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January 2019


The year didn’t start that great for me. I found out that my now ex-girlfriend lied to me from start to finish and she refuses to give back my stuff I lend her. So on some days I’m really really mad, on others I’m just sad. And my motivation almost dropped to zero ;w;
Then there also was my birthday and I hate getting older. Even less motivation <_< As special present one of my guests vomited on my floor and the smell resists for WEEKS. Jeez.
But it’s kind of back I guess? My hype about Super Smash Bros Ultimate has already decreased and instead I can’t stop playing Kingdom Hearts 3 °^° I still have very weird dreams (and I mean it. They’re like totally weird) so I prefer to sleep less, more time to play >w< But I haven’t finished many games this month even tho I played a lot the last days. Gotta focus again uvù


Gotta Crochet 'Em All!

    There is no pattern for this anymore sadly. But all credits go for Totallee.net who did an amazing job and teached me how to make my own portrait patterns! \o/ And trust me I do them a lot from now on. Already started two new ones and have ideas for three more uvú

    Yes I know. I'm a pro in using photoshop.

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    Purrfect Date

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    Challenge me!

    Uhhhmm. Let's start with the weird things, shall we? I already read some VNs with dating animals and cats are especially popular among those. So I thought as in every VN with cats so far the cats will be human when dating. But uhm... nope. Alriight so the story sets in as the MC travels to Cat Island for researching reasons when in the first night they get blackmailed from the cats. Help them or become yourself a cat! Of course, MC doesn't have any choice and has to find a balance between their work, helping the cats and to romance them. … Wait what. Yup, I was totally baffled when I read the option to romance without any explanation or even story related stuff. So confused me clicked on romance, went on a date with one of the cats which just has blackmailed the MC and they got drunk. Yeah, nothing odd there. Who wouldn't date talking cats one day after they threatened you even if there are real humans on the island and talk to them as it was the most normal thing in the world? Right?

    But I went on and actually it's kinda funny, sometimes even sad. After the third research the chapter closes and you get to choose another MC who has to do the same as his predecessor but with their notes so you won't lose any progress. Of course I still found it weird to date another cat right away...

    Anyway, I had pretty much fun with this VN but also many complaints. I couldn't find the real ending and even if I really want to know because the story actually is interesting the lack of a skip button hinders me. I srsly don't want to read six chapters again... And this may be my biggest complaint as I thought nowadays every VN would have an auto and skip button but nope :/ Which really is a shame because the story is the best of the game.

    Never Alone

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    Challenge me!

    I already tried this game once years ago and got tired of it. But I decided to try it again someday and then it was chosen for me. I understand why I didn't want to play it further back then; I was really easy to frustrate and hated platformers. Gladly I'm not as easy to frustrate anymore (or at least don't give up that fast anymore) because this game is actually really cute and fun. The controls feel tight and there are a lot of bugs but the story and the idea with spirits really are nice and I enjoyed most of the game, without failing too much. The art style and the created atmosphere are awesome. I just wish I had someone to play it coop ;-;

    Thanks for choosing ♥

Also Played This Month

  • Alice - Madness Returns
    Alice - Madness Returns

    6 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
    Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

    too many hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Two Point Hospital
    Two Point Hospital

    far too many hours playtime

  • Kingdom Hearts III
    Kingdom Hearts III

    15 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • The Inner World
    The Inner World

    1.9 hours playtime

    8 of 23 achievements

  • Killer Is Dead
    Killer Is Dead

    2.9 hours playtime

    9 of 48 achievements

  • The Walking Dead: The Final Season Episode 3
    The Walking Dead: The Final Season Episode 3

    5.2 hours playtime

    24 of 48 achievements

19 days ago 4 comments

December 2018


Merry Christmas!


I don’t think I will finish anything this year anymore, so here’s my post for December! I’ll visit my family the whole christmas days and some days later I’ll visit my best friend so we’ll spend New Year’s Eve together! :3
I hope you all had a great year (it’s over so fast again ;w;) and we’ll meet again in 2019! hyped



    1bit Heart

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    It took me like forever to complete this although I don't know why. This may be my fav game from Miwashiba. The characters are cute, music is great and creates a cool atmosphere and the art style is awesome. It plays somewhat like Ace Attorney with the style of The World Ends With You (there also is a character imitating Sho Minamimoto and I couldn't love this guy more than I already do :3). My only complaint is that there is too much to read when making friends. There are plenty characters you have to make presents to and read their story in order to make them your friends and it's required for achieving the good end. Some stories were cool and fun to read while most of them were boring. But else the game was really enjoyable and cute. I wonder what Miwashiba next game will be! (hopefully there will be one >w<)

    The Count Lucanor

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    Can somebody please punch me in the face the next time I buy a horror game with monsters?

    Here the monsters were at least not that tough. I mean I died a lot in the beginning, running into everything that could kill me easily and forgot to heal myself. And when I finally learned how to survive them it took me a reaaaaally long time to get past them because I waited so long behind a safe spot until the monster was far, far away. But yesh. I managed it at least.

    And I'm glad I did! The Count Lucanor tells the story of Hans in Luck but with more horror. It's really well done and I enjoyed it pretty much. It's really creepy and creative with a lot of choices for achievements and multiple endings and some optional content. Should have played it at Halloween...

    The Sexy Brutale

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    What an awesome game! I love it when games follow a new idea and I never had played something like this one. At first I was so confused what the heck I'm supposed to do and I thought it's a time based stealth game. It's not. I'm so glad I played it!

    In The Sexy Brutale you play the same day over and over again, controlling time, while you have to save a life in each new level while receiving new abilities and learning more and more about the story, the characters and the Sexy Brutale. I like how you start with nothing and nearly nobody tells you what's going on but everything is revealed in a really natural way like simply conversations until the end where everything is spit out completely.

    The music is amazing. I caught myself lying in bed and was unable to sleep because I was still humming it's ost. The only thing negative were little bugs like the game sometimes starts to stutter if I opened a door or the screen remains black for a few seconds. Those were annoying because every minute sometimes is important (or stressful).

    Also I'm so not an achievement hunter but I had to complete this one. Guess I couldn't let it go.What irony. This may be my favorite game I played this year. And I want more games like this one! °^°

    The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit

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    What a lovely game. And I even enjoyed this more than the Life is Strange games... Chris is a young boy living alone with his dad after his mom died (why does one parent die in every of their games?) and has a wild imagination, pretending to be the super hero Captain Spirit. His father got a drinking problem but cares for his son, still doing horrible mistakes no father should do. What makes for a great conflict.

    I'd so love if there was more about that. There were no choices to make and the story ends with an kind of open end but points out to LiS2. I'd rather play more with Chris than LiS2 tho and I'm hoping we'll meet him in further episodes of LiS2. Because I truly want to know how he is and how the story continues with his father... LiS2 sets around a year after Captain Spirit tho (I guess?) so I don't know how he'd be included... And we may never know if he got a pine tree :(

    The Mooseman

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    Challenge me!

    The Mooseman didn't feel like a game at all. It's more like “walk really slowly to the right” until it's finished. There's also an auto walk so most of the time I sat there, watched the character walk to the right and enjoyed the beautiful art style. I love myths, I really do, hence I still enjoyed reading all notes about the legends and mystical creatures. So it definitely isn't a game for everyone and if one enjoys myths like me imo Year Walk did a better job. If it wasn't for the gameplay The Mooseman really would be an really awesome game!

Also Played This Month

about 2 months ago 10 comments

November 2018


Oyee this was a rough month for me. Lots of stress and less motivation. So many things happened and so little at the same time. Sometimes I I don’t know whether I’m coming or going and hopefully everything gets normal again soon.


Gotta Crochet 'Em All!

    Yes I KNOW his hair is too long Dx I can't make it shorter or else they would lose it's weight and won't fall over his head uvu

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    Ben There, Dan That!

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    Challenge me!

    I really do enjoy point and click games with black humor and this one had a lot of that. Most puzzles made sense which sadly isn't ordinary in this genre so no complain here neither. What really really bothered me was that there were no voice output. I sometimes caught myself in not paying attention through every wall of text and therefore it destroyed some jokes for me. It also killed the atmosphere sometimes as there also sometimes isn't even background music and only characters talking muted wall of texts which made the whole scenes kind of boring. Graphics were... not my style tbh but thanks to the challenge I gave it a try and it overall it was okay.

    Deltarune

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    Toby did it again and created (or started?) a game so lovely, so hilarious, so fun in the Undertale universe. Yet we still don't know where to find it on the timeline nor do we know how, when or even if it will be completed (maybe in 2999) but heck, did I enjoy this one!

    To be fair it's still not that great as Undertale was. There's not much content or challenge, there are no differences between routes but it's still cute and enjoyable and funny of course. Also this is only just the demo. New faces, old faces and just like the last time every character has its own charm, making the game so beautiful.

    Also there are so many clues for theories! And I love to theorize, searching for more hints and talk with others what they think this one is about. Especially the ending is... hnnnngg.

    Deltarune definitely makes me wanting more of the Undertale universe and I want to know what else there is. Not every game needs a sequel and Undertale is one of them but Toby managed to still make you curious about the world he created.

    SteamWorld Dig 2

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    Played on Twitch

    I need more games like these. Srsly. I was a bit skeptical at first because the long start until finally being able to dig for gems but... yes, it was as addictive as the last game. I could dig all day =_= I wouldn't even need a story (though this one was better!) as long as I can dig for gems. Some caves were really challenging. Like the one where you have to throw switches to open the door but if you touch any button the door would close again. To get the hidden item you mustn't touch any button at all or you have to start over. I'm really impatient so I needed about an hour to get that b/c I failed at so many times I simply wasn't careful enough but in the end it felt so good finally getting the item =3= Or after completing the game to 100% the Cave of Trials which are really really hard (and frustrating).

    So it's addicting, it's challenging, it's fun... Jeez, I need a third part.

Also Played This Month

  • Let's Go, Pikachu!
    Let's Go, Pikachu!

    61 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Darksiders III
    Darksiders III

    6.7 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • 1bitHeart
    1bitHeart

    6.1 hours playtime

    4 of 60 achievements

  • Max, an Autistic Journey
    Max, an Autistic Journey

    1.8 hours playtime

    9 of 27 achievements

  • Mini Ninjas
    Mini Ninjas

    3.0 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Staxel
    Staxel

    0.9 hours playtime

    1 of 23 achievements

3 months ago* 13 comments

October 2018


Happy Halloween!


Gotta Crochet 'Em All!




    The World Ends With You - Final Remix

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    Played on Switch

    TWEWY is one of my most favorite games of all time – may it even be on 1st place. And I waited sooo long to finally get another game! Well, it's no sequel sadly but I was hyped either way. There's no point in reviewing those things like story or characters as they of course are as good as in the original. But I'm glad they improved the battle system. I played on handheld mode (because on the big screen the controls were so Wii-ish and I hate these) and it's a lot smoother than it was with the first Remake for iOS.

    I can't give it a full heart rating because I'm still mad at the special episode “A New Day” and because the battle system with both characters on DS was far better and more difficult. It didn't bother me much tho – The Final Remix is still pretty neat and fun to play :3

    I trueeeely hope for a sequel. They teased us now long enough and I don't know about the sales but after two Remakes teasing one it should be time now already.

    If you haven't played TWEWY yet but have fun with RPGs you should try it out now! It truly is an awesome game and I can't recommend it more (but just don't play it on your phone if you have either a DS or a Switch).

    Akiharaba

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    Challenge Me!

    This one is a rhythm game which plays like Tetris. I love Tetris. But the thing with Tetris is that it requires skill and tactics. Akihabara only requires luck (and maybe a bit of skill too). And this was one of my problems I had while playing this game. See, you can never know which symbol comes next. You have to guess or simply being lucky.

    Next there was the campaign which only consists of playing all 10 songs in a row. You can't get over here and if you want to continue after losing you pay with your score, every time a bit more than the last time. It doesn't matter if you have that many score or if you don't – you could also win the campaign by not trying at all, smashing the arrow key or don't play at all as long as you hit continue every now and then. Where was the challenge? Why call it campaign if there's nothing to lose except of your time? It takes about 30 minutes to complete every song in a row but here was my last problem of Akihabara: You can't continue the campaign after closing it once. You can't pause and come back later – too bad you have to start over again. You can't accidentally click the wrong key – too bad, back to menu and start all over. You can't even check out the other symbols after losing or... yeah, you're back to the menu again. This happened to me far too often and it may be the cause why I couldn't even enjoy the game after figuring out how it works. The achievement of completing the campaign was obtained by 2.1% of all players – I guess that says it all.

    Orwell

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    Challenge Me!

    You – working for the government – are the new Big Brother when a terror attack occurs and the person responsible has to be found through a new system: Orwell. Orwell lets you discover everything. Searching through websites and finding new suspects, creating a network of people which expands quickly, spying on their desktop, on their phone or their timeline, gathering every information about them. And you have to decide which information may be relevant and therefore deciding which path the story will follow. Sounds cool? Heck, yeah!

    But imho the execution wasn't as good as it could've been. Every information you're able to upload to Orwell is already marked for you and you simply have to drag and drop them. Sometimes there are conflicts between those informations and you have to decide which one you should upload – but it doesn't really matter. You could dice if you wanted to. If you upload too much useless information the agent who's constantly talking to you isn't pleased, if you upload the right ones he always comes up with a smart line. And you could almost upload EVERYTHING. So I didn't feel like playing this game but rather watching it guiding me.

    The story though was clever and neat. You had to read a lot and even more but it was well thought-out.

    Bridge Constructor Portal

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    Booooi that was fun! I'm a huge fan of Portal and now it brought me Bridge Constructor really close. It was really enjoyable and challenging! I loved how they used the elements of Portal to build levels and created really tough chambers making me think “Whaaaa?” at first but “Aaaah!” after :3 And it was even more fun when a friend tried to helped me out and we both were absolutely clueless x)

    The Walking Dead – Final Season

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    Oh man, where to start... The Walking Dead may be one of my favorite franchises ever. I played the first season when it just came out and loved it and it still moves me when I think about it's ending. Right after that I played Wolf Among Us and decided that Telltale Games are one of the best companies I've ever had the chance to play their games. I don't care that their choices doesn't matter. Their games were about storytelling and gosh they did master that. Choices might don't change the story but they change your main character, they change your feelings towards them.

    TWD is all about ethics and morale in a dystopian world. It doesn't matter if the character you just saved dies anyways because that never was the point. The point is that you have to choose between their life and death. And you don't have the time to think that carefully over like in Life is Strange, you have to chose fast and then deal with your choice. And probably left you thinking “Could I have prevented that?” And that's what got me so hooked up with their games.

    So now let's talk about The Final Season. After the third season I almost thought that the franchise is dead for good. I was so bored with all five episodes because the only character that mattered anymore was Clementine. Yes, I know, new characters aren't bad or anything and sometimes you have to get over it but that's kind of hard if you know her for two other seasons and have to decide which character to help. There's no real choice anymore because it will be definitely her. So I truly thought “That's it. The Walking Dead is finally dead”. But then they released the Final Season and already halfway through the first episode it felt as good as the first season. Clem is an awesome character, we have seen going through tough shit and finally growing up. But not only that she is gorgeous, everything else was as good as it should've always been. Every character is likable, understandable. The relationship between her and AJ is outstanding like it was with her and Lee. The visuals are great, the story, the facial expressions, the cutscenes... They even added some kind of combat system which may wasn't complex or anything but I failed in some scenes several times in a row either way :^) There are collectibles and you even have the choice to date/flirt with some of the new characters (also with a female character and gosh they are so damn cute??). There wasn't action all the time, e.g. they play a card game for a pretty long time with only talking and it didn't bored me to death, it put more depth in Clementine and her past and I enjoyed that. They brought back a character from season 1 I really was surprised to see again and they mentioned Lee a lot of times. I still have those goosebumps over my skin.

    After hearing that Telltale is dead and the game probably won't ever get finished I was really mad. I wanted to ask for a refund and was furious about the way they treated not only their customers but their employees. Finally I decided to play the second episode however and every feeling I had in the first one was back just one minute later in the game. It's so well made, I just can't be mad anymore, I even don't want a refund anymore because I do not regret buying this. I'm glad there are at least two episodes I was able to play and yes, I'm sad. Like really really sad. But to stay positive; the next days I can think for myself how the story would have continued. And! Because we all know that Telltale likes drama (maybe even more than I do :^) I now have the chance to choose my own happy ending (seriously I don't think that Telltale would have had one in mind...). And maybe someday we'll get to know theirs. Until then I guess it's safe to set this one to beaten.

Also Played This Month

  • Time Gentlemen, Please!
    Time Gentlemen, Please!

    0.1 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Life Is Strange 2
    Time Gentlemen, Please!

    3 hours playtime

    5 of 46 achievements

  • Mini Ninjas
    Mini Ninjas

    2.0 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • >Observer_
    >Observer_

    1.6 hours playtime

    no achievements

4 months ago 7 comments

September 2018

Gotta Crochet 'Em All!




    This Is the Police

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    I really fell for this game. This Is the Police is a game about managing your police station, trying to get 500k cash. There are choices to make in this game which doesn't affect the story but your gameplay. You can chose either to be corrupt or good and both is followed with consequences.

    I had to play this game twice because I was so terribly bad at this on my first run. Half of the time I didn't have any idea what the heck I was doing. And when I finally got the hang of it, it was already too late. Still this may be the first gaming experience where I sucked terribly and still enjoyed it. It was just too funny. So my cops died in any way possible. They never managed to fulfill a job I gave them and got themselves killed. I ended up with less than ten cops overall. City Hall wasn't satisfied with my work and cut my salary every two days and my officers hated me too. So they started to testify against me. Every. Day. At first I bought the names who testified against me and bought their silence. The next day I bought the names and because I had no money left for buying them, I had to kill them. The next day I was so broke I couldn't even afford buying the names. But then there was a mission which required my full shift to fulfill and... they all died because of an explosion. I had thee officers left in the other shift. Three. And I thought, well hopefully the two guys who wanted to testify against me are dead too at least. Buuut nope. They were under the three living officers...! Yup, that's bad luck. So City Hall cut my salary by 90%! I ended up earning ~60$ per week. I already gave up to that 500k goal. But then story happens and my last three officers didn't came to work, I ended up with no one left and got in jail. Game over :'D

    Okay, my second try wasn't as bad as this. No one died anymore and no one testified against me anymore. Probably because I was the best chef they could imagine. The only thing that bugged me was that at the very last day City Hall took 25% of my bank account, causing that I had only 490k. In the end it didn't matter, but it still bugged me a lot.

    I enjoyed TITP pretty much. But I must admit that it was a bit too long. 180 days are a long time, with nearly every day being the same. Reading calls and send your officers over to the crime. So the very last days drag on forever. Thanks to the story officers died a lot due to a car crash, at least one per day but most of the time it was two dead cops per day. Which is very frustrating as the incoming calls were a lot more difficult and required more cops to send over. I missed more than 50% of all incoming calls because my department was empty, offenders fled, civilians were killed and I couldn't to a damn thing about that.

    What I really loved in this game was it's music. Every day you choose a song to play during your shift. And I loved the idea of the police chief listening to his favorite jazz songs. It gave the game more love and more feeling for it and the chief you play.

    The ending was very unsatisfying sadly. I won't spoil anything but it left me empty. Probably because TITP even though it's fiction tries too hard to be realistic.

    TITP 2 came out recently but I guess it will take time until I add this to my backlog too. I guess I need a break from management games :^)

    Deponia

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    My feelings are really mixed about this. I played Deponia already some years ago but only the beginning. I don't know; I wasn't really interested in it's style, just had played Edna & Harvey (which I loved!) and Deponia was a huge letdown after that. The puzzles aren't as logical as they should be, the humor wasn't as funny for me and I didn't like the main character Rufus as I may should have to finish this game. So I only played it for a few hours and decided to stop.

    Somehow I recently decided it was time to give it another try. I thought it was better this time, but still not as good to wow me. It was okay. I still think it's not that funny and it still annoyed me at some points. But it was okay. Rufus wasn't that dislikeable anymore and somehow I just wanted to finish this, see how this journey would drag me into. It also was fun as long as I wasn't forced to use a walkthrough. I also like it's art. But still... I feel so mixed. I didn't knew it's a triology until just now so I was really pissed off at the end. I hate to have to play another game to get a real ending, seriously. And I still don't know anything about Deponia or about Rufus' dad. The game throws you into it's universe without explaining a damn thing. You get some things by yourself tho, which is at least something.

    I don't know how I should rate Deponia, if I think it's worth 3 hearts or less or maybe even more. I also don't know if I want to play the other two games (probably not if I have to play both for a good ending). Wellp.

    SteamWorld Dig

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    (played on Twitch)

    I can't describe how I just love this game! It was pretty fun although it didn't had the best story or characters. The gameplay was fun enough to make me addicted to it. Sometimes it was a bit frustrating when I dug that dumb that I couldn't make my way out anymore and had to destroy myself (which costs 50% of your cash T^T) buuuut after getting the ability to double jump this problem never happened anymore and I was able to dig all my way down to every gem buried there >:D

    I can't wait to play the second one. I heard it shall even be better \o/

    Dead in Bermuda

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    (played on Origin)

    8 survivors are stranded on an island in Bermuda after their plane crashes. And now it's your task to help them survive by managing their daily tasks, split the meals, keep the fire warm etc. Another game this month which totally got me hooked up. Every time I started this one I wasn't able to quit again for hours. You know... “Just one more day!”

    I had to start over once. I was on day >90 and wasn't getting anywhere. I never had resources and even if I was searching for wood and rope all day long I had to spend all of those for repairs. Therefore I also had no resources for crafting and it may have worked out for a while... at some point every survivor would become sick. It was a hard decision to accept my failure and start over after so many hours I spent but it was the right one. My next try was easy as hell. I stopped focusing on everything else than researching and this was the best winning strategy: never stop researching. I had all tools which were necessary on day ~20-30 and after that at some days I didn't even know what to do with all 8 characters as I didn't needed that much anymore. They never were hungry again, I ended up with that many resources I didn't need to check for them frequently. Everything went smoothly and nice and they didn't even become sick anymore (never ever had to use the infirmary).

    What I'd like to know what triggers the events. On my first try two passengers fell in love with each other, on my last try they didn't even talk with each other. I read online that they could even kill each other! Never happened to me tho.

    Dead in Bermuda let me feel like I was playing my own season of Lost. There were mysteries in the jungle and the characters are stereotypical like we have seen in Lost too. There's the leader, the fat one, a family, a psycho who knows all about surviving, the doctor... And because I'm a huge fan of the series, I just had to love Dead in Bermuda, right?

    Right, except for the ending (after reading my old reviews I guess I'm nearly never happy with the endings lol). It was rubbery. Really, really rubbery. I had nothing to do except for keep searching the jungle, finally found the last boss and then... I clicked for several minutes the same options over and over again. See, everything in this game has a success rate based on skill points of each character. And at the end you have to be successful every time in a row. Which was totally fine because my character had 80% at each option but the very last option was only successful by 20%... So had to click. And to click. And to click. And because they managed to fail far more often than they should with 80% it took already some time to get to the final message with only 20%. Which failed for a lot of time of course... This was not as well thought through I guess. And after finally winning the game would still not be over. And then there finally was the end. Which was not satisfying AT ALL. I was so mad at first I wanted to give it a really bad rating but after some time thinking I guess I had some pretty neat hours with it, fun and I enjoyed it almost always. And the end isn't out of place at all or something it was just unsatisfying for me in personal. Which doesn't make it a bad game. It's still a good game if you like management games like this one. And maybe I will consider to play Dead in Vinland :^)

    The Walking Dead – Final Season

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    Oh man, where to start... The Walking Dead may be one of my favorite franchises ever. I played the first season when it just came out and loved it and it still moves me when I think about it's ending. Right after that I played Wolf Among Us and decided that Telltale Games are one of the best companies I've ever had the chance to play their games. I don't care that their choices doesn't matter. Their games were about storytelling and gosh they did master that. Choices might don't change the story but they change your main character, they change your feelings towards them.

    TWD is all about ethics and morale in a dystopian world. It doesn't matter if the character you just saved dies anyways because that never was the point. The point is that you have to choose between their life and death. And you don't have the time to think that carefully over like in Life is Strange, you have to chose fast and then deal with your choice. And probably left you thinking “Could I have prevented that?” And that's what got me so hooked up with their games.

    So now let's talk about The Final Season. After the third season I almost thought that the franchise is dead for good. I was so bored with all five episodes because the only character that mattered anymore was Clementine. Yes, I know, new characters aren't bad or anything and sometimes you have to get over it but that's kind of hard if you know her for two other seasons and have to decide which character to help. There's no real choice anymore because it will be definitely her. So I truly thought “That's it. The Walking Dead is finally dead”. But then they released the Final Season and already halfway through the first episode it felt as good as the first season. Clem is an awesome character, we have seen going through tough shit and finally growing up. But not only that she is gorgeous, everything else was as good as it should've always been. Every character is likable, understandable. The relationship between her and AJ is outstanding like it was with her and Lee. The visuals are great, the story, the facial expressions, the cutscenes... They even added some kind of combat system which may wasn't complex or anything but I failed in some scenes several times in a row either way :^) There are collectibles and you even have the choice to date/flirt with some of the new characters (also with a female character and gosh they are so damn cute??). There wasn't action all the time, e.g. they play a card game for a pretty long time with only talking and it didn't bored me to death, it put more depth in Clementine and her past and I enjoyed that. They brought back a character from season 1 I really was surprised to see again and they mentioned Lee a lot of times. I still have those goosebumps over my skin.

    After hearing that Telltale is dead and the game probably won't ever get finished I was really mad. I wanted to ask for a refund and was furious about the way they treated not only their customers but their employees. Finally I decided to play the second episode however and every feeling I had in the first one was back just one minute later in the game. It's so well made, I just can't be mad anymore, I even don't want a refund anymore because I do not regret buying this. I'm glad there are at least two episodes I was able to play and yes, I'm sad. Like really really sad. But to stay positive; the next days I can think for myself how the story would have continued. And! Because we all know that Telltale likes drama (maybe even more than I do :^) I now have the chance to choose my own happy ending (seriously I don't think that Telltale would have had one in mind...). And maybe someday we'll get to know theirs. Until then I guess it's safe to set this one to beaten.

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August 2018


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    Hue

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    What a lovely game! Hue is a platformer game about a little boy searching for his mother and follows her footsteps, learning how to see in colors. I truly enjoyed it a lot even though I don't like platformers much. Steam told me it was like Schein and I was afraid about many blind jumps which fortunately never happened at all. Instead the puzzles were actually enjoyable, only a very few timing based and never unforgiving or unfair. I really, really liked it's idea.

    The story was a bit flat. At first I thought about some deeper meaning I didn't get and that I'm missing something but after finishing it, it looks like there was a story to make it a story driving platformer which wasn't necessary at all because it would've been also great without it. At least I understood the essence which is quite alright :^) Oh and of course I loved the calm and very atmospheric music!

    Highly recommended.

    Manual Samuel

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    This game is so bad it's good again. The art style is bad, the jokes are bad the narrator... okay, I loved the narrator. But somehow it was still was fun, probably because the idea itself was kind of funny. You have to do everything manually. Like breathing, taking steps, blinking. Which sometimes got annoying because the controls were kind of sloppy and I stumbled a lot of times or missed QTE in battles. And the beginning was so great! Until the game turns near the end to a very poor action game, unfortunately. But what bothered me the most was that you can't die. I tried. So what's the point in breathing if I can't die anyway? Well, in the end when the action begins and every button has to be pressed precisely I was glad that I can't die and have a millions of tries and I took use of them...

    Manual Samuel would've been hilarious if the story was just about his ordinary day without these action battles and shit. I would've loved to talk to his girlfriend once again while speaking every letter manually and so on.

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July 2018

Weekly updates aren’t working anymore so from now on I’ll do them monthly. I’m happy if I at least finish some games in a month :’D Girlfriends are very time consuming you know? But the time with her is worth it :^) Also the weather in my country is really nice rn. We didn’t have such a nice summer like this one since 2008 (I freaking love the heat o(^.^)o ) and I relax outside a lot, playing old games on my DS again (cried a lot with Pokémon Mystery Dungeon) or crochet.
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    The Curse of Monkey Island

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    This was my very first Monkey Island game, it also was my very first video game after Pokémon iirc. Hence the nostalgia was very strong with one. As soon as I figured it made it's way on steam it was an insta buy. And I fell in love with it's music and art design again. Darn I love this game.

    Remember the days when you only had one, maybe two games to play? Yes it's that long ago since I played Monkey Island 3 the last time. Still I remembered surprisingly pretty much and managed to solve the puzzles without much thinking. Probably because I played it over and over again back then (because I hadn't anything else to play)... The puzzles I couldn't remember tho weren't that though either. Maybe I just learned how to think like Lucas Arts :'D

    The only thing I miss in MI 3 is a good ending like in the other two parts. The game ends rather quickly with a really short cutscene without speech, then the credits roll. After the credits a new game is teased (MI 4 was already released in the meantime) and the game closes itself. The cutscenes fell short in general when I think about it... Which isn't much of a problem because I like to talk to everyone as much as I can anyway and solving the puzzles much more than watch the story progress with cutscenes :b Only the ending bothers me...

    Well, as I finished MI3, I thought about replaying Simon the Sorcerer which I played about the same time as MI. I just found out that Steam offers these games too but the reviews aren't that good... Anyone already tried out the 25 years anniversary edition? Or maybe I'll just search my basement for the original CD...

    Trick & Treat

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    A cute little free 2 play horror game with a nice plottwist in the end and an easy 100%. The puzzles were alright, some were tough (or me is just too silly) but overall they were neat.

    Anime Studio Simulator

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    I thought this of being something like Bakuman where you learn about how anime will be created. Well, the game surely explains some things but not very detailed. In fact the scenes with fun between the five characters are even longer than how creating an anime works. I found this pretty disappointing. Also every problem they face is too easy wiped out. The game starts with money from the grandmother of the main character which would be fine if the scenes had longer conversations but they have not. So instead I would've preferred if they actually would have to work and the VN would explain how much they had to work to even get money to start or anything. Every other problem they come across is solved as easy as this one.

    I do like games with management, like a lot. Even if I fail a lot... But what bothered me with this one were the random events and that nearly everything can fail. Like you choose to raise funds for the upcoming week but nothing happens. This happened to me some weeks in a row until I was forced to restart. It's nice that there are so many random events but if they also can fail even with the right answer it gets annoying...

    The art was alright – I really liked the CGs, sadly there weren't much. For the characters I can't say much neither as they're pretty stereotypical. They weren't bad, they weren't outstanding and the scenes went far too fast than to actually grow to them.

    Overall it was an average journey. I wished for much more of a management VN (like Backstage Pass?) but it wasn't bad. I only got annoyed nearly the end, when I wasn't patient enough anymore, but I'm quite a lazy reader ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Tacoma

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    I don't like walking simulators much but some of them are worth playing. Like this one is. It's a cute little story with great mechanics that I enjoyed pretty much. Still as I don't like the genre much I would've loved to solve puzzles or interact with the story in any way like making choices or anything. But it's okay that there weren't any of those. Tacoma is about 2 hours long which was perfect for the game. It never felt too short or too long, it was just alright.

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June 2018 - Week 3

Yep, I missed a week again thanks to Animal Crossing New Leaf (damn time-killer games)…

    PRICE

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    That's a really really short and free to play puzzle game. Story is pretty sad and I wish it was used for a longer game (that maybe also would've caused that it wouldn't be that complicated to understand) or an anime or anything. Everything else was totally fine.

    Schein

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    Jeez, you can't imagine how happy I am that I finally beat that thing. I almost retired it half way through but I'm glad I could've finished it.

    I'm not a big fan of platformer games but Schein looked great and in the beginning I liked it very much. I liked it's art, I liked how the expression and voice of the MC changed when holding one of the lights (like green makes him happy, red makes him evil). When holding a light you see obstacles of another world. At first I thought this was a great idea but after a while there were less puzzles and more blind jumps. Now I can at least say: I fkn hate blind jumps! For example if holding the green light you can see green vines, which will instantly kill you by touching. So you have to jump without a light on to get past it but there's no hint when the vines end and when to turn on the light again! This game became a try and error thing which requires exact timing. Also the performance gets bad the longer you play. Especially the red light causes the game to lag terribly which is also more a pain in the ass when the controls aren't as good as they should be. No idea how to get the achievement with less than 50 death; I bet that I at least died 100000 times... Won't even try that.

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June 2018 - 1st Week

    Alicemare

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    A pretty short game and the second one of Miwashiba I've played and as LiEat I fell in love with it. This time it was the setting I found that awesome, the dark places and the music, which created a feeling of hopelessness and sadness. There are five stories in a world referenced to a dark version of Alice in Wonderland. Most of those stories have references to fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood (though I couldn't recognize all of them?) and I love stories like those; if in movies or books or games :)

    Some of the puzzles demand deep thinking and weren't so easy. There was a mathematical question once I needed hours *overdramatizing* to calculate; painted a timeline for dates and stuff only to find out that it was a trick question... Mean! You have to read really carefully to understand all those riddles.

    The story is very easy to miss tho and tbh I couldn't understand everything. I understood what this Alice in Wolderland world was and why the kids were there, but what happened to Allen and Teacher's story are still a mystery for me. But there's a novel to read online which should explain everything. Gotta read that soon someday!

    Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~

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    Tbh I can't see why this VN is that high rated... Several friends recommended it to me as one of their fav VN but I couldn't really get myself to like it. I really enjoyed the scenes about Japan and it sure is a great game to learn something new about Japan. Imho it would've been far better without the side stories. I got tired about the jokes which I couldn't find funny at all (it's a rather subtle humor which I don't like) and the stereotypical girls with one of them having the biggest breasts (and of course you have to see them naked someday). At some point I got so bored at this VN I was just happy it was over soon. What I hated the most was the annoying MC. It's nice that the VN explains uncommon things about Japan and also things a lot of people already know so that anyone can learn something new but you can't tell me that a boy who's speaking Japanese fluently doesn't know a damn shit about that country!? I mean he could have at least say at some point that he already heard of anything!? The only thing about Japan he knew was that they eat sushi. Then he isn't even able to converse. Every sentence a girl made was responded with a question by repeating what she just said, calling her name or being super creatively by asking “ummmm?”

    I rate it average just because I at least enjoyed some facts about Japan and learning some new things. Everything else was complete rubbish.

Also Played This Week

  • Horizon Zero Dawn
    Horizon Zero Dawn

    2 hours playtime

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May 2018 - Week 1 - 4

A lot of shit happened this month. The girl in the shop managed to cancel my network contract by accident and there I stood almost the whole month without an internet connection. Yuck! Today a technician came to activated a new one. That means I couldn’t do anything to kill my backlog in the last three weeks! But let’s stay positive! I learned how to crochet and made cute plush toys for cosplay like Mr. Mew from The World Ends With You for my girlfriend who cosplayed Shiki or some Chocobos for our Final Fantasy XV cosplay. And also some cute Pokémon ^w^ My connection is faster now than it ever was, too. I won’t ever need to wait hours for a game to download anymore! In the end I can say I’m happy the long wait is over and I can finally play some games again and I’m also proud of myself for finding a new hobby.
So here’s my progress this month:

    Rakuen

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    Why do their games have to always be that sad and beautiful at the same time? In Rakuen you play as a nameless, sick boy in a hospital. His favorite book leads him and his mother to a magical world where he wants to make a wish, which is granted after he helps the patients who are also hospitalized. This setting is already sad, but we do not only have one tragic story about a boy and his mother but five ones! One more sad than the other one. Jeez.

    Laura Shigihara is truly a very creative human being. Her music is awesome – every soundtrack in game was beautiful. The story was great, the characters were neat. And there were a lot of unique puzzles and minigames which made the game never repetitive.

    We need more games like these (TTM and FP included).

    Cook, Serve, Delicious

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    Man, I love this game! It's this kind of game where you tell yourself „Just one more day“ and do a lot more. CSD is extremely addicting. It's totally fun to fail at some new dishes and watch yourself master them, complete the extra challenges after failing them five times in a row. CSD is very stressful but it's also a lot rewarding.

    I played CSD some time ago, and got stuck in a challenge (I guess it was the Iron Cook American Food Challenge?) and hence bought CSD 2 just recently because my gf got addicted to a pizza cooking app and I wanted to play CSD again. Sadly, CSD 2 wasn't nearly as good as CSD 1 and I got a refund, started CSD 1 again. In CSD 2 there was no sense of progression, no choices for you to make what to buy next – an upgrade? A new dish? An equipment? What's on your menu for the next day? What's new is that you can decorate your restaurant but tbh the interface is really confusing and unnecessary complicated. Everything else you unlock over time and have to deal with it. CDS 2 focus more on the minigames part and ignores everything else (and I hated the holding stations).

    Imo CSD is the best cooking game I have ever played and I can't nearly find anything I didn't like. There are dishes which are extremely difficult but none of them are impossible and when you manage to remember each command you don't have to think anymore which buttons to press. But therefore CSD isn't a game you play now and then but in a short time to not forget everything again.

    Beholder

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    This was the only game I had left on my PC which doesn't need a network connection. I was skeptic when I won this on SG but it was surprisingly fun. The level of difficulty increased very fast in the first hour and I went game over a lot until I found out how to actually play this game; how to manipulate your tenants and actually make money. I had to retry for another time because I already messed things up before I finally understood and lost my whole family. And then it began to became less fun. The thing is that there's almost nothing new. There are always the same tenants and the same items, the same rules. It would've been great if there was a difference between each play through because it got boring doing everything again but better and soon I had so much money that there wasn't any trouble anymore. I lost my interest near the end and made dumb decisions to at least have some financial problems again. But the idea of Beholder is still awesome and finding things out the hard way without anyone to help you with clues was great so overall I guess I can say that I enjoyed it pretty much. It had kind of a feeling like Papers, Please with all these struggles between doing your job and ethics and I like this moral dilemma.

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  • Detroit: Become Human
    Detroit: Become Human

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  • Atelier Totori
    Atelier Totori

    2,5 hours playtime

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