Kyrrelin

April 2020 report

Hello everyone! April was a really good month for my backlog. The best in history seems like. :) I hope this will only continue as I yet again became weak and acquired many new games. X)

Random number generator picked 19 - so I should aim for completing Planet Stronghold… but as I have many entries in Monthly challenge, PoP or PAGYWOSG event, I don’t see it any pinky. ;)
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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 nice time everyone!

15.4 hours
5/5

This was fun!
We are playing as a badass detective Ronan O’Connor who is investigating (like the rest of the police department) series of mysterious murders, which are highly resembling the infamous Witch hunts that happened in Salem Town hundred years ago. Everything would go smoothly if we wouldn’t be murdered in the first 50 seconds as Ronan is a wild guy and has nothing to lose! :D But with our death just begins the right fun. ;)

So before Ronan leaves over the shining bridge to his death wife, he has to find the truth behind this “Bell Killer” and do everything he can to stop him. He wouldn’t be alone on this case as he joins his powers with young medium girl Joy who is searching for her lost mother… everything is intertwined.
Your hunt after the killer will take you through whole city and its important places. The world of the living and dead are connected, you can see the past and sometimes have to take detour as the route is closed. You can meet troubled souls who are lost and offer them help, that was nice touch as Ronan remains detective even after death. ;) Also if you search the city for notes, pictures, photos etc. you can learn a lot of about history of the city, Ronan, his wife and many others, oh don’t forget collecting scary stories! And they were rather scary. ;)
As a ghost Ronan gains new powers. He can go everywhere he wants… well, in case of houses only when doors are open, it doesn’t mean that he can go through every wall he see - I really liked this aspect, he must be invited. ;) He can possess humans (and cats!!!), read their minds and influence them in some cases. Teleporting is another skill he masters as well as dispersing himself into souls remains that you will see through the city. They are important part of the game as demons will try to catch Ronan and pull him into hell!

We can divide the game into two parts. Detective work when you search for clues, then you analyze them and connect them accordingly. Have to say that Ronan was a little bit slow sometimes. XD Other part is stealth action, when you need to hide before the demons. I have noticed that many gamers have spoken ill about this, so I was rather cautious, but I really like these kind of games and have to say that it was easy peasy! :D It was great, I have enjoyed it very much! So to say, you have demons who have floating pattern, which is very short. You can also see them through walls. You have to hide in the souls remains (you can safely teleport between them) and then pass by them or you can exorcise them, which is definitely better as they won’t disturb you any longer. You can do that when you sneak upon them or you wait for them to pass by you when you are dispersed. All it took was just a moment of patience to learn the field and then quickly act. I had to redo only one situation as he was situated in a bad place. I have really liked it and would even wanted more, as I was still waiting for some demons in the city as you have there the hiding soul remains, but nothing… I think that was a little wasted potential.

All and all, I have enjoyed it soooooo much! Story was interesting and gripping, characters likeable. I want some another dead detective! :D


10.0 hours
5/5

This is very nice puzzle game which is best played with friend! The graphic is beautiful as soundtrack (I would love getting it). Story follows Ember and Rime, separated by their different elements, but searching for a way to be together. Narration is done pleasantly and we always stopped to perceive it fully, few times some words were missing or the line wasn’t voiced, but it didn’t disturbed us much.

Gameplay is brilliant. At first I couldn’t have imagined how it will work properly, but it’s so clever! Main aspect of the game is the separation and influence of their elements of the world. It’s very nice to watch how the world changes with the Ember’s heat or with Rime’s cold… one could spent all time with sightseeing. Through the game you have to collect scarfs, which will open another worlds to explore. In those you separation is changed. Once you get forcefully pushed away if you just slightly touch, other time you can cloak yourself so the other element rules whole world, other time your area of influence got shrunk down or you would make solid bridge between you, and it’s up to you to use these situation to your gain. Some of the puzzles were simple and straightforward, others were hard and required a lot of attempts. But they all were very clever and nicely done! Another nice aspect is, that you can see how many scarfs you have in the world and you mark your way, so if you need to return you can quickly go back.



I have added Ronan from Murdered: Soul Suspect. :)

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 Ronan O’Connor
Saren Arterius T U V Wrex Urdnot X
Y Z        

Big thank you for my wins! :)

I have yet again failed to resist...
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 8 of 29

38% never played
34% unfinished
28% 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
    J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars

    27.4 hours playtime

    40 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

    1.4 hours 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

    14.0 hours 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

Cece09

As you expect from time traveling games decisions really don’t matter in the end. But hey at least in life is strange 2 the ending does change that game so yay for spoilers!

Oh look the brothers game we all talked about disliking to you. Enjoy

Kyrrelin

Oh no, spoilers! O_O

Haha, yeah what a coincidence. ;) I wanted to play it for the co-op challenge, but not enough time. We will see when I get to it. :)

Kulfy

I can relate on Cyrano Story, took me 7 hours to break all those seals ; the giveway was finished long before I finally got over it ^^

Kyrrelin

Another poor soul, I feel your pain. ;)

Aquilla

If you want dead (kinda) detective you can try Blackwell series. Those are 100% traditional adventure games, but the writing is absolutely brilliant. The only problem with them is that you should play them in order for the best experience, and the first one isn’t as good as the rest :)

Kyrrelin

You are right! I have actually won one game from the series and each sale I am keeping my eye on them. This time I will buy it! :D

Traqie

lol that’s a dedication worth of applause for Cyrano Story. I tried few times guessing the password but I just gave up and followed the guide. Some answers didn’t made sense to me anyway, some did. But in the end I got nothing, apparently I started it after they changed drop rate from 100% to something like 5% :/

And still on Hollow Knight I see? Are you stuck on speedruns or the Pantheon?

Kyrrelin

Haha, thanks. XD I have also started it in the later batch and even stopped for a day, but they have left some keys for Black Watchmen to keep dropping… I have wasted a lot of time with searching, analyzing, I just wanted to get all the answers, to crack it myself. ;)

Hollow Knight forever! <3 Neither, I am now doing steel soul mode, but after long time of neglection I have just fooled around in Godhood with all the bosses. Good thing is, that I killed all of them even Pure Vessel without any bigger problems. :D After that I will go for speedruns and I don’t think I will ever make The Pantheon of Hallownest. ;)

ShannonApple

Wow, that’s a lot of games played in a month. Well done you! =)

Kyrrelin

Thank you! :) Few of them required just a bit of time to hunt the remaining achievements though. ;)