli enigmi non sono molti, e sono relativamente semplici. Più interessanti invece le catene logiche per trarre conclusioni, e gli interrogatori dei sospettati. Graficamente nulla di speciale; i controlli a volte non sono molto precisi e mettono in difficoltà nell'eseguire certe azioni. Nel complesso, consigliabile per avere un modo differente di conoscere una bella indagine di Poirot.
Codici colore:
#5BC0DE = Azzurro (Completed)
#5CB85C = Verde (Beaten)
#F0AD4E = Arancio (Unfinished)
#D9534F = Rosso (Will never play)
#EEEEEE = Bianco (Never played yet)
##TABELLA!
SCREAM
Here we are.OKTOBERFEST!
| 389 | games |
| 71% | never played |
| 11% | unfinished |
| 16% | beaten |
| 3% | completed |
| 0% | won't play |