Long overdue update

So my last update was 2½ months ago.. Wow! Real life caught up with me! Did have some time to game, but not much time to sit down and write a post, but hey, it’s long overdue so here’s all the games I’ve beaten since my last update:

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• Pandarama: The Lost Toys
  

  5 hours playtime

  9 of 9 achievements

• Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
  

  2 hours playtime

  12 of 12 achievements

• Year Walk
  

  2 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• SAMOLIOTIK
  

  3 hours playtime

  14 of 14 achievements

• Grow Home
  

  5 hours playtime

  7 of 26 achievements

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Couple of short games there.. Pandarama: The Lost Toys is a mobile port.. it’s not bad, but yeah, it’s a mobile port. Was a SG win though and had some casual fun with it, so all good! Really liked Brothers! My playtime’s off cause Steam was down when I played most of it, but still very nice story. Sometimes kind of awkward to play it alone on my keyboard but it worked out nice. Improved my coordination ;-) For Year Walk I only needed the final achievement to play it on New Year’s Eve, so I did just that. Interesting game, which I’d definitely recommend to play through once without guides. Was an interesting experience and not too scary (I hate scary games :-P). I played Samoliotik and Grow Home for one of the monthly themes. Samoliotik is a piece of trash really, but I got 100% achievement in 29 minutes (rest of time is card idling :-P). Grow Home I expected to like but I grew extremely frustrated with the controls I couldn’t force myself to go achievement hunting. Ah well, it happens sometimes :-)

Then for the bigger games..

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Oh yeah I loved This War of Mine! I originally played it in 2014, but during the Christmas sale I picked up the DLC and decided to go for 100% achievements. The addition of the children in the DLC is interesting, but once you get the hang of the game they’re pretty much just like another character (but can’t scavenge or guard). Had some pretty interesting runs. Especially my last one! I was lacking 3 achievements at that point (Miraculous Recovery, Back from the Brink and Street art) and decided I’d try to get them in the same run. One piece of advice: don’t try that!! :-P It was horrible! I tried to get one character sick to get Miraculous Recovery first, but of course everybody else got sick as well, and then Pavle was nearly shot to death when trying to get one of the graffiti for Street Art and everybody was depressed. At one point I had 3 characters who were so depressed they couldn’t do anything and poor Bruno was the only one still being able to move around slightly. Then the neighbours showed up and asked for help, and I thought, what the heck, I’ll just send Bruno.. Got nothing to lose there, and it turned out to be key. The same night terminally wounded Pavle decided to leave us. He took some supplies, but at least the other people didn’t have to worry about him anymore and they felt a little bit better because Bruno had helped someone in need, and slowly but steadily we got out of the deep hole and got all the achievements. A truly miraculous recovery it was, and was so happy when it worked out :-)

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I won Batman: Arkham Knight on steamgifts and I’ve got to say it’s my favourite batman game! It received a lot of bad reviews because of the horrible performance when it launched but it played pretty smoothly for me (though admitted I got a premium game pc). Had a lot of fun with the batmobile and all the side quests and DLC. Most DLC’s are pretty short, but got them for free so can’t complain there ;-) Only downside they really overdid the Riddler sidequests this time. I think about 20 hours of my playtime was running around finding and solving all the 200+ riddles.. Wayyyyy too much. Was very glad to have him locked up in the end and get the true ending as well. No 100% for me though, cause I’m not good enough at the combat and don’t want to rage quit the AR challenges for another 50 hours :-P

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I started Bastion about 3 year ago and somehow stopped playing before I finished it. I can’t remember why, but it was in the monthly theme so I decided to give it another go and boy am I glad I did! I absolutely loved it.. the music, the gameplay, the story.. I’m not a pro gamer or anything so pretty proud of my 100% here as well, cause some of those dreams with 10 idols active are pretty damn hard, but I did it! :-D Played through the game, played through new game+ to get the other ending, did all the dreams with 10 idols and finally score attack mode. Some people complain about the controls, but I didn’t have any issues here.

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I was really excited to play Devil May Cry. It was one of my SG wins I meant to play for a couple of times already but somehow didn’t. But then it showed up in the Monthly Theme so I decided I’d devoted my small amount of playtime in February to this game. I really, really liked it in the beginning! The music, the visuals, the action were all great. But the further I got into the game, the more I started to dislike it. The game was obviously designed to play with a controller and with mouse/keyboard it got just frustrating. I can’t remember how many times I yelled “I DID PRESS THOSE KEYS!!!!”. It’s too bad, cause the game really lost its charm this way. I switched to easy difficulty and finished it nonetheless but didn’t feel like going after the missing achievements or buy the DLC.. Oh well.. I did try it and I did beat it, so that’s a partially success there I guess :-)

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Final game in this update is my casual time killer friend Faerie Solitaire. Quite honesly, this game’s not much fun but it holds a special place in my heart because my wife and I played it together in the days before our wedding in 2013 while anxiously awaiting everything to come.. I saw it in my “Unfinished” list so I decided to finish it. The last two achievements are a pain in the butt. I was actually pretty lucky to get all eggs fairly fast but then I had to play through 2 more Adventure modes to hatch them all.. yawn.. but it’s all done now, time to find another casual time killer :-) Any suggestions?

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On a final note, one of my favourite bands released their new album today so I’ve been listening to it non-stop today. Dutch band called Chef’Special. If you want you can check them out on Spotify :-) That’s it for now! I’ll try to make my next update faster, but I got a feeling real life’s going to keep me busy for a while ;-) Have fun slaying fellow assasins and I’ll join you again when I can! :-)