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Garden Story (PC)

I feel like I say this every year, but I have decided to make a concerted effort to finishing all the games I have received as Steam Secret Santa gifts. I'm now 2/3 of the way through with what Dream(eater?) gave me. It reminds me a little of Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion in art style and movement plus they have dungeons for you to go through, not that they do dungeons all that similar. I wish that the village building stuff had more meaningful rewards/wasn't such a grind, but other that, I had a great time.

The Hex (PC)

I wasn't into Pony Island enough to bother finishing it, but I was intrigued enough to want to try future works of Daniel Mullins. I still need to finish Inscryption, but in the meantime, I went through this game. I wasn't a fan at first, but it was better as it went along, and I ultimately liked it a lot.

My lone nom is still alive, but that probably ends next round or if not then, definitely in R3

There are plenty of modes that I think can be used to count as beaten, but if you are playing arcade mode like me, it is my opinion that you should clear all the base game stages, which I think is through Champion.

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Last call for signups!

Along with the previously open teams aside from Express, the Wildcats and possibly Washington are available as well.

Thanks for the heads up. I decided to DM him on Discord.

I'm trying to remember how long it usually is from the beginning of the offseason to the draft. My first thought is late August to early/mid September.

Today is the final sign up date

@Wizardsfan1000

This is my final reminder. It is all up to you now.

I will go ahead and nominate Manifold Garden and The Mummy Demastered

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (XB1)

I believe this is the fourth different platform that I have beaten it on. For the third time in those four runs, my first ending was axe (the lone exception was sub).

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Final two days to sign up

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KCF has beaten Maneater

This has been compared to Jaws Unleashed, which I never played, but I am sort of interested in it with how fun this was. The game is at its best when you are an unstoppable beast wrecking havoc whenever and wherever, which was mostly revisiting areas post-game and also the middle areas as they first came up (Golden Shores, Sapphire Bay, Prosperity Sands). Chris Parnell was an excellent choice to narrate the game and its hilarious, unapologetically savage commentary on humanity.

This game could have been more though. In the last fight, I ended up using my bioelectric body to shock the missiles into stopping and then grabbed them with my mouth and tailwhiped them back to the ship. Why couldn't missions be more imaginative or have multiple approaches like that? They pretty much used the same formula each region.

Maneater (PS4)

A very fun shark carnage simulator with savagely hilarious commentary on humanity by Chris Parnell. An arbitrary level system designed to have several foes be absolute tanks late in the game and disappointingly vanilla mission design do hold the game back.

@Wizardsfan1000

Just want to give you an in-topic reminder that you have until the end of Sunday to inform me of your plans for Season 17.

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https://twitter.com/JenniferTilly/status/1545114649196171264

RIP

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Desert
Gambit

I'm now up to Prosperity Sands in Maneater in addition to being a level 24 Elder. I've found it difficult how to best customize my shark through all of this, but I have settled on one with the mouth/teeth that has increased damage to boats and a bio-electric fin that gives me a shock attribute evade. I've pretty much kept the same organs all throughout (radar, increased health, and increased speed). I should probably look to change my body, but nothing has really jumped out as a must-swap for my tiger that has 25% extra materials.

I passed by the gulf on my way to the sands, and I am terrified and excited at duking it out with orcas and sperm whales in the future.

Closing days of signups

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qNZ-arUn5o

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (XB1)

A great retro-style beat 'em up. I'm glad this was on Game Pass while the player count was high enough to be able to do the pop-in, pop-out co-op with randoms. I didn't realize that you could look for players playing on a particular level, so I actually played the game completely out of order lol. I think that I did stages 12-15 first, then 6-10, then 1-5, then 11, then I purposely finished up with 1. I mostly played with April or Donatello, mostly by accident or was forced to because they were the only available character. I never played as Raphael or Michelangelo.

3

Though that might be generous

A Memoir Blue (XB1)

A decent low-interaction adventure game about a former competitive swimmer. It doesn't linger too long from scene to scene and it the environments and effects look great.

I assume it is a long shot, but I randomly thought of this recently.

Among the many things that made Melee my favorite of the series was how in-depth the stats were and that they tracked them for each character no matter if the AI or a user was controlling them. I could spend quite a bit of time scouring through them all. Among the disappointing things about Brawl was that they only tracked stats for user controlled characters. I only played friends' copies of the future games, so I don't know if it was worse, the same, or somehow better on that front as the series went on.

It doesn't have to be as in-depth, but are there quick-session games (especially platform fighters) that utilize user and AI-controlled characters that track various stats no matter who is controlling them? I figured if anyone would know, it would be B8.

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All of these were ranked in my Top 50 except for 2, which is still great!

Lost Words: Beyond the Page (XB1)

This is a bit of a strange one. Half of the game takes place on literal journal pages where you do some platforming and other interactive things as the main character narrates parts of her life. It can be visually striking at times and this is where the voice actor for the girl performs the best, but it is ultimately a drawn-out, boring experience that could achieve everything it wanted to do narratively in a fraction of the time.

The other half of the game is playing out the story the character is writing. Here is another sort of platformer with light puzzle elements. This part is pretty pointless, something that it ultimately can't shake, but they do some interesting things here. Unfortunately, it is a very uneven experience with one chapter early on showing the promise that the various mechanics could exhibit while the subsequent ones don't expand upon or live up to it.

This could have been a very good or even great game if they cut this to about the two hour game it should have been while making the story chapters more robust. As it is, it is an okay game and something that I am glad I didn't buy outright and played through Game Pass.

Yeah, my main issue with three was that 1700s America had lame architecture compared to all the European locations from previous games. Platforming in those games is quite thrilling and probably the biggest appeal of the series to me, so III is easily my least favorite of the six or so that I have played.

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I kept dying on the very first stage of Expert, so I have put Paperball on the backburner while I go through more of Maneater.

While I enjoyed exploring and picking on smaller creatures, especially humans, fights against the aggressive animals was getting frustrating for different reasons. Alligators were just too agile and tanky while barracudas were too small to accurately target. While I don't think that I will ever love taking on alligators and the like, once I finally reached adulthood and in general leveled up myself and skills, fighting was a lot more fun. I still need to take on the apex back at the bayou in order to go past Golden Shores. That creature is several levels higher than me (I think it was level 20 when I fled when I am 16), so I went back to the lake to do some side stuff there to hopefully gain a few levels.

I loved Golden Shores, but so far it is the most egregious example of me wishing that the detailed map extended to the cave/pipe systems.

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Liberated

I vaguely remember watching some of this show like 25 years ago. I remember getting a bunch of rings of the characters at a Target for my sister. She gave me two of them, the blue-haired girl and the black cat. I don't think the cats are considered sailors, so I would vote for the blue-haired one.

And with that, I no longer have a reason to vote.

Simoun posted...

Oh and one more thing, the game controlled great and the combos though simple were satisfying right up until I unlocked the ability to wall climb. Even though this is a 2017 game, they decided to make it so you can't wall climb on the same wall repeatedly and are forced to input precision jumps of left to right in order to climb shafts. Mercifully these shaft sections are few and far and are always meant to transition. I dreaded that there would be an advancing floor of doom situation but thank god there wasn't.

This is probably the longest anyone will have ever said about this game.

KCF0107 posted...

Flynn: Son of Crimson (XB1)

Very good 2D action/platformer, but sometimes the levels felt overly long, and the wall jump sucked, but that was only activated and sparingly used in the final quarter of the game.

You got that right

Wrapped up Intermediate

22:48
43 fallouts
8 gold, 17 silver, 5 bronze

I honestly fared much better than I thought I would, but here comes expert...

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Seanchan posted...

I've also finished Novice on Paperball. I started on Intermediate and I had to stop on the stage Skeleton for the moment.

I'm about halfway through intermediate and Skeleton has been responsible for the most fallouts thus far, and it was the last section of the stage where when going downhill, I nicked something to launch my ball into the unknown.

I also started Maneater and am up to Dead Horse Lake. I thought I could take on alligators, but I was dead wrong, and I tried each time that I leveled up lol. One thing that I didn't like was how I kept killing catfish for one of the quests but it didn't count because it had to be catfish from a particular area for no discernible reason.

I liked him in the 90s on News Radio

Finished the novice levels in Paperball

8:26
32 fallouts
11 Gold (1 platinum), 8 silver, 1 bronze

Oh how much worse these figures will be in the next set

I played a little bit of Paperball just to get a handle on how things were set up to know when I would be beating the main game since I bought the Deluxe edition on Switch. There are a lot more modes than I expected to where there can be multiple interpretations of what is beating this game, but things are sectioned off within each mode to where I can determine what is and is not DLC.

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Paperball is on sale for $3 USD for PC via Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1198510/Paperball/

Paperball Deluxe (includes all DLC) is on sale for $4.50 USD for Switch
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/paperball-deluxe-switch/

DOOM 64 is on sale for $1.25 USD or PC via Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1148590/DOOM_64/

DOOM 64 is on sale for $2.50 USD for Switch
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/doom-64-switch/

DOOM 64 is on Game Pass for console, PC, and cloud gaming

Tunic is on sale for $27 USD for PC via Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/553420/TUNIC/

Tunic is on Game Pass for console, PC, and cloud gaming

Maneater is on sale for $20 USD for PC via Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/629820/Maneater/

Maneater is on sale for $20 USD for PS4/5
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0115-CUSA14519_00-MANEATER00000001

Maneater is on sale for $20 USD for Switch
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/maneater-switch/

Maneater is on Game Pass for console, PC, and cloud gaming

Just-for-Fun Top 20 Standings
KCF - 148
gameking - 116
ArkOfTurus - 89
Mr Crispy - 85
Lolo Guru - 70
Cody - 52
KnightOfNee - 35
MegamanX - 28
Wickle - 24
Arti - 23
scarletspeed - 23
ViolentAbacus - 20
darkx - 18
FakeAccount - 16
Fenny - 16
GreatPaul - 16
MZero - 15
Suprak the Stud - 14
tazzyboy - 14
Robazoid - 13

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Additional noms this month
Ark - 1
Crispy - 1