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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 15:11 
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I really liked the setting of ME1, but hated everything else. The game was boring, levels were just corridors. Wasn't good enough as a shooter, and it was way too shallow for anything else.

Then there's the Bioware level of C&C: either kill kitties or sacrifice yourself saving dolphins.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 15:19 
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I got bored of me1 after an hour or so.

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 19:44 
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1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)


9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4). It's bloody good this. Like the old game but like a new game. Looks the biz, has the Oddworld dark sense of humour and is actually reet bloody difficult at times. Recommended.

Now to the stats:
Mudokons rescued:
Sat: 125
Bamba: 118
Completion Times:
Sat: 6 hours 37 mins
Bamba: 8hrs 39 mins
Best times - Scrabania
Sat: 28 mins
Bamba: 1 Hr 9 mins
Where did some people turn it off:
Paramonia - level 4
Krazywookie
Fire-Free Zone - level 8
Runcle
Ending - the bad one. And bloody funny it was too.

So Oddworld: bloody good, a fabulous update to an old classic that's finally given me the chance to play it through to the end. It's reminded me of another game I've played recently, a new one, but I can't remember what it was called. It doesn't feel like an old game; it feels like one of the new indie crowd who don't give two fucks if it's a bit hard. The Meat Boys of the world if you will.

The new cut scenes were pretty good too. Nice and pretty. In fact, a lot of effort has clearly gone into this update. The backgrounds and stuff are really good if you stop to pay attention. Nicely detailed an' that.

The worse bit however are the controls, they're way too loose and fluffy. It's the jump button really, it's not any good. Jping to the side needs you to press the button and then tilt the stick; it's a bit crap really but you start to ignore it after a while until you come to a difficult section and it starts to be the main problem why you're not progressing. Still, the game isn't exactly a fast paced Meat Boy game so it's never a huge problem but a couple of control related deaths are enough to fuck you off a bit.

With this and [insert name of that other Oddworld game] I really hope Just Add Water come back and revisit the world again and again and again but with all the new games they had planned.

I'm going to say... 7/10. Very good.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 14:01 
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Saturnalian wrote:
The worse bit however are the controls, they're way too loose and fluffy. It's the jump button really, it's not any good. Jping to the side needs you to press the button and then tilt the stick; it's a bit crap really but you start to ignore it after a while until you come to a difficult section and it starts to be the main problem why you're not progressing. Still, the game isn't exactly a fast paced Meat Boy game so it's never a huge problem but a couple of control related deaths are enough to fuck you off a bit.


I was immensely fucked off by the controls in more than one location but I somehow stumbled across the setting that meant you jump in the direction you're facing as soon as you hit the jump button and that made a massive difference to the playability of some sections. Why that's not the default is a mystery to me given some of the things it expects of you.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land: brilliant little puzzler for iOS/Android that sees you snaking your stretchy dog through various levels trying to get to the exit without hitting stuff. Original and highly recommended.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 14:59 
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1) Broken Sword 2 (iOS)
2) Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies (iOS)
3) Machinarium (iOS) - Puzzler where you play a little robot who has to wander around, find his love, and beat up some bullies by solving puzzles and pulling switches. Absolutely lovely, although needed a walkthrough for a couple of puzzles.

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:16 
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I played Machinarium with my wife and we loved it. The puzzles where excellent, and we had to record the music puzzle at the end.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 17:58 
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1. The Room
2. The Room 2
3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape: very short point-and-click escape type game for Android.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 9:54 
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  1. Crysis (PC)
  2. Octodad (PC)
  3. Crysis Warhead (PC)
  4. Tomb Raider: Anniversary (PC)
  5. The Evil Within (PC)
  6. Torchlight (PC)
  7. Mass Effect (PC)
  8. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (PC)

I had the impression this was going to be a fairly short walk-about simulator, but according to Steam, I got 7 hours out of this, which is pretty much my favorite game length.

The very structure of the game - and it is a proper puzzle game, just a fairly simple one - and the way it saves your progress is sort of a mystery in itself, but if you don't figure it out for yourself, the game will let you know eventually.

The player has to spend some time exploring for items lying around in the landscape, and a couple of them can be a challenge to find, so be warned, if that sort of things frustrates.

It is beautifully crafted. The entire game takes place in a smallish area centered around a dam, and the whole area is just amazingly detailed. Everything is arranged to provide the player with one vista after another. It feels like a real place, and if you can see something interesting, you'll probably end up going there at some point.

The story is a dark, gruesome tale with a fantastic and even darker ending.

In short, I loved it. If you are OK with the exploration aspect and the simple nature of the puzzles, and like psychological horror, it is basically perfectly executed.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 11:22 
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Saturnalian wrote:
Saturnalian wrote:
1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)


9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4). It's bloody good this. Like the old game but like a new game. Looks the biz, has the Oddworld dark sense of humour and is actually reet bloody difficult at times. Recommended.

Now to the stats:
Mudokons rescued:
Sat: 125
Bamba: 118
Completion Times:
Sat: 6 hours 37 mins
Bamba: 8hrs 39 mins
Best times - Scrabania
Sat: 28 mins
Bamba: 1 Hr 9 mins
Where did some people turn it off:
Paramonia - level 4
Krazywookie
Fire-Free Zone - level 8
Runcle
Ending - the bad one. And bloody funny it was too.

So Oddworld: bloody good, a fabulous update to an old classic that's finally given me the chance to play it through to the end. It's reminded me of another game I've played recently, a new one, but I can't remember what it was called. It doesn't feel like an old game; it feels like one of the new indie crowd who don't give two fucks if it's a bit hard. The Meat Boys of the world if you will.

The new cut scenes were pretty good too. Nice and pretty. In fact, a lot of effort has clearly gone into this update. The backgrounds and stuff are really good if you stop to pay attention. Nicely detailed an' that.

The worse bit however are the controls, they're way too loose and fluffy. It's the jump button really, it's not any good. Jping to the side needs you to press the button and then tilt the stick; it's a bit crap really but you start to ignore it after a while until you come to a difficult section and it starts to be the main problem why you're not progressing. Still, the game isn't exactly a fast paced Meat Boy game so it's never a huge problem but a couple of control related deaths are enough to fuck you off a bit.

With this and [insert name of that other Oddworld game] I really hope Just Add Water come back and revisit the world again and again and again but with all the new games they had planned.

I'm going to say... 7/10. Very good.


I will get back to this, I haven't had my PS4 for a couple of weeks so I'm in a bit of a gaming lull.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 11:56 
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lasermink wrote:
I had the impression this was going to be a fairly short walk-about simulator, but according to Steam, I got 7 hours out of this, which is pretty much my favorite game length.

The very structure of the game - and it is a proper puzzle game, just a fairly simple one - and the way it saves your progress is sort of a mystery in itself, but if you don't figure it out for yourself, the game will let you know eventually.

The player has to spend some time exploring for items lying around in the landscape, and a couple of them can be a challenge to find, so be warned, if that sort of things frustrates.

It is beautifully crafted. The entire game takes place in a smallish area centered around a dam, and the whole area is just amazingly detailed. Everything is arranged to provide the player with one vista after another. It feels like a real place, and if you can see something interesting, you'll probably end up going there at some point.

The story is a dark, gruesome tale with a fantastic and even darker ending.

In short, I loved it. If you are OK with the exploration aspect and the simple nature of the puzzles, and like psychological horror, it is basically perfectly executed.

I have read up on a few reviews, and it seems some reviewers are able to blaze through this in 3 to 4 hours. I'm not sure if Steam is lying to me or what, but just be warned that this is not a long game in any case. The original asking price is a bit much, but it is on offer on Steam at the moment for 7,59€, whatever that is in pounds of silver, and that is more than fair.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 12:59 
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1. The Room
2. The Room 2
3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water: another of my guilty pleasure hidden object adventure games and a particularly well made example of the genre so I'm going to check if there are any others in the series.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 13:25 
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1. The Room
2. The Room 2
3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3: Jumpy shooty platformy fun for Android and perfect commuting fodder that's had me hooked for the amount of time it's taken me to batter through it. It's let down slightly by the fact that if you're clever about it and save up for a half-decent gun and the character who has the 'turns all coins to gold' ability you can grind the first level boss such that every ten seconds or so you get about 500 gold. This lets you very quickly buy and level up the most powerful gun in the game which means no enemy takes more than two shots; this does sort of break things slightly. The final boss took me ten seconds and I just had to stand still and shoot at him because there was zero chance he could kill me before my double-rocket launcher destroyed him. Still, good stuff all round.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 12:12 
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1. The Book of Unwritten tales
2. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
3. Trine 2
4. The Banner Saga
5. Shadowrun Returns
6. Ziggurat
7. Legend of Grimrock 2 – In many ways it’s even better than the first. There’s a big Dark Souls inspiration to its intricate world, filled with secrets and understated lore. Many games of this genre, most particularly Dungeon Master 2, didn't make the smoothest transition to an open world/overland structure. In this game it works extremely well.

The level design is fantastic, and so it the general feel of the game. The only aspect in this game which might be slight inferior to its prequel is the puzzles. They don’t feel as focused, and sometimes they’re a bit aimless and in a couple of occasions I was forced to check an walkthrough, which was something that never happened in the first game.


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1. The Room
2. The Room 2
3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone: Sadly was simply Never Much Fun. It was gorgeous to look at and all but the game itself is the most basic of platforming you could imagine and just never does anything worthy with it's setting or visual design. A great big shame really.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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1. The Book of Unwritten tales
2. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
3. Trine 2
4. The Banner Saga
5. Shadowrun Returns
6. Ziggurat
7. Legend of Grimrock 2

8. Primordia - Wow, another great entry into this new golden age of adventure games. Primordia does so many things right, stuff that should be common in every game of this genre, like multiple solutions to puzzles, branching paths and multiple endings.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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1. The Room
2. The Room 2
3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening: In the PS+ thread I said, "Aaru's Awakening is surprisingly fun. It's pretty rough around the edges and the controls are sometimes, by neccesity, the gaming equivalent of patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time but I've really enjoyed my time with it. You will die an absolute shitload while working out what each section requires and then executing it but I'm not finding it at all frustrating; largely because the checkpoints are very generous. It's the kind of game I would usually expect to hate but something about it's really sucked me in and I think I'm only two levels off finishing it. So, yeah, worth giving it a shot though I suspect it won't be for everyone." And I mostly stand by that, though the last level and then boss fight was an utter motherfucker and possible the hardest gaming challenge I've ever actually completed. I was ready to walk away from it a few times but knowing it was the last part of such a challenging game made me grit my teeth and finish. I shudder to think how many times I died all in! The difficulty is certainly all over the map as, in the last set of levels, I finished three of them in under ten minutes then spent an hour on the last one and the boss fight. Even within that you can batter through 90% of each level but one or two section will hold you up for ages as you work out what the intended approach is then repeat it until you've perfected it.


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2. The Room 2
3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief: I have played most of it before, though it was a good while ago, but I'd never played the final and newest level so I played through the whole thing again for that. Brilliant stuff and easily one of the best mobile games I've ever played. Essentially a point and click adventure game but just so well implemented and so pretty/charming to look at that it transcends that genre description in my opinion. I'm sure the version on either Google Play or the Amazon app store has a free level or two so there's no excuse for anyone not giving it a shot.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)
9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4).


10. Bloodborne (PS4).

PS4 gets a barnstorming exclusive so early into its life. Yes, it's about time. Fucking cracking game this. 10/10

11. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PS4).

It's bloody difficult this one. It's the same but it ain't. The music is similar but ain't as good. The graphics are the same but not as exciting somehow (probably cause they're near identical). The story is reasonably interesting but it's so crazy nutzoid that I couldn't piece it together in my mind. Having said that, I read some bits on it afterwards and was absolutely baffled that that was the actual story. Plus I couldn't remember what Jacket looked like; I mean, come on, he's hardly the most recognisable character when viewed from above. It's a confusing mess that's actually fun to unravel though, if you're into that. I can't exactly moan about this when I've just praised Bloodborne even though the story there is probably more abstract and crazy nutzoid.

Actually, whereas I was happy to get it finished I kinda want to go back and play it all over again knowing the story that I've read just so I can nod my head sagely and say "Hmmmmm" loudly to myself (and my dog) while scratching my chin knowingly.


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1. The Room
2. The Room 2
3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape: short and relatively logical point-and-click-escape prequel to the Forever Lost series of games on Android/iOS. It was alright for free, though I didn't enjoy it as much as Forever Lost Ep1.


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1. The Book of Unwritten tales
2. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
3. Trine 2
4. The Banner Saga
5. Shadowrun Returns
6. Ziggurat
7. Legend of Grimrock 2
8. Primordia
9. The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav – Right after Primordia, another great adventure game. This is a more conservative style approach, but the great puzzles and atmosphere made for the lack of innovation


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  1. Crysis (PC)
  2. Octodad (PC)
  3. Crysis Warhead (PC)
  4. Tomb Raider: Anniversary (PC)
  5. The Evil Within (PC)
  6. Torchlight (PC)
  7. Mass Effect (PC)
  8. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (PC)
  9. Tomb Raider: Underworld (PC)

On a modern PC with everything cranked up to 11 this is a surprisingly gorgeous game and a big step up in production values compared to its predecessors.

Unfortunately, the engine is slightly wonky, and the combat in particular seems only half finished, and there are no boss battles. The exploration/climby/puzzley bits all work, though, and that's the important thing.

Only the last level gets a bit frustrating, so the whole trilogy ends on a slightly sour note, but overall it is some great tomb raiding once again.


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Saturnalian wrote:
1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)
9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4).
10. Bloodborne (PS4).
11. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PS4).


I've played a game that isn't on PS4!

12. Burn it Down (iOS)

Left/right platformer that gives you an hour to do 50 levels: jump spikes, pull levers, run past stuff. It gets a bit fiddly at the end thanks to touchscreen controls. Fucking touchscreens. I did it in 40 minutes. It's entirely alrightish. Nowt to write home about, but it was free and so therefore worth playing. If you beat 40 minutes I'll send you a cake in the post.


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1. The Room
2. The Room 2
3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns: another in the series of 'Cryptic X' games for Android that are Myst-ish point and click adventures with a simplified interface. Decent commuting fodder though not the best of it's type by a long shot.


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10. 80 Days

Pretty interesting take on the gamebook genre. I finished it on 70 days.


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1. The Room
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3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
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1. The Room
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3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood

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Saturnalian wrote:
1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)
9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4).
10. Bloodborne (PS4).
11. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PS4).
12. Burn it Down (iOS).


13. The Evil Within: The Assignment DLC (PS4)

Decent add-on. Builds on the original games story but plays differently mainly by adding *hnngh* stealth and a torch.

14. The Evil Within: The Consequence DLC (PS4).

Better than the first add-on. You'll get more of the first DLC and more mystery and guff relating to the original story. There's a super mega evil corporation. Again. Probably Umbrella, right? You get more stealth and, which betterer, chemical lights when you lose your torch for a bit. Chem-lights were actually a really good and well implemented idea as you chuck them around to illuminate the area.

15. Bayonetta 2 (WiiU).

Have you ever kicked someone in the face while applying lipstick and are so cool that your apply it perfectly? Bayonetta can. It's as if Platinum Games didn't forget about the golden era of Capcom's Devil May Cry and the original Ninja Gaiden unlike, say, Capcom and Team Ninja. They've put together another absurdly awesome game that filled with (a) nonsense story (b) ludicrous cut scenes (c) crazy Japanese characters and, most of all, (d) a technically sublime fighting game.

The fighting brilliantly has something for everyone. The easy difficulty lets you mash away at the buttons until your heart is contents and let's you see and do everything; normal difficulty lets you play the game but asks that you at least try to have a crack at the finer points of combat - the witch time trigger events have a large window where you can press the dodge button and get it to work; and the hard difficulty gives you smaller windows of opportunity for witch time and demands you step up (2 THA STREETS 8: the final dance off) to the plate and try some hardcore gaming at it's finest. The final difficultly just removes witch time which, frankly, I've always thought was a bit crap but it's there if you want an even tougher challenge.

Personally, I didn't think it was quite as good as the first Bayonetta game since I preferred the story and setting (mind you they do recycle some assets near the end and add some more to the original story), but this is still utterly awesome. Just soon the fighting is awesome. The ONE THING that it wants you to do is so great that you feel empowered and just want to do it some more. I had this terrible feeling after I'd finished it that they weren't going to let me fight as the credits rolled. BUT THEY DID. And it was great.

Plus, since it's ninty now you get the fab costumes and attack modifiers that I put in the Bayonetta 2 topic. Loads of work has clearly been lavishly poured into this. The weapons, the various stuff you can buy, there's tons of game in here available to anyone with a brain in their cranium. I'll definitely be going back for a blast at it.

Platinum Games are ace at making games.

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Bayonetta is awesome. The fact that Bayonetta 2 is a WiiU exclusive is cuntery of the highest order.


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Saturnalian wrote:
1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)
9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4).
10. Bloodborne (PS4).
11. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PS4).
12. Burn it Down (iOS).
13. The Evil Within: The Assignment DLC (PS4)
14. The Evil Within: The Consequence DLC (PS4).
15. Bayonetta 2 (WiiU).


16. The Tender Cut (PC)

I came for the weird. I got the weird.

I've played it twice in the time it's taken me to post in this thread and the PC Gaming Thread and I've only missed two things to do.

10/10: weirdest game I've ever played.


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11. The Caverns of the Snow Witch

12. Valiant Hearts. - Very sweet.

13. Sorcery! - Anyone with a slight interest in Fighting Fantasy books should play this. It's excellent.


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1. The Room
2. The Room 2
3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain: Another Android Myst-a-like and a bit longer than some of the others I've picked up. Decent stuff with a strong start, though it lost it's way a bit as things progressed.


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1. The Room
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3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions: free Amazon Android app of the day and a puzzle game where you're shown the result required then given the pieces to build a Rube Goldberg machine in order to achieve the result. It's not very difficult or long--I suspect it's mostly for kids--but the things you need to accomplish are amusing and it's a fun way to pass half an hour or so.


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1. The Room
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3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert: an auto-running platformer where the first thing you do is finish the game...and then play the whole thing in reverse. So while constantly running backwards you need to jump on enemies to unkill them, pass through coins to uncollect them and tap the screen to suck in fireballs so you unshoot people in the face. If you miss any of these tasks in a level you get a 'Time Paradox!' warning and have to start the level again. It's a nice idea but it's very short, not very difficult and is made into a memorisation challenge by the fact you can't see far enough backwards to properly react to upcoming stuff. Which is fine in itself as each level is purposefully very short, but it would be nice if you could better see what you were doing as often you'll fail because you can't jump early enough to unkill an enemy by the time they've actually arrived on screen. It's also a bit odd because the real challenge is to gold star each level by completing it first time. The thing is, if you do fuck up, you have to go back to the level select screen and retry from there to reset your Time Paradox count to zero; so forcing you to do this is pointless and weird and a bit of an annoyance. Resetting your Time Paradox count has no effect at all on the level itself so each playthrough is the same regardless of how you started the level making a bit of a mockery of the gold star thing. Anyway, definitely worth a go on Android or iOS; though as a Windows game it would feel pretty lacking I think.


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Saturnalian wrote:
1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)
9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4).
10. Bloodborne (PS4).
11. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PS4).
12. Burn it Down (iOS).
13. The Evil Within: The Assignment DLC (PS4)
14. The Evil Within: The Consequence DLC (PS4).
15. Bayonetta 2 (WiiU).
16. The Tender Cut (PC).


17. Monsterbag (Vita).

Monsterbag-o-shit. I'd watch it if it was just a cartoon (it looks real nice and has lots of character) but as a game it's fucking dire. Oh, and it crashed a bunch of times and the ending credits glitched so I couldn't watch them. Just dreadful. This is happening too often in games nowadays. Far far too often.

Don't play it. It's shit.


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Saturnalian wrote:
1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)
9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4).
10. Bloodborne (PS4).
11. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PS4).
12. Burn it Down (iOS).
13. The Evil Within: The Assignment DLC (PS4)
14. The Evil Within: The Consequence DLC (PS4).
15. Bayonetta 2 (WiiU).
16. The Tender Cut (PC).
17. Monsterbag (Vita).


18. Murasaki Baby (Vita).

I quite enjoyed that actually. It's so short that it's inoffensive enough to pass the time away. I really liked the art style and the sound effects were great. Some of the little tiny stories about the 4 folk you meet are done quite well too. The rest of the game is typical bland puzzle affair that won't tax you and will probably bore you. Despite it being A to B stuff though, it's done with enough style that you might just want to get to the next bit.

Want an example? At one point you can shrink yourself. How? GIANT EYE PEERING THROUGH A MAGNIFYING GLASS THAT'S STARING AT YOU, that's how. You want to break through some rocks? CALL MASSIVE BUNNY RABBIT TO JUMP UP AND DOWN. Actually those capital letters make it sound more interesting that it actually is. It'll take about an hour or two to smash through so why not give it a punt if you've got a PS Vita and access to PS+: it's a bit different, init.

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  1. Crysis (PC)
  2. Octodad (PC)
  3. Crysis Warhead (PC)
  4. Tomb Raider: Anniversary (PC)
  5. The Evil Within (PC)
  6. Torchlight (PC)
  7. Mass Effect (PC)
  8. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (PC)
  9. Tomb Raider: Underworld (PC)
  10. Monument Valley (Android)

Very nice visually, and it is fascinating to see the Escher geometry unfold. They obviously spent a lot of time polishing the engine and getting it just right. The relatively small screen of my Nexus 4 didn't do it justice, though, it really needs something bigger to draw the player properly in. It played fine all the same.

Only 10 short levels, though, and of those I would estimate that you only need to do any actual thinking on 3 or so of them, the rest is just trial and error or immediately obvious. I imagine this was actually a lot more fun and challenging to design than it is to play, at least for the seasoned gamer.

Quite artsy, but in a nice way, like those illustrated children's books that we don't quite remember, but still lurk in our subconscious. In fact, I think I would have loved this as a child, but my 40-something year old self was slightly disappointed - until I realized I didn't even pay €1 for it. Bloody hell, what a bargain for what is a very nice hour of light entertainment.


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1) Broken Sword 2 (iOS)
2) Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies (iOS)
3) Machinarium (iOS) - Puzzler where you play a little robot who has to wander around, find his love, and beat up some bullies by solving puzzles and pulling switches. Absolutely lovely, although needed a walkthrough for a couple of puzzles.
4) SlitherLink (iOS) - All included puzzles completed on easy, medium and hard.
5) Conceptis SlitherLink (iOS) - All included puzzles completed on easy, medium and hard, and a couple of extra packs purchased.

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Ooh, I'll try and do this all year this time (yeah, right).

1. Nidhogg Vita/PS4 - the greatest fighting game since bushido blade. Essential same room multiplayer. Even really enjoyed the, very short, single player.
2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. - PS4 - Short, sweet campaign and the best in years. The first since MW with a coherent plot, and the robosuits really freshen it up. But the end is a bit of a squib. Enjoyable fluff. (it appears to be Xmas tradition that the wife gets a copy - well done Activision).
3. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze - WiiU such a great game. Controls wonderfully, and so differently to mario. The lion king level is a musical masterpiece. Rayman legends gets so much love due to its graphics, but give me something that controls as well as this any day.
4. Game of Thrones: Episode 1 - PS4 - Not bad at all. Never really got on with Telltale's Walking dead game, but I think that is possibly because I got the whole season at once. Playing this for a couple of hours every other month seems better somehow. Very enjoyable way to 'play an episode'. Excited to find out my partners choices when she plays it as I think she will be appalled at some of my choices.
5. Final Fantasy X - Vita The first time I've finished a FF game since VII at release. I thought JRPGs were dead to me. Full of grind and random battles and filler, but in a portable format I loved this. Would never have completed it on a couch, but it's made the last month of commuting a blast. Ignored every side quest and went straight down the path, so was constantly a somewhat low level, which made the combat fascinating, rather than the typically. Hammer-standard-attack-until-you-win style of others. Fell apart at the 3rd to last boss when I had to do X damage in 15 or so turns, and that was impossible with my skill set, so I had to grind to level a character for 2 hours, and then they had an attack that made the rest of the battles boringly easy. Looking forward to X-2.
6. Kick and Fennick - Vita - I've said it all over the place, but this is such a surprising delight. A genuinely novel and new 2D platformer. Game of the Year contender. I'll be wittering about this all year. Fantastic. As I said in the PS+ thread, there is something really primal and entertaining about parabolas. Must be evolution getting us to enjoy chucking rocks at mammoths. Or the use of urinals. Or something. But whatever the reason, a 2D platformer based on the recoil from a sniper rifle sending you flying in beautiful parabolas across the map is just superbly enjoyable to play. Binged and completed it over 3 days. Didn't outstay it's welcome, and bar a tiny dip in the middle where there is too much of a focus on timing puzzles, it fires on all cylinders throughout.
7. The Swapper - PS4/Vita if anything this year has proven it's that 2D platformers are such a vibrant platform for different experiences. Wonderfully explores it's central idea, and the mechanisms tie so well with its, actually great, plot. Genuinely good scifi. Which is rare in any format outside books. Highly recommended.
8. GoT: Episode 2 - PS4 yep, I guess this will count as six games over the year. Treaded water, slightly, and I'm hesitant about the importance of our decisions. But it's interesting how different me and my partners choices were.


A huge gap due to playing, and adoring, MH4 on the 3DS and Bloodborne on the PS4. Nowhere near done with either, but so, very very good.

Stopped to complete a few 'easy games' to give me a breather, so:

9. BoxBoy - 3DS - Played it for 7.5 hrs. It cost about £4.50 - 5.50? And every tiny level was incredibly entertaining. I recommend it very highly. it's all about making squares.
10. Gunvolt - 3DS - the nes de-make that comes free with the 'real' game, or available for a couple of quid. Very slight, but fun enough. Doesn't set the world on fire.

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4) SlitherLink (iOS) - All included puzzles completed on easy, medium and hard.
5) Conceptis SlitherLink (iOS) - All included puzzles completed on easy, medium and hard, and a couple of extra packs purchased.


!?!

Are they by the DS Slitherlink people? I really want a good Picross or Slitherlink iOS game, but they always seem so lacking in comparison to the DS/3DS versions.

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3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2015 0:36 
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Saturnalian wrote:
1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)
9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4).
10. Bloodborne (PS4).
11. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PS4).
12. Burn it Down (iOS).
13. The Evil Within: The Assignment DLC (PS4)
14. The Evil Within: The Consequence DLC (PS4).
15. Bayonetta 2 (WiiU).
16. The Tender Cut (PC).
17. Monsterbag (Vita).
18. Murasaki Baby (Vita).


19. Super Mario 3D World (WiiU)

It's ok and then it's great and then it's bloody compulsive. I might write about it if I can be bothered.

20. Resident Evil: Revelations (WiiU)

It is a festering barrel of lazy game design. I got so angry that I wrote a shit load of words about it in this very forum. Not bad for a game that, hopefully, no one will ever play.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2015 0:37 
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20 games in 5 months. I'm back on track, baby.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2015 1:30 
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Saturnalian wrote:
20 games in 5 months. I'm back on track, baby.


Amateur.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2015 22:27 
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Jesus, has it been 5 months already?


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 11:38 
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This thread is a constant reminder that I have not finished a single game this year...not one.

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 12:44 
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Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 17154
Location: Just Outside That London, England, Europe
1. Danganronpa (PSV)
2. Unfinished swan (PS4) It has a swan, but no disappointed bear noises.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 13:31 
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I'm now very much into Pillars of Eternety, so i'm sure there won't be any finished game for a long time...


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 18:16 
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1. The Room
2. The Room 2
3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum: what a fucking brilliant little game. Even if you don't figure out it's puzzles, which are largely straightforward, there's a joy to be had from it's lovely visual design and amazing sound. It's weird and stupid and funny and polished to a ludicrous level of shine.


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