Mid-Month Update: February!

Just started working again so I may not have as much to say in my future updates, but I still have some time to game and should be able to at least update you guys on a game or two every two weeks! Anyway, just have few this time around and I’m going to also talk about an unbeatable game that I’ve been playing a lot and has become one of my favorite games on Steam! Also, as always, if you have an questions, feel free to add me on Steam or leave a comment!

• The Fidelio Incident
  

  6 hours playtime

  13 of 14 achievements

• Celestian Tales: Old North
  

  23 hours playtime

  4 of 18 achievements

• Black The Fall
  

  2 hours playtime

  6 of 14 achievements

• Day of the Tentacle Remastered
  

  7 hours playtime

  41 of 58 achievements

• Slay the Spire
  

  26 hours playtime

  15 of 26 achievements

The Fidelio Incident

A very enjoyable walking simulator with some neat puzzles and a fairly compelling story. The premise of the game makes everything feel somewhat surreal while still making sense if you pay enough attention to realize what is actually going on. There are basically two different stories going on here, what is currently happening to the husband while he’s trying to save his wife and what essentially led them to being in this situation through collectible journal entries written from the wife’s perspective. The graphics and settings are very appealing and really help to emphasize what is happening in the game. And the voice actors feel convincing (and have Irish accents which I love)!

Celestian Tales: Old North

Celestian Tales is an RPG that tries to have a story that is playable through various different perspectives, but rather than showing each one in a single playthrough you have to play it six times (one for each different character) in order to see the entire thing. While this may sound like it works, the amount of content that changes with each character and clear one-dimensional nature of each character just makes one playthrough barely bearable (though there were a few twists in the story that I wasn’t expecting, though nothing to do with the playable characters). I did like the art style (it looks like oil paint), though there were a few errors/glitches here and there. The battle system also wasn’t too bad, but ends up being far too easy on Normal or Hard difficulty and nearly impossible at points on Nightmare difficulty. I also played through the Howl of the Ravager DLC, which might as well be it’s own game given its length. It really helped add some context to parts of the story, but some of the impact of it is lost depending on which stories you played through in the base game (such as the outcome of a “will they, won’t they” relationship). Anyway, it was a decent enough effort, but I feel like it needed some more planning and tweaking especially since this was the first game in a planned trilogy. The second game is coming out relatively soon, so hopefully the developers can fix some issues.

Black The Fall

This game reminded me a lot of INSIDE. Though I think I found this one to be a lot better than INSIDE. The graphical style, setting, and premise are all very similar though the story is more coherent and easier to understand. It also felt like there was more gameplay and puzzle solving to this game than there was with INSIDE.

Day of the Tentacle Remastered

Really don’t have much to say about this one. It’s a classic point and click adventure game. Though not near the top of the best ones I’ve ever played. The humor is there and some of it was a bit outdated for someone my age, but I still found it entertaining. A lot of the puzzles felt more like time syncs to try to pad the game length out and I honestly quickly got bored (and started to use a guide). I also really liked how smoothly the transition between the old and new graphics was whenever you hit the shortcut key for it.

Slay the Spire

I absolutely love this game! It’s on my list of best games I’ve ever played despite it still being in development. The blending of deck builder and rogue-lite works perfectly and there are a ton of new deck archetypes to discover and try out. The graphics are amazing to look at. The developers update fairly frequently and really try to listen to the feedback that they’re getting. I’ll probably talk about it some more when it comes out of Early Access, but I just wanted to mention it here because of how much I’ve been playing it recently!