Progress report: Second week of July ‘20

Is it the second week? Or is it only the first one? The concept of time is just all-around annoying at this point.

• Gomo
  

  1.5 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Summer Fling
  

  2.1 hours playtime

  7 of 7 achievements

• Transparent Black
  

  1.6 hours playtime

  11 of 11 achievements

• Viki Spotter: Camping
  

  0.3 hours playtime

  25 of 25 achievements

Gomo - Here, you play as Gomo, a stitched-up creature, who wakes up one day only to realize that its dog, Dingo, was abducted by an alien. The game is very limited, and therefore straight-forward, so it could be a good choice for kids (as long as your kid doesn’t mind the dark brown palette and the fact that Gomo single-handedly stops a war by launching a nuke). It’s one of those games that almost constantly get a 90% discount, which is the price I got it at during the Summer Sale and the price I would recommend getting it at any point.

Summer Fling - The premise is simple: you’re a soon-to-be college student and on the first day of summer break you gather up the courage to invite two of your beautiful female friends on a trip to your parents’ lake house. Then, you choose which girl you’d like to romance, or even if you’d like both - there’s a hidden harem route! The choices are mostly freebies, like “Which one of us do you like more? A/B/C - both”, although you also help the girls with choosing swimsuits and this is probably the first time I’ve ever experienced swimwear holding this much value in a game. While this was my first experience with a VN from Dharker Studio, I’m surprised this wasn’t their first VN - I’m not sure if I would be satisfied if I were a backer of the Kickstarter for it. The background art looked okay, the music was pleasant, but nothing special; the girls were both pretty, although they seem to suffer from the same-face syndrome (and the way their sprites slid from side to side when changing expression was kinda annoying) and the font choice was peculiar, but readable. I noticed that the game seemed to stop itself at certain points, so I went ahead and got the free adult content patch… it still felt like the game was holding itself back. The visuals didn’t even try to match the text and neither were very titillating - I’ve read fanfiction that managed to excite me more.

Transparent Black - Set in the same universe as Confess My Love, Transparent Black focuses on who seems to have been the love interest in the previous game (her name is redacted this time around, as is the boy’s name whenever mentioned). Maybe it’s just that it’s been a while since I played Confess My Love, but taking their relation into account, it’s hard to believe that this game makes sense. What I have to give it, though, is that it was less random than the other game and thus easier to complete.

Viki Spotter: Camping - This randomly popped up on Steam’s front page, so I decided to get it for a quick 100%. I’m not sure how fun it would be for kids, as the differences are super easy to spot. What I do know, however, is that the background music was a really annoying loop that I muted probably not even a minute in.

See you next week! :)