LastM

It’s been a while since my last post here. A lot has happened, but more on that later.
First of all, if you haven’t seen it yet, a few people and I started a Play or Pay group and we would like to invite all of you to join! If you don’t know what it is, here’s a TL;DR: pick 3 games for someone, if they don’t finish at least 1, they will have to create a GA as punishment. (I do recommend reading the rules though!)

I’ve been playing a lot of games since the end of april. I haven’t been taking many screenshots lately, but here are some of my favorite ones (may contain spoilers!):

Games in order: Yooka Laylee, Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC, South Park: The Fractured, but Whole, EARTHLOCK and Dark Souls III


Games in order:Europa Universalis (Conquering Germany as a barbarian tribe from Crimea), Owlboy, Surviving Mars, Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight and Perils of Man!


ninglor03

Why DID he always wear sunglasses though?

LastM

Because sunglasses are cool! (⌐■_■)

Blue Ϟ Lightning

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LastM

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Trent

How was Perils of Man?

LastM

Really good! It’s been a while since I played it, but the only problem I found was a bug in chapter 2-3 that made me restart that part. It happens in the water chamber, if you do your tasks in the wrong order, iirc

stef

After just finishing the Challenge Me! that group sounds great.

Do you know how long the group will be accepting members? I ask because I’m to poor to give out unbundled games at the moment. Anyway congrats on the group it looks like fun!

Are you playing the Earthlock remake (or is it an update?). I was wondering if it was good or not.

LastM

We won’t ever stop accepting members. I really don’t understand why any group close their recruitment thread. The only thing is that, if you apply after picks (first 2 days of the month), you’ll have to wait a whole month to be accepted.
Humble monthly games count as unbundled on SG and iirc games bought on chrono.gg as well. Besides, you may always just skip any month that you don’t feel like you’d be able to create a GA. This rule was mostly to avoid people not caring about the challenge, since they would be able to giveaway any 3 cents game and that would defeat the purpose of the challenge.

It’s the remake. I haven’t even touched the original and I honestly don’t plan to ever do it. It doesn’t have turbo mode, nor any of the QoL updates.

stef

oh okay that makes sense! I think I’ll apply soon then. Thanks for clarifying!

iskibiribiri

Glad to see you back here!

Joe

How much did you enjoy Yooka Laylee? I just finished it today and think I enjoyed it overall… although it might help that I haven’t played a 3D platformer for years!

LastM

I had a mixed-experience. The nostalgia got me through it, but there is a huge disparity in map quality. The first one (I forgot the name) is by far the best and the casino, by far the worst. It’s easy to get lost in the main map where you find the other books. I really don’t understand that design choice. Take Mario 64, for example, the main castle is really, really easy to navigate. In comparison, Hivory tower is a mess.
According to a friend, if you play the new mario on switch or even A hat in time, you not only will be able to see the difference in quality, but also won’t be able to finish yooka-layle without that nostalgia. Honestly, I believe that she is right.

Joe

Yeah I see what you mean, I’d been watching some of the trailers and they only seemed to feature the first couple of worlds, somehow they forgot to advertise the Casino level! The hub world was a mess, unfortunately I haven’t played any games older than the PS1 generation and have never owned anything Nintendo so I’ve missed out on a lot lol, the closest comparison I can make is the Spyro games which is one of my favourite series, the hub worlds of which there were several were always easy to navigate. I’m really looking forward to A Hat in Time, I deliberately played this one first as I feel a lot of the issues would be much more annoying otherwise as the difference in quality is meant to be that significant… and I doubt I’d have been able to finish it either. The quizzes and the mine cart sections were the worst!

LastM

Yeah, I totally forgot about that stupid quiz! The first one was bad enough, but then they decided to add 2 more of them! :dewgrim: