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24.1.2022.

Game #186


Harvester represents a piece of weird history. Back in the 90’s when CDs just came out, game developers had no idea what the heck to do with all that extra storage data. While some simply made the same games they always made, but with better music, others tried… different things.

Seeing how CDs were mostly used to store movies, many developers tried to put movies in their own games, or rather, they would have games where cutscenes were just videos. Needless to say, the quality was bad and the games weren’t that impressive so game developers had to adapt. Unfortunately, they adapted in the worst possible way.

Instead of ditching these games with movies in them, they just made games with videos you couldn’t show on tv. Sex, weirdness and lots and lots of gore were all too common in these games. Harvester is a perfect example of such games. While I certainly wouldn’t say that Harvester is a good game, I’d say that it’s weird enough to be remembered.


You play the game as Steve. Steve wakes up in a town called: Harvest, and he can’t remember anything. As he exits his room and explores the town he finds out that he’s the oldest of his family, is to be married in three weeks and that everyone in this town (except for his fiance) is a weirdo.
Wives are stereotypical housemaids, kids love watching guts and gore on tv, firemen are gay artists, you’ve got a crazy wasp lady and a legless corporal who is one bad dialogue choice away from killing you.
Now, even though I love weird games with weird characters like in Deadly Premonition, this game just managed to disturb me, and I think that’s exactly what it was hoping to do. The characters in the game aren’t likable and they only seem to be there for the shock factor.
One thing that everyone seems to want is for Steve to join the order of the Harvest Moon, which ends up being the main quest.


The harvester is a classic point and click adventure game. I say “classic” because it’s one of those games where you can either spend hours clicking on anything before you progress because the goal isn’t clear.
You’ll have a vague idea of what you should do but you’ll have a whole town to explore and tons of random, hard-to-see, objects that are absolutely necessary if you want to progress. If you are planning to play this, you definitely will need a tutorial BUT, explore the town a bit before you resort to it. Seriously, you need to see some of this stuff for yourself before you start actually progressing through the game.

Anyway, as you start completing quests to join the order, you’ll notice that the quests you do in the game get increasingly violent. The game does this in a really subtle way that it’s kind of brilliant. While you’ll mostly click on items, combine them with other items and talk to people, you’ll also get to fight.
Yeah, this game has combat but it’s so awkward I can’t even describe it. You simply just click and the character will punch. Whether or not Steve will hit anything is another story. During the last parts of the game, there’s so much of this combat and the game just suffers because of it.


Even though it says that I’ve only played this game for 30 minutes, I actually completed it with my friend years ago. The reason we wanted to complete it was because of the game’s presentation. The game uses real people as actors and uses their silhouettes when you move through the game. It looks like crap today, but I guess it works. When you talk to people you’ll see their profile pictures where they can have different facial expressions. The graphics really haven’t aged well.
Fortunately, you’ll still get to experience all the “nice” gorey scenes in this game. Seriously, the game probably has some of the most disturbing scenes I’ve ever seen in any video game ever. There’s a scene where the baby's eyes pop out and a scene where children eat their mother, yeah… I’m not even kidding. The game love’s it’s gore.


There’s only one reason why I am recommending this game: you truly have to experience it to believe it. If you love weird, twisted things and want to see just how weird some games from the 90s could get, play Harvester. You won’t have fun, but you’ll have an experience. Grab a walkthrough and see how weird Harvester is. Not for the faint of heart.

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24.1.2022.

Game #185


Hard Reset is another game I never would have played had I not attempted my steam challenge. In the world where most first-person shooters act pretty much the same, it’s great to see some more variation.I’m really glad I got to play Hard Reset and even though I haven’t gotten far in the game, I think I can wholeheartedly recommend it.


The year is 20 - something something and while Judgment Day still hasn’t happened, the machines have started to pose a huge threat to humanity. It’s basically a cyberpunk world where machines can attack people on a daily basis.
You play as a mercenary/cop who gets sent to investigate a machine attack at Sector 6 and the rest is well… the rest of the game.

While the game will start as any old shooter, equipping you with a machine gun, you’ll immediately realize that guns aren’t super effective against robots.Oh sure, you can shoot them and take them out after a long time, but it’s not the ideal solution.
What you need is: electricity. How do you get electricity? By shooting everything around you. Yup, fuse boxes, vending machines, electric hydrants, generators, it’s all fair game.
While taking out a single robot can take you 20-30 bullets, a single shock from a fuse box can take out a whole horde of robots.
In my opinion, this is a fantastic way to keep things fresh. Whenever a horde is about to attack you, instead of aiming at them, you look around for a fuse to trigger.
Now combine that with the fact that robots hit pretty hard (even the tiny ones) and you’ll be kept on your toes as you hop around triggering things all over the place.


One thing that we don’t see very often in shooters is secrets. Sure, most shooters will have some sort of collectables but not secrets. Each level will have a ton of secrets that will usually award you with some in-game currency. It’s incredibly fun to go looking for them. They usually aren’t hidden too well, but if you played games like Quake https://store.steampowered.com/app/2310/QUAKE/ or Unreal https://store.steampowered.com/app/13250/Unreal_Gold/, you’ll be delighted by this mechanic. I know I was.
When you collect enough currency, you can visit one of the game’s upgrade stations and get some new toys to play with. You can get modifications for your main gun and turn it into a shotgun or an RPG. This makes destroying robots more effective but shocking them is still the ideal solution.
You can also upgrade your shock gun and make it fire different kinds of electricity. Armor and UI abilities can also be upgraded but it takes a while before you unlock something truly useful.


Not gonna lie, but I had more fun than I thought I would have. Hard Reset reminded me a lot of Bioshock https://store.steampowered.com/app/409710/BioShock_Remastered/ . On the surface it’s just another shooter but if you look a little deeper, you’ll see that Hard Reset has a lot more to offer than your average shooter.

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19.1.2022.


As I’m getting older, I’m starting to realize that there simply are some game genres that I simply can’t play. I’m also realizing that for certain game genres I have a real soft spot and those include: platformers, visual novels and farming sims. There’s just something so special about farming sims like Stardew Valley https://store.steampowered.com/app/413150/Stardew_Valley/ and My Time at Portia https://store.steampowered.com/app/666140/My_Time_At_Portia/. Well, I got in the mood to play a new farming game but didn’t want to pay too much money and Grow: Song of the Evertree came up so I bought it on a whim.
While I definitely don’t think this is a bad game, I can’t say I can really recommend it…


The story of Grow: Song of the Evertree is pretty charming in my opinion. You play as the very last alchemist living on the Evertree. The Evertree is basically the source of all life in the world but it’s been taken over by an evil thorny plight. When this came, everyone living on the evertree left except for you. It’s your job to fight the thorns that have grown everywhere on the Evertree and restore your world the way it was. You do this by farming and managing a town.


Even though I initially just wanted a game where I would tend a field of crops or a garden, I got a blend of three games that I actually really like. Just like most farming sims, this one has day and night cycles. During the day you can visit certain parts of the Evertree and take care of it. You take care of it by pulling out evil weeds, planting seeds, breaking rocks and singing the Song of the Evertee (which I guess would be fertilizer???).
Normally, once farming work is done, you will visit your town where you will use the resources you gathered to rebuild the town. This is where you build houses, put decorations and interact with your residents.
After you start building your town a little bit, residents will start showing up and you can make them move to the city by assigning them into a home and finding them a job. The residents won’t do much but they can give you small fetch quests and will help your town thrive.


Here’s the problem with this game:
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When I play farming games, I like to feel like I worked hard and achieved something through hard work. I love it when I plant a field of crops, tend to it and then harvest and produce it for a profit. That’s something that Grow: Song of the Evertee never gave me.

For example: when you tend to your farming, you already have everything ready. You don’t have to go and buy/collect seeds, you don’t have to upgrade tools and you really don’t have to worry about your stamina either. You just go and do things.


It’s the equivalent of “push this button 30 times and you’ll be done”. Yes, sure, you have to switch tools and walk around a bit but it gets old really fast.

When you manage your town you just place a building and the next day it will be built. You’ll start with just one district but unlock more as you complete district specific quests. Most quests can be done super easily. You’d think that a quest to build 5 unique buildings can take a while but you can literally finish it in 2 days. Materials aren’t hard to come by and you can easily make more by using your alchemy station. Sometimes you’ll need very specific essences and you won’t have any idea how to get them and you’ll just spend time breaking your stuff with alchemy and end up not getting anything.

The residents themselves aren’t more than mere decoration. When they do ask you to fetch them something 8 out of 10 times I already had the item they wanted and I instantly completed the quest. This is also because you have unlimited inventory space which sounds great but then you stop paying attention to what you are even carrying.

See what I mean about feeling lifeless?


I almost hate myself for writing this but I simply can’t recommend this game. Even though it technically does everything I wanted from a farming game and more, it does it in a really poor way.
During my 10+ hours of playing this I never felt like I accomplished anything through hard work. Instead it just felt like I was going through the motions of pressing the same buttons over and over again as the game “evolved” on it’s own.
With that said, I can see why some players would love this type of game and, who knows, you may just be one of those players. Grow: Song of the Evertree simply isn’t for me.


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22.12.2021.


"It takes two" is a co-op only game. Naturally since I’m not able to clone myself yet, I had to actually go out there and find another person to play this game with me. And wouldn’t you know it, I remember that I was married. Seeing how this game is about a husband and wife, I figured it would be appropriate to ask my wife to be my co-op partner, for better or worse. Anyway, my wife insisted that, since she has played every single minute of this game with me, that she be a part of this review. Hello, dear!



Yup, the story is honestly really cute and both of us really wanted to see it through until the end. Sure there were parts that we didn’t like but I think it’s safe to say that both of us had a grand time going through the entire game.



And she isn't kidding. The game isn’t too challenging for veteran platform players, such as myself, who are basically more comfortable with jumping in games than they are with communicating with actual people. The game pretty much DEMANDS that you have played A LOT OF platformers, LIKE A LOT.



It’s hard to deny this. Like I said, the platforming wasn’t too challenging for me but it was waiting for a player that just isn’t as skilled with these types of games. Quite honestly, I think I was more mad at the game than at my wife. I mean, the game clearly wants husbands and wives to play together, right? So, why not make it a little less challenging for newbies?


Even though platforming was a huge part of the game, the game dipped it’s toes into almost all other genres. On almost every single level, not only will there be a new environment to navigate through but both players will receive level-specific power ups. Which ones did you like honey?


Honestly, I liked almost all of them, especially because you always had to rely on the other player to get through a section. No matter how cool my own power was, it was useless if the other player wasn’t assisting. It’s one of this game’s best features in my opinion.



Again, I liked almost all of them. I appreciate when the game keeps things fresh with the environments. With that said, the clock tower level and the music level can kiss my a**.


Well, fortunately, the game is very forgiving with it’s checkpoints so we never spent too much time stuck on anything.


What did you think of the mini-games? Personally, I thought they were a huge waste of time.


Well, maybe if they actually did something for the game, but it’s just like you said, they were distractions. Glad you enjoyed them, though. Any favorites?


So, honey, in your own honest opinion. Would you recommend this game to other couples?


She is being too generous. I was a real ♥♥♥♥ to her during some harder ( ) sections. As for me, this is an easy recommendation. Not only is this game constantly changing the gameplay and keeping everything fresh but the way how co-op is absolutely essential in order to progress is what really sealed the deal for me.

Now as for buying this game, it’s a bit expensive at full price. Fortunately, you can buy a month or two with EA Play and finish it that way, which I think is a better option. Regardless of how you get the game, I think it’s definitely worth playing. Any last comments, honey?


(rolls eyes) I’m soooooo looking forward to that.


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27.11.2021.

Game #184


If you are here to read whether or not Hammerting is a good game or not, you are in the wrong place. I’ve only played the game for about 10 minutes and I am absolutely NOT QUALIFIED to give a valid opinion on how fun or “good” this game is. What I am going to do instead is tell you why this game made me quit pretty much as soon as I launched it.


Before you ask “Why did you buy this game if you aren’t going to play it?”, I didn’t. It was in a humble bundle and today I decided to see what it actually was. I have no knowledge of what the game was or anything. It’s just a game in my library that I decided to play, simple as that.


From the 10 minutes I spent “playing” Hammerting I can tell that it’s a 2D management game where you control a squad of dwarves as they dig through a mine and gather resources. They are supposed to prepare for a war or something and you have to manage how they progress. You use your mouse and keyboard to select dwarves and issue commands.


When I clicked “new game”, I noticed that there was a tutorial. Great! Teach me how to play this game, please. These types of games can get very complex and I do appreciate a good tutorial to show me how to do things. Well, shortly after this is when I decided to stop playing.


Growing up playing games, I learned that there are two types of gamers when it comes to tutorials: those who skip them and those who appreciate them. I am the latter. I like when a game makes an effort to teach new players how to play. I completely agree that tutorials should have a skip button but I honestly don’t mind when a game makes you go through a tutorial. After all, the tutorial is there to teach you how to play and this clearly means that the developers care. This is especially true with complex games like this one.
Hammerting starts of with a tutorial. This is how the tutorial works: read this, now read this, now read this, now read this, good luck, if you want more feel free to read. The entire tutorial just shows you what each icon is supposed to represent. It never makes you perform an action nor does it teach you how to do anything in the game. For all of that, you have to open a tutorial and read about it.


Fine, ok. Maybe the game is very self-explanatory and doesn’t need a tutorial. Maybe I just need to figure things out on my own. Well, NO. I tried to use different commands on my dwarves and clicked around and EVENTUALLY I got them to dig a wall. Ore fell out of the wall and, obviously, I wanted to pick it up. I tried clicking on the ore, I tried using the in-game commands, I tried everything that felt natural but nothing worked. I opened the long phone-book of everything about the game and I tried to find something like “how to pick items up?”. Nothing was there. I searched around and eventually figured out how things worked but then a new problem arose and I had to repeat the same thing over and over again.


Would it be too much to ask that all games like this one have interactive tutorials? Would it be imposing for Hammerting to say, “Select your dwarves with the mouse and click on the wall to mine”. How about “Right click on this button and click on your dwarf to pick this item up”? These aren’t the 90s where you had no choice but to read a manual.



And that’s my ANTI-review of Hammerting. It’s a game that doesn’t give a f*** about new players. It just expects you to figure things out on your own by shoving text into your face. No thank you!

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27.11.2021.

Game #183


With a title like “hack_me” it’s pretty clear what the developer and the player are expecting. This is a video game that simulates how hackers work, right? A game where you sit in front of your imaginary computer, use malicious software and hack your way into imaginary websites. Now, I am not a very smart man but I know that video games can’t really imitate real hacking so they will use interactions, commands and sometimes mini-games to make the player feel like they are actually hacking. I don’t mind this and several games have done this well, like Uplink https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/. What about hack_me? Does it make me believe like I’m hacking? NO!


You will start the game on someone's computer. Right off the bat, hack_me destroys my illusion of sitting at someone’s desktop by not allowing you to enlarge, move or minimize windows. You’ll be opening a lot of imaginary programs and they will just be stuck there. Then the game will VERY CAREFULLY guide you through the tutorial mission. This tutorial mission will last… the whole game, basically.

If you are thinking that you’ll get to pick jobs, and choose how you’ll go on about your hacks, think again. This game is EXTREMELY linear. It will basically guide you by the hand as you “hack”. In fact, it will guide you so much that you won’t even feel like a real human being. At one point the game will tell you to wait until a virus finishes uploading and while it’s doing that, you’ll be forced to play a mini-game of break out. It’s things like this that really ruin the immersion.


So, even though I said that the game is linear, I need to point out exactly how it is, yet again. Basically, the whole game is a step-by-step guide and each step will be displayed in your top right corner of the screen. Run a program, open chat, enter this address here, play a game… and things like that. It’s so on rails that it’s pretty much impossible to fail. You aren’t given any sort of freedom. But, you know, all of this can be forgiven if this extremely linear experience can make you feel like a hacker and, as I already mentioned, the game fails to do that miserably.


On your in-game chat, you’ll get missions from people. They will usually want money or something and you have to hack a certain site and transfer the money to them. So far so good. The first thing you do is scan the site with software for vulnerabilities. OK, not bad. Then, when you do find a weak link, you open a different program where you type in that link and just simply write that you want one number changed into another. That’s it! You don’t go looking for the person’s profile, you don’t even visit the site, you just say change this value into this one. Who’s value are you changing? That doesn’t matter. It doesn’t feel like hacking at all.
The absolute worst thing about this game is when you write viruses. Instead of making it into a … anything, you will simply stare into a command screen where you’ll just mash buttons on your keyboard as the game types the virus for you. That’s it. You don’t even copy lines of text nor can you make the game type it for you, you just have to mash buttons on your keyboard like a kid pretending to type something on his dad’s computer.


At no point did I feel like a hacker. I felt like a mindless robot that was following orders from someone else and then I would be told that I did a good job for some reason. No, I do not recommend this hack_me. It’s too pointless.

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26.11.2021.

Game #182


I remember years ago when the trend of watching someone play a game (instead of playing it yourself) was just starting out. One of the biggest streamers was a Swedish youtuber known as PewDiePie. I didn’t much care about him but I understood why people liked him. He was (probably still is) charismatic and he played games that were fun to watch. Even though I wasn’t a regular viewer of his, his video kept popping up with him playing this 2D game where you control a vehicle as they make their way towards the end while avoiding brutal and grotesque hazards. That game was Happy Wheels.

Happy Wheels was a free flash game, back when Flash Player still existed, that let players control a dad on a bike, a guy on a lawnmower or a jetpack or something similar as they hop through obstacles to reach the end. These obstacles are what set the game apart from other similar games. There were chainsaws, giant nails, tanks, arrows, bullets, you name it. As an added bonus, you get to watch your character die or get dismembered in a very gruesome way when you fail (even little kids). Because of the shock factor, the game became a weird hit (I guess) with many youtubers playing it. To be fair, for what it is, the game is very ambitious. It let users create their own levels and even characters (if I’m not mistaken).

Guts and Glory is the same game as Happy Wheels, except it’s in 3D. In fact it’s so unoriginal that it even copies the same characters from that game. Whatever, a 3D can potentially add a lot of depth to the game and it actually does. While the gameplay is pretty much the same, having a 3D environment does add a lot of depth to such a dumb simple game.

True to the game it was based on, Guts and Glory lets you do everything we’ve come to expect from Happy Wheels. You can play through the many included levels, set high scores and try to place high on the leaderboard and make your own levels. Again, for what the game is (meaning: a dumb pass-time) it has a lot of depth. However, there’s just one major problem that ruins everything.

While it’s technically often on sale and in bundles (which is how I probably got it), the full price of 15$ is laughable.Happy Wheels was also a dumb game but it was FREE. So let’s see what we actually get for 15$. We get crappy graphics, crappy music, amateurish menus and we get a dumb yet fun game that we can play for a few minutes at a time before we get bored. I mean, for a 3D game, the graphics are extremely basic and the game uses free music tracks that I’ve heard in other cheap games (they don’t even fit the scene). Nope, I’m just not seeing a single reason why anyone would pay 15$ for this. I mean, if the full price was 5$ or less, I could see it as a dumb but fun investment but NOPE.

Look, if you want a game where you drive through deadly obstacles, just go and play the original Happy Wheels. Even though Flash Player is no longer available, other websites have kept Happy Wheels alive. Oh and, it’s still free. While the 3D is nice, there’s no reason why you would want to play Guts and Glory over Happy Wheels with such a huge price. If you can get it for like 2$, then sure, pick it up, but otherwise, you’ll be just fine without it.

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25.11.2021.

Game #181


Fun fact about me: I’m one of the two people in this world who doesn’t like Lord of the Rings. I much prefer Harry Potter even though Lord of the Rings does make more sense. Regardless of that, here we have a Lord of the Rings themed Moba, two things I don’t like combined. This should be fun.


First of all, even before I installed this game, I knew what I was getting into. Nobody is playing this game and it’s been like that for some time now. I wasn’t expecting to find anyone online and that turned out to be true. Nobody is actually playing this game. I also wasn’t surprised to find out that the game is unlisted from Steam. What I did find surprising was that this game used to cost money. Yeah, a moba costing money when both Dota 2 https://store.steampowered.com/app/570/Dota_2/ and League of Legends were free to play, what a great idea!

When I first launched the game, my mouse wouldn’t move properly. I was genuinely scared thinking that something happened to my brand new RedDragon mouse but, as it turns out, the game is just poorly optimized with mouse controls. I’m sure that there might be a patch or whatever out there for fixing this but I wasn’t going to waste 2 minutes googling how to do it. So I did the next best thing: I grabbed my controller. Yeah, as it turns out, this game was originally designed for consoles and when they ported it, they flipped all keyboard and mouse users off.
Whatever, I grabbed a controller and I guess it worked… barely.

I dodn’t even care which mode I picked, I just wanted to see what the game looked like and after some fiddling with the controller I was playing against bots. The game picked Gandalf for me and I was on my merry way to attack the enemy towers. The mouse still didn’t work so I used my controller. Anyway, while my minions were charging at the towers, none of the heroes other than me were attacking. The opposing Golum hero was just running away from me as I kept rushing his tower. The same was true for my AI allied heroes. They were happy to stand and watch me as I destroyed the opposing towers without ever hitting or doing anything.

By the time I was at the nexus, the AI suddenly figured they should do something. So they started attacking me. Unfortunately for them, I was way overpowered at that point that I was able to mow through them. My allies helped too, finally, but it really didn’t matter. As soon as theat match was done, I quickly uninstalled that game and set out to write this review.
Dead game. Controls don’t work. You used to have to pay $20 to even get this game. Do I need to say more why this game failed. Even when the game works with a controller, it wasn’t that fun to play. The biggest mystery remains: how did I ever get this game in my library in the first place. It must have been a humble bundle again.

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24.11.2021.



Before I begin my review, I’d like to make one thing clear. I’m not going to mention any glitches, exploits, dupes or whatnots in this review. I fully realize that these are a “hot topic” right now when it comes to New World, but those are the least of my problems. Instead I’ll pretend like the game has none of them since, frankly, I never noticed any of them and yet I quit playing.
So enjoy a review on what the game is from a casual PvEer that hasn’t yet hit endgame.


If anything I’ll remember New World for being the first game I bought with crypto. Well, technically I bought gift cards using crypto but it still counts. Anyway, as I created my character and started playing this game I was having a lot of fun with this MMORPG. One of the things that really made my experience entertaining was the combat.


The combat in New World is really fun. It reminds me a lot of Dark Souls https://store.steampowered.com/app/570940/DARK_SOULS_REMASTERED/ but not as punishing. Unlike MMORPGs I’m used to, the combat is action based. You have to aim each of your attacks and you can dodge and block incoming damage. It’s a lot of fun when you first start playing this game.


Another thing I really liked was crafting. Again, in other MMORPGs you are usually stuck with one or two professions, but in New World, nothing was stopping me from mastering everything, very much like Runescape https://store.steampowered.com/app/1343400/RuneScape/. I really enjoyed being able to cut down trees only to skin animals the next minute and then mine some ore. It was quite a liberating feeling.


I was still having fun with the game. The enemies got harder but I too started getting better at the combat. I liked how I could switch weapons and try out different builds. I really started appreciating how precision matters in combat (especially with the musket).
Since I played solo, I generally avoided PvP since a lot of people like to grief low level players. Now I was working towards getting a reputation for my starting city, improving my skills and finishing daily challenges and town board requests. If I could bottle up the feeling I’ve had when experiencing this, I would savor it like fine wine.

Getting kind of bored here. Even though the combat is still great, I basically had to decide on two weapons and now it makes no sense to switch them up. Neither should I reset my attribute points because that now costs money that I’m trying to save for an in-game house.
I never mentioned quests in this game because they are so forgettable. For the record, I’m a person who got Loremaster (an achievement for finishing all quests in the game) in World of Warcraft 4 times. So, I have no trouble finishing quests even when they are boring. New World’s quests are by far the most boring quests I’ve ever seen in any video game ever. They may have a story behind them but it’s basically the same three quests repeated over and over again. Seriously it’s so boring. The skilling is still fun but takes too long to level now.

By this point I was forcing myself to keep playing. A good part of this is because I paid full price for this game (something I rarely do) but it was an uphill battle. I was doing the same things I did when I first started playing this game. I fought the same enemies, I chopped the same trees, I did the same quests. Only now, all of these were harder, took longer and rewarded me with less stuff. I wanted to do dungeons but those had these keys that were one time only and in order to get them I had to collect these worlds, even crystals and it just became tedious.
For PvP, most players on my server prefered to group with max levels (60) so I wasn’t ready for that yet.


Yeah, so I remember it clearly. When I finally finished this one quest and returned all the way back to the quest giver (you don’t even have mounts in this game), the questgiver simply accepted the quest and gave me another one that would sent me all the way back for the same thing I just did earlier. At that point I stopped.


New World is a great idea on paper. It has great combat, great skill system and an interesting premise. The problem is everything else. The game has the most boring quests I’ve ever seen in a game, the same recycled types of enemies that all act the same and it expects you to do the same thing for all eternity without ever making anything feel worthwhile. If I could, I would change the title to “Going through the motions” MMORPG. The reason why I quit playing New World is because the game is boring and I don’t think anything short of a megapatch is going to fix it.

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24.11.2021.

Game #180


Guacamelee is one of those games I played before in the past and was both looking forward and not looking forward to playing again. Don’t get me wrong, I love this game, in fact, it’s one of the best metroidvania games I’ve ever played in my life, but, at the same time, I’ve already played it before. How interesting is it going to be to replay this game? Turns out, plenty!


Guacamelee is a game that sets you in the shoes of a Luchadore. You will play as Juan and your job is to rescue El Presidente’s daughter from an evil Esqueleto Calaca. Yeah, as you can tell the main theme of this game is: Mexico. Every single stereotype you know about Mexico is in this game: luchadores, ♥♥♥♥-fights, tequila, sombreros, mountain goats, ancient Aztec ruins, enchiladas and let’s not forget evil esqueletos. Ummm… did I mention that I absolutely love everything about the game’s theme? I can’t get enough of all the cultural references no matter how silly they make them look. Oh and the music is just divine. I used to rock my daughter to sleep with the main town theme. I guess it also helps that the game plays really darn well.


Guacamelee is a 2D metroidvania game. In true metroidvania fashion, you will visit many different places where you will learn power ups and get stronger and more agile.Using these power ups, you’ll be able to progress through the game but also backtrack and find hidden treasures and collectables. Unlike most metroidvania games, this game is pure Melee (just like the title suggests). Juan does not need any whips or screw attacks to fight his way through hordes of esqueletos, just his fists, feet and nogging. Surprisingly, this works really well in the game. By combining all luchadore abilities for both combat and platforming, the developers created a truly unique, yet familiar, metroidvania game.


Both movement and combat feel super fluid and responsive. It’s a lot of fun in the beginning to punch your way through enemies and watch your multiplier go up. The combat is fun. A bit easy but still fun. The game tries to make you use different attack combinations so you can achieve higher scores but, you probably won’t care much about it since you can win most fights with just basic punches.
Now the power ups you get are a lot of fun. You’ll get an uppercut which will act as an extra mid-air jump, until you get a proper double jump. Then you’ll get a ground stomp, wall breakers and even an ability that will turn you into a chicken so you can fit through small spaces.


One of the coolest features about the game is how you have both the living and the dead world. The dead world is basically a mirrored version of the living world. At first, it may seem interesting to switch between these worlds using portals but later you will learn an ability to switch worlds at will. This creates great platforming sections where platforms will only appear in one of the two worlds and you’ll have to switch between them all the time.
Unfortunately, the game also uses this feature in combat and that leads to some really frustrating moments. Often during combat, you’ll get enemies that you can only hit in the living and those that you can only hit in the dead world. The problem is that it becomes really overwhelming to doge and switch between worlds all while avoiding everything. Nothing game breaking but still frustrating. I really didn’t care much about this.

Yeah, I’m totally going to recommend Guacamelee. It’s probably better to purchase the Super Turbo Championship edition https://store.steampowered.com/app/275390/Guacamelee_Super_Turbo_Championship_Edition/ since it adds a few more features but even this version is worth it. This is just an insanely fun metroidvania game that I highly recommend to anyone new and familiar with this genera. Now go and punch some Esqueletos!

Next game: Guardians of Middle Earth
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