86maylin

2024 August update

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Little Kitty, Big City

5.6 hours of playtime, 39 of 39 achievements
Personal rating: 9/10, Date of finish: August/02
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This game is awesome!! You are a house kitty that's been spooked and fell down from your home high up to the ground, and you must find a way back home. It is a game with a general main quest and several small side quests, and a bunch of tasks of you being a naughty and mischievous cat. :P It's got a wholesome main story which actually got me a bit emotional when kitty finally returned home, and the side quests are great as well. And funnily enough it gives me a bit of metroidvania feeling with getting more vine climbing powers to get to new paths, and unlocking shortcuts so the map eventually links up together neatly. The also knows its audience, with multiple unlockable hats that you can have the kitty wear, and multiple poses that you can obtain from side quests/meeting random cats. x3 The only negative I have for the game is the auto-jump down when near a ledge feature. It is so frustrating to need to line up a long jump but didn't stop movement earlier so the cat just jumps down the platform instead, and having to go all the way back to the same spot only to do that same thing again. >.< Is it so hard to only have the "press b to jump down from ledge when near it" option and not auto-jump it?

Drop

37 minutes of playtime, no achievements
Personal rating: 3.5/10, Date of finish: August/05
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This is kinda a bad game, but I actually kinda like the story? Until it ruined itself.

With no sounds or music at all, and no dialogue, I had to resort to a guide after clicking aimlessly for a while. The game follows a boy with a hoodie that lives on a house as a small island. The world seem to be flooded and it's all ocean. We can fish, and water plants, and go down undersea wearing a diving suit. You progress by catching all fish, going undersea and touching bubbles to get flashbacks. Tbh I wasn't too clear on what happened from the flashback, something about people chopping down a big tree and then sea level rises and flooded the land, or is it land shattering and falling undersea? Idk. lol But the gist of it is the parents of the boy died undersea, and you go to various places with past memories, until you retrieve a seed. Planting the seed a flower blooms and you gift the flower to the neighbor girl. And we go back undersea again to where the final bubble fell even deeper when the floor it's on collapsed. Now you have 2 choices here, you can either go back up and gift a comb to the girl and live a new life with her, or you can jump down and chase the bubble. The presentation of the chasing the bubble is actually really well done, when you sink and sink through endless water, fishes, jellyfishes until your helmet cracks and you arrive at the bottom of the ocean. I really thought the boy died here when the helmet cracked and he struggled for a while, and then no movement afterwards, and that kinda touched me. But then we can still move to get the memories(yes there's actually multiple) which I thought was the final moments of him. And here I'm thinking they should have dropped bubbles on him as he descends, almost like a last look back of his life instead of making us have to reach for the bubbles since it would be much more emotionally impactful for him to die at the end when he reached the final one, but.....the dev decided to fucking use magic to save him wtf. The girl somehow sensed it happening, moved to grab the comb and cried, and then there's this lighting filled antenna thing undersea right beside the boy and you move him to it(even tho he should be dead by now, hello he's got a cracked helmet??) and then he's miraculously saved -.- It's so lame, and I liked the story as well.

Crime Scene Cleaner

14.8 hours of playtime, 50 of 50 achievements
Personal rating: 9/10, Date of finish: August/17
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Bought it at launch cuz of the demo and it's amazing!! Actually clocked like, 10 hours day 1 of game release since I just couldn't put it down. x3 It is basically Viscera Cleanup Detail with more tools, some QOL and also less potential to make a mess yourself, which is kinda good but also kinda a shame. xD Cuz I really love the fact that you can make it much worse very easily in Viscera, and this game it's basically really hard to do unless you intentionally do it. It also has kinda a storyline that's honestly bland and meh. lol But that doesn't matter anyways since we're here to clean stuff. The main character also throws cold one-liner jokes from time to time which is also meh. xD What matters is the gameplay, and the game excels at that so I'd recommend it to anyone that likes Viscera Cleanup Detail. :3

Alter Ego

3.4 hours of playtime, no achievements
Personal rating: 1.5/10, Date of finish: August/20
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I don't understand this game, or more specifically, the story it's trying to tell, because it's a point and click game so the important selling point of it is the story. But every single characters are insufferable assholes, especially the two characters you control, so that just makes me honestly not care at all about what happens to them. And every action in the game takes so long, especially ones with long drawn out and shitty animations, so I was bored out of my mind playing through it. There's also the fact that there's a lot of stupid illogical steps required, and after wandering around aimlessly for literally the start of the fucking game I opted to use a guide. lol Which is the smartest I'd say since a lot of the steps got me going "wtf I would've never gotten this on my own". And the ending, my god the ending what the actual fuck. The detective dies, and the thief just gets beaten up in prison, and the murderer and his lackey just gets to walk away free!? What the hell kinda story is that??? The only single enjoyment I got out of this game is a random thought of shipping the detective and thief together in a hate fuck kinda way. xDD Idk, just a thought and it could be fun~At least in my mind it's way better of a story than whatever this game's trying to tell in the end.

Hades

92.6 hours of playtime, 39 of 49 achievements
Personal rating: 9/10, Date of finish: August/22
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I finally finished the main story of this game woohoo! It took a long time, but honestly it's an amazing game. It's more me not being able to start runs over and over really. The design of the game having story progressions progressively is awesome and helpful in getting the basics down, but further more it requires a bit more assistance/repetitiveness which I happen to lack. I still love the game tho, for its amazing visuals and story and music, but the method I play it in is inherently going to have a disconnect in stories, and I'm ok with that.

Ayo I wrote the first part drunk outta my mind the night I finished it. xDD I was just doing a few casual runs(surprised that I actually got through 2 runs all the way in my drunken state lol) and boom outta no where Hades lets me go and I got to the end! Neato. Love the game, and yeah everything I said was true since I haven't played the game for a few months, so it's kinda a disconnection there for me. Still I would highly recommend it!

Time played 200 hours 5 minutes
Achievements gotten 216
Games 100% completed 5
Games discontinued -1

Thanks to Amitte I actually gave PowerWash Simulator another try, and grown to really love it. :3 It also might be the fact that I’ve had a rough month mentally, so it is a mindless game that I can just play without thinking much. Either way, I’m going to continue it and probably snag the DLCs on Winter sale or something.

Cece09

Went from cleaning crimes to just cleaning. Sad to see a game got saved from you struggling though so hopefully the rest of this month turns out better

86maylin

I did a lot of digital cleaning last month. It’s just way more enjoyable compared to physical cleaning. x3 Thank you, I hope so too. I bought a house so will be moving to my own place soon which is exciting, and also going to see if that helps me mentally or not.

Amitte

Wow, thank you for the mention! That made me smile :) I’ve been away from home for a bit, so I’m only seeing your post now. Again, so happy you played PowerWash Simulator!

With no sounds or music at all, and no dialogue, I had to resort to a guide after clicking aimlessly for a while.

This is one of those things I just can’t stand (no dialogue, specifically). Gameplay-wise, there’s no other way around it - it’s anti-player. Story-wise… at some point I figured it’s either meant to tug on your heartstrings or be a cop-out from writing an actual story. I’ve yet to be proven wrong…

The only single enjoyment I got out of this game is a random thought of shipping the detective and thief together in a hate fuck kinda way. xDD

And isn’t that a testament to the fact that something worked out along the way! lol Now that you said that, I wonder if I’d be doing the same!

86maylin

I have to thank you for commenting that persuaded me on the game. :3 <3

I wonder if I’d be doing the same!

Do let me know if/when you get around to the game if you think the pairing would be interesting/viable. xD Cuz I even got an oneshot pwp fanfic idea of how it would it would happen so…you can say my mind was bored that it’s making its own fun. huehue

Amitte

I will say, you’ve given me a reason to bump it up (from a complete zero, lol) on the priority list! xD