So I am trying out the BLAEO Generators and it looks pretty neat. :D

Since last post, here’s what I have been up to:

Anyway, I am always working on several games at once, and almost always, I keep adding more to my active list…

I restarted playing Strider because it’s a SG win that I didn’t finish when I played it a few months ago, restarted last night initially where I left off, and couldn’t remember a thing. So started a new game and will hopefully at a green bar to show next time I update.

I restarted playing The Void Rains Upon Her Heart because I played and reviewed it about a year ago, but something brought my attention back to it. It’s basically a side-scrolling bullethell game with only one enemy per stage–the boss. It’s effectively a roguelite boss-rush game with really neat mechanics and boss enemies. It has a decent amount of progression and quite a bit of updated information since I played a year ago. I have already made it through 2/4 difficulty level story modes since restarting it earlier this week, so I guess I can put a green bar around it already. But I will go a bit farther and put it into my next update.

A friend gifted me Highrise Heroes: Word Challenge and what a blast it is. For people who enjoy games like Boggle (or any other word-search games that is of a non-board game nature) this game is great. It keeps leaderboards for every single level, both global and from your Steam friend list. But really, the game is fun and the challenges are interesting. I am about 1/5 of the way through so far, it’s taken about 2 hours to make that much progress. I see from Astats that people quote more than 30 hours to 100%. I have a friend who has 80+ hours and still has not yet gotten there. I will definitely try my best to run through the story/main game and decide from there.

I think I am finally done grinding Swords & Souls: Neverseen as I have done everything I wanted with the game. There are a few achievements that I just perceive to be completely outside of my ability level. I have done everything else. It was really addictive and amusing to grind an extra 40 hours past the main game, but I think my keyboard would thank me a little to take a break, perhaps permanently, from the game.

On the other hand I have gone back to grinding DemonCrawl because it’s the best iteration of a Minesweeper clone I have run across. It’s a roguelite RPG with a very minimal story but really tough levels. I never beat the game on Normal mode yet, but I restarted the game on Casual mode (where there’s guaranteed no-guesses needed) and after I run through that, I will try my best to make my way through the Normal levels, and who knows, maybe go beyond and try the more difficult settings there are. Tracking my progress is my YouTube let’s play playlist that I will try to keep updated as far as I can go.

Speaking of Rogutelite games, there are two modified deck-building roguelites that I have started almost simultaneously, Chrono Ark and Iris and the Giant. Both are excellent game. Of course Chrono Ark needs a lot of work still, it’s in Early Access and needs a lot of rebalancing. I had a lot of trouble with it so far, but it’s a good game design and is quite fun. It’ll be a long grind if someone wants to unlock everything that it has to offer. I hope they do enough rebalancing and rewrite a better tutorial so people didn’t have to suffer through it initially as I have done. My first 1/2 hour to an hour was really frustrating and I almost put it down. But I ultimately decided to give it a bit extra and now my opinion is much more positive. I may wait for a few more updates before picking it back up though.

On the other hand, Iris and the Giant is a fantastic game designed by someone who has done a fair share of work in creating children’s books. And it shows. The game follows the protagonist through her inner mental struggles as she literally fights her own demons. The deck building mechanic is very open and your cards essentially can be used only once, so the flow of each run is dependent on how you approach it. The art is like construction paper cut-outs, and very neat. I am having a great time with it, and I hope I can spend some more time with it soon.

Finally a game I want to bring to your attention is Puddle Knights as it’s coming out in 2 days, on March 3, 2020. It’s a heck of a cool puzzle game for puzzle lovers. It’s difficult too, no doubt about it. The game mechanics are really neat and despite me seemingly likely to pull out my hair on multiple occasions in my first-look video for the game I am having a really good time. What gets me worried is that the Puzzle Lovers Steam group owner has already put in 20+ hours and hasn’t seen the light at the end of tunnel yet. And I know for a fact I spend way longer on puzzle games than he does. Hopefully I have enough gaming time to devote to the rest of this game. (First world problems, right?)

Thanks for reading my mumbo jumbo, once again. I will play around with the BLAEO Generators some more in the future! Until then, I hope everyone a wonderful day and keep having fun!

I put in a request to join the Steam group, I don’t know if I have been around long enough and would qualify. If someone reading this can let me know more, especially if I don’t qualify, that would be great. Thanks!