Completely sorted my games, and we are at 66% 69% 70% 68% untouched! Bought some bundles darnit!

This was a decent week for games, though my backlog increased with the sale and Humble. I even won 2 GA’s in one day, one the ext, and another the following. But only these 3 I played this week.

I am working at planned games, but making progress otherwise too. At least I gave myself a goal date of August 1st. Higurashi was good, at least chapter 4 has a short wait.

GA Games

All of these games are visual novels and 2 have some fanservice in them.

I played Sword of Asumi, which I won in a GA. It wasn’t bad, but not very good either. I was kind-of expecting this though. I played through once for real, and then used a guide to get the specific endings/achievements. Surpringsly, I got many of the optional achievements in my first run. I just cannot get one achievement to trigger, despite following three different guides/hints. So I put it in beaten for now, and can try again later. In all, I’d say I spent about 7 hours playing through it, including my extra runs which heavily used skip. I feel bad about this

Next, Go! Go! Nippon! also had a similar issue, but there are no achievements. I also won this game
in a GA. Another game that’s not bad, but not great either. I am still glad I got to experience it though. I can see how it would be useful to people who are interested in Japan and it’s culture, but are new to it. I might even suggest it to the students that I tutor in Japanese/Japanese culture/history.

Lastly, I recieved Cyber City 2157, which has very positive reviews, but I’m not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, I found the stories intruiging, but I also felt there was much to be desired in the language. I noticed several reviewers also noting that the translations seemed off. I eventually had to turn my sound off/way down though. Some of the noises were too jarring. No achievements here either, but I hope they work on the translation first. My playthrough was about 2 hours.

Really wanted to play

The other big game I played this week was Zero Time Dilemma, the third game in one of my favorite series. I only had one real gripe with it, and it is the fact that the lip syncing doesn’t work, even for Japanese. But I really don’t care about that. Maybe because I play a lot of games like this, I figured out the twists pretty early on. I got lucky with one puzzle by solving an entire room entirely by accident, trying something I shouldn’t have even touched yet. Yay. Overall, a superb game that I had a lot of fun with. I hope the other two make it to steam soon though, as it really flushes out the story. It took me about 17 hours, which is well under the average that I can see. Yikes.

Suffer through

Lastly, I played Kivi, Toliet and Shotgun Which as many reviews point out, is incredibly buggy. Thank goodness there are no achievements in steam (there are in the game itself) or I would probably go a little mad. Otherwise, not really my type of game, and I was not expecting it to be. I did like that I could upgrade my car though. And while not techinically beaten, I played about 6 hours and suffered through bugs enough to say i was satidifed where I got.