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NSW, 2023, 6/10: A fishing, resource, tetris like game where you pilot a boat around, fishing up fish that come in different shapes, fitting them into your cargo, tetris style-ish, and then selling them to gain money. You also do this with resources, which are needed to upgrade your boat (faster, bigger, etc..). The other big part of the game is it story, and its lovecraft like nature. There a panic system in the game, so when you are sailing at night, seeing monsters, or using magic it goes up. The higher it goes, the more weird / dangerous stuff happens. Like rocks appearing right in front of you boat, or monsters hunting you (like a ghost shark, or a lamb fish that uses a fake boat as its lure). Completed: The game. I kind of started skipping the story since it wasn't that interesting. Eventually, when i got to the end, i went back and read up and then watch some stuff to figure out what was going on. IDK, during the game, i just got tired of the grind, the rewards/upgrades became dull, and the whole process just kind of repeated itself too much. I still like the style of it, and the general loop (well, a little), but this isn't something that would have made my top 10 (like it did for some people).
PC, 2023, 5.5/10: A puzzle game with a few gimmicks, mostly about perspective, like taking a photo, and then 'placing' the photo, and that image being added to the reality where it was placed. Be it from a camera or painting. So, a painting of a house, would put that house, and its insides and such, where you place it. Or a picture of a battery ontop of a table, on a ledge, would put all of those in the level (at whatever angle you had them) where you place that picture. Its a very interesting idea, some good puzzles, but it doesn't go beyond that concept (well, not much), and the story is bland, so i think a lot of people forgot about it, or stop playing it quickly (its like a 4-5 hour game, well, for me, and am not that good at puzzles). I had fun with the game, but am not going to recommend it. Completed: The game, most of the optional and collectibles. Only half of the achievements, guess there were a lot more quirky things to do with painting. Which should have been more of a focus in the game.
PC, 2022, 6/10: Still WoW, and it is still fun. Though, there are too many reps to grind, and some of the mounts and other vanity items, require way too much time, since they are design as time sinks. Completed: Max rep with the DF factions... well the major ones. Going back to shadowlands, but geez that seems like a long grind too.
NSW, 2021, 6/10: A picross game with a Sega theme. Kind of the same as the last couple. Still fun, but about the same, just new puzzles. Working on completing it, going to do the standard, color, and clip one. I don't care for the mega ones, since they are the same puzzles as standard.
PC, 2021, 3/10: A idle game that is overly complex, and doesn't give the 'good' feeling of seeing the numbers go up. It takes way, way too much time to get things going. I guess if you want to play an idle game as you main game, and focus on min/max strats, than this game might be your cup of tea. But if you enjoyed Cookie Clicker, that Paper clip factory game, or any other known idle game, than this one is just too much work for too little pay off.
PC, 2023, 5/10: A puzzle, stealth, game about learning languages via text. Its an interesting concept, and good puzzle game... mostly, but the actual game is missing some vital quality of life features, and the ending sequence is too long, and kind of ruins the overall experience. Completed: The game, learn all the words, had to use guides on a few of them due to either 1) me not getting what the words was, or 2) the game's picture not being clear what it was referring to (this happen a bit, since once you seen a word enough times, you can solve it by placing it next to a picture. And half the time, the picture isn't clear on what exactly it is. Its like playing charades with Milhouse's dad). The game would have benefited a lot from a map system, a longer character limit for unknown words (it is 20 characters, but some times you just have a general idea of the concept, or a list of possible solutions, and need more than 20 characters), and a much shorter ending. Like there should only be one ending, you learn all the words, than just go to the top of the tower, the event happens, go through the ending sequence, and than the end. None of the going back through the levels stuff. Which, I got bored of, so i just used a guide and got through them. It was during this part that the game lost me (and my opinion of it turn kind of sour).
PC, 2022, 7/10: A deduction puzzle game where you are given a few pages of a story book like setting, and have to figured out what happen, to whom, and generally what is going on. You do this by filling in the blank on a story text page that has a lot of blank spots for words. The general story is about 10-12 scenarios where you trace the life of the golden idol, a device from an acient advance culture that can take something (like heat, or years of life) from one object and give it to another. So people fight over it, steal it, plan their life around it, and such. Completed: The base game. It was good, though, i did have to get some help from a walk through for 2 parts on 2 different scenarios. Not the whole answers, just part of them. Since i just didn't understand what they were asking for.
PC, 2022, 7/10: Playing through the 3rd DLC, and am at my limit. The game was fun, but now its just more mindless. Still having moments of fun with it, but i don't think i'll be picking up any more DLC for it, unless it changes the gameplay. Update: I ended up buying all the dlcs for it, and i enjoyed them... got like 30 more hours out of it... sigh... I just can't quit you vampire survivors.
XSX, 2023, 4.5/10: An interesting tell-tale adventure like game, with decent QTE events, but PS3 quality visuals and production value. The story is about two different characters, the second in command, and an engineer. You control both, and what happens to one, can ,but usually doesn't, effect the other. You make choices, some which will have lasting effects that you won't see until much later, which is annoying, since you can't undo them. Like, you might do something early on to annoy someone, and hours later, when you warm up to them, there no way to fix it, and that character will just dislike you forever. Its one thing if a choice makes something set in stone that makes sense, oh, like which area to explore, if you chose area a, you miss the items on area b. But what doesn't feel good is when every choice feels like it gets set in stone, even when they shouldn't. Did someone sneeze, did you say bless you, if you didn't, now they think poorly of you, and you can't undo that.... okay, so that doesn't happen exactly, but there were choices i made with characters in the first half that i wanted to change in the later half, but couldn't. Still, i like the game, though, with my current anxiety issues, it was a struggle to get through at times. Completed: The game, choose westbroke as 2nd in command, lost all the other bridge crew which i didn't like at all, and let the engineer guy take the tkon thingy, since i was trying to get him back with his GF... but that wasn't an option, which i didn' t know at the time.
NSW, 2021, 4/10: Interestint concepts, just not for me. Got to Act 2 before i stopped. I like the card battles, and the exploring. But, it was a bit too horror like for my enjoyment. With my anxiety issues right now, i can't get through any kind of horror game. But beyond that, the actual gameplay is amusing, but kind of shallow. And some of the exploring stuff is just too trial and error for my liking.