September Update

So since I’m going on a 2 week vacation to Crete tomorrow, here’s my September update already. I’ll probably have some time to play at the end of the month so I’ll do another update then! :-)

Monthly Theme Games

• Supreme League of Patriots Issue 1: A Patriot Is Born
  

  6 hours playtime

  35 of 35 achievements

• Supreme League of Patriots Issue 2: Patriot Frames
  

  5 hours playtime

  21 of 21 achievements

• Supreme League of Patriots Issue 3: Ice Cold in Ellis
  

  5 hours playtime

  22 of 22 achievements

So I played the Supreme League of Patriots season for the monthly theme.. It’s meh.. I mean, the idea is pretty cool, the story’s kind of fun, there’s plenty of humor and it’s a point and click! Sounds pretty good, but unfortunately it isn’t. Yes, the jokes made me smile every now and then, but there’s just too much conversation, too much trying to be funny so it gets annoying really fast.. It also doesn’t help that the gameplay makes you find that one line of conversation before you can solve the puzzle (even if you have a pretty good idea what to do without that line of conversation). There’s no indication whether a conversation topic is actually useful or it’s just humor.. To make it worse, if you accidentally click a topic again you have to click a bazillion times to skip every line or listen to the same jokes again.. Also, some of the puzzles don’t make a lot of sense and the inventory management is horrible…… If you’re going to play this, I’d advise finding a guide and see it more like an episode of a television show where you have to click every now and then ;-) Anyway, it’s a quick 100% for 3 games, so that’s nice!

The others

• The Talos Principle
  

  32 hours playtime

  40 of 40 achievements

• 1979 Revolution: Black Friday
  

  7 hours playtime

  39 of 39 achievements

• Card of spirits
  

  9 hours playtime

  7 of 19 achievements

I played The Talos Principle for the monthly theme last month, but I didn’t have the DLC and guess what? The DLC’s on sale so I bought it and played it! Really liked it! The puzzles are hard, but not impossible and I really like you only need 10 stars instead of all of them, so I just gave up on the stars that seemed too much work ;-) Was fun to make my brain work again and glad to have this game on my 100% completed list :-)

1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a SG win. It’s a very interesting game about the history of Iran. I was not familiar with it at all and the game gives some really nice insight into that. The game plays like a Telltale game. It’s not as good, but I thought it was fine. The game’s rather short (I guess you can finish your first playthrough in 2 hours or so) but it has replayability, especially if you want 100% achievements (impossible to get in 1 run). There’s a lot of collectables (called stories) which can be either an object you need to examine or a photo that needs to be taken. Some can be easily missed, so I used a guide for my second playthrough to mop up all I missed. All in all, I really enjoyed playing this game, so I’d definitely recommend it if you’re interested to learn about Iran.

The last game I played is another SG win called Card of Spirits, which is (surprise, surprise) a card game. The game’s pretty simple. There’s no tutorial or anything so you need some time to figure it out. Also, it’s a card game, nothing more, nothing less. You can only play against the AI and every round is the same.. I played almost 100 rounds so far, and though I won most, I still lost a lot as well, since you can be a bit unlucky. There’s also some impossible achievements to win number of games in a row (up to 100). My highest win streak so far is 6, so no way that’s achievable. Now that I understand how the game works I keep track of all the cards that have been played so I can make an educated guess which cards the AI has and I know how the AI plays mostly, but still you can just get unlucky and lose.. I’m not ready to give up on it yet though! Perhaps there’s some trick I can use to beat the AI every time, so I guess I’ll play it some more after my vacation ;-)

For now, I’m going to enjoy my vacation and see you guys in 2 weeks!