Games I played since my last update:

It's been a little while since I felt like I'd accomplished enough to warrant an update post, and I've been struggling to bring myself to finish off games that I've got near completion (80%+). I guess I'm spoilt for choice at the moment with games, there are so many I want to play all at once and not enough hours in the day for them all .__. But I will get to them all as soon as I can! I have played and completed a few though since the last time, so here's a few thoughts on them.

INSIDE I waited so long for this to be released, ever since I played LIMBO probably a couple of years ago by now, and they kept pushing the release date further and further back, when I received this as a birthday gift in September, I had to play it right away. It was pretty short honestly, but it was so much fun to play through! I really enjoyed it and felt that it was totally worth the wait. Incredibly strange and bleak just like LIMBO, but with a weirder story and beautiful (mostly) greyscale artstyle... if you were a fan of LIMBO, I think you will love INSIDE.

The Walking Dead: Michonne: I can see why they labelled it as a 'mini series'. I enjoyed playing it as much as any other Telltale game, aside from the fact that it was only around 4-5 hours worth of gameplay, quite a bit less than I'm used to from Telltale games. It didn't feel like they gave me enough time with the characters to actually care about any of them other than Michonne herself. The other characters could've all had their faces mauled by walkers at the end of the game and I don't think it would've made me feel anything. I still think it was a fun game though, and as well made as ever, so maybe I'm being a bit too harsh :p

Plantera was nice. Relatively easy to complete compared to a lot of other clicker / autonomous games I've played, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, as some of the others out there set goals that are practically (or actually are) impossible to obtain.

The Park was incredibly disappointing, imo. I was expecting to be spooked at least a bit by it, and played it for Halloween, but everything felt too predictable, and the entire game is over after roughly an hour. It's not a terrible game by any means, as it feels like the developers tried to put the time in making the atmosphere creepy, and perhaps for people who are less familiar with horror games it might be great, but for me it just wasn't good Maybe it was my own fault for expecting too much going into it, though.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is amazing. I really love this game, and fully intend to try and 100% it, but it's gonna take a while. The fights against big monsters feel epic (especially Ur-Dragon :o), climbing all over them chipping away at their health with your trusty pawns helping out (or quite often, needing you to go pick them up off the ground). It seems like a mashup of Dark Souls / Skyrim / Shadow of the Colossus, and the pawn system is actually a really nice addition. If you like Adventure/Fantasy RPGs, you should love this.

Oxenfree is my first gift to myself for halloween, and while not as scary as I expected, definitely has a great creepy atmosphere to it throughout. Going to go for the 100% on this one very soon, as it seems pretty easy to obtain, and I'm interested in how different it feels to take the different conversation choices :D

SOMA is my second halloween gift to myself, and it is amazing so far. This is another one I waited quite a while for as I had a lot of fun with Amnesia in the past, and since this is by the same devs I was really hopeful for a well made horror/atmospheric game, and so far, it has delivered. I really appreciate horror games that don't rely on mindless jumpscares every 30 seconds, which has become far too common these days, and instead build suspense and make you feel uneasy in your surroundings and wondering what's around the next corner, without blasting a screeching violin chord into your ears at 150 decibels and launching an enemy directly to your face.

I need to figure out a prettier layout for these :P That's all for now. \o/

Games I tackled last month: Theme

• Fairy Fencer F
  

  ✪ 53 hours playtime

  29 of 29 achievements

• Project Temporality
  

  ✪ 10 hours playtime

  17 of 19 achievements

• Costume Quest 2
  

  ✪ 🎁 9 hours playtime

  18 of 18 achievements

• The Silent Age
  

  ✪ 3 hours playtime

  24 of 24 achievements

• Time Mysteries: Inheritance - Remastered
  

  ✪ 5 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• Time Mysteries 2: The Ancient Spectres
  

  ✪ 6 hours playtime

  11 of 11 achievements

First time posting to the feed, hopefully this turns out okay

Monthly Theme helped me play a couple of games (= ✪), I have been looking for reasons to get to, again. Thanks for the inspiration :D

Fairy Fencer F I have enjoyed, the game itself was pretty fun, with the last few achievements being incredibly grindy and repetitive (much like the Neptunia games I've played before), but I am glad I could clear it from the backlog at last.

Project Temporality was a lot of fun honestly. I don't think I'll manage to 100% complete it, as a couple of the 3 star missions seem impossible, so I gave up on the 2star ones I had left as well, knowing I likely would never fully finish it.

Costume Quest 2 was fun, and I'm actually pleased that I could 100% it, unlike the first one which I'm still waiting until Christmas to play it again to get the final achievement ._. This was also an SG win (= 🎁) which is a bonus!

SG Wins & Others:

• Slain!
  

  🎁 10 hours playtime

  28 of 30 achievements

• Spec Ops: The Line
  

  🎁 12 hours playtime

  40 of 50 achievements

• The Darkness II
  

  🎁 13 hours playtime

  40 of 50 achievements

Slain: Back From Hell, I won this pretty recently, and I loved it! The graphics are really good for pixel art, the combat can be a little tricky in the beginning, but like most games, once you get the hang of it, it's pretty simple. The challenge will be completing it without dying once for one of the 2 achievements I have yet to get :D

Spec Ops: The Line, isn't quite what I expected it to be, but that's probably just because it got overhyped to me as being an emotional struggle (or perhaps I'm dead inside), but still a good game that I had a lot of fun with. I'll try to finish it off completely over this month, it seems do-able

The Darkness II is a cool game. The combat was easy to get the hang of, and fun throwing people around with your demonic arms. The final boss in the main game & the vendetta campaign left a bit to be desired, but still I can't hate the game just because of that. Bad timing meant that I got most of the achievements just a day or two before this shows up in the new monthly theme, but I still have some left to get to 100% it.

Bring on the next month!

Games I tackled last month:

• Stardew Valley
  

  ✪ 194 hours playtime

  31 of 40 achievements

• The Walking Dead
  

  31 hours playtime

  48 of 48 achievements

• FEZ
  

  ✪ 15 hours playtime

  12 of 12 achievements

• FLY'N
  

  🎁 26 hours playtime

  19 of 19 achievements

• Strata
  

  ✪ 8 hours playtime

  24 of 24 achievements

• Divide by Sheep
  

  ✪ 9 hours playtime

  19 of 19 achievements

• Zenge
  

  ✪ 2 hours playtime

  1 of 1 achievements

Thanks to the monthly theme (marked with a ✪), I found it a bit easier than usual to pick out games to play. I sometimes get stuck even deciding what I want to play exactly, but the theme really helped with that :D

Stardew Valley has some fiddly achievements, so I wasn't able to 100% it, but I will definitely come back and finish those off, because it's pretty relaxing to play... and addictive. I probably could have completed a couple more games if it weren't for this.

Fez was really fun, and some of the puzzles were pretty mind bending, but I've wanted to play it for a long time, and I wasn't disappointed.

I also managed to 100% one of my SG wins (marked with a 🎁) which I'm pleased about, and it was actually a really cute little platformer, with great music. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys platformers!