Hello!

First of all, here's the questions I have to you, related to the theme of the post

Questions of the day:

1. Do you currently play any endless game? Which one?

2. How many hours do you play it in a week?

3. Did you ever feel guilty about it?

July was supposed to be the month that I played The Witcher 3 for hours on end, but then Rocket League happened.

I wasn’t actually going to buy the witcher 3 until later on, games have been pretty expensive around these parts (Brazil), but a friend of mine got a physical copy that did not work on his PS4 (imported from Australia), so I bought the copy from him.

Not to go on a huge tangent here, but the reason the disc did not work on his PS4 had nothing to do with the console being Aussie (PS4 is region free as you all know), but his disc reader is busted, and he only found out over a year after buying the console, The Witcher 3 was the first physical game he bought.

Back to the main story here. So I got the witcher and started it, and 2 or 3 days later Rocket League came out. I was very excited because I had played the beta, but I certainly did not expect it to grab me like it did. As days went on I found myself playing more and more, it is so easy to jump in and play a few matches when I have 30 minutes or 1 hour available, while in the witcher I can barely complete a sidequest or play a few rounds of Gwent in that time.

All this is just to justify the fact that I put Rocket League on my “Finished Games” for the month of July. Am I done with it? Nop, not at all. In fact, even in August it’s probably the game I have been playing the most. But I wanted to put it here because it was by far my most played game this month, and I also got the platinum.

July was a good month overall, I managed to beat my goal and finish more games than I bought with a good margin, in parts thanks to a lot of traveling around to visit family with the Vita and the iPad on my backpack.

So here’s the list, I’ll talk briefly about each games as well:

1. Sound Shapes (Vita)

I heard a lot about this game, and maybe that made me expect too much out of it. For some reason people really love it, I thought it was ok, the sound and all is really neat, but it wasn’t enough for me, I did not feel compelled to make any levels or even to replay any of the levels on the harder difficulty.

2. Murasaki Baby (Vita)

This is a weird little game. It’s short and the puzzles are easy, but I thought it was entertaining for the 2 hours or so it lasted. This is the type of game that I appreciate getting from PS+, because I probably would never buy to find out wether is good or not.

3. Lifeline (iOS)

This game is great! If you listen to Patrick Klepek’s new podcast, Match 3, they have been mentioning this game for a few weeks now. It’s like a text adventure where a guy crashes in a planet and you are the only one he can contact, so you help him make decisions trying to get out of there. The humor and the writing are pretty good, and the whole idea of the game and how it uses notifications is neat, I highly recommend people play this, it’s only $1 or so.

4. Rocket League (PS4)

I already said a lot about his one at the beginning of ther post. Just go play it already! For me it is GOTY 2015 for now, and the only thing I can see topping it is Persona 5.

Recently I started playing local co-op with a friend of mine, and even though it’s not ideal to use only half of the screen, it’s a great game to play local co-op.

5. Mousecraft (Vita)

I’m not really into this kind of game (one screen puzzle, collect 3 stars, etc), but I decided to give it a try anyway. Ended up playing around 30 levels (they are pretty short) to see if there was some new mechanics that would be interesting, then I got tired of it.

6. Alto’s Adventure (iOS)

An endless runner, very relaxing and beautiful, good podcast game, no IAP bullshit.

7. Entwined (PS4)

Another example of good PS+ game. Beautiful, neat mechanic and very short. I liked it =)

8. Futuridium EP Deluxe (Vita)

I got excited for this game because the art style is really cool. Ended up playing a good amount of it, but never finished it because every time you have to play it from the beginning and that’s kind of a bummer, especially when you have some level that are really hard.

So that’s it for July (I realized I posted a little late in the month), I managed to beat my goal, playing 8 games and buying only 3, so that’s good.

I also played several hours of The Witcher 3, but I’m not even close to the half of the game I think, so I’m sure it won’t appear on my list for August too.