Yes, I know. It’s been 4 months since my last update. I’m not really that good with schedules and stuff. D:
But well, I’m still alive, and playing games, and finishing games. Yes. :3/
Also a bunch of filler games but bare with me. >.<
2018 March update
Scream Collector
243 hours of playtime, 44 of 44 achievements
Personal rating: 9.5/10
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Another thing is the spinning wheel. I swear it's feeding my gambling addiction. lol Since you technically can get infinite amounts of spins for it, I found myself doing nothing but spinning the wheel for half an hour straight or more.
Overall I really enjoyed the game. There's not a second I don't enjoy when I open it, which is kinda impressive for a clicker/idle game, hence the high score I gave. And I would definitely be playing more once the dev adds new levels. :3
Ok, let's get to the point. The game itself. It's a good game. I actually played Borderlands 2 before the first one since a friend gifted me 2 before I won this one. And I have to say, this one ages really well! Like, the controls are quite good, graphics wise it doesn't look bad since it's sorta a cartoony art style, and what I found I like this one more than 2 is the navigation bar at the lower screen. After playing a bunch of 1 and going back to 2 to play with a friend, I was really not used to having to look at mini-map to look for enemies. So I gotta say, this is a fantastic game. I like the shooting(love using the sniper rifle! ), I like the looting(I'm such a hoarder, I pick up every gun I can to sell them. ) and I also don't mind the story. Sure, it's kinda half-ass and the characters are not as well developed and polished as the second one, but it doesn't really matter that much for me. Which is exactly the view point of the character we're playing: vault hunter who doesn't really care about how everyone else is and just wants the vault, just like I only cared about shooting, looting and leveling up.
However, yes there's an however. I have no idea why, perhaps it's that I always play the game in large chunks, or the fundamental repetitiveness of shooting and looting, I get tired of the game quite often. The routine usually goes like this: I feel like playing Borderlands again so I open it -> I play for 2~3 days straight -> I get tired of it and stop for a couple of weeks. Rinse and repeat. This is the biggest minus point for me, even tho I really don't want it to happen, but, to me this games seems to suck me in and keeps me playing almost obsessively, but then at some point I'll thought: "That's enough Borderlands. " It's a shame really, since the game is really good.
I'd say overall this is a fantastic game. I'm still going to work on getting all the achievements I can(or bother to, rather), but I'm gonna mark it as finished since all the story-lines are completed. :3
Fairyland: Fairy Power
4 hours of playtime, 7 of 7 achievements
Personal rating: 1/10
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As for this game, the concept is actually ok. It's like a board-like game where you control fairies that'll absorb the flowers(the map tile) it was standing on after moving. However, each move you have to wait for the audio cue, there's a painfully long wait time between each action, and sometimes when I click on a fairy it doesn't even register my click. Also, the game could really benefit from a tutorial, since I only know how to play by experimenting and know how each faction(there's 4) works by looking up astats guides. And the icons in main menu are really not explained at all, like the way to turn on/off AI. So yeah, this is a half-ass game that doesn't feel polished, and I got really bored when I tried to get the achievements.
Pixel Puzzles 2: Space
10 hours of playtime, 55 of 55 achievements
Personal rating: 5.5/10
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Pixel Puzzles: Japan
9 hours of playtime, 26 of 26 achievements
Personal rating: 5/10
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The reason I played these two game is that one day I just got bored, and was looking at my completionist.me stats since I just discovered that site and realized some jigsaw games are giving me bad completion rates, since I did some optional achievements before throwing those games to "won't play" category. So I thought why not give them another try. I did, and I wasn't wrong about it. Don't really enjoy these games as much as when I'm doing jigsaw puzzles on jigidi. To me they are just, meh, hence the score for me.
I'll say one thing tho: the space one is definitely better than Japan one, since it has the really interesting way of restricting hints. You have rockets scattered on the board and you can either use them to get hints or you can assemble them into a rocket to get an achievement. It's kinda clever, cuz it's optional, so if you think it's too hard you can give the achievement up, but you also get rewarded if you don't use hints. I quite like that. :3
That’s all the games I’ve completed after the last update. Not really that much, but I also started playing 2 more idle games, got back to playing Crypt of the Necrodancer a couple of days ago, and started playing The Binding of Isaac! And still am playing Dead by Daylight, although mostly survivors now since the devs are douches towards killers, and some Overwatch and Payday 2 from time to time. So yeah, still huge backlog, but I’ll try to plow through them slowly. :P
And now I’ve fallen in Scream Collector because of you. Any tips how to spend gems wisely and make quick progress?
Yayee I got someone to play the game. :D
Sorry for the late reply. Currently on a trip in Italy. :P
As with any clicker game, using an auto-clicker surely helps out. Especially in this game that you can get bonuses from clicking to fill the bonus meter, plus you’ll need the bonuses to get the achievement.
And well, for outside the house, I’d say first buy all the spin upgrades and a couple of auto-collect slots, and then save up to about 200 gems(just to be safe) and then you can start doing the infinite spins trick, which is when you see >=4 slots of timewarp/gems/spins(ignoring the bottom golden one) you use 10 spins, otherwise use 1 spin to refresh the wheel. Since you have 200 gems, it’s far worth it to buy 25 spins for 20 gems, and then you can basically just spin and spin and get all the gems to buy other upgrades.
So, in short, buy all the auto-collect slots and all the spin upgrades, and start spinning. :3
Thanks <3