Monthly in a Month #18: The Crypto Edition

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A couple of achievements for MO: Astray are out of order because Steam broke and they didn't activate, so I decided to replay some chapters for the achievements.

I finished the Rabbit campaign for S.W.I.N.E, but not the Pig campaign. Considering the game gives you and ending cutscene followed by a credits reel, I hope that counts. If it doesn't I'll happily play something else, I didn't really like it and don't really want to play the Pig campaign.

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Hype! Excited for another month Cj! I’ll definitely be joining this, thank you for the fun community event!

Edit:

1. Really impressed with Yoku's Island Express! I had a lot of fun, glad I won here on steamgifts.
2. Effie was very enjoyable. I was just trying to beat when I saw that the completion wasn't too hard, but I already missed 2 relics so I had to restart the game after 3,5h, which wasn't bad, I enjoyed playing from start again xD
3. Cyber Hook was my third game finished, I almost traded this game but decided to keep for me, although I didn't know if i would ever touch it. But the game is very good, glad that i choose it for this event, it was fun too ^^ I liked that you can see replays from other players from ranking, it helped me to see what I was doing wrong in a few levels. The 100% wasn't too hard, but the last levels were a hell. Almost every level of The End(the last part) had a lot of red walls and i died a lot till get all crystals from every level T.T
4. Carto is a sooo cute and relaxing puzzle. Sometimes I felt like there was not a real hint for what to do to continue solving the puzzles but in few minutes i figured out what I should do. Very unique puzzle! Recommended.
5. Warstone TD finished. Love tower defense games and this one was great! I'm enjoying to play withouth skipping the "story". Gathering resourcees to upgrading units and constructing is being fun xD I bought the dlc which adds more levels to beat and new units and enemies so i'll play more ^^
6. Tales of Berseria finished. I never thought that I would play a game this long for a event like this XD but i had more time to play this month and decided to give it a try, as this game fits in PAGYWOSG too. The start was good, i was confused with the battle system at the beginning but I think I get used to it as I played(but at the end i think i still didnt get it 100% XD) I loved the characters, Velvet is amazing. Laphicet and Magilou were very interesting, it was great to see the development from Laphicet ^^ Maybe i'll play more to unlock a few achievements that seems not to hard or grindy to get. Edit: Yeah I unlocked more achievements in ToB and i'm done. the others are too time consuming for me.

1.) Humble Choice (Jun 2021) - Going Under - HLTB - Achievements - Finished 100% - Screenshots - Review
2.) Humble Monthly (Jan 2016) - Grim Fandango Remastered - HLTB - Achievements - Finished 100% - Screenshots - Review
3.) Humble Monthly (Jan 2016) - Hidden Folks - HLTB - Achievements - Finished 100% - Screenshots - Review
4.) Humble Monthly (June 2018) - Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth - HLTB - Achievements - Finished 100% - Screenshots - Review
5.) Humble Monthly (Oct 2017) - Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You - HLTB - Achievements Finished 100% - Screenshots - Review
6.) Humble Monthly (Jun 2018) - Styx: Shards of Darkness - HLTB - Achievements - Finished 100% - Screenshots

WHY ARE NONE OF THE GAMES I HAVE SHORT.
E.X.P.L.A.I.N.

ohh yeeah. i've missed this.. much respect.
(nothing done yet, just suggestions for myself)

• carto - done
• the occupation
• simulacra 2
• the sexy brutale
• wildfire
• planet of the eyes
• owlboy
• night call
• the flame in the flood
• a hat in time

Gonna take this month off as I started learning to speedrun Hollow Knight so most of my gaming is gonna be with that. ^.^'

Hope all is well for you CJ <3

Might make an attempt this month. We'll see if I get distracted.

Ideas on what to play:

Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest
11-11 Memories Retold
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

Edit: Tried Control and didn't enjoy it. Maybe I'll go back to it another time..

With a five-week timeframe, maybe I can finally get back on the wagon.

Thank you for continuing the Monthly in a Month

edit: nope not this month 😫

Failed last month will try again this time... ^^

kill it with fire
effie
panzer paladin
Bee simulator
path of giants
abzu

I actually managed to win Monster Hunter Stories 2 from elsewhere, so, obviously I won't be entering now. Leaving my list here and finishing my games regardless.

1. Carto
2. Dead Rising 4
3. Effie
4. Inside
5. Life Is Strange
6. Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

Thank yu for another of these events!^^
I'll probably give it a shot too, list of possible games for now:

• Darksiders Genesis | Darkwood | Death's Gambit | Evoland Legendary Edition | I’m not a Monster | Moonlighter | Regions Of Ruin | Remothered: Broken Porcelain | Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break | Surviving Mars | The Red Solstice | Tomb Raider | Yooka-Laylee | Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair

Will probably pick:

• Darksiders Genesis
• Darkwood
• Death's Gambit
• Remothered: Broken Porcelain
• Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break
• Yooka-Laylee

Oh boy I'm going on vacations in 2 weeks and it's going to be nothing but couch co-op for the end of the month so I'd better get in gear!
Thanks for yet another event CJ!

Let's go!

Damn, I shouldn't have started with Deadly Days! I have a feeling I could play this game for years and not get bored! Roguelite games FTW!
And now I sunk more hours into it. Oh boy. I hope I can finish the other games before I go.
Not too sure how building a rocket and leaving a zombie-infested earth to go to the moon is going to help but hey maybe that's what the next game will be :P

Not too sure how I feel about The Suicide of Rachel Foster. I liked the story, and it was one of the better written games I have played in recent memory but I feel the gameplay distracted from the story somehow. I dunno. Could be that I hate first person games.

Speaking of hating games, I normally love Roguelike games but damn, Titan Souls is challenging that love!

Little Misfortune was a nice rest from all the Rogue stuff. Right up my alley. Lots of weird humor, definitely not a kids game and a good story. I got bored with the collectible thing by the end because I knew I was going to replay it to get the other endings and stuff I missed.

I don't feel like I have given Void Bastards a proper run because I'm out of time but I did finish the game. It's a good fun FPS and it definitely deserves a few playthroughs. I will get back to that one when I come back from my vacation.

Participate for the first time. Hope I can finish!
Thank you for the event!

*This game crashed over and over again and I can't fixed it :(

Holy cannolis, I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the prize for this month, haha. I 100% need to enter this month’s! XP

Also I applied for a job working on 100% OJ so I could help design and program the next characters and events we need to play, but haven’t heard back so probably didn’t get it. :/

Finished most pretty quickly, but the last game took me a while to decide on, haha.

1. Bee Simulator (I found a hive.)
2. Superliminal (I woked up.)
3. Grim Fandango Remastered (I became a gardener?)
4. Carto (I made a map.)
5. Elderborn (I killed dead things.)
6. Panzer Paladin (I did the thing.)

Bee Simulator was interesting, not particularly exciting, but I guess it was kinda relaxing.
Superliminal was cool, with some really neat puzzles.
Grim Fandango, I didn’t really like… I had to use a walkthrough and I don’t understand how more than half the puzzles even worked? Or how you were supposed to figure them out…
Carto was fun, though I checked a walkthrough a couple times because I didn’t want to spend too long. Might go back to try to find more of the secrets, though.
Elderborn, I almost enjoyed, but I found a lot of the enemies on the later levels annoying.
Panzer Paladin was interesting for like 5 or 6 levels, then I was already over the mechanics and just trying to hurry through… After a few of the “final” levels I was so tired of it that I decided to try out the Goblin codes (which made it interesting again) and did the last few levels. Apparently the ending achievements weren’t disabled by the codes, but I guess the one for completing all the levels was, which I thought was weird.

Here we go again

Notes:
0) Achievements are shown to me in my native language, so I hope they are named the same in English.
1) I tried to play Morkredd. Not so long ago I played Brothers, A Tale Of Two Sons, which I highly recommend to everyone. There, too, it was necessary to control two characters at the same time and I even got the hang of it. But at Morkredd it turned out to be even more difficult. It's still possible, but this is where the game goes from being fun to being a nerve-racking challenge. I think it's much more fun to play it together.
2) I tried to play Titan souls. A Souls-like game ... I understand how people like different genres, and I understand what people might like in genres that are not my cup of tea. But I don’t understand what is good about Souls-like games. Everything that I saw here, I saw in other games in a better form. People who like this genre are complete aliens for me.
At first I assumed that I didn’t like them just because I couldn’t pass them. I ended up completing a couple of games on purpose. Still don't like it =) Maybe I just haven't found the one yet.
3) Approximately in the middle of Little Nightmares, the game crashed and deleted all saves, due to which all cumulative\collectible achievements were reset and there was no desire to collect them again.
This happened again, literally 5 minutes before the end of the game. Fortunately, this did not affect all the saves and I only had to replay the last chapter.
4) Trying to complete the sixth game is some kind of disaster. I started playing Kill it with fire. Everything was going well, I completed exactly 50% of the game and then the developers decided to add a new mission. Either because of this, or because of some other bug, but the remaining 50% of the game / missions remained unavailable. All previous missions were completed perfectly, all tasks were completed, all secrets and upgrades were found, but no, the rest of the game never opened. Well, okay. The game turned out to be worse than I expected, even though my expectations were already low.
5) Iris and the Giant has no storyline achievements and there is almost nothing to screenshot. Here is how the ending looks like. It's the same in my screenshots. I hope this proof is sufficient.

Impressions:
1) Path of Giants. Perfect for its genre. Short, pretty enough, not too difficult, but you will have to use your brains.
2) Superliminal. Almost the same review as above, although the genre is different. Very creative, makes you look at things from a different angle (literally and figuratively).
3) Minoria. A standard metroidvania. If you have played any large, complex, feature-rich metroidvania, consider that you have played 98% of them all. The remaining 2% is for styling, plot and minor mechanics.
4) Little Nightmares. It's hard to be objective because the situation with two crashes spoiled the impression, but I'll try. It's unusual. I don’t remember playing anything like that. The world is rather mysterious. Not scary, but it keeps you on your toes. In general, I recommend it. I'm going to buy DLC on sale. Cons: the game never explained anything. What is this world, who is the main character, who are the villains, where did they all come from?
5) The Uncertain. It's not rich in gameplay mechanics, but this is more than compensated for by the unusual world, plot and absolutely charming Artie with his comments. The game is short, but every part of it is polished to a shine. Cons - unfinished story.
6) Iris and the giant. Standard card battler roguelike. Where several dozen times you need to replay on the same locations against the same enemies until the stars converge in the sky and you get the necessary combinations of cards and skills. In general - ok, I just don't like to replay many times.

• Titan Souls
• Panzer Paladin
• Relicta
• Wuppo - Definitive Edition
• The King's Bird
• State of Mind

sadly I skipped "It takes two" month because too much RL jumped on me (but still finished 3 games, yay), and I'll skip this month because not interested in Monster Hunter — so it's just a simple bump and thank you for doing the event :)

I'm a little late but I'm going to give this a try. Tentative plan:

A bit late to join in but here's my entry for this month! For reasons, I've swapped out Sniper Elite for A Case of Distrust.