Update number unknown + 15, about the bad and the ugly.
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Renoir ⌛ ~1 hour | ✪ 0/9 | ☑ In Progress |
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I really like the noir style and I could live with the ridiculously stiff character animation, but the gameplay is simply unbearable. The controls are extremely unresponsive, the movement extremely sluggish and then there are the puzzles. The puzzles go like this: You select a ghost, then you press ENTER to activate it, then you slowly perform the needed action with the ghost (mostly flipping light switches), then you press ENTER again to "record" the action, then you press ENTER yet again for a slow replay of what you just slowly did... What in the holy hell?
Yes, manipulating ghosts is a thing. No, the game doesn't explain why.
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Catacombs of the Undercity ⌛ ~4 hours | ✪ 4/19 | ☑ In Progress |
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Close Your Eyes ⌛ ~4 hours | ✪ 8/8 | ☑ Completed |
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Story Of the Survivor: The Escape DLC ⌛ ~1 hour | ✪ N/A | ☑ N/A |
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The bit that I was able to play, before the first boss, was pretty bad as well - the protagonist has to constantly eat and drink, because the hunger/thirst meters go down super-fast, as is often the case with shitty survival games.
It's really baffling, as far as I recall, the original game (Story of the Survivor) was decent.
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Labyronia RPG ⌛ ~14 hours | ✪ 6/6 | ☑ Completed |
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And a little bit of good, played for 
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Please Close the Doors ⌛ ~3 hours | ✪ N/A | ☑ Beaten |
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Mini Ninjas ⌛ ~19 hours | ✪ N/A | ☑ Beaten |
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Cook, Serve, Delicious! ⌛ ~32 hours | ✪ 43/52 | ☑ Beaten |
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Mystic Saga ⌛ ~25 hours | ✪ 40/53 | ☑ In Progress |
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Freebie. It's an RPGMaker horror/thriller in which you are trapped in an elevator with 7 other people and need to find out who the murderer is before it's too late. An alright game actually, though somewhat buggy.
Mini Ninjas
Freebie. One of the cutest games I've ever played. Enjoyable hack-and-slash-y experience with basic stealth. Beautiful in-game world. Has several flaws, but is worth playing if you own it.
Cook, Serve, Delicioius!
A gift, forgot from whom 🙁 A restaurant/cooking simulator. Enjoyable to play but some foods are perhaps unnecessarilly difficult/annoying to cook at later stages.
Mystic Saga
SG win. A hidden object game that was clearly meant to be free to play on Facebook or perhaps mobile devices, but costs 4,99€ on Steam. Kind of worth playing if you can get it as a freebie, though.
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Oh yes, soups are the worst! I also kind of hate lasagna, always get the order of layers messed up when meat or vegetable gets thrown in the mix, hah :D
The “sequel”, as in CSD 2? I have to check it out, though yeah I’m a bit afraid that there’ll be just too much stuff.
Hmm yes, Mini Ninjas might actually be a mobile port, but it plays well on the PC :) It was recently free on the Squeenix store, maybe you noticed (hence the SG giveaways, or so I assume).
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Haha I still think of “PSCR PSCR PSCR” when I see lasagna now irl.
Lol yeah, I see how that can happen :D
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about CSD 2, I’ll keep an eye on it :)
Funny how you had two RPG maker games this time with a bad use of empty spaces. I think it’s a hallmark of what sets apart a good game from a mediocre one. A lot of these RPGmaker games are made by one or two amateur devs and they haven’t got the memo that making a game seem bigger or longer by just having lots of empty space they need to get across doesn’t fool anyone into thinking they got more value for money.
I very much agree! A shorter game with a good pacing is way better than a long game that just drags on through boring fillers (or worse yet, through empty maps in this case) :)
I completely overlooked this entire series. So they’re basically CYOAs with some dice rolls? Or more in-depth mechanics?
Pretty much CYOAs with dice rolls and some items to use in or outside of combat, yes ;)