The Gaming Archaeologist 最近的评测

My friend SandyAJ (https://www.youtube.com/@SillySandyAJ and Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/sillysandyaj) arranged for myself and many of the rest of us to do a regular/semi-regular stream with friends to both highlight each other's streams and also just have a whole lot of maddening fun!

The game involves playing as numerous popular and much lesser-known characters against your friends over evolving and living maps where the tracks often change and even the roads get destroyed, your car often transforming into a aircraft of some kind or a boat. Every track has a hidden shortcut and certainly makes me nostalgic for Mario Kart, only without having to pay a stupid subscription to play online with friends, however, that brings me to the issues with this game...

Despite what I was saying earlier, the game is programmed for purely local co-op, but thanks to the power of Steam and using remote play you can play together, up to ten players as otherwise it appears to be impossible as far as I can see.

Another issue is crashes. It's a little unstable and I have had it crash on me, even when I got a newer and far more powerful machine, it had the occasional crashes meaning you have to get reinvited to remote play to join in, but you've now automatically lost that race.

You have a limited number of tracks, unless you play through the campaign mode which has a interesting start with story of why the characters are racing, however, after a while and at the final race all knowledge of the race has been lost! You can also unlock other characters, like I said before. Some very popular like other characters from the Sonic universe like Shadow or Eggman and more obscure characters like Vyse from Skies of Arcadia, Nights from the game of the same name and so on! There's even a really cool track from the game "Burning Rangers" with a really bad-ass music track from the game. At one point it feels a little lazy as later stages are reversed versions of the others, but still quite entertaining and can certainly confuse you.

Beyond these issues, it plays like any kind of vehicular combat game that's similar to Mario Kart where you grab power-ups and then use them as weapons to fire at the other racers and get past them, but there's also a battle mode, ghost elimination and a capture-the-flag where you stealing a Chao and delivering them to a ufo and scoring.

Apart from the issues with the game, it was still a lot of fun and I got many hours of fun out of it playing with my friends online who are a lot of great fun on Twitch.

Stream and Gameplay: https://youtu.be/gYlpAKk0w54

Friends on Twitch:

Anime_Artist_Gamer: https://www.twitch.tv/anime_artist_gamer

Dark: https://www.twitch.tv/darkangel61236

SandyAJ: https://www.twitch.tv/sandyaj

Serra: https://www.twitch.tv/serrabritt

TS_Yuudachi: https://www.twitch.tv/ts_yuudachi

So I finally took time to get to this game and several other games I'm trying to go through my backlog and I was initially quite interests in what the game might have after playing some fairly good smutty games, however, this one was quite the disappointment and was going to be merely lame, until I experienced the ending which just soured whatever the game had going for it.

You play as a "Wizard-in-training" whose been to the army and such and is currently on the mission to bring pies for his Grandfather who lives deep in these woods that go all magical and especially on Halloween he barrier between the worlds is at it's thinnest and he encounters all kinds of beautiful young women, however, he can only defend himself with a single spell he had learnt when sneaking a few hidden moments reading his Grandfather's magical tome.

Combat is done in a kind of "Bejewelled" kind of way where the arrow boxes of the same colour match, but unlike HuniePop which was a lot more straight forward, you have to follow the directions. First getting rid of X many blocks before the stripping begins, with the next following tasks by getting X number 3 at once, 4 at once and finally 5 at once. Then you need to hit the different power-ups Pumpkins, Skulls, Bats and finally tombstones.

The puzzle part I thought was quite clever and really gets you to think as all these squares have arrows and when you click on them, they move in that direction and even swap places with anything there which makes you want to think carefully when you get near the end, but if you're careful like me, save the power ups until you really need them and I ended up using them all on the final boss!

The writing it's pretty simple and bad at many times. Both in regards to the wording and the following events are all pretty much exactly the same. Meets a magical/monster girl, is threatened and gets into combat, defeats them and then has sex with them. The writing isn't very sexy and pretty bland. A single static image of the naked girl in question and you don't even get to see that much of her body, nor any actual sex or penetration which is written in a very vague way. If anything, the images are more of them posing than actually having sex.

After the second-to-last girl, it's made obvious that things are not what they seem and not to spoil it, but let's just say, the MCs grandfather needs to look up the word "consent" and consider worried how many children that he's fathered all over the place. The dialog shows that the main character hates this, but he also claims he's "From a different time" and event goes back to doing what he had been before, knowing fully well that they can't consent.

I was really hoping that the ending one was just immune to that part of the magic or something and just really wanted to be with him legitimately, but no. As usual they get dressed, leave and then that's the end of that I guess...

Because of this I've had to score low on this on Backloggd and not recommend it on Steam since it wasn't just the question of consent, but also the terrible writing, boring nude images (can find much better online for free) and a boring conclusion too.

The only good thing is the puzzle sections which do require quite a bit of thought and concentration to actually full off.

I'm ashamed that I've not actually reviewed this sooner! It's one of those games that I watched a fellow streamer/friend play it and I then gave it my all to jump right in and buy it!

For more, here's my stream/Gameplay: https://youtu.be/JShYDr2FCFM

The game is where you start out as a young woman named Stella, with her pet cat, making way by boat to the Boatman of the afterlife, Charon. He gifts you the task of collecting souls and then when their time is right, taking them to the bridge where they can finally pass over into whatever waits for one's soul when it completes it's journey.

You inherit his boat and soon come across friends and family members who will assist you in cleaning up and improving the boat to meet yours and your guests needs, becoming a mobile town with the number of buildings by the end of the game!

Something of a narrative brilliance that this game does is it makes you feel for the characters as they are, at times, vague in who they looked like and ect in the living world, but they're people you know and the vagueness allows you to place upon them people you may have loved and lost in your life which led to my crying every time I took someone to the point and they were either anxious about what happens next, talk about their regrets and realisations and then finally, there's those who don't fully understand what's going on due to either memory problems of just their age when they died and I felt for EVERY SINGLE ONE!

I even promised myself at times that I wouldn't do it again next time, but I DID! I was in tears multiple times because the game does such a good job in making you care and love for these characters, identifying real-life people that they could relate to in your life. One that hit my hard was how my Nan had recently passed and one of the characters made me think of her so taking her to the gateway to pass on was...difficult.

It's a wholesome game about death, the impact we make on other's lives and the impact they make upon us too. The amount of crafting and discovery to be had in this game is so massive that you will be busy for many hours and I haven't even played the new "Farewell Edition" so I'm not certain how much even more interesting content and characters that they've brought into it.

I love the Shark Shipwright and his terrible jokes!

A quite fun little clicker game where you can play as different races and then have a soft-reset in a rogue-like style by gaining items and abilities that pass over with each different life that you take, often benefiting certain races more than the others. Later you're able to unlock more races and even the mercenary clan who can use all kinds of abilities from all the different factions to mix and match, creating some truly impressive combinations, though most of those I found by looking up guides online.

Being so addicted to this there's always the chance I may return to it again, but for now I have no issue just leaving it as it is whilst I try to work on finishing other games and writing up more reviews for Backloggd and other places!

It's certainly quite enjoyable, especially with the collectables found when excavating that unlock abilities and races. Often only unlockable via certain clans and not others.

So this game first came to my attention from Jim Stephanie Sterling mentioning it as, in it's original form, it was a fun little little premium game that only lightly tugged at you for money for rewards. no premium currency, no easy paths to completion or any of that crap. It was a fun little idle vault builder/management game with some extras, but nothing that was too aggressive.

However...Bethesda being Bethesda decided that wasn't good enough. Initially they had no interest in the game because they didn't think it'd do much and with limited micro-transactions wouldn't do much, so that's when they decided to add the "Nuke Quantum" as a new resource that just like every other manipulative game out there, is given to you in small amounts to speed up tasks, complete missions and so on that they added in one big update! Some of which, having story-lines that are better than anything they've produced in years, so take that how you will.

I still find myself coming back to it, but only ever begrudgingly. I never enjoy coming back to this and I feel I've invested too much to just ignore it forever. That said, I'm more interested in playing the original fallout games. Revisiting them and seeing what kinds of play through I can do. Especially since they were made before the series fell into the hands of this exploitative company.

If you're susceptible to addiction and gambling mechanics prevalent in so many free mobile games out there, I'd give this a wide birth. There's not really that much content in there to keep you invested for more than a few weeks so don't be like me and waste your time on this. There's far better idle games out there.

Been playing this game on and off and I love Neus the sexy goth girl! Perfect in every way, imo!

Anyway, it's disappointing that this game hasn't been finished after all these years, but having a loot at patreon, work is still being done on it and it is the work of a single studio so it's hard to criticise much. Not to mention, English isn't their native language so they have to navigate that minefield of a language that happens to be my own mothertongue.

The story is your roommate goes mad, attempting to rape a random girl in the woman's bathroom, she screams and to continue this story to punch the crap out of him, however, later he starts feeling ill back at the place and changing. Becoming more feminine and the girl admits she put a spell on him, turning him into a girl and opening up a potential romance route there.

The game is mostly smut and magic, not to mention the main character having such a huge ♥♥♥♥ that you'd swear he was part horse or elephant or something. I mean DAMN!

There are some very fun elements and I'll be looking forward to when I can play the full version in the future.

I finally got back to finishing this game and instantly remember my issues and why I hadn't come back to it in so long! The game is a horror where the characters get transported from their school to a deserted and falling apart school filled with ghosts, curses and the dead bodies of children of different kinds of ages.

The game is split up into different chapters and the characters are also split up into different areas of the school, completely cut-off from one another and at the mercy of these malicious spirits.

The story and writing I feel are done very well, though it feels like it's more censored than what I imagined when I heard about this game so often and so many visuals were missing compared to what I had expected to see. Still, it ends up achieving the rule "Sometimes, less is more" where even if you don't see the scene playing out, the description and sound effects are enough to make you conjure up images that could potentially be more disturbing that what the artists could achieve.

That said, this title has some pretty heavy flaws that I'll detail below:

-No Sprinting! (You have no ability to speed up your movement, which means if you're stuck, you can't run through all the places you've been previously but just walk slowly instead.)

- No Cuts! (If you attempt to get this game and you finish a chapter, even an alternate ending, you are forced to endure the credits and as the game refuses to run in the background you can't even mess around on YouTube to waste the spare time. Even if you've seen it once before, there's no skipping it!)

This was a difficult game to review, but I did genuinely enough it and getting all the ending to get a different angle up on the situation.

It's difficult to review the conclusion to this without spoiling, but I'll try.

This was a tough ending to watch and experience, but we get a look into the research and the items going before the main character of the first game enters the scene. Getting a look at the failed experiments behind the scene and the start of the downfall of Rapture is a VERY interesting part of the lore that we get to have a look at and this was one of those endings that's bittersweet, but also brilliant.

I had no idea where this game was going to go after the end of infinite, however, they had clearly put some great effort into the story and the opening scene where Booker Dewitt is in Rapture working and gets hired by Elizabeth to search for a little girl who has disappeared, most likely as one of the little sisters.

The majority of the game is where you play as Elizabeth who is one of the best characters and is certainly meant to have been the main character as it was totally her game.

Debt. Debt is the main focus of the narrative of this game both financial and metaphorical, but I won't go into spoilers, but I hope those who have played the game agree with what I mean!

The game is quite beautiful visually and holds up really well even these days from the real damn hard work that they've done when making this game. However, much like rapture, it too has it's own problems revealed later on with the corruption and revolution not far away.

The concept was certainly very different, being a far more religious-based situation with regards to how Comstock and his followers deify the founding fathers. Buying into the worst of their bigotry and classism. They game has Vigors instead of Plasmids, but often act the same, but have some new abilities too like releasing crows and such. You play as a PI, down on his luck and owing money to the point that he's been offered this one job to get rid of his debts. "Bring us the girl and the debt will be paid" which gets repeated often due to the aforementioned fact it's the focus of the narrative.

The levels are all huge and part of that is due to the skyhook that gives you a hell of a distance to travel by hanging on these wires and giving a whole new angles to the combat. Not to mention using it as a melee weapon when needed too. It's a really great game with not just great mechanics, but a great narrative and a beautiful ending and a wonderful character in Elizabeth.