Monthly in a Month #5: The Amine Weeb Trash edition

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1. Etherborn: Main game completed, not started "Game+" mode
2. GRIS: Beaten
3. Undertale: Beaten once. No cheevos but I took a lot of screenshots
   (Finished it without even realising it was in a monthly, since I won it here in a "Playing Matters" giveaway 😁)
4. Fran Bow: Completed
5. Supraland: Beaten
6. Sonic Mania: Beaten

It's fifth time already. :o

1. Monster Prom - achievements
2. NAIRI: Tower of Shirin - achievements
3. Hidden Folks - achievements
4. Mushroom 11 - achievements
5. We Were Here Too - achievements
6. Lara Croft GO - achievements

Alright, I'll take the challenge. Unfortunately for me I actually play most of the HB games, so I'm going for the easy ones on this:

Just done with the challenge

Starting a bit late but I think I can still do it.

Was very sick over the weekend and didn't really get to play anything, changed most of the entries to other shorter games just to make the completion more realistic.

Managed to do it again (third time), woohoo.

1. Late Shift - achievements

Well, it's a FMV game. Not much more to tell really, the story is quite basic (although I really liked the actor playing the main role, I hope to see him in something else), maybe slightly elevated by high production values.

2. Void Bastards - achievements

There are so many roguelike games nowadays that it is certainly easy to bump into something bad and have the enthusiasm for the whole genre spoiled by bad first impression, but I'm happy to report that Void Bastards are really good. Granted, it can get a bit repetitive near the end, but the adrenaline rush it gives is really fantastic.

3. XCOM2 - achievements

Everyone knows what XCOM is, so I won't write a whole lot. It's good, probably better than the first game, but I have to say that somehow I still prefer its predecessor. Maybe campaign was a bit too long or maybe overall story/atmosphere wasn't doing enough for me. I probably still pick War of the Chosen someday, but I'm managing my expectations.

4 Owlboy - screenshots

Pleasant suprise. Pretty 2d metroidvania with touching, sweet story about friendship. Much better than acclaimed Iconoclasts.

5 Sherlock Holmes Devil's Daughter - achievements

This one was tedious. I like Holmes as a character but this game doesn't get anything right. There is more balancing on planks or bashing doors with an axe than solving puzzles. QTE galore, not quite my thing. Probably should have played Crimes and Punishments first, as I hear it's much better Sherlock game.

6. The Hex - achievements

I won't say anything not to spoil fun for anyone. A lot of meta fun, if you played eariler Mullins' game Pony Island then you know what to expect. Worth playing (or experiencing), that's for sure.

Have a bump! Won't make it this month, but currently creating a list for potential games for next month :)

I think I've played most (probably only "beaten" maybe 50%?) of the games I have from those, but I might be able to find 6 I haven't, though also several are ones that I'm not sure at what point are "beaten", haha. Would probably be worth it for a chance at P4G, though.

I'm just gonna build a list to see which potential games I have.

1. Towerfall Ascension (played before, but never the "campaign", just MP)
2. Valkyria Chronicles (apparently played about half an hour before getting distracted and forgetting it?)
3. Chroma Squad (played an hour of but again, never actually finished, lol)
4. Grim Fandango Remastered (had 2 copies from other bundles and finally activated one, but haven't tried it yet)
5. Poly Bridge (played 4.5 hours, but only beat the first world?)
6. Hyper Light Drifter (won quite a while ago, played 4.5 hours, but quit after finally finishing chain dash achievement and haven't ever finished, lol)

Others:

• Titan Souls (played for a bit, but suck, so beating might be hard)
• Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (played for half an hour)
• Dragon's Dogma (played quite a bit, should try to finish sometime)
• Wuppo (played 2.5 hours, but apparently didn't make it too far, only 2 achievements, might swap this with Valkyria, since that one might take too long?)
• Rivals of Aether (played 3 hours long before it left EA, but haven't played at all since they added story modes)
• Snake Pass (haven't played at all on Steam, played a bit on Xbox, though)

Seems like I have several others, too, with varying levels of play, haha.

EDIT: So yeah, didn't do well on 'em, lol. Got a little further in Wuppo, because I got stuck in HLD, then tried some more Polybridge, but using a controller is difficult for it (I'd want to install on a different computer and use mouse, haha). Might have been able to finish some RoA "story modes" and stuff, but eh, I'm going to be busy with Siralim: Ultimate and RoR2 1.0 in a week, so probably wouldn't play P4G too much for a while even if I did finish and get lucky, lol.

I probably won't make it in time, but nevertheless...

At least this will help with my backlog

Edit Seems I might be able to do it 4/6 with almost a week to go
Made it in time

Overall that was a nice set of games. I only wish I had chosen anything else than Metrico+, that one broke the strike

Whelp, here we go again, well after the end of July...

Well I am really late this time so I may or may not get the access to the giveaway. What would life be without a bit of risk, am I right?

Done with the challenge, thank you.