Escape academy.

Played through with my daughter in split screen multi player. Good fun, enjoyable puzzles that were generally intuitive. Controls a little clunky at times. Built in hint system is good, though a bit annoying that you can't review the hint when one person might press to show it as another presses a button that causes it to disappear!

death stranding directors cut

For what could be argued as the most boring delivery driver premise for a game, the mixture of the stunning vistas coupled in with some almost Zen like exploration really worked for me. I played it on easy and just cruised through the entire game eating up the ridiculous story as I went. There were some genuine beautiful moments in game and certainly done that unexpectedly caused onions to be chopped. The last hour was literally a huge movie with small bits of interaction. It really pisses me off we didn't get Silent hills but happy we got this instead.

9 BTs out of 10 cut scenes

Every description of Death Stranding that I have ever read leaves me baffled as to why anyone would ever enjoy Death Stranding. Rev’s review is no exception.

The walking around is class. As is building stuff with other people. Yeah, agree with Paul about the story being toe curling at some points. There's a lot of wtf just happened..

Death Stranding nails that feeling of going out on important expeditions into dangerous apocalyptic territory. The gameplay loop and sandbox elements, particularly the way multiplayer was done, are really fun and satisfying. I was expecting something much more minimal in terms of gameplay with the way everyone was talking about it, there's actually quite a bit to sink your teeth into and play around with.

The setting suits Kojima's bonkersness much more than MGS's pseudo-realish espionage stuff IMO.

That's my fourth play of Disco Elysium done and my first of The Final Cut. Initially I was bit put out with the vast majority of the voice acting cast being changed for TFC but I warmed to most of them by the end and it's overall a fantastic upgrade to the original. 

It's also kind of fun having memories from the original release that people who first played TFC version won't have since it's apparently a bit of a pain to actually play with the old voice acting now.

I have just completed PowerWash Simulator.  I only unlocked a handful of achievements so I'm going to look them up and start again.

Islets - PC/Steam Deck - 8

Lovely little metroidvania with great controls and a nice progression. Not many games get me to 100% them but this did even tracking down the final upgrades available in the game.

The only negatives for me is that I felt it could have done with one more layer of power and, therefore, another level of unlocks, but appreciate this would have added to the length of the game. The bosses could have been a smidge more difficult with the final boss encounter a bit underwhelming.

I also managed to get the full life boss achievement by dying as I killed the boss the respawning then getting the cheevo

Overall, definitely recommended.

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Tinykin done with all museum pieces, bubbles and optional quests completed.  Might go back and try to mop up some more of the pollen at some point but that's enough for now.  Likely to be my game of the year.  Haven't played anything so laid back and charming in ages.   Just what I needed at the moment.  Top stuff.

Scenes when Tilly cracked

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Spoiler:

We found the 9 and the 8. I told her to look for another scrap of paper but she insisted on spinning the other two dials, then it suddenly clicked open.

Ah, forgot they came individually.

Muzz, the answer is not enough.

Yeah 6 hours is about right.
That was all side quests except the last room where I was missing one collectible.
I didnt go mad on finding all pollen or Tinykins. I felt like doing that would spoil the experience for me.

A review I watched suggested there might be 15 hours in there if you 100% with all achievements. That would be really bleeding it dry.

The snappy controls and movement make it for me. The levels are great fun but would be ruined if the character move speed was slower or if I had to select Tinykin types from a wheel every time.

Speaking of.
I completed Guardians of the Galaxy over the weekend and it was the antithesis of Tinykin's nice control system.
Real spaghetti fingers trying to select characters then moves mid fight. I ended up just sticky to one maybe two moves per Guardian.

I stuck with it though as the story got really quite interesting after a few hours. It did some real nice weirdo stuff that I love to see in SP games, Batman and occasionally Mass Effect did similar. Hard to explain without spoilers. Not quite fourth wall breaking (although that happened once). The scale of the environments and their art design was fantastic its a really pretty game.

The dialogue did grate at times, particularly a aprt of the game where Rocket has a monk on.

An interesting game none the less and one Im glad I finally played through. Much better than that Avengers turd.