Tanukitsune

There are still a few people I haven't help... I hope you can help them all.

How can I not love a game about hugging? I just love Dropsy little happy dance when he does something good. Frankly, I have no idea if the good deeds I do are optional or not I will hug EVERYONE until they are happy! I don't know how far I am in the game, but I am confused by the cassettes, do I even need them for anything after

I finished Elliot's Quest, a vania in the Zelda II style (Steam seems to have a lot of those lately). The game is incredibly unbalanced, I was tripping over magic upgrades left and right and same goes for the money chests, I eventually had run out of things to buy and the only thing I could buy was potions, which I didn't need. The game kinda breaks pretty fast since the first magic power you get is a tornado that doesn't do damage, but stuns almost every enemy, sucks up flying enemies and makes you almost invincible, might combined with the "too many magic upgrades" makes the games almost too easy... But at the same time the game has so many optional and practically useless stuff, specially the crystals, you need four to open a gate to best weapon and armor, but... the rest are for optional bosses which do nothing and are broken in the game's favor by practically killing you in one hit. The game had a morality system which I never saw shift an inch and while the game is "easy", you are not informed of anything.... What does the item you just picked do? Figure it out yourself! The game even has a feather in stores I could never buy or figure out what it did. The ending felt so unsatisfied since it made me remember how much effort I put into the game for apparently nothing... I didn't steal and that didn't do nothing, I got all the crystals and nothing happens, I beat a few optional bosses and nothing happened. If you ever get this game, just get the four crystals to get the best gear, you won't need any of the optional items... even the dash is only needed for ONE optional boss.

But... but...

I dread watching the next School-Live...

The Humble Store has been having sales for a few days now, but I just realized how awesome their "Build your own Bundle" deal is. I was missing some Daedalic adventure games and the more you get, the bigger the discount, up to five, that is, which was the exact number of games I wanted. I got five games for 12€ at 85% off each, which is a pretty good deal.

(Obligatory "Why isn't this on Vita?" whining)

I don't know what to think of the game, I just If this is what dark humor has to offer, count me out. Or is this called the Painful RPG because of how bad the jokes are?

I'm still catching up with School-Live and....

Alum: It's a very old-school style adventure in a sci-fi world, but also very VERY religious? I don't know what to think about the religion of the game, since it's the driving force in the plot. An epidemic is consuming the land and only the "Altruist" can stop it. The Altruist's "religion" is never really called one, but you can't be forced into it, you must drink of a phial willingly and suddenly you're filled with his love and forgiveness and the illness is gone. The world and lore is pretty interesting and the religion part never really bothered me. The Silent Age: The story of a 70's janitor who gets caught in time travelling adventure where only he can stop the end of the world. The story is pretty interesting and the 70's vibe is pretty great too. The puzzles mostly consist between travelling from the present to the future and altering a few things to open new paths.

Since I'm finished with K-On I watched an episode of School-Live, knowing it was more that it seemed and... What I'm really curious about is how the rest of the series will go.

OH GOD! THIS IS REAL! It's happening! Ore Monogatari MOOOVIE!

Ok, I really have to talk about Discouraged Workers and I don't know how. It's a very short visual novel, but like 999 and Danganronpa you can't really talk about it without spoiling anything. From the title you can tell it's about an unemployed woman who has given up on getting a job... and that's it's DARK. I'm baffled such a game exists on Steam, because this is the first game on Steam with The story just got more intense and gripping and I sighed in relief was it was truly over.... I can't really say more about it.

Tower defense? Wow, I think I'm glad this game was my first Steam refund, it doesn't sound like it gets any better.

I ran almost all the time I could, I think it's the passages that look the same what really wore me down, but since you beat it too, did you get an ending where It's on the Japanese PSN and if you're going to get it, try to get 100% Cotton, another cute and quirky shmup!

I beat episode four of Telltale's Game of Thrones and while started playing the series hating the show and groaning at the game, I actually enjoyed this episode although probably just for one scene where you can get a rival merchant very angry at you. E.X. Troopers: I'm pretty sure the only reason anybody heard of this game was because some thought it was some Mega Man Legends spin-off, and frankly, it's gameplay does remind me a LOT of that game. It's really a Lost Planet spin-off that's so anime it hurts SOOO good! The game is so visual that it didn't matter that I barely understand Japanese. It does have a few missions where you must protect someone while they hack a terminal of sorts, so obviously the game throws enemies with rocket launchers at these moments. I still love it! Neverending Nightmares: Wow, this game felt like a slog and it was only an hour long. How can such a short game feel so long? Everything is a jump scare and anything that could have been creepy or scary is abused so much that it stops being scary and becomes either funny or annoying. You spends most of the game confused seeing a dead girl everywhere, up to a point where it literally rains corpses of her.... wow, how subtle. I think the truth behind everything might change depending on which path you take, but I can't be bothered to find out. Harmful Park: OH GOD, YEEEESSS! It's been ages since I've played a cute and quirky shmup, Parodius style, an amusement park has been taken over by a weird clown scientist and you must fly around with your mother's invention a ship that shoots jelly beans and pies and has an ice cream laser. The game is just so pretty and weird and every screen has some character dancing in the background or something funny or cute. How can I not love a game where one of the mid-bosses is an actual wedding where you dodge hearts and tears? L.S.D. Dream Simulator: This kinda of a non-game where you just run around in a dream-like world looking at how weird it is... except it's not that weird, specially after playing Harmful Park. How am I supposed to be shocked by a flying elephant after killing an inflatable dino with jelly beans in Harmful Park? *shrugs* Hatsume Miku: Project Diva f: My first Miku game and probably my last. I must say, that the game does give you more bang for your buck with so many songs and while some of the videos where fun, I didn't like the game play. Sure I suck at rhythm games, but in this one it didn't feel like I was doing anything following a rhythm except for some of the bridges of the song. The game seems to have a health bar that depletes as you mess up, but it doesn't seem necessary, if you mess up THAT many notes in a row you have to worse at rhythm games than me. The Way We All Go: This might be a horror game or a "yandere" simulator, when I died the first time there was barely any time for shock or terror, a girl just knocks on my door and stabs me, I did try for more ending, but frankly they were all pretty dumb.

EX Troopers is on sale on the Japanese PSN store, which is cheaper than importing it.

I've played a bunch of Telltale Episodes and visual novels lately: -Quantum Conscience: A sci-fi visual novel where you have the power to read minds and the path you take is decided by whether you do so or not. For example, if you read the minds of the hotel staff for information, your friend will disappointed and think being an agent is too easy. But... I felt like I had no real control of the story, specially when the game decided for me to romance the girl that according to the game, didn't like me, but... we became an item? The story was good though. -Bermuda: Have you played Unhack? It's like that except you have to play a silly stealth game between visual novel parts. The story felt too short and I felt I barely got to know anybody. -Date Warp: On your first date, the car breaks down and you end up in a strange house that ends up trapped in a barrier, to find out the truth behind everything in the house you must complete all the other routes as you learn the secrets of other characters. I'm must be decent since the people I hated at first I got a pretty decent character arc as I got to know them. -NEO AQUARIUM - The King of Crustaceans: A fighting game where you play as a mollusk with lasers... you can even play as a barnacle and it's pure madness and fun! -Adventures of Bertram Fiddle: A short episodic adventure that did have pretty straightforward puzzles, but the charm of the Victorian world and the funny dialogue make up for it. -Telltale's Borderlands: I think it might be one of my current favorites since it has the urgency and danger of the other modern Telltale games, but the humor of the early TT games. -Tellatale's Game of Thrones: You'd think "tough decision simulator" would be perfect for this franchise, but... in the end, you just know everything will end horribly, so the decisions no longer matter. At least with Walking Dead or Wold Among Us I felt like my actions might save someone, even if at a great cost, but here? I feel like every choice is just delaying the inevitable or choosing between which horrible death will happen...

I just beat episode 2 and it the episode was riddles which glitches for me, three times I had to reload from a checkpoint because suddenly the rewinding stopped working. I really hope the rest are less glitchy, because it actually made it harder to enjoy the game. As for the story so far:

I just beat The Talos Principle and I think I might like it more than Portal, even though Portal is better written. I've never felt so satisfied after solving a puzzle and I barely needed help, although some light beam puzzles are annoying since they only work if everything is placed perfectly. Unfortunately, the default ending seems to reset all puzzles and I don't have it in me to do everything again, just to climb that tower.

Talos Principle is 66% off and I have to ask.... just how are the puzzles? Are they a bit repetitive or are they different enough from each other to not feel like a drag?

I'm with Griddlelol, I don't post much in this thread, but I do like to stay informed.

I'm pretty sure many of us have posted here about reluctantly quitting a game before, practically begging for help because we really don't want to quit. I've done before before a few times.

I kinda don't know what to say, that loadouy practically breaks the game, but from that point all you fight are "men", which are super annoying even with that game breaking loadout. The game is still annoying from this point, but at least I got to see the ending, which was pretty good?