WingedKagouti on 22/4/2024 at 21:23
Book of Hours has been taking up my time lately. It is basically a sequel to Cultist Simulator, but fortunately it also fixes a couple of major issues I've had with that title. The first and most important one being the removal of the busywork that was ensuring a steady income so you didn't starve to death or got thrown in jail in CS, it seems to be assumed that you have access to enough food to survive and you aren't doing anything illegal. This means BoH is less stressful as you don't have to juggle progression and "not dying" all the time. The second change is that memories (and other time sensitive cards) don't degrade into (potentially) dangerous items that can end your run if you didn't need that memory at that time.
I'm overall enjoying the game so far, having restored a decent chunk of Hush House, read several books, categorized even more, and helped visitors with questions.
Tomi on 24/4/2024 at 15:00
I was perhaps being too harsh on
Ravenlok. It's a nice little adventure, even if the actual gameplay is pretty bad. And it only takes about three hours to finish (probably not even that long if you rush through the game), so I'm pleased that I played it. The game looks really nice at times too, even if screenshots don't do it justice.
Inline Image:
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Ghostwire: Tokyo. It's good! It took a while to really get going, but I learned to love it. I was foolish enough to spend a silly number of hours on finding a whole lot of collectibles and trying to get some achievements, but most of them weren't too bad. In hindsight, I wish I had not done all the achievement hunting though, and just concentrated on the actual story quests. I think the main story could be finished in like ten hours, but many of the side quests are totally worth some extra effort.
WingedKagouti on 26/4/2024 at 19:29
Quote Posted by WingedKagouti
Book of Hours has been taking up my time lately.
I have now done one of the greater endings (after 36 hours) and there's still a ton of content to uncover. So I started a new game. I did find an easier ending around 15-20 hours in, but it did warn me that it would be a "lesser" ending, so I skipped it.
Thirith on 29/4/2024 at 07:01
I played mission 5 ("The Brand") of Thief: The Black Parade over the weekend and greatly enjoyed it. In terms of level design, this has some of my favourite bits in all the missions so far, and perhaps in all of Thief: I love the sense of history the City has, with several older layers and the way they're interlinked, and the moment when you actually get to the mansion you're looking for is brilliantly atmospheric.
At the same time, I found the end of the mission to be rushed, to the extent where I wondered whether something hadn't triggered. After I got myself branded, I sort of stumbled into the room that gave away the Necromancers, and then I just had to get back to the starting point. If there was a line of dialogue to the effect of it being better to get out and figure out what to do next, I missed it. In any case, this already resulted in a lot of the tension that had built up being gone, which was amplified by trying to find an exit: while the maze-like structure on the way to the mansion was effective, on the way out it was too easy to keep going around in circles. Nonetheless, great mission and very enjoyable, even if the last 10-15 minutes worked less well for me.
Other than that, I've been playing Minishoot Adventures, a sort of Zelda-but-as-a-twin-stick-shooter. Other than the story being thin (but it's easy enough to ignore), the environments being a bit more samey than I'd like, and some of the balancing being a bit off, it's great fun, and I always like having a game on the side that I can play in 15-minute bursts.
henke on 29/4/2024 at 18:11
I've been enjoying a video game called Big Mutha Truckers 2: Truck Me Harder. The writing and tone of this thing is pretty much Redneck Rampage meets Leisure Suit Larry, BUT the gameplay is fun! It's like an arcade racer version of American Truck Simulator. The plot is that Mama is gettin sued and you need to raise cash to bribe the jury. You do this mainly by buying goods for cheap and selling them in cities where they're more expensive. There's also some smaller, custom missions scattered throughout. I've played 5 hours of this and I kinda think I've gotten my fill. The gameworld is quite small and soon gets repeteive. It does have me thinking about how I'd make my own truck driving arcade game tho.
Also, finished Robocop. T'was good. Kinda got bored of Miasma Chronicles. Getting back into Expeditions: Mudrunner.