Don't do that. I have to go shopping tonight. :)

They are the ones teasing us with the bullseyes!

Thank you zeogold for hosting this giveaway.
Thank you gixgox for the donation of 'MDK'.

Granted.
Also granted.

One more time - great thank you to gixgox and to zeogold for hosting the party!

I don't know how it works, but sometimes I think playing new games will never be as awesome as replaying games from the past :) Are the games different today or is that just nostalgia factor?

Just don't expect no Still Life 1 since this was a great and really exciting thriller game imo. Still Life 2 ... well still some of the characters are there and it's not only bad it just is not able to reach the heights of part 1.

Well, my first attempt at this game just came to a screeching halt as I ran out of tools. I saw it coming with some 15 tools left in stock, and thought for a bit I would just squeek by with an iron ore mine, smelter and smithy - but then I discovered that I'd need brick for the smelter, and just didn't have enough tools left to also build the quarry and conversion building for that. *sigh*

It felt like a pretty nice game though. Very similar to Banished with its production chains and types of buildings, but then with feel-good pixel art, and I guess some military and trading aspects later on.

Thanks, zeogold, thanks gixgox.

That seems to be the short version of the reviews I read. I don't hold too much of an expectation because of that.

I don't normally recommend such as a puzzle enthusiast, but this is one of the few adventure games I would advise playing with a walkthrough. The inventory mechanic makes no sense and gets old fast (read: as soon as it's introduced). Not to mention there are some pixel-hunt-y sections during the crime scene investigation bits.

Well, it seems inevitable that you will have to trade for tools in just about any scenario I've made it through. You don't unlock the mine/smelt/tool combo until far enough along it seems unavoidable to run out.

And depending on your starting island you may be squeezed out of tobacco as well, and for economic reasons need to acquire it by trade to advance your citizens before you can colonize and start farming/curing and then ship it home.

I think that's why this game is harder for me than most, is I don't tend to think trade first, and here it seems like the design is going to force you to trade early and often.

... Hmmm... I haven't downloaded the game yet, and I'm already discouraged and having second thoughts...

Seems there is an Universal Hint System for Still Life 2, so I'll be going in armed!

BTW, why do developers think that pixel hunting is a good idea? Back in the days, maybe you could get away with it, since each pixel was the size (and color) of a Lego brick. "That magenta block is a slice of ham. Take it!"

And poor interfaces? Armageddon Empires is a great, great game, but I can't stand to play it because it has a terrible user interface that gets in your way.

I would say both is a bit subjective - especially the interface part of it. Pixelhunting for me is not looking for hidden items but having very tiny, nearly unseeable items to find only. Other things like that imo is normal adventuring.

If I recall correctly, Bloodnet did away with the pixel hunt problem. At every location it was obvious which items you could take. It broke immersion a little bit, but you did have other things to worry about.

It is also annoying when you can only take that specific item. Sure, I have seen dozens of pieces of paper, and tried to pick them all up. But only this one seems to be pickable. And by now I already gave up on picking paper. This is another way of making items "hard to see".

Agreed.

Nvm, forum glitched on me for wrong topic.