Beaten and completed

It feels like I finished We Were Here quite a while ago, and I think I actually finished it before my last post but must’ve forgotten about it. I was going to play it with the roles reversed as well, but I’m a bit too lazy for that D: Word of advice: play this with someone who is at least somewhat observant. Whether you’re the explorer or the librarian, you will have to find a way out of the castle, and even if you do look at everything, if the other person doesn’t, it’s gonna be hard as fuck. One playthrough should take about an hour or two. We spent four. Choose wisely. There is at least one puzzle where both of you have to be quick, and, being the explorer, I died about 20 times simply because my librarian insisted giving me very, very detailed descriptions of what I should do every single time, including which way to face, where to stay, explaining things about the place, and it was unfortunately really annoying (it was the chess bit for the ones who’ve played it - I really don’t need you to explain how chess works every time we restart the puzzle, thanks). The game itself is amazing, and the way you need your partner is very different compared to other co-op games; it really puts you in your character’s situation and I recommend it wholeheartedly, but if you’re an impatient person, please, for the love of everything that’s good in this world, play with someone observant. </rant>

I finally got all the achievements for Gems of War and it is officially one of my favorite games ever; it’s basically a match three game, but for matching gems, you get mana for your troops. Why troops? Because you’re matching gems to battle! I absolutely love games that turn casual games into something competitive (just like I mostly loved Solitairica) and this one has a lot of things going on. I got my final achievement 52 hours in, but I did some extra stuff for which I didn’t get any xp, and the last achievement was level related. As it has multiplayer, hundreds of troops, guilds, quests, and events every week, with 120+ hours in I haven’t been able to actually even get all the basic stuff (basically kingdoms) to their max levels yet, because I also wanted to focus on all the other things. It’s pretty much the kind of game where you can always do more and I haven’t been this into a mp game since League of Legends. The worst part is that compared to League, I’m stacking up hours much quicker because you can just go in and finish a battle in 2-3 minutes or sometimes even less.

Loading Screen Simulator is a time-waster and I love time-wasters. It was pretty simple and pretty dumb, but if you enjoy clicker games you might find this entertaining for a few minutes.

For July’s monthly theme, I joined with Gems of War, but finished 10 hours early (was at about 42 hours, got the last achievement at 52) so I had to choose another one, and I’ve said multiple times that I very much dreaded starting Telltale’s Game of Thrones, but I only had a handful of games to choose from. I absolutely love Telltale games - I even had this from the previous TT bundle, and I played all of them except for this one and Jurassic Park. Now, none of their games are based on books/tv shows/comic books/other games that I personally enjoy, but I don’t tipically like historic games. I went in expecting to really hate it, and I ended up crying after the very first episode. Thanks for that. I felt like out of all the TT games I’ve played so far, this one had some of the most difficult choices and it really sucked how I ended up getting attached to all the main characters. I’m also considering watching the show now simply because I love suffering and because I fell for Jon Snow. Thanks for that too.

After I finished GoT, the new bundle came out, and I managed to convince my dad to get it for me, because I only needed the third tier and honestly I don’t even have $15 in my account. I don’t actually remember why I wanted the Batman one so bad, as I’ve literally never liked superheroes, but, again, thanks to Telltale, I might reconsider. Unfortunately, the game still has issues (for me it was mostly lagging - even though I can run much more requiring games) and I went through 2 or 3 crashes but thankfully they were all either after finishing an episode or before beginning another. I’m kind of sad that most of their other games were about 10-14 hours long but this one was just 8; TWD: Michonne made sense because it had only 3 episodes. However, I never consider these huge problems - it takes a lot for me to actually dislike a game and say it isn’t worth playing at all, and except for what I’ve said, I have no other complaints. I have to say I really liked how this one had more mechanics than usual, like the “crime-solving” scenes, or choosing how you want to attack someone, extra keys to press in fights in order to make it more difficult.. It was more action-packed than their usual games, and I think it fit the overall theme and story perfectly.

V or OLDTV as it’s known now, is a simple yet interesting game that starts from the stroop effect and goes on to make it even more complicated. I don’t feel like I could say a lot about this game, but it’s strangely compelling. I’ve kind of beaten the game, I think? I am going to try to get most of the other achievements though.

Up next

I should really be getting back to the games I’ve been challenged to play for this month’s Challenge Me, but unfortunately I was reminded how much I love TT games so I’m probably going to finish their Minecraft and Jurassic Park first.

I’ve already begun Ether One and altough it is interesting, it seems that the places I have to go to will be getting larger and I’m not really into huge open worlds right now. I do plan finishing it as soon as I finish the other two if not earlier, as long as it doesn’t get too complicated.

The other three are also from the challenge, and I kind of dread playing point and click games lately, but I’ve heard a lot of praise for Grim Fandango so maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised? Perils of Man is also a point and click game, but I haven’t heard much about this one.

This is the second time ABZU shows up in my updates and I feel absolutely guilty about not playing this one, since not only it is very praised and looks amazing, but I also won it on SG with the intention of playing it asap and never actually doing it. It looks like the kind of game that I wouldn’t put down once I started playing it, so honestly I don’t understand myself at all.