ABC Challenge - 5th update

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Bionic Commando 🎁 - beaten
My first impression was bad. Although arm-swinging brought some joy, the story was dull and combat mechanics sucked. First part was set in boring dark rainy city. Levels were pretty small, surrounded by lethal radiation areas which greatly limited possibilities. Thankfully the situation gets better in second part when we unlock all skills which make combat fun. Also the setting changes to nicer green sunny jungle. But still, it was at most mediocre game.

Quest for Infamy 🎁 - completed
Retro-styled point-and-click RPG mash-up. I liked most of the characters in game, their dialogues, voices and humor. Another good thing was that you had to choose 1 of 3 classes (Brigand, Sorcerer or Rogue), each class having different quests to do and giving different means to solve them. From the drawbacks: grinding required to get some of the achievements, and some achievements didn’t pop up on steam on first (or second or third) tries and I had to retry - it was annoying.

Jack Orlando Director’s Cut 🎁 - completed
This fits both ABC Challenge and Rewind Monthly Theme. Finished it after ~2 year break. I liked the setting (30s) and the story. But the best thing were the dialogues, these were real fun and made me laugh many times. Graphics was good for game from 1998, but animations could be better.The game itself is not the easiest point-and-click game as you can die here and there is a lot of useless junk you can pick and then wonder if there is any use for them.

Strider 🎁 - in progress
Haven’t touched it for days. Hopefully I’ll get back to it soon. One drawback I noticed so far is that game is not saved on all checkpoints. What I mean is that if you die and continue, you continue from the latest checkpoint, but when you exit and run game again you continue from the beginning of the map. There was no info about it so I learned it the hard way and had to replay a lot.

Other games

SpaceChem - beaten
This is for Rewind Monthly Theme. I don’t remembered why I abandoned it 5 years ago (probably the level of difficulty) but I’m really happy I did beat it at last. And it took time (>50h). There is some story in this game but I have no idea whether it’s good cause I just totally ignored it, the only thing that matted was beating next level :P. I think I will try to beat the rest of challenges and buy DLC when it’s on sale.