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Not really sure what I would expect from a "found lost phone, search through messages to find clues to passwords to access more apps" but I found the game play pretty tedious. There is an underlying story which is nice, and there are some unique ways in which the game requires you to gather information, but the lack of a search function makes searching through all the messages and emails slow. I would also have found it useful to have some way of keeping notes within the game just to be able to keep track of key passwords or information as you come across it.

Overall, take my thumbs down with a grain of salt as this is likely more an issue of just not being my type of game, rather than it being a bad game.

A very simple arcade style shoot em up. While I give this game a thumbs up, there isn't a whole lot too it. You play a level get money for each enemy you killed, then can buy stat boosts between levels, and repeat until you die. Once dead, your name gets entered on the local leader board, and then you can start all over again.

You can choose from a few different weapon loadouts for your ship and you also get three bombs in each level, but that's about it for variance. There are no pickups in the levels, and the weapons never visually change, they just simply do more damage.

The achievements are overall relatively simple. The hardest of which is having 10k gold between levels. I played to about level 18 to get this achievement myself, cursing the scorpion boss every time I faced him =P

The good!
- This game features 35 simple 5x5 puzzles with images from a variety of styles.
- Pieces snap into position well, and can be connected without snapping them onto the board.
- The shuffle button is useful for just moving pieces around to perhaps find the one you are looking for.
- Puzzles save progress when you back out to the menu until you return to them.

The meh?
- The puzzles are all pretty simple, and being only 5x5 don't take long to complete.

The stuff that could use some love <3
- The music is a very short loop and gets repetitive very quickly. Having different tracks would be nice.
- The level complete text being animated is a little annoying to me personally, it makes pressing the buttons difficult unless you wait for the animation to play out.
- I feel the achievements have entered the spam territory, one for completing each level would be alright, but one for starting each level, and another for completing them seems a bit much
- The default camera zoom is a bit too zoomed in and can make it difficult to see pieces at the outer edges of the play area.
- Puzzle pieces lose saturation when placed. This makes it so a held piece can appear a completely different shade of colour from its neighbouring pieces.

Put simply, this game is a collection of Jigsaw puzzles, and it does that well enough. My reasons for not recommending it though mostly come from my dislike of the little fairy character. It would be nice to just play the game quietly with some music, but the fairy constantly talking and repeating voice lines gets a bit annoying. I also don't really understand why levels are locked behind other levels, and more specifically, why lower piece count puzzles are locked behind harder higher piece count ones.

I am still going to play this game to 100% completion, but I have certainly put this game aside numerous times from having lost the desire to play.

A simple game, with some unique platforming and communication puzzles. My only complaint was that a few puzzles felt punishing when you had solved them, but then one player failed a jump. Going into the game blind though I had a good time, and enjoyed the experience =)

It didn't really grip my attention particularly hard (though I do intend on getting back to it), but it's a fun way to dabble in making tool assisted speedruns =)

While the expansions and the number of unique legendaries may be lacking, Tiny Tinas Wonderlands still delivers on a fun fantasy borderlands experience. I love using the new spells whereas I barely ever used the grenades that they replaced, and being able to make your own character is pretty neat as well. Overall it is still very much borderlands, and comes with plenty of callback references if you have played the previous games.

Evoland was fun for me because of all the references it makes to other games, and because of the vast variety of game styles and genres it incorporates. The legendary edition contains both Evoland 1 and 2, the first of which I found to be relatively short, but still enjoyable, and the second I also enjoyed but often felt like I was just wandering around not knowing where I was supposed to be going. The other main annoyance I had was trying to find save points, while they were common enough in dungeons, when I was just free roaming around the world I had to constantly had to backtrack to the few I could remember just to ensure my progress was saved. Overall, I probably wouldn't recommend Evoland for someone that isn't very familiar with video game culture, or who just hasn't played many games overall.

A simple yet enjoyable little game. I can't really put my finger on what made me have so much fun with it, the swinging physics on loose dangling orbs, the cascading explosions, or the upgrade system. That being said the game is rather repetitive, as much as it has 250 levels, every 50 a new colour is introduced, and 1 to 49 the amount of orbs increases. Towards the end of the game if you have enough upgrades the powerups start to make the levels rather easy.

I played this game for a few hours and enjoyed my experience. It's story was simple but told well. The gameplay was fun, though after finishing the story, started to get a bit repetitive when going for the completion achievements.