#17 | Clues, Critters, and… Tears?

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HOGs always seem to be easy completions for monthly themes. They’re short and give me a sense of achievement (extra motivation to complete games - yay!), so I finished another one before the end of June. (:

9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek was slightly different from the other HOGs I played. There’s an extra “sleuthing” mini-game, where you click on areas that are clues in a crime scene. That’s probably why this game is called 9 Clues. It’s interesting enough, but I don’t find it very believable that the detective (me) can tell exactly what happened in that scene just from those clues. (I don’t know if forensic scientists / detectives can do that in real life, so correct me if I’m wrong!) Story-wise it’s extremely obvious who was behind the whole thing from the start - time to up your game Artifex Mundi! But then again I can get behind all of that, because my main purpose of playing these are for the hidden object scenes, and they’re good fun as usual. ^^

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The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles is a prequel to The Book of Unwritten Tales, and tells the story of how Captain Nate and Critter met and became best buddies. Knowledge of the first game isn’t needed but you’ll recognise a few locations and characters if you’ve played it. This is basically the same, except without Wilbur (!!!), with more critters, and the same amount of pop culture references. Some that I remembered includes Portal, Star Wars, Super Mario. Play this if you enjoyed the first one, and avoid this if you hate Critter - a significant amount of the game has you controlling him. Their gibberish language starts to get on your nerves really quickly…

I’ve finished this on expert difficulty, but I have to do another playthrough to get the normal mode achievements (and 1 achievement that I missed). I hate it when games do that.

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Oh, this is my absolute favourite game. I’m not sure if I can count The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth for the monthly theme? I started playing ages ago, but I got some achievements this month. It doesn’t really matter whether it gets counted or not, just trying to show that I’ve been working hard through the monthly theme. :P (I’m so hardcore I started the monthly theme months ago!)