Update: August 19
A couple days ago I made my first post here and I received a very warm welcome. Thank you so much to everyone.
I sorted my uncategorized games that day, but now looking around the site more and other people’s profiles I see how fancy and organized things can be. I really need to step up my profile game here :)
As for games, I’ve continued to work on LetterQuest (short grind, probably another couple days to 100% it) and Awesomenauts (long grind, months of daily play ahead, I should have played more years ago when I had played the first time). Also, I completed Grim Legends: Forsaken Bride and also Hyperspace Pinball (had started it last week, then took a break).
Some thoughts on those games…
Grim Legends: Forsake Bride
I’m sure most of you are familiar with it or with other Artifex Mundi hidden object games. Lots of common story tropes plus typical puzzle solving and object hunting. But, I enjoy these sort of things. There is something charming about them to me, and I’ve been playing hidden object games since I was a kid (back then it was in books and newspapers). This took longer than I expected. I think part of it was just being distracted by friends while playing, and part was that it had an unusual amount of those adventure game: “What the hell do I do now?” moments. Usually Artifex Mundi avoids the latter.
Hyperspace Pinball
I started out really enjoying this game. I love pinball, and this seemed like a nice casual option to break up the more serious play that I do in Pinball Arcade. Unfortunately, the more I played it, the more it frustrated me. This is one of those space / arcade games that likes lots of particles bursting everywhere really bright when anything dies / explodes. So, when your bright (silver and white) pinball strikes a target, suddenly bright light burst on the screen. Makes it hard for one’s eyes to keep track of the ball, especially since the physics is really wonky.
Now, I wasn’t expecting Pinball Arcade level physics here, but it was worse than expected. And added on top of that, there are black holes that move randomly around the play field in later levels. They add to the randomness of where the ball might go, and can sometimes drag the ball right off your flipper into the drain. In the end my emotions and sanity were nearly drained by this game.
Future
Owing to the stress of finishing Hyperspace Pinball I decided to play some very low pressure games yesterday evening. I started Back to the Future: The Game (something I got from a bundle years ago) and also tried out Dream Pinball 3D (another long ago bundle purchase). Neither one has achievements. I plan to continue them today. My goal with Dream Pinball 3D, since there are no achievements or online leaderboards or anything, is just to get local highscores on each of the tables, beating the game developers’ default scores. Then I’ll feel like I can call it “completed” for lack of a better definition.
now looking around the site more and other people’s profiles I see how fancy and organized things can be.
I feel this 100%. I’m often jealous on how amazing people are with their creativity :P
To bad the pinball was stressful. I usually play pinball when I want to relax.
Congrats on making some progress! I think your future plan sounds good. The Grim Legends series is one of the series of Artifex Mundi games I’m more fond of - do you think you’ll play the sequel?
Yes, definitely will play the sequel (ended up with it from a trade shortly after winning the first on on SteamGifts). I tend to like any hidden-object game, but I think you’re right, the story and puzzles were a bit more clever in Grim Legends than some, and you could kind of tell the authors had some idea more than “Ok, lets do typical cliche story.” Though, I did think it was kind of reminiscent in some ways of one of their earlier games “Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden”, though again, with some grander ideas behind it.
I’ll probably wait till I finish Back to the Future before starting another point and click adventure… so maybe mid to late week this coming week I will play Grim Legends 2.
oh yeah, I feel you - I like spacing out games of different genres so I’m not playing the same type of game over and over back to back. In June the monthly challenge was hidden object month. I only played 7 or so of them and even then I was like X_X uuuuuuuuuuuugh too muuuch.
I liked the second one also, is why I brought it up, so I hope you’ll like it too!