Acquisitions
- Regions of Ruin
- Valhalla Hills
- Ticket to Ride: First Journey
- The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut
- Trüberbrook
- GRIS
- Opus Magnum
- This Is the Police 2
- Capitalism 2
- Shoppe Keep 2
- Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition (amazingly lucky SG win)
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11-11 Memories Retold
25 hours playtime
50 of 50 achievements
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Epic Battle Fantasy 4
51 hours playtime
68 of 104 achievements
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Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock
14 hours playtime
no achievements
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Spyro Reignited Trilogy
29 hours playtime
36 of 105 achievements
11-11: Memories Retold
At Least Somewhat Historic Cool-looking Educational Favorites France French Voice Acting German Voice Acting Kitty Cats Noticeably Good Music O Canada Short World Wars Era
Good story-based game I played for last round's Play or Pay. Most of the game takes place in France during WWI while you alternate playing between a Canadian and German soldier. While the story is serious, there is still some light-hearted moments and cute animals, as well as a few stunning moments of fantasy that feel like they came out of a nostalgic children's story. I would definitely rank this as an example of a video game successfully reaching towards a higher art.
The only thing I could ask for is for the endings to have been more fleshed out, but that's also a sign of a good story. Some people may be put off right away by the impressionist graphic style, but I loved how the art style was used to represent an era that kind of ended with the war.
Epic Battle Fantasy 4
This was also for Play or Pay. I used to play these on Kongregate. They kind of just have a silly, meta style of humor. Turn-based battles, some puzzles, fetch quests. I also feel like there are too many battles in these. Most enemies you initiate an encounter with will end up being like 3 waves of battles. I didn't do the extra Battle Mountain area because there each encounter is like 8+ waves, and it just wasn't fun or interesting enough for me to do it. I usually like turn-based battle systems, but for some reason the ones in this game/series have always been boring to me.
The skill system was also not very motivating, because I bought what I wanted as soon as I could. Then I was left with a mass of junk skills, or defensive support abilities when I just wanted the battles to end.
Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock
At Least Somewhat Historic Detectives! Mystery! Murder! Literary Ties Short USA World Wars Era
Afaik, this is the only Nancy Drew game that takes place in the past (1930, to be exact). The subtitle of this game was the title of the first Nancy Drew book, which was released that year. As Nancy Drew, you stay at the Lilac Inn in Illinois at the beginning of the Great Depression.
The Lilac Inn from Nancy's blue Roadster
It's not one of my favorite Nancy Drew games. While one puzzle referred to Shakespeare, it wasn't actually educational like most other games in the series are. One of the main things about this game is driving around the roads on a world map. You can run out of gas or get a flat tire, so you have to attend to those. You can make money by delivering telegrams. You're told you get a flat rate for each letter plus tips, but HER Interactive played a funny Depression joke because no one ever tips.
The biggest takeaway is to always appease the cat before thinking of anything else.
You can call Nancy's dad, Carson Drew, in this game. I didn't take advantage of that much because we're stripped of our cellphones and have to use a pay phone, which means delivering more telegrams, which means getting more gas...
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
A childhood favorite. Before I had my own copy, I used to go to the next-door neighbor's house and try to get someone to play it. I finished the first game in the trilogy with 100% completion. I remember a lot of mini-games in the other ones, so I'm not sure if I'll have the patience or time. I hated the "all in one" race-against-the-clock levels in this one enough. The rest of the game was easier than I remembered, though. I remembered a lot of levels and dragons you rescue, but I wish we could have seen comparisons to the old graphics in the game. The collectables could have unlocked items in a gallery. I know I can just look it up, but still.
Oh man those “all-in-one” races suck! I can totally agree with you there.
What are the all-in-one race levels?
You fly about a level on a timer and have to collect different objects/kill enemies. Now, doing that isn’t all that bad but if you don’t get all “collectables” in one go you don’t get a gem bonus, which you need if you want to go for full level completion.
I love your kitty cat tag! I also collect cat games and I’ve added some new ones to my wish list thanks to you!
Thanks, I’m glad my obsessive listing could be of use. There’s also a little cat RPG called Cattails I’ve been wanting but can’t add to the list since I don’t own it yet.
Ha yes! I know about it, it’s already on my wishlist. Waiting for a good sale since all those cat games cost a lot of money!
I could never get into Collectathons like Spyro. It feels like busy work.
I decided to play it while quarantined to be in that time-wasting kid mindset again. But in the first Spyro at least, I completed most levels without much effort or time, otherwise it would have been easy to give up on the flight/race levels. I guess what drew me to it wasn’t collecting gems but finding/exploring hidden areas.