Bank of Cirilla 358 games
I've been busy-ish lately. I don't know where the day goes most days now. I've been trying to play everything here and there and I'm making progress but very slowly. I suppose its not as an explosive new year in terms of gaming for me! Honestly, god knows how some people can finish massive games with 100s of hours, they must not be at school or have a job, its crazy xD I feel like once I finish CLANNAD, Final Fantasy X and Divinity: Original Sin 2 I will be able to play a lot of other smaller games with my full, undivided attention ^^
Plague Inc Evloved ❤❤❤❤♡
Bank of Cirila | 05/02/2018
100.8 hour of playtime, 170 of 183 achievements
The Good
Brilliant strategy game where you have a unique concept of infecting the world. Your pathogen infects 'Patient Zero' and you have various tools to gain abilities and infect to eradicate the world before they cure you. There are many types of pathogen to choose from which can aid or hinder you. There are countless scenarios such as the "Mad Cow Disease" that can spice up the game for you! You can name the pathogen which can bring humour to your game like infecting the world with "SteamGifts, Women, Trump etc" there have been some amazing names I've seen out there haha! UI is very nice and easy to learn.
The Bad
Before I get onto a rant...
I will say that there are some faults in this game, like many, but they are nothing in comparison to the achievements.As you can see I'm sitting on 93% and I could work on a few of the shuffle achievements and raise that higher but I installed it, I rage quit. SO many of the achievements are based on RNG of events that pop up so for example: "The festival of love is in Germany" therefore I would push for infecting through saliva etc. Also you need to wait for new reports to trigger these achievement events, the one that made me give up was an event based on "Planet of the Apes" and recreating the events of the film. To this day nobody knows the requirements for this achievement and despite getting the pop up of recreating Planet of the Apes and winning... The achievement did not show.
Rip... I ranted...
Overall
This game has taken hours of my time and many nights of pulling my hair out. Its such a good game but for someone wanting to complete it its just too much RNG and skill to do it. I will stand by my 4 out of 5 stars as my case is the minority and most people will just casual pick this up and play. Its perfect for short periods of play and there is nothing wrong with that and its why it was so successful on mobile. However, I feel they should be more transparent with the requirements of the achievements and maybe one day I will know them and come back to finish off what I started. For now I will take the 93% and accept defeat.
Event [0] ❤❤❤♡♡
Bank of Cirila | 13/02/2018
8.6 hour of playtime, 12 of 12 achievements
The Good
Very interesting story, you are on a space ship along with an on board AI who has... Well seen a lot of stuff lets just say! The interaction with the AI was very well done, you would be surprised on how capable it is to form a conversation. Beautiful graphics, very well done really. Music was fitting at times and there is one song in particular that just stands out and is played throughout. Lovely female vocal and I'd honestly listen to it in a playlist!
The Bad
There is a moment where you have to trigger an event in the bedroom and its very frustrating to get the event to trigger. I felt like I had to ask the right thing otherwise it would loop the conversation. I feel that they could have given a better movement system. You start off by moving forward with left mouse and back with right mouse. I changed it but it was still annoying when you wanted to move but were clicked onto the terminal typing "w"
Overall
A very nice game that I highly recommend that you guys play! I believe I got it in the monthly. My game time is not right as I idled it for a good 4 and a bit hours and had issues with triggering events... Anyway, I'd give it a solid 3 out of 5 stars!
I hate random number achievements. They’re even worse than the grindy achievements, because at least there you know if you spend X amount of time doing the same thing over and over you will get the achievement eventually, but if it feels like you need to perform some ritual to please the random number gods, it sucks all the fun out of it. And your last memory of the game is not a good one.
I think your paragraph about the control scheme on Event[0] demonstrates exactly why it had to be set to use the mouse. It was a bit weird walking with the mouse at first but after a while it made sense.
Exactly, grindy achievements are totally fine and I’ve done mind numbing achievements like Goat Sim etc but this one took the biscuit! A lot of people said stuff like you needed a few thousand people in the US alive etc and some said it didn’t matter. You had to have like 2 million alive at the end and have a base in the US from start to finish… but nothing popped for me and it’s just crushing when you.spend so long doing it and it doesn’t work :(
Oh of course it made so much sense but I really couldn’t stand it. It’s weird to say but it felt so unnatural lol. I just put up with the terminal thing!
Love the new format with clear breakdowns. Cuts down on reading time and gets to the point. :)
I’m genuinely surprised to hear text parses in Event [0] wasn’t more annoying considering what I’ve heard other people say about the game, but I guess that’s really up to preferences. It’s inevitable at some you need to have a “developer logic” moment and pull your hair out.
Thank you very much! I’m always trying to get my perfect format! I’m liking this one so far, easy to do and I feel like I can get my point across more! Do you think I should bullet point or keep a paragraph format?
I really think it was well done however, I will say I’ve never really played a game like it so I’m afraid I have nothing to compare it to and make a good judgement on it. Like I said though that one event in the bedroom did have me pulling my hair out asking it to help me in different ways but nothing triggered it. It didn’t help that Iwas following a guide for achievements so I knew what I had to do it was just trying to say the right thing! ;-;
I’m a poor judge when it comes to such things. Concise points are great, but I love me a good wall of text. Kinda wish I could integrate more of your latest style into my own. So you would say game is about four hours minus the idling? Are achievements of the “gotta replay the game to get them all?” variety or something you can do all in one run?
Ah, I spend a ton of time on the “Film Fanatic” achievement too. So let me just give you a few hints: the pop-up isn’t related to the achievement (even though it would seem to be); you don’t need any survivors AT ALL in America (this had me stuck for a long time, trying to save them); you need to have more apes than humans alive when you win, generally you have around 600k or so apes if you save them all, so you need less than 600k humans at the end.
I really enjoyed event[0] and even wrote an achievement guide though it’s sadly unrated because it came out much later than the other achievement guide, I’m not saying upvote it or anything but I would greatly appreciate if you did :D I know I’m being cheeky, please don’t downvote :(
I’ll keep this comment in mind when (if I) go back to the game. It’s just so annoying, seeing Ally struggle with the others makes me want to never touch the game again xD
I have rated and favourited, not because you said to but because I did actually use it alongside the walkthrough! I just didn’t think about rating it ;-;
Thanks for the review, AshenOne. I’m interested in Event[0], but haven’t managed to clear it off the backlog. My non-kid gaming time has all been going to Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced (yes, the first one). I’m incredibly slow at the game, but am having lots of fun.
I have an alt account where I would activate a game like Plague, Inc so I don’t have to worry about achievements any more than I want to. It’s liberating.
You’re very welcome! It’s very short, I’d say like an hour or 2 to finish but I played through it twice to get achievements. It’s worth a play honestly. The first Divinity was amazing I thoroughly enjoyed it, I didn’t think they could improve upon it until they did in the second! I was pleasantly surprised :3 PS there is nothing wrong with being slow at the game, I’m learning the genre and I’ve very slow and make mistakes. As long as you are having fun!
I have a bot account that would be perfect for that… very good idea. I think I need something like that. I always love playing on my other consoles because I don’t care for achievements there.