Beaten and completed

Well, I’ve been working my ass off this year so I haven’t had much time to play nor to update, but now that I have to isolate, I had enough time to finally get some sleep and I don’t feel too tired to play video games. I played these earlier this year and I figured I’d do a quick update cause I might have another one coming soon.

I started playing The Test and The Horrorscope mini series out of curiosity, I wasn’t expecting much and to be fair, it is after all just a bunch of long quizzes. I do like that they feel unsettling at times but what I really do dislike is that there are a lot of questions that repeat themselves between the series. You get a keyword according to your answers to use in a future game made by the same developers, but all in all it’s a decent way to entertain yourself for half an hour if you’ve got nothing better to do. The Test focuses more on how you are as a person, while The Horrorscope focuses on how you would react in dangerous situations, both realistic (murder, home invasion, robbery etc) and not-so realistic (zombie apocalypse, possesion, ghosts etc).

First of all, do yourself a favor and put the original, Russian audio for She Sees Red. Even in Russian, the audio seems a bit desynced for some reason, some lines sound recorded differently from the other ones, and overall it kind of sounds like it’s been dubbed over. It’s an FMV game, which I tend to like a lot, and while it’s not perfect, I think it’s pretty decent. Unlike another similar game I played in my last update, you can actually skip through scenes you’ve seen so you can get multiple endings without much trouble. The story itself isn’t what it initially seems and you do gain more depth to it the more you play it and try different things, however I’m not neccessarily a completionist (or at least, not a die-hard one) and I didn’t feel like the repetition was worth it to get all of the achievements.

Tokyo Dark was a bit different than I was expecting, and I had some visual issues I didn’t see anyone else have or talk about; every time I’d drop in a different location, my screen would flash a bunch of times before I could do anything, which started getting annoying pretty fast, and I imagine it wouldn’t be ideal for anyone sensitive to that. You get to play as a detective and it’s another “your choices matter” type of game, but some things are inevitable no matter how well you do your job. Sometimes, it’s not straight-forward enough for you to know where to go to progress, and it wouldn’t be a bad thing normally but I’m talking about legit not knowing where to go despite going through every logical option. Again, I played through a few times for different endings and while the conclusion was satisfying to me, I can see how it could feel lackluster to some. I don’t think it was as good as I was hoping it would be, but I still don’t regret using my time to play it.

On a simpler note, Human-powered spacecraft is a nice little clicker game that takes less than an hour to complete. Cute graphics, a tiny bit of a story, and you’re done. No need to grind hundreds of hours to complete it, feels satisfying, and it’s cheap. Definitely a good time waster if you’re a filthy casual like me.

I’m playing something I’ve been waiting to play since I bought it during the summer sales, but I legit don’t know what to play next. Might jump on a couple of HOGs to keep the momentum going until I remember other good games I have waiting in my library.

Shame pile