Quick update
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf
Not much since my last update, but I had to let you guys know I 100%-ed Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf!
Took me 39 hours and the run on hard had some frustrating battles. Especially the first battle with Gunzar (with the Doomwolves) was a pain in the butt.. Had to do it many times and compared to that, the final battle was a walk in the park.. Overall the last few hours on hard weren’t very enjoyable and the random fights while moving on the map or meditating were just extremely frustrating, to the point where I’d just purposely lose them asap and reload to previous checkpoint (yeah you can’t just reload right off the bat, you have to wait till you’re dead), since fighting them usually meant I had to meditate again right after with the chance of another random fight, all the while breaking down your main weapon and arrrrrghhh.. frustrating!
Anyway, I’d definitely recommend this game, but I wouldn’t recommend going for 100% (since that requires 3 runs and the battles just aren’t much fun in the third run).. Play on normal (if you like a challenge) or easy (if you’re just going for the story). I’d recommend starting on Normal and if you grow too frustrated in the battles, switch to easy. Oh and pick the Sixth Sense power, cause you really don’t want to do those Shianti Cube puzzles yourself :-P They’re frustrating enough with the Sixth Sense power as it is ;-)
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Frankenstein: Master of Death
3 hours playtime
20 of 20 achievements
Frankenstein: Master of Death
Also played a quick HOG/Point & Click game on the side. Wasn’t very hard but I felt like there were too many locations/items so there’s lots of running around (“wait, where did I see the maple lock again?”). I actually resorted to using the Hints button to find the location where I could continue quite often, something which I almost never do in those games, but I just got annoyed by clicking through the entire map over and over. Not the greatest game in the genre, but it was a nice change of pace from Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf. Either way, another one for the monthly down.
Monthly theme progress
So with that, it’s 4 monthly games completed and since it’s the 28th already, I guess that’ll be it. Not the greatest result, but since Joe Dever took almost 40 hours and I also played Civ 6 for 70+ hours, I guess it isn’t too bad :-) Also, the live ranking for the monthly theme seems broken as it only notes 1 beaten/1 completed for me, even though I’ve 100%-ed 4 games.. Hope it can be fixed before the end of the month :-)
Congratz on Lone Wolf! :D
I keep reading bad things about the shianti cubes.. am I the only one who enjoys them? (have 6th sense but never used it on them.. what does it do? gives you the solution?)
EDIT: I don’t even find ‘em that difficult..
Thanks :-) Sixth sense tells you which sides you have to click to get the solution indeed. For me personally, the actual puzzles aren’t that hard but I just really struggled with the abysmal controls in those puzzles. I could never rotate the stupid cube the way I wanted :-p So I already almost explode trying to turn the silly thing if I know the solution from sixth sense, so you can guess what happened if I didn’t know the solution ;-)
Ahh you reminded me of another game that is my to do list.
Congratz on the progress
Congrats on 100% Lone Wolf. I’ve been wanting to play it this month but in the end I didn’t. And now i’m even more sad, Joe Dever passed away today ;__;
Oh my.. that’s very sad news.. I hadn’t heard it yet….. Really glad I’ve spent a lot of time with this game now..
Congrats on 100%-ing Lone Wolf! I totally hear you: finished my third playthrough just yesterday, and I couldn’t wait for it to be finally over. Game is awesome the first time around, bearable the second time but 3rd time is boring as hell. Didn’t go for the Hard difficulty achievement though, because I just barely managed to complete the game on Normal O.o
Thank you! I did my first run on normal and I barely managed to complete it too, so I’d say hard on your third run is only a little bit tougher than normal on your first run ;-) But yeah, same here. Loved the first run and the second one was nice too, to experience some of the other outcomes, but the third one felt like a grind.. I guess it’s also because in the first run the story, the thrill of beating certain battles and the general experience make up for some of the obvious flaws in the game and in the third run those positives don’t matter anymore while the negatives remain ;-)