Nightfall Mysteries - Asylum Conspiracy

Another shortie: Blackwell unbound.
I liked the first Blackwell game, it had some minor flaws, but was overall a really enjoyable game. Unbound fixes most of these issues (apart from the fact that it was too short. I want more! (Oh wait, I have the next part in the series as well!)), and it was an awesome little adventure game.

FYI Convergence is also short - took me 3 hours like Legacy, more than the 2 hours of Unbound.

The 4th game, Deception, if you decide to get it (25% off right now) , is longer: 5-6 hours, and the ending hints of EPIC things to come in the next installment - whenever that one shows up. The character sprites, unfortunately, are worse than before (Rosa looks just plain bad IMO) but the music is incredible.

That does sound very promising! I was a bit unsure if I should pay 7€ for the game or wait for a sale, considering how short the previous games were, but for a ~5-6h game, 7€ is not all that bad. I wonder why they felt the need to "update" the sprites though, I agree with you regarding the way they look, the previous games just looked better.

I still have the rest of the trilogy to play. And yeah I consider the Blackwell packs the highlight of the bundle, I just considered that whole indie pack an "extra bonus pack". I bought it mostly just to give indie gamers some money.
Anyways, I'm not going to cheat for the rest of the Blackwell games. This is going to sound stupid( I don't even understand the reasoning myself ), but I was feeling pressured by my backlog to finish something that night. I picked that game because it was supposed to be really short.. Then I got stuck and I was getting tired, so I checked a youtube to see only the solution, and then I just thought " Ehh I might as well just watch the rest and go to bed"

Braid.

Couldn't even finish the last level because it reminds me of recent experience that I went through.

Outstanding game. :)

Just finished:
Earthworm Jim 2

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Dungeons of Dredmor: Realm of the Diggle Gods.

Finished it on Going Rogue w/ Permadeath using an experimental "all-melee" build. It took quite a few tries, but I'm still surprised it worked.

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Outland.

Boy, that was a difficult game in parts. It even had an unforgiving final boss that took 8-10 minutes to beat. If you died at the final segment (which I did, twice) you had to restart the encounter from square one.

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Finished Ys 4: Mask of the Sun.

Level design was pretty terrible, particularly the final dungeon which was linear but was a pain to navigate because each section had like 4 doors and only one actually lead to the next room while the other three immediately dead end or loop back upon each other.

I kind of hope Ys 4: Dawn of Ys is better, but it doesn't matter since it seems to be a pain to get working meh.

And then there's the upcoming Ys 4: Celceta - Sea of Trees.

It's amazing how many different versions of the same story exist and yet it's taken what 20 years for them to release a version that's actually canon. :p

I just finished Alice: Madness Returns. I didn't get every item so I may play it again to get 100% (I'm at 91% ATM).
It's a good game in spite of what its reviews say. Too bad it has some glitches but they barely affected my entertainment. Overall I highly recommend it if you like games with interesting art style.

Just started and finished Area 51, a Midway 2005 release that is/was freeware on the web. Not an amazing game, but it was a fun diversion that didn't take too much time to beat. The story was interesting, though not amazingly original. A game good enough for only one playthrough at most.

So far in 2012:
Area 51 - 1/21
Just Cause 2 - 1/14
Cave Story - 1/15

Just finished Portal, was quite nice and Settlers 2.

Next will hopefully be Runaway 3, if I have enough time^^

Scratches: Director's Cut finished! It is a darn good adventure game, highly recommended to anyone who like the genre.


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