Kyrrelin

January 2020 report




Hello everyone! I hope you had a great start of the New year. :)
I have played and completed many games during January. Even some older ones that were sitting in my library for some time already. I can only hope that this trend will continue in the next month as well. ;)

I have got inspired by others posts again (Mskotor, Trilled Meow…) and decided for some addons. X) On my reviews I will be showing off the year I got the game and then the year when I have beaten or completed it. In some cases it’s very horrifying sight. XD

My Mass Effect challenge is almost done! ME3 got beaten yet again, now I will continue with Andromeda. I am already pretty far there, but I am not sure how long it will take as there is still a lot of to explore.
But I am already thinking of another challenge. I wanted to jump on Dragon Age right away, but I am no longer sure… there is Bioshock too, or Thief. Hmm, maybe I should do some poll? o.O
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Please excuse me if you find any mistakes, after I post my report I usually find many of them, but I really read the post few times before I send it out. X) Feel free to point them out to me. ;)

Enough of small talks and now to the actual assassinations! Good luck in a new month and have a great time everyone!

Few words about my playthrough of ME3. It was my fifth playthrough (total time 435 hours), this time on hardcore difficulty setting. I have played through all DLCs of course, I do really love Shore leave! <3 I miss last two achievements (insanity and 100 melee kills) to consider it completed as the remaining are just from multiplayer and I don’t play that. ;)


Added one from Aurion and two from Mass Effect, can’t help it. ;)

Anton Sokolov ; Aliena ; Aria T’Loak B C D Enzo and Erine Kori-Odan F
Grimm ; Garrus Vakarian Hornet I Jack K Legion
Mata Hari Nyreen Kandros The Outsider P Quirrel R
Saren Arterius T U V Wrex Urdnot X
Y Z        
New year, new games incoming! O.O

Big thank you for my wins! :)

Other addition to my backlog.
  • Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 72 achievements

  • Whispers of a Machine

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 25 achievements

  • Two Point Hospital

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 39 achievements

  • Graveyard Keeper

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 83 achievements

  • DiRT Rally 2.0

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 71 achievements

  • Them's Fightin' Herds

    0 minutes playtime

    no achievements

  • Mages of Mystralia

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 30 achievements

  • Niche - a genetics survival game

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 31 achievements

  • Evergarden

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 21 achievements

  • MagiCat

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 24 achievements

  • Machinarium

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 12 achievements

  • Feather

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 1 achievements

  • Paperbark

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 25 achievements

  • FRAMED Collection

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 18 achievements

  • Armello

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 50 achievements

  • Hand of Fate 2

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 99 achievements

  • The Stillness of the Wind

    0 minutes playtime

    no achievements

  • Euro Truck Simulator 2

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 75 achievements

  • Rising Dusk

    0 minutes playtime

    no achievements

My ABC plan contains many unfinished games because I would like to complete them before starting new ones, this is my huge problem. ;) This plan should help me with it.
  • So for the purpose of this list, only games marked as completed counts - until said otherwise.
  • Games can be played in whichever order.
  • Unfinished games will be restarted or continued.

Assassinated 6 of 29

45% never played
38% unfinished
3% beaten
14% completed
  • 16bit Trader

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 16 achievements

  • Agarest: Generations of War

    66 hours playtime

    9 of 50 achievements

  • Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 12 achievements

  • Cooking Academy Fire and Knives

    0 minutes playtime

    no achievements

  • Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

    0 minutes playtime

    no achievements

  • Eventide: Slavic Fable

    4 hours playtime

    25 of 25 achievements

  • Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone

    0 minutes playtime

    no achievements

  • Glass Masquerade

    8 hours playtime

    32 of 32 achievements

  • Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 36 achievements

  • Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 36 achievements

  • Chaos on Deponia

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 34 achievements

  • Inquisitor

    15 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars

    14 hours playtime

    25 of 40 achievements

  • KHOLAT

    10 hours playtime

    20 of 20 achievements

  • Loren The Amazon Princess

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 40 achievements

  • Merchants of Kaidan

    36.7 hours playtime

    22 of 22 achievements

  • Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor

    1 minute playtime

    no achievements

  • Overlord: Raising Hell

    6 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Postmortem: one must die (Extended Cut)

    20 minutes playtime

    no achievements

  • Quest for Infamy

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 59 achievements

  • Remothered: Tormented Fathers

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 10 achievements

  • Sins Of The Demon RPG

    15 hours playtime

    9 of 9 achievements

  • Tempest

    15 hours playtime

    1 of 24 achievements

  • Unium

    5 hours playtime

    9 of 22 achievements

  • Velvet Assassin

    27 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Weird Park Trilogy

    0 minutes playtime

    no achievements

  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown

    37 hours playtime

    35 of 85 achievements

  • Yomawari: Night Alone

    0 minutes playtime

    0 of 27 achievements

  • ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal

    0 minutes playtime

    no achievements

A.M.R.

The memories, nothing can replace the ME trilogy.

A side note about the achievements, ME3 really had an interesting idea about the multiplayer ones they all have (or) option to finish them in single player
For example:Tour of Duty - Finish all multiplayer maps or all N7 missions in single-player.
I wish all Single-player games that has mp achievos would have such a thing, not that the MP in ME3 was bad .. I actually loved it and put hundreds of hours into it.

Kyrrelin

Oh yes, I have those. ;) But not all of them are like that. Like upgrade your weapon to 10th level, in game you can improve it only to 5th level; then create or import your character to multiplayer and two more which I don’t remember.
Edit: And yes, I liked how the achievements could be opened in two ways. That would be awesome in Tomb Raider as it has many multiplayer achievements which I wont open.

Best memories! <3

A.M.R.

Weird!!! those 2 actually are single player and you said this is your fifth playthrough
The import one can be done if you import your shepard from ME2 or ME3 (sort of like NG+)
And the level 10 weapon is a Single player achievement too, if you import ME3 save your level weapons can be upgraded again so a level 5 weapon from the previous playthrough will be upgraded to level 10 ( those 5 extra upgrades you purchase them from the kiosk in the lowest deck where Vega and Cortez are)

Believe me I know, not a single ME3 achievement is mp only.

Kyrrelin

Yes, it’s my fifth playthrough, but I have always imported characters from the first two games. I thought that “Import ME3 character” means importing it to the multiplayer… I have tried it now and it worked. XD
So you say I will open even the 10th level weapon and the highest level readiness in each theater of war? As I always have only 50%, I thought that also is meant only for multiplayer.

Thank you for your input! Looks like I will open all achievements next time. :D

A.M.R.

Level 10 weapons yes but non of us mentioned the “Galactic readiness rate” before .
It is not needed for any achievement, if you want to increase it over 50% you will have to actively (it decays over time, but not beyond the 50%) play MP or that little game called Galaxy at War from the N7 HQ web site

There was also a smart phone game called Mass Effect Infiltrator that also increase the rating, I never played it before though and not sure if it is still working or not.

Kyrrelin

I didn’t mentioned it coz it was one which I didn’t remember exactly, but if you say that every achievement can be obtained playing through singleplayer…
Defender - Attain the highest level of readiness in each theater of war. Check my achievements here

A.M.R.

Nice work, and yeah defender will require the 100% I guess I forgot that one it was an early unlock for me.. still as I said Galaxy at War mini game on the website can do it.
You have 5 squads and 5 theaters, each theater has 3 missions: 1 hour - 2.80% / 3 hours - 2.98% / 5 hours - 3.17%
Just deploy 1 squad in each theater and after the time of the missions you choose go collect them and deploy them again, if you can run the 1 hour mission*5 squads a few times should get you easy to 100% ( you will just need to remember or set an alarm to remind you)

ninglor03

MASS EFFECT! \o/ <3
Yeah, it’s still waiting for me sigh
Insanity isn’t that hard once in the end. I expected way worse things. And yes, shore leave is SO good! <3
Don’t think I’ll manage to get there that soon though. Way too much happening. Both RL as gaming wise. Way too many very long games lined up atm. Oh well. It’s not going anyway any time soon :]

Have a great time! \o/

Kyrrelin

Yaaaaaaaay! <3
Don’t worry, it wont run away. You can come back to it whenever you wish to. ;)
Yeah, I did the first one on insanity and it surprised me that it wasn’t that hard. But it showed on Pinnacle station. XD I just fear the London battle as it’s pretty hard itself and can’t imagine more powerful Banshees there. XD

You too have a great time! <3

ninglor03

I always thought the London battle was SO tough… and then I played it on insanity and was like: what, that’s it? Weird, isn’t it?

Kyrrelin

Hmm, maybe it’s from the adrenaline. You know, we are so afraid of it that we are superior instead! XD

ninglor03

Maybe thinking
I was actually most worries about the last enemy and shooting him. He was a tough one. Super tough one o.o

Kyrrelin

Yeah that one… he is terrible. X_x

Mskotor

And their name was… Marauder Shields

(Obvious ME3 spoiler below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467pmIX-oZo

Kyrrelin

Some of us really have a lot free time. XD

I think that I have never noticed the name fuse, it’s funny. :D

ninglor03

Hehe, nice one :D

samwise84

ME my all time favourite trilogy :D

Kyrrelin

Yes! I just can’t stop playing it, wonder how long will I last this time. XD

Cece09

I’m still yet to look at a mass effect game

Kyrrelin

Blasphemy! O_O
Go look at it right now! XD

Cece09

someone gift it to me and I will. I dont think my youtubers have done the game

Kyrrelin

Haha, maybe Santa will bring you something this year. ;D
Tss, forget about youtubers, you have to experience it yourself. :P

samwise84

Wholeheartedly agree 👍

Cece09

Well as it turns out I have mass effect 1 and 2 through family share so I guess I will play it one day

Kyrrelin

Ha! One day, one day…. that’s terribly indefinite, go for it now! :D

Cece09

cant yet. my pop games are way to long to be trying to sink into mass effect too

Kyrrelin

To hell with PoP!!!! XD
MASS EFFECT! :D

Noble Gamer

I have to admit I enjoyed Hand of Fate more than Slay the Spire.

BTW if you are eager to play Hand of Fate 2 but don’t have the DLC yet, there’s a weeklong deal on it right now for ~75% off: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/9952/Hand_of_Fate_2_and_DLC/

Kyrrelin

I was really surprised by how much I am enjoying the Hand of fate! I thought that it wasn’t my kind of a game. ;) Don’t know about Slay the Spire, didn’t picked my interest enough for now. :)

Thanks for the heads up! I will consider picking them although it will get me some time until I start playing the second game. X)

Trent

Wow, lots of progress– thank you for the write-up!
I really enjoyed The Journey Down series– we still quote it from time to time (“Bwana, you’re an idiot!”). And yay Costume Quest! I played it with my kids when they were 4 (CQ) and 5 (CQ2) and they loved it…called it “the trick-or-treat game.” I liked CQ2 even better than the first, though they were pretty close to each other.

I have never played a Mass Effect game (*blush*) but that’s really only because I have a hard time with long, rich, RPGs…as much as I love them. It’s hard to get a block of time to play a game (except games I play with the kids) and I end up getting bogged down or forgetting what I was doing because it’s been 10 days since I played. I have ME and ME2 on Steam though…maybe someday if I win the lottery and can quit my job. Maybe I can find an invincibility mod and just play through for the story. I kinda suck at fps anyway.

As for your ABC plan, I really enjoyed Brothers and Glass Masquerade, How did you like J.U.L.I.A. and Velvet Assassin? I might play the former for the monthly theme. I backed it on Kickstarter way back in the day.

Anyway, thanks again for the write-up, and happy gaming!

Kyrrelin

Thank you for reading it. :3
I wonder if they have some plans for another games as there are for sure possibilities. ;)
Okay, I will definitively get Costume Quest 2. XD I had so much fun with it.

I can understand that. Those games are horrible time eaters. ;D Especially when you are searching for everything, reading everything, star gazing and so on. X) As I have played through almost all of the difficulty choices (I miss insanity in ME2 and ME3), I think that playing on easy and normal offers balanced experience even for someone who is not adept in shooters. In ME3 you can choose story mode, which cuts most of the fights to zero… I think. ;)

Yeah, Brothers, I should make some time for them already! I liked J.U.L.I.A. very much! I have played it in one session, so it really captivated me. I have made review for it after completing it, you can check it for more info, if you want. I have only 7 reviews so you will find it easily. ;D I was thinking on playing it again for the monthly as I miss some achievements from the DLC they made, so I can only recommend it to you!
I am big fan of stealth games and Velvet Assassin was pretty good! I think it aged well, worked without any problems. Just the end frustrated me a little… my report from August have more info on that. ;)

Thank you again! You too enjoy your games. :D

Trent

Wow, 14 hours of J.U.L.I.A. in one session? Or maybe there was some idling before your play session. Thank you for the link to your reviews– mostly games I have either played (Syberia I & II) or have in my backlog (all others except Slime Rancher). Upvoted times seven!
Yeah, playing ME1 and ME2 would probably be on Easy for that reason. I most likely won’t be playing ME3 because it’s only on Origin.
Thanks for linking your Velvet Assassin report– so that I could realize I got it confused with Venetica! But I also have Velvet in my backlog so it was nice to read about it as well. ;)
Have a great month of gaming!

Kyrrelin

No idling before it, but after completing the story I was redoing some parts for achievements that didn’t required the DLC, so it was more likely about 11-12 hours. ;D
Thank you. :3
I think that you don’t need to play it on hard right away, I was upping my difficulty with my playthroughs until I ended on insanity. ;) Hmm, I think that after playing ME1 and ME2 you will want to play the third one! XD Seriously, it would be shame to miss it. ;)
And with EA coming back to Steam, who knows, maybe ME3 will pop up there too. :)
Haha, happens. :D I remember wanting Venetica very much… and now it just sits in my backlog, shame on me. XD

You too! :3

Traqie

Oh wow still stuck on Hollow Knight huh.
I finished CQ last year and I didn’t enjoyed it as much as you did but still had some fun with it xd I found the Christmas DLC to be pretty tedious tho, but it looks like it serves as a prequel to CQ2 :P I guess I’ll find out once I play!
And if you plan to play ZanZarah beware the game doesn’t work perfectly on modern systems. When I played it, everytime I opened inventory the game would lock to a single FPS XD And you have to often click, hold and move things there so it was a pain in the ass.
And impressive progress for just a month! I also see you got Alien: Isolation picked for PoP, have fun with it, it’s one of my fav horrors and a treat for movie fans :)

Kyrrelin

Heh, not leaving Hollow Knight until I ultimately complete it! XD Not much of progress this month though. ;)
You are right that the DLC was more tedious then the main game, also they took away my Vampire costume. XD
Thanks for the heads up with ZanZarah, can’t wait for that torture. XD
Thanks! I have really outdid myself. ;D
I love Alien (movie) from my childhood! Have to say that the game is pretty amazing! I am just going around and “look, look, that’s completely out of the movie and this too”. :D They have captured the feeling from the movie pretty well. I have met him yesterday for the first time, cutie. <3 But hell, I am so scared, always running back to my save point. XD