Various games
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schneefinkCatching up on reviews, games (other than Minecraft) edition:
I played almost twenty hours of Vampire Survivors in a little over a week in January. It was good flashy fun requiring very little brain power, cut into convenient time periods of up to half an hour or even shorter, and pretty soon I discovered and/or unlocked a new upgrade/weapon/character/stage/etc. almost every run which made me want to keep playing. I had 50% of achievements when I suddenly lost interest for no particular reason. No regrets though. I've thought about giving it another try once or twice but I think I would rather play Hades again.
I wrote that and then thought "you know what," and played my first round of Hades since June 2022 (I was surprised it had been that long!) On zero heat because it's been so long, and it was very noticeable that I was out of practice, but I still did fine. I met Than and Patroclus, I used Zag shield with a nice Flood Shot-centered build, and I even got a fishing spot on the surface but did not manage a perfect catch. One day I will complete the codex.
That was fun, but I don't think I'll go back to playing Hades a lot, I'm still happy with Minecraft as my current distraction game. Very much looking forward to Hades II though!
Speaking of games I haven't played in a while, I played Afterimage in spring of last year. I posted about it in June, played for a few more days and then stopped.
After making it to the credits I went back to the egg in the Field of Pyro for more endings. First I picked the one where Ifree becomes the goliath again, that was nice and unlocked NG+ as an option. Then I picked the one where Renee chooses violence and has to fight Ifree, I won on my first try without even using potions, nice. Then I did some more exploration and actually found every item in Holy Grounds, finally. I looked up where to use the Eye of Gongor and found out that I already used it on the Golden Crow, I didn't even realize that's what that was ^^
Then I tried out NG+. The floating of the new character looks odd. I got lost on the island and didn't find Aro and decided to try that some other time.
…and then I sort of lost interest for a while. I still planned to go back to it for a while because I heard that there is another section to play with Renee and that you only get the full plot if you complete NG+, but I haven't yet and I'm not sure if I will. In the meantime a new game-mode, a boss rush, and a new playable character have also been released, those could be fun to check out maybe but it's not high on my list of things to play.
I've been vaguely considering playing Phoenotopia: Awakening again because I'm only missing a single achievement, "Speed Runner," and it would be very nice to get to 100%. And it's a very good game that I'd enjoy playing again, except I'd definitely have to play it twice because I'm not going to get the speed runner badge when playing for the first time after such a long break. (Also, annoyingly, I didn't find a good guide for the speed runner achievement only, just for doing speed runner + zero trial (no upgrades) at the same time, and I already did the zero trial so I can make speed runner easier for myself.) One day.
I played almost twenty hours of Vampire Survivors in a little over a week in January. It was good flashy fun requiring very little brain power, cut into convenient time periods of up to half an hour or even shorter, and pretty soon I discovered and/or unlocked a new upgrade/weapon/character/stage/etc. almost every run which made me want to keep playing. I had 50% of achievements when I suddenly lost interest for no particular reason. No regrets though. I've thought about giving it another try once or twice but I think I would rather play Hades again.
I wrote that and then thought "you know what," and played my first round of Hades since June 2022 (I was surprised it had been that long!) On zero heat because it's been so long, and it was very noticeable that I was out of practice, but I still did fine. I met Than and Patroclus, I used Zag shield with a nice Flood Shot-centered build, and I even got a fishing spot on the surface but did not manage a perfect catch. One day I will complete the codex.
That was fun, but I don't think I'll go back to playing Hades a lot, I'm still happy with Minecraft as my current distraction game. Very much looking forward to Hades II though!
Speaking of games I haven't played in a while, I played Afterimage in spring of last year. I posted about it in June, played for a few more days and then stopped.
After making it to the credits I went back to the egg in the Field of Pyro for more endings. First I picked the one where Ifree becomes the goliath again, that was nice and unlocked NG+ as an option. Then I picked the one where Renee chooses violence and has to fight Ifree, I won on my first try without even using potions, nice. Then I did some more exploration and actually found every item in Holy Grounds, finally. I looked up where to use the Eye of Gongor and found out that I already used it on the Golden Crow, I didn't even realize that's what that was ^^
Then I tried out NG+. The floating of the new character looks odd. I got lost on the island and didn't find Aro and decided to try that some other time.
…and then I sort of lost interest for a while. I still planned to go back to it for a while because I heard that there is another section to play with Renee and that you only get the full plot if you complete NG+, but I haven't yet and I'm not sure if I will. In the meantime a new game-mode, a boss rush, and a new playable character have also been released, those could be fun to check out maybe but it's not high on my list of things to play.
I've been vaguely considering playing Phoenotopia: Awakening again because I'm only missing a single achievement, "Speed Runner," and it would be very nice to get to 100%. And it's a very good game that I'd enjoy playing again, except I'd definitely have to play it twice because I'm not going to get the speed runner badge when playing for the first time after such a long break. (Also, annoyingly, I didn't find a good guide for the speed runner achievement only, just for doing speed runner + zero trial (no upgrades) at the same time, and I already did the zero trial so I can make speed runner easier for myself.) One day.
