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June 2020

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May 2020

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November 2018

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June 2020


I finally want this semester to be over because I need a break uù Studying online is a lot of work and I already do much less than I did in the beginning which is also why I don’t want this semester to be over soon :’D Procrastination at it’s best~
Also my cat is ill. Again. I went to the vet like every week and every time she has a new illness uù A few months ago she started to scratch up the whole area of her ears and a very rare infection got through her wounds causing her ears to even more itching. She had to wear a collar for WEEKS (although it was cute and sad at once because she always bumped against the wall and therefore thought that she can’t get through the wide open door.) Now this was finally treated and healed but then she got a huge wound on her back I have no idea where she got that from. And now she has something with her eye ._. My cat never was the healthiest and we visit the vet a lot but the last few months were horror. She could be alright for a week at least, could she not? :’)
Beside that everything is fine. I found someone who loves my crochet work and he wants to buy a lot. Rn I’m working on an Arcanine for him which is already the third Pokemon he wants from me. I don’t care if I get money or gift my work away but it always makes me happy if my work brings someone joy :3 I also crochet a lot more if I know that it makes someone happy instead of me just decorating my own apartment.


Gotta Crochet 'Em All!





    Gods Will Be Watching

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    This game had a really great concept. Solve point & click puzzles while under pressure of time or other circumstances, each one harder than the one before with different consequences of each of your choices. Srsly I loved the idea.

    BUT the game is really hard. And I was so confused in the very first chapter what the heck the game wants me to do and because I died a thousand of times after only clicking two things without noticing why I died, I played on an easier difficulty. I'm not sure if this was good or bad. I kind of regretted my choice after I finally understood what was going on but I also read those many opinions about the game being too fucking hard and I totally can imagine why especially because it's huge amount of RNG (which you can at least turn out but I didn't).

    Anyways, Gods Will Be Watching was a very nice experience and something new to it's genre of point and click games. Every chapter was enjoyable and I always was impressed by their ideas of puzzles to solve (and it's got a chapter with playing mastermind and I truly love playing mastermind, brownie point).

    White Night

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    Why the heck am I still buying horror games? Won't I ever learn that I'm a huge pussycat?

    Still White Night was a nice experience. Although everything I loved about the game was also a reason for hating it... Like I really liked it's style with it's simple black and white design but this also made things pretty hard to recognize and especially if you try to solve a puzzle or have to avoid ghosts it becomes a pain in the ass. Still it was hard for me to close the game – it also was hard for me to pick it up again. So it's kind of a love-hate relationship.

    To escape the darkness you have to use matches. I truly hate being limited to resources I need to survive (again because I'm a pussycat). And the game even throws out some randomness because of course not every match ignites. I never really ran out of them though, so I guess that was fine. Although I didn't even need more stress thanks to me being too afraid of ghosts but I can imagine that it is a nice feature for people who aren't that easily frightened like me (?).

    The story was great. It also wasn't. It's mostly told though newspaper articles and letters so prepare to read a lot and get somewhat bored half way through. It has a nice twist tho which at least I didn't see coming. But I also didn't get the whole story... :^)

    Overall it's sad the developers aren't working on their game anymore. It could really shine! Most complaints could be easily fixed to make the player less frustrated. I still enjoyed it pretty much despite it being horror; else I probably wouldn't have played it until the end.

    Farm Your Life

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    How I love farming games! I just can't get enough from them °^° Farm Your Life is a bit different, not only because it's fairly minimalist and without time management but it also contains zombies you have to fight by throwing your vegetables at them in the night.

    There exists no money in this game. Instead you trade your veggies for more seeds, recipes or cows and chicken. You also run a restaurant where you can cook for your customers and also won't earn any money from them but materials you can trade for upgrades. Especially the restaurant was a nice new feature I haven't seen yet in any other farming game and I liked that. But as soon as you get some workers you don't have to water and gather your crops by yourself anymore or manage the restaurant aside from taking customer's orders. Imo that didn't hurt the game much. I focused on trading and let my workers do all the rest, although I have to admit that I would've liked it otherwise too.

    The game is pretty short. There are only a few upgrades to make the story progress and the hardest part of the game is to gather new seeds and the animals because they cost quite a bit. And I didn't see why I should play endless mode after the story was completed. There are no new tasks and no money and therefore the further goal is missing. Especially if your workers do everything for you there is no point in standing around and watch them do their work. But that's fine. Farm Your Life is a short, nice game and not every farming game has to be an endless time killer. But now I'm in the mood again to play one that is u.ù (two days later I started Rune Factory 4)

Also Played This Month

  • Kitty Powers' Matchmaker

    43.0 hours playtime

    31 of 31 achievements

  • A Wild Catgirl Appears!

    8.0 hours playtime

    5 of 5 achievements

  • missed messages.

    0.8 hours playtime

    4 of 4 achievements

  • Death Coming
    Death Coming

    5 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
    Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

    12.8 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Q.U.B.E. 2
    Q.U.B.E. 2

    5.3 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Samsara Room

    1.6 hours playtime

    8 of 8 achievements

  • Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative

    4.2 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Kingdom: Classic

    3.3 hours playtime

    6 of 34 achievements

  • The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day

    0.7 hours playtime

    7 of 32 achievements

  • Rune Factory 4 Special

    75.9 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Crossing Souls

    0.9 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Deiland

    1.7 hours playtime

    2 of 24 achievements

  • Outland

    0.7 hours playtime

    0 of 12 achievements

8 days ago 16 comments

May 2020


Gotta Crochet 'Em All!





    Grimm's Hollow

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    Lovely, cute and sad. I didn't expected this game to be that beautiful considering that it's free to play. I instantly fell in love with it after the first minute because the characters look so cute. The story too is great and original. I would've loved this game to be longer and I even would've paid for it ;-; Recommended? Absolutely!

    The Crooked Man

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    Because I was stupid enough to play The Boogie Man before the first games of the series I now have to compare them to it. I enjoyed The Crooked Man and despite my fear of being too much spoiled because The Boogie Man contains characters from previous games I was not and rather happy to meet David again, the protagonist from TCM.

    The game starts with David who moved into his new apartment. Things start to get spooky right ahead because it seems that a poltergeist lives in his apartment. Every night David is being waked up by crying people, weird sounds and phone calls. He then discovers several notes which he believes belong to the previous tenant. And as he doesn't have anything else to do he decides to search for him and visits lost places, gets to understand himself and his life better the further he goes on, and is followed by a monster named the Crooked Man which seems to try to kill him.

    TCM is far easier than TBM. There are none fairly hidden secrets you need to find in order to get the best ending, everything you need to do is always clear and the locations aren't too big so I never got lost in case I had to search what to do next. Also the achievements can be achieved in one playthrough easily except for the last one which requires to play the whole game again. Except for the last part I really enjoyed TCM over TBM. I like games being simple and that I don't need a guide to find everything for a good ending. The last achievement though was annoying. The second playthrough adds nothing new except for the very last part where two extra scenes were added which... were pretty disappointing and totally not worth it. But if you know where to go and what to do next the game is finished in about one hour and a half so it was totally fine to do everything again.

    Story-wise TBM was far better. I have to say that. I also preferred it's characters, although David was my fav in TBM too lol. TCM wasn't really horror either. It just wasn't spooky enough. But I'd rather have a horror-themed game than a real horror game with jump scares =3=

    I still love Uri's art and I always looked forward to the next scene with a picture =3= I really like her style.

    So far: TBM > TCM

Also Played This Month

about 1 month ago 4 comments

April 2020


Gotta Crochet 'Em All!





    Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!

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    Oh I looove shop games! I seriously don't know why I retired this years ago because this time I had quite fun. Although you don't search for your materials yourself (like dungeon crawling or whatever) and can't choose your own prices.

    For about the first half of the game it wasn't that easy either. You have to pay each month for your worker's salary, your “boss” wants to have his share, you have to pay for the materials or have enough spare time to send your workers to search for some, pay for their vacation and still have to manage to forge good weapons you can sell. But I don't know what happened in the second half. Suddenly I was that rich that nothing was a challenge anymore and I made more and more money without ever worrying about it anymore. My weapons became that good that there wasn't any competition anymore and I won every price each year (and got even more money). The game also offers a lot of details to it's system but somehow they just don't matter. For example there are events but I never did pay attention to them and they were more annoying than useful.

    The most disappointing part however was the achievement hunting. After completing the game I wanted to forge each type of weapon 50 times which took a long amount of time. And wasn't fun at all as you just sit there, wait for your workers to complete the forging and choose the next weapon. I didn't even sell them anymore. It took about 4 years ingame to complete every achievement (well except for the DLC as I don't own it), paying each month about 90k to the workers and still I ended the game with 8 million left. o.ö

    The Swords of Ditt

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    Played on Twitch

    Every hundred years a hero is chosen to defeat Mormo, an evil queen of monsters and darkness. Each hero only has four days to gather the needed tools and destroy her anchors until the time for the battle has come. If the sword fails the kingdom has to suffer another 100 years. So basically it's a roguelite Zelda.

    It was fun tbh. The first run didn't go well at all but based on HLTB and it's recorded time to complete the game this seems to be normal. As you progress through the game, search for the toys and complete quests your sword levels up and gains strength so you have an idea how well prepared you are for the final battle. Still you don't have the time to slay every monster that comes in your way or pay each optional dungeon a visit. To me that was a bit sad as I really liked that for once I had a reason to kill the monsters and not only run past them as I often deal with them in any TloZ game. I also love to explore and find everything there is which was sadly not possible.

    The game has a high replay value! Although I beat Mormo in my second try I played some more runs only because there are a lot of different heroes to choose from and each one starts with different resistance and skills and also the map you play on is randomized each time new. Still I'm far away from having seen everything from the game.

Also Played This Month

2 months ago* 6 comments

March 2020


Wow, what a month… March was expensive! Many great games came out like Ori, Pokemon and Animal Crossing, two of my favorite shows got their new season finally arrive to Germany and… well yes. Corona happened. And because of that there are sales everywhere and free stuff so people would stay more indoors. I’m a bit glad March is over because of all the new stuff I bought x_x And I truly hope that the pandemic will find an end soon b/c I’m honestly annoyed of it and also a bit afraid of what will still happen.
Also! I got a tattoo! (I put a picture under Crochet ‘em All) It’s my first one and I truly do love it! I always wanted something with Pokemon and Zelda as they both accompany me my whole life and influenced me. So it turned out to be a Dragonite that eats the Triforce :3c Dragonite always was my favorite Pokemon and it always will be so it was perfect for that motive. Also people asked me why the heck pi floats randomly around but in fact it’s not that random at all. My favorite character of all time Sho Minamimoto of The World Ends With You is deeply in love with math and also got the nickname Pi-Face. When I fell in love with him I was so obsessed that I tried to memorized Pi as far as I can (and I got pretty far tbh) so it also has a deep meaning for me. Without the game TWEWY and without my love to Sho I wouldn’t have met my best friend who also is a cosplayer. And if that isn’t enough: my Dragonite or Dratini when I catch him always carries the nickname “San-Ichi” which stands for the japanese numbers 3 and 1 which are the first digits of pi. :3 So not that random anymore right?


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    Pokémon Mystery Dungeon DX

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    If you loved the first PMD Team Red/Blue you definitely will also love DX. It's true that the game don't offer many new things but it improved it's old mechanics and... well the story was already awesome then so it still is. The graphics look really nice and the music is also still the same but with better sound. So seriously. I don't have anything to complain at all.

    When I played the demo I was pretty disappointed. You starter Pokemon already have four pretty strong attacks and you can walk automatically. You see, PMD R/B is one of my favorite games of all time, so I was thinking what the heck happened to the series? It felt so easygoing for a game that could be pretty hard. But don't judge the demo! Like I said I thought it was bland too but the remake is indeed even harder than the original! Pokémon doesn't have to be easy and PMD Red/Blue and now DX prove that. You have to think really tactical to make it through each dungeon and the bosses take a lot of time and thinking to get them down.

    The only sad thing (beside the story itself T^T) is that critics don't give this game much points (in fact no PMD did ever) and I just can't see why but my guess is that they just don't like dungeon crawlers? Because if you like Pokemon, an awesome story with awesome soundtrack and a challenge in it's gameplay PMD DX was made for you. It's also a far better game than Sword/Shield (which is btw loved by the critics?) Finger's crossed they'll do a remake of Explorers of Sky too :^)

    Ori and the Will of the Wisps

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    I was expecting so much nostalgia but I didn't feel any. While playing I didn't get the feeling of how much I loved Ori and the Blind Forest but how much I love this sequel. It's as awesome as it's prequel, maybe with a slightly better story (only cried three times, check). I don't know what else to say. The gameplay was awesome, the music was awesome, story, art, … The ending totally destroyed me. And I'm left speechless.

    The Boogie Man

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    A horror RPG Maker game with a surprisingly good story? Definitely wouldn't have expected that! The controls were just fine for a RPGM game and there aren't even many jump scares – at least none of them is really making you jump high.

    You play as a detective, who got an invitation for vacation in a castle with his wife and at the first night already the Boogie Man appears, kidnaps everyone except for the detective and wants you to chase him down before he kills them all off. Tbf the story wasn't the greatest, it has so many flaws and holes and cliches and the ending is pretty predictable but it was still pretty alright and very enjoyable. The art is awesome, I loved every one of them and at some point of the game I was hoping for seeing some more CG, especially as they make it's main character far more lovable (I mean he looks like Levi. How could I not love his design?). The biggest problem I had with the game was it's voice acting. The voice of the main character was horrific! He didn't got any sound in it's voice, no emotions and it drove me crazy. The detective was designed to be a emotionless dude but his voice actor couldn't even give him some variation when they were needed. The whole game he just reads out loud what he was supposed to read x_x No wonder I tried to turn the whole voice acting off before until I gave up (it's not possible). The other characters are just fine. Most of them have a really nice voice, some were semi. But the voice acting of the MC ruined a lot; especially the ending would've been so much more emotional if it wasn't for his voice.

    I'm kind of pissed off by myself for not playing the other three games before because some characters were returning and it may have spoiled something for me. Anyway I look forward to playing them!

    Divide by Sheep

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    Divide by Sheep is a good puzzle game if you're into puzzle games. Sadly I am not. But tbh I didn't even honestly tried and after a few levels with 1 out of thee stars completion I decided to follow a guide to get at least a +1 at perfect games. Still I'm pretty sure someone who loves those kind of games will have plenty of fun with it because it's not that easy, it's style is really cute, every few levels a new mechanic is explained and it was for free once!

    Kingsway

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    Twitch

    Seems like this is the month of awesome games to play? I usually don't like rogue games at all but this one got me so hooked! It simulates a desktop where you play the game Kingsway. You choose your adventurer out of four classes, give him a starting stat and try to save the word in a limited time. Everything is a little desktop window; the map where you choose where to go next, your inventory and of course the battles. The battle windows will float around your screen so it's sometimes hard to hit the button to attack or block or use an ability.

    I needed a few tries to get into this game, getting out how do do things, which options are useful and which are not how much time there is to level up and how far east you can go without being underleveled and so on. But even figuring out and dying a lot of times was fun and as soon as you get the grip the game gets even more addictive when you slay each monster until the very end :'3

    Recommended!

Also Played This Month

3 months ago 9 comments

February 2020


Not much here this month! I finally finished Darksiders II again, this time on Deathinitive which indeed was not that easy. Overall I more focused on getting some achievements of games I already played before and… well, Temtem. We almost finished the story there is so far and I’m already thirsting for more. For fans of Pokemon it’s really a great game you shouldn’t miss out!


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Played This Month

  • Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition
    Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition

    39.1 hours playtime

    no achievements (Epic)

  • Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
    Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    0.8 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Nonogram - Master's Legacy
    Nonogram - Master's Legacy

    7.1 hours playtime

    6 of 6 achievements

  • 100% Orange Juice
    100% Orange Juice

    115.3 hours playtime

    74 of 207 achievements

  • Temtem
    Temtem

    41.2 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • AMPLITUDE: A Visual Novel
    AMPLITUDE: A Visual Novel

    2.8 hours playtime

    1 of 10 achievements

  • Divide by Sheep
    Divide by Sheep

    0.6 hours playtime

    4 of 19 achievements

4 months ago* 16 comments

January 2020


Gotta Crochet 'Em All!





    Darksiders Genesis

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    After Darksiders 3 the series continues with a spin-off that felt a lot more like a Darksiders game than Darksiders 3 did. I was pretty skeptic at first because I'm no fan of those top-down perspectives and also people told me it was made for coop. Nevertheless I had so much fun! The idea playing two Horseman is awesome and Strife is an amazing character who even might be my favorite now (sorry Death, you're out)

    Dungeons, puzzles, weapons, collectibles and a great story – everything I missed from Fury is back now. Coop and also single player is fun to play and I like how coop makes the game harder with a lot more enemies to kill (we died a lot of time) but most of the time I played alone which wasn't better or worse. In fact is was as fun to be able to switch characters as to tell your friend how he has to solve the puzzle.

    Of course Darksiders wouldn't be Darksiders without some bugs. Falling through the floor, being trapped in the wall, throwing enemies behind a barrier where you can't reach it anymore, or the game decides in the middle of a battle that you can't press certain buttons anymore. Could be worse, but sometimes they were pretty annoying. Also while you can't choose the perspective of the camera and when you walk behind a wall you can't see shit. Usually games in those cases delete the wall you're behind from the background as long as you stand there, but Darksiders Genesis decided that you better don't know what you and your enemies are doing right now. They added with a patch a blue silhouette, so at least a bit progress.

    I truly do hope they release a fourth main game (and I hope it won't be shooter >D). I didn't like Darksiders 3 as much as I wanted it to enjoy but the series still is one of my favorites. I'd also really like to see more coop games with other combinations like playing War and Death for example. Fingers crossed!

    Monkey Island 2

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    I played the games years back before, so I wanted to get every achievement in one go. There's one achievement where you have to complete the game in less than three hours and this ruined the whole playthrough. When you enjoy Monkey Island you play it for it's humor and funny conversations, so why create an achievement where you can't talk with everyone and use a guide to get through the game as fast as possible? It destroyed every flair it had and I'm glad that I already know the game because I probably would hate it otherwise as I rushed through it and even hated it's long cutscenes in fear it will destroy my time and I have to start over again. Seriously I don't get those time achievements x_x

    Anyways. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

    GRIS

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    This is one of the most beautiful games I've ever played. There are no enemies, no text or speech but the art and music are so beautiful and outstanding. There also are no frustrating parts, the puzzles aren't hard but very creative and pretty cool. Overall the game really is relaxing but with a melodramatic touch.

    The game starts with a girl whose world scatters. What remains are ruins in a colorless world but the further you move on the more color is added, making the world beautiful again. If it wasn't for the Black. Without text everything is again up for your interpretation but the more achievements you unlock the more becomes clear.

    I can see that the game may looks boring for people who play games for a challenge. I'd still recommend it! I played it when I wasn't in a good mood and the game really was something I needed to smooch my soul. ♥

Also Played This Month

5 months ago 17 comments

December 2019

I uh… managed to successfully fail to wish you all a merry christmas. That I woudn’t complete another game I already thought a week ago so my plan was to update here early so I can spread some christmas love to you in one go but guess who is a lazy and forgetful? Ye, me.
Aaaanyway instead I hope you had a great time these definately too warm christmas days! Did you got any presents? Did you eat well? And did you maybe gift someone yourself? Every year me and my mom sit together and handcraft presents for the family. This year we made cute little angels of beautiful christmas paper which really turned out well. Sadly they all got lost by the mail!? This was the first time this happened and I was so sad and am still angry! I had to crochet compensational snowmen which were cute and everyone was happy with them but for me it just wasn’t the same as I did them alone and not with my mom :/ Also I shipped another thing to a friend for his birthday and it did get lost too >D Just what are they doing?

So as I’m still updating earlier than usually I at least ask about your plans for New Year’s Eve. Are fireworks still a thing where you live? This year my friends at least came together and decided to not fire any firecrackers which is totally fine for me. I love firework but I don’t like being near them, being in town when everyone freaks out on New Year’s Eve and just like to watch them safely far away from them :’3 Hopefully towns in Germany someday will do one firework for all instead of every household themselves. =_=

Well I crocheted some things the last two months but I was too lazy to take pictures of them. ;w; My intent for next year is being less lazy! Anyway, let’s finally get to the games I played the last two months (weren’t much anyway lol)

    Pyre

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    Origin

    Origin gifted a month free Basic Access and thus I finally was able to play Pyre!

    Just like the other two games from Supergiant Games I played this one was great. It's about a land criminals are being sent for never to return. But the laws of the so called Commonwealth are not necessarily just. You as a reader was punished for exactly this crime: being able to read. But there is a way to be free again: by winning rites you get your chance to gain your freedom again and this shall be your goal: regain yours and your friend's freedom again.

    Those rites are kind of like sports. It's a 3vs3 game with a ball you have to toss in the enemy's pyre. If their points become zero you win. The game starts off pretty easy and with almost no challenge but this changes soon. Enemies become more tougher and you also unlock special challenges which make the rites harder but give your group more exp. Imo there was no need for extra challenge because I already found the game being hard enough :'D Still there's no game over! If you fail your enemies get the chance to be free again and depending on the characters where some of them are really likable you probably even want to send them free instead of your own group.

    If not for the rites the rest of the game is wall of text, almost kind of a VN. Imo it was a bit too much text to read here and there but overall it delivers it's story pretty good and was totally worth it. The characters are awesome and there are a lot of them. Each of them has their own story, their own reason why they want to go home and a unique personality.

    I really enjoyed the art style. And as every time the soundtracks were awesome.

    Spoilers ahead!

    While first off you believe it is possible for all of you to be free at the same time you learn that is not the case. You only can send one of them at a time and after each release rite you have to choose someone. Those chosen ones and after winning the release rite won't return for the rest of the game. As every character has their own skills I stuck to one consistent group of three and tried to free the others... But this also caused to free the starting characters who also were for me the most likable ones. And I pretty missed them after they were gone, especially Hedwyn and Jodariel. ;-; It takes about 10 hours of gameplay and after around two hours both of them were gone which was really sad for me! In the end it wasn't hard to decide anymore because the hard decisions were already made long ago.

    Also the end was sad, but probably didn't left me as sad as Bastion or Transistor did. It may even was a happy ending after all, or at least the happiest so far. Overall I had a great time and enjoyed it pretty much, still I believe it was the weakest of Supergiant Games so far. *gotta somehow play Hades soon*

Also Played These Months

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October 2019

What a month! I started going to university and goddammit. The first days were so hard for me! So much new stuff to organize! It's still overwhelming and so much to do, I terribly sucked at the challenge and hadn't much time to spare. Especially math is going to kill me. I always loved math. Still do. But heck I don't get a thing. Every week we get a exercise sheet and somehow I thought we're already halfway through. Then I realized we only had 3 sheets done of over 20 :D But because we already did so many topics in math I thought there can't be much left. Guess I'm wrong. I'm a bit terrified and also friends are already quitting only thanks to math being too difficult but I'm still doing my best =3= Also it's such a nice feeling getting a sheet back with 100% after hours after hours learning.


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    This Is the Police 2

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    So after I absolutely loved TItP1 I had to buy it's sequel and I enjoyed it pretty much as well. Although it has a lot of improvements, it's better and worse than it's prequel at the same time.

    First of all I want to talk about it's cutscenes because when I thought about buying the game and read the reviews before I had my doubts. Reviews say it's cutscenes are long and boring and while I do see why that's a popular opinion I really enjoyed them. Well. At least after it's beginning b/c before you're finally able to play the game you have cutscene after cutscene that take about one hour. So considering that you only can refund your games if you haven't played them for more than two hours this wasn't a good start at all. Sitting through a damn hour of cutscenes indeed was boring and more than annoying. Though after those I liked them. They are still long and most of the time they're pretty bland. There's one cutscene for example where Jack goes inside the sheriff's office to have a talk. It's important for the story what he talks about and what it's outcome but instead we see this conversation, we watch one between two officers talking about the difference of white and black mold. I get why that isn't everybody's taste but I found it's style pretty funny tbh. Somehow reminded me a bit of Pulp Fiction.

    The story itself wasn't as good as the prior. Getting money also was very easy and the only difficulty the game had was sending your officers to the crime scenes (as in 1) and the new tactic missions.

    The first half of the game it's important that you're good at managing your cops as you get points for every criminal caught. With those points you can buy more cops and equipment. Later on you're not able to buy anything anymore so I got the feeling it didn't matter anymore if I catch any criminals or not.

    Missions were awesome improved. You always have to give instructions what your officers shall do at the crime scene. You have to take a look on their skills, their level and their equipment. If a slow cop follows a man he will fail to catch him and so on. Also they can level up and you can skill them. There's also a loyalty system now! Cops that don't like you won't listen to you, neither at crime scenes nor a tactical missions so you first have to gain their trust.

    The tactical missions were... well. I liked them sometimes. Most of them are not skipable (the ones that are will give you penalties if ignored) and those also have to be won or it's game over. Just like in it's prequel you can't save midday and those missions mostly are the last thing you'd do for the day which means you have to finish them or replay the whole day again if you quit. One mission was a pain in the ass x_x I just couldn't do it and a friend tried for me and failed too so we had to replay it several times which took more than two hours? Retrying over and over and over again wouldn't even be that bad IF the animations weren't so daaamn slow. Those missions also have their own game now (Rebel Cops) and I really do hope they improved it's speed.

    I also missed the challenges of the first game such as keeping the female quote or whoopsie, suddenly you have to pay some thousand dollars because of shit has been going on. The game added it's own challenges but they weren't challenging, tho still fun to play.

    I'd say I fully enjoyed the game until some point. After that it wasn't bad but it wasn't outstanding either (and not that addictive as I was addicted to TItP1 anymore). And I was kind of... disappointed by the end. But overall if you liked the first game you probably will have your fun with it's sequel!

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September 2019

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Because I’m always too late with my posts I already wish you a great Halloween and a spoopy Spooktober! Enjoy your horror movies and games and pumpkin spice latte (I already had like four or so) °^°

Gotta Crochet 'Em All!





    Moonlighter

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    Boy, this game was a blast! It's really rare that I'm that addicted to a game that I have to force myself to stop playing. That was the case with Moonlighter.

    Basically the game is about looting dungeons at night and open your shop at day where you can sell the loot you found. Upgrade your shop and your weapons with the money you make, buy new merchants for the town and go back to the dungeons again. So kind of like Recettear but with a better fighting system?

    To be fair I had a difficult time at the start. The game won't really tell you anything how things work and not even explains the controls. It does show you a picture but I couldn't make any sense out of it. The old grump who is mad at you for going to the dungeons talks more than the game explains itself and I took my time to get used to it's mechanics. But after that I had a really great time!

    With the lack of explanation I missed a lot of stuff. When I finally found out that skeletons drop weapons I was already almost done so I never found any accessories. There is a note about a ring that if you die you won't lose any loot you have found and I wonder what else there was. I somehow got the feeling I haven't seen everything which is also the reason why I can't give this game a full 5 star rating.

    When opening your shop you have to make your own prices and try find the right one which isn't too expensive or too cheep. Customers don't come with a budget except that rich people will pay for too expensive items while others won't. If you find the correct price there will be a note in your handbook but only if the item isn't considered as low or high demand and if the buyer wasn't rich. To be honest that was a pain in the ass. When you focus on higher level dungeons the items of the prior will get a higher demand because they're getting rare which causes that you'll never be able to find the correct price anymore without looting the hell out of the previous dungeons but there's no reason why you should do that.

    Also after some time spent in the dungeons and with your shop you get rich. Like really really rich. And after becoming a triple millionaire there's almost no reason to open your shop anymore because you can already buy everything you want. Still you find stuff that's even more worth and you get even wealthier.

    Everything else was superb. I loved exploring the dungeons even if you can only hold onto 20 items and won't ever be able to upgrade your backpack. You have then to decide which item you take with you or hope to find a chest that sends your stuff back home so you can explore even further. I hated that at first but after a time it was great because it forced me to explore the dungeon even further for secrets and not only searching for the boss level. I loved how you have to figure everything else out on your own with the prices and so on expect for the things mentioned above. The bosses reminded me of the bosses from Zelda and I loved defeating them.

    It's really a shame there exist only a few games with managing your own shop because I love doing this. Only other game that comes in mind is Recettear... So my question for you: Do you know any games like this one? I'm so open for recommendations, so please. If you know something, let me know!

    The Little Acre

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    Challenge Me!

    This game is short. Like. Really short. Really really short. And by far too short! It's a fairly easy point & click game with a cute and hand drawn art style and great voice actors. The problem I had with it was that the game is so short it can't develop a deeper story and it can't introduce it's characters properly. I enjoyed Merr pretty much becauuuuuuse of his weirrrrrrd waaaay to talllllk but I never will know about his intentions. I have a lot of questions and I'm upset that I will never know. The game had great potential but in the end it fails to keep in memory.

    Contrast

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    Uuuh this one was difficult. You play as Dawn, a woman who can only be seen by a little girl named Didi, but can also move through shadows. This was really interesting and it has a great story and atmosphere. The music was great too, especially the singing ♥ Tbf I was a bit annoyed of Didi but I guess I just don't like kids in videogames.

    The puzzles were great. Really creative. Still the controls were... kinda clunky? The camera sometimes moves really weird and not for your advantage and it's rather unforgiving if you move a bit too far or jump a bit too early. So for the beginning I srsly didn't have fun at all because of those controls and then there was this puzzle I just couldn't get around. I was that frustrated I almost dropped this game despise the challenge but I wanted to try it one last time and suddenly... I really liked it? I don't know what happened, maybe I had a better day or something but actually if you get used to the controls the game indeed is fun. Sadly the game is pretty short and because I hated it first there wasn't much time left for me to enjoy it when I finally was able to do so. I'd like to see a sequel!

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August 2019

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    The Darkside Detective

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    A really charming P&C game about the Darkside Detective McQueen and his sidekick Officer Dooley, full of spooky things like Gremlins and Zombies, humor and easter eggs. I'm not the big fan of P&C games anymore but this one really was lovely and charming. The humor is stupid but good enough for many smileys and without being too ridiculous. Also each case isn't longer than about 30-40 minutes and hence not full of locations and combinations that make your head smoke like 'how the heck is that suppose to work?'

    I'm rooting for the sequel!

    The Fan

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    I got this game from Indiegala for free I guess sadly Indiegala doesn't gift free steam games anymore. It's a full motion video with point & click and I bet it was a lot of work making all the pictures for it. Also it looks pretty well made. Still it was far too short. And I didn't get... why...?

    The Fan is a serial killer who stalks it's victims before capturing and eventually kill them. Nathalie is his most recent victim, tied up in his basement and you play the Fan.

    It's really disturbing tbh. He owns all those weapons for torture, a wall full of pictures of Nathalie, trash she threw away sometime and so on. There's blood and... liquids in buckets and ugh. As I said before; it's pretty well made. When you head out of your lair and into her flat you have to search for specific objects. I liked that you can look at almost everything, learn her story and her way to live only by watching her furniture and stuff she owns.

    There are three choices in total so six overall outcomes. The game is really really short. I completed two runs in 45 minutes but as the items to search don't change the second run was completed in about 10 minutes. Still the game lacks about a reason. I'm glad that you actually don't torture her onscreen but you also don't get any background information about the killer. The game ends with a newspaper article without many changes. E.g. You're able to kill her boyfriend. If you do so the article won't tell about her reaction to that. There's also the choice to kill her or to free her. And I just don't get why he would let her free...?

    Overall I'm impressed by the good quality of the pictures and how everything was made, but also Î am left confused. I got it for free so that's fine, still I don't know if I would want to buy something that short and without any context and conclusion.

    Fran Bow

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    Again Point & Click but this one may be the game with the best story I played so far. It's about the eleven year old Fran who lost her parents due a horrific murder and who finds herself in a clinic. But she has to break out to find her best friend the cat called Mr. Midnight and to return home. For that she takes some kind of medicine – red pills that open a door to another dimension.

    Imo the game did a really good job in presenting the horror. When Fran takes her pills she sees horrible things. Dead corpses, guts and blood everywhere. It's really, really macabre. Still Fran is a good girl, she is kind and sweet and nothing about her is dark or evil. So there's a huge contrast between her and the world she sees and probably she is not even able to understand it.

    Sadly the game doesn't have a clear explanation. Everything is up to you how you interpret the story. Because of the whole time you look for the murders of Fran's parents I thought that there will be an explanation in the end and haven't looked much for clues for interpreting it myself. I would've liked it better if there was a solution of everything but that may be my personal taste.

    What kind of bugged me was the role of the cat. Cat's are really stubborn and have their own mind. Of course not every cat is reserved but as an owner of a cat myself I just don't get why some stories show the cat as a loyal companion. Why not choose a dog in the first place? Catlovers love cats because they're not like dogs, that you have to be really patient to win her love and her trust and still they will never admire you as much as a dog would. So why create a character of a cat that is nothing like that?

    Nevertheless the game overall was great. Have you played Fran Bow yet? If so I'd love to hear your opinion and your interpretation of her story!

    Moon Hunters

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    This game had sooo much potential! It's very RNG based, you have to be lucky to find things you need and have the right stats. Most of the time it's just “You can't do this because you miss that. Better luck next time!” which was... disappointing.

    The game is really short. You choose your hero and your starting village, then rush through some dungeons, slash some monsters, gain stats and buy abilities, unlock more heroes and starting villages, boss fight, repeat. The game itself tells you it's meant to replay it several times and I did but I couldn't find anything to keep my motivation high enough to redo it again and again. There should be more than one ending but well. Maybe I'm too stupid or it's really that luck based to find those things you have to for those. Idk. This game left me overall pretty confused. Imo being able to level up and have more time than just five days wouldn't have hurt the game.

    Adventure Time: The Secret of The Nameless Kingdom

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    After about a year trying to like this game I finally give up on it. The idea is nice, because I love Zelda and clones are nice for me too. I love searching for secrets and mastering dungeons but this one was simply frustrating. The controls are so clunky I missed every direction at least half of the time. Enemies respawn rather quickly and after a short amount time I just tried to avoid them because they hit me more often than I hit them and playing always in the near of death can be rather stressful if there's no chance to improve yourself with these clunky controls.

    The map doesn't show any locations and while you have to do various side quests before being able to continue the story you have no idea what to do and where to go next a lot of times. I used a map from the community guides and a walkthrough but overall it just wasn't fun and not worth my time.

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