June 2020

This was a gift from a reddit user and it's one of the first new games of 2020 for me.
I'd started it once, but then gave up on it because it was kind of hard for me to play. But when I continued it, it didn't feel as hard anymore, and after finishing it, I can say that it's not really a hard game. There is a hard mode but of course I didn't play that. Why play in hard mode when you can choose easy? ;)
I'm very bad at platformers, and Wenjia proves that. I still enjoyed it a lot, even though I had some issues at parts. I was trying to 100% the game but the last 2 achievements are kind of impossible to do for me, so I'll leave it at 11/13.
The game's English translation is kind of bad, and the voice-over feels dead (in the sense that it doesn't have much of liveliness in it). But I didn't care much for the story, so it didn't bother me a lot.
I enjoyed switching between the worlds--it was a fun mechanic to play around with! and both worlds were pretty, imo.

I'm finally done with Portia!
For now.
Apparently there's another update coming in a few months, so I'll be going back to it (hopefully) to play that.
But for now, it's done. I was hoping to 100% the game but the romance achievements are too much to handle, imo, and the game itself became kind of boring after finishing the main storyline. I wish I did some of the romance stuff while playing the story, but I didn't because I was focused on the story and after that it wasn't as fun anymore.
Because with the story there are challenges, for example there will be commerce commissions which requires some items you don't have. But at the point of me completing the story, I had a lot of resources and items, and none of the commissions take me long to do--which makes them repetitive rather than a challenging (sometimes annoying) but engaging task.
Anyways. Enough of that.
I really enjoyed playing this game. I understand it won't be for all, but for me I liked it a lot. It's not better than Stardew Valley but I really liked the "building" and "mining" aspect of the game. And there are a lot of NPCs! I liked getting to know some of them too. (I'm looking at you, Arlo :P)
The art style is weird for some but I didn't mind it. It's not the best, but I didn't care much about it.
It's officially the second most-played game on my Steam profile and I'm glad I caved in last year and bought it during a GMG sale instead of waiting for the price to get lower. Because it did--when I bought it, the lowest it went down to was 30% off, right now I think it's down to 60% off. But then I wouldn't experience it the same way I did.
I'm definitely looking forward to more games from Pathea.

This was really good. I wasn't expecting it to be so good, but it was.
I don't even remember how I learned of this game or how I decided to purchase it, but I'm glad I did. And I'm also glad I decided to start playing it once I needed something longer to play after beating Portia.
I couldn't 100% the achievements because several of them are from the DLC, Road to Gehenna, and I missed one early in the game. After that I didn't bother much.
It has 3 different endings and thanks to the feature which allows you to restore an earlier version of the game, I was able to play all three of them. But I think only one of them is the "real" ending, in a way. The other two leave a lot of questions while that one ending kind of confirms some of the assumptions or suspicions.
Some of the puzzles were really hard and I definitely needed walkthroughs more than once. But there were times in which even though I struggled a lot, I didn't use a walkthrough and managed to do it by myself. I enjoyed the challenge. Also, I like how the game is so philosophical and forces you to "think outside the box", literally at times. Such a good game.

I tried hard to 100% this game, but there's a speedrun achievement and it's broken.
Apparently you need to delete some files first and then complete the game under 1 hour again to get it. I did it, but for some reason it didn't trigger in my first try. I tried a second time, but this time I died… at the very end of the game. I've played this game for 4 times now, and I'm really tired of it.

At the first 2 playthroughs it was a very fun game. I like the story and I like the way it's told. The game is meant to be played 2 times. There are things which won't unlock in your first run and most of the achievements are only possible in the second run.
I also really enjoyed the voice-acting. I realized Jack is voiced by Jacksepticeye right away, but I had no idea Felix was actually voiced by Pewdiepie. When I listened closely during my second run, I still couldn't identify Felix's voice tbh. Bo is really cute.

It became tiring after I started attempting to get that one last achievement. I'm not going to attempt it again. The game can be completed around 30 mins. very easily--it's a shame that the achievement is bugged.