November quick wrap up

Holy moly, new interface? Neat!
After the unprecedented number of backlog killed in october (7 games!), november is going pretty slowly and i have to thank Stardew Valley for it.

Monthly Theme

• Metro: Last Light Redux
  

  16 hours playtime

  31 of 49 achievements

• Spec Ops: The Line
  

  6 hours playtime

  39 of 50 achievements

I finally managed to see the good ending on Metro Last Light AND they announced the book Metro 2035 this very month. Talk about coincidences. If any of you have never heard of this series, i highly recommend to read the first book/play the first game Metro 2033. Great setting, great atmosphere, good writing and ok characters. Meanwhile the sequel to the book is kinda mediocre (Metro 2034) and doesn’t live up to it predecessor. One way to describe the games is “STALKER, but undergound…mostly”.

Not much to say on Spec Ops: The Line without giving away the plot. Another great game, although the gameplay is pretty basic cover shooter it deserve a playthrough regardless.

Random Backlog Killing

• Grim Dawn
  

  33 hours playtime

  31 of 84 achievements

• Stardew Valley
  

  32 hours playtime

  11 of 40 achievements

• Westerado: Double Barreled
  

  87 minutes playtime

  12 of 79 achievements

• Tales of Zestiria
  

  17 hours playtime

  10 of 56 achievements

Finished my first playthrough on Grim Dawn with my electro-shaman. I was really digging the game until the end, when the game just kinda ends… You kill this guy and the game goes “pack it up boys, we are done here”. It really killed the mood. For the sake of beating the game, i’ll cross it from my backlog.
Stardew Valley. This. This right here is a backlog killer. I don’t think i played any other games for a couple of weeks. Beautiful little gem. I might take some screen when i have finished building my fabulous farm.
On Westerado i have mixed feeling, on one hand it is a great concept, on the other hand it gets old quickly. Like 15 minutes quickly. And oh my god 79 achivements for a one hour long game? The game is not THAT good. At least not for me.
Last but not the least, i decided to install Tales of Zestiria after watching the anime, so far i like the action~ish gameplay, much improved compared to Symphonia (it only too what, 20 years?). I’ve reached the point covered by the anime, so i’m up to uncharted territories now even though the events play waaay different in the two medias and the revised animated story is way way better than the one portrayed in the game.