Board 8 > Dec. Game of the Month Club ft. Furi, Princess Remedy, and Sonic the Hedgehog

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KCF0107
12/01/18 4:29:08 PM
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Decembers Games:
Furi (PC/XB1/PS4/Switch)
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt (PC)
Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) (Its available on a lot of things)


What is Game of the Month Club?
Game of the Month is a community project open to all B8ers where users share, discover, play and/or discuss a select few games every month. The games featured each month are chosen by YOU the users (and Lady Luck)

The Basics
- Each month will feature three games that were chosen via a random drawing from a pool of games that users nominated
- For each game you beat, you get a cool point on our just-for-fun standings as well as a nomination for next month's randomized drawing
- In order to receive the point and nomination, you must beat said game within the calendar month
- If you beat one of the current month's games in the previous month, you can apply for a "recently beaten waiver," but you will only receive a point and no nomination should you do so
- Drawing for next month's games is usually around a week before the end of the month
- If you periodically keep us posted on your progress and/or talk about different aspects of the games, then everyone will think you are super awesome!

Nomination Rules
- You get one nomination automatically each month
- You receive additional nominations each month for every chosen game that you beat
- Each game you nominate has to be unique from all other nominations and cannot include a game that has already been selected for GotM
- Each game must be a standalone game that can be acquired and played on its own (aka cannot be DLC/expansion that requires the base game)
- Nominations only carry over if you beat a chosen game after the drawing for next month's games but before the end of the month
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KCF0107
12/01/18 4:29:23 PM
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Just-for-Fun Standings (among those who beat a game in 2017-18)
KCF: 81
gameking: 74
Lolo Guru: 44
Mr Crispy: 42
ArkOfTurus: 39
KnightOfNee: 33
Arti: 23
scarletspeed: 23
MegamanX: 18
Fenny: 15
Robazoid: 13
Wickle: 11
profDEADPOOL: 8
Cody: 7
Shaduln: 7
BetrayedTangy: 5
darkx: 5
paperwarior: 5
LordoftheMorons: 4
MrSmartGuy: 4
MZero: 4
Shonen: 3
KommunistKoala: 2
PrinceReva: 2
azuarc: 1
Fake Account: 1
Harrich: 1
Kain66: 1
Peace Frog: 1
SantaRPG: 1
Steiner: 1
Tom Bombadil: 1
UndeadUnicorn: 1
Waluigi1: 1
Wiki: 1

Spreadsheet with history
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X8E8oqzES42W4S82j7WTfNnzNa8c3uXdSE1rnqYG7WM/edit?usp=sharing

Additional noms this month
Lolo - 1
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TheArkOfTurus
12/01/18 4:43:52 PM
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Tag.

Played a bit of Princess Remedy. Enjoying it, but I'm probably almost done.
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WickIebee
12/01/18 4:49:38 PM
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Nothing for me. I'll just return to nominating Jet Set Radio
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KCF0107
12/01/18 4:52:22 PM
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Princess Remedy is free and took me just under an hour Wickle, so you can give that a whirl!
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Shonen_Bat
12/01/18 4:59:09 PM
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Oh wow Princess Remedy is in here. Definitely going to play that at least. Probably Sonic too.
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TheKnightOfNee
12/01/18 5:03:43 PM
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tag

I should definitely get to Princess Remedy and Sonic this month
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TheArkOfTurus
12/01/18 5:15:05 PM
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ArkOfTurus has beaten Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

84% completion. Neat little game. I'll probably buy the sequel at some point.
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KCF0107
12/01/18 5:18:26 PM
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Not even 100%!? I should only credit you half a point!
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TheArkOfTurus
12/01/18 5:23:41 PM
#10:


At least give me 84% of a point =(
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TheArkOfTurus
12/02/18 12:43:21 PM
#11:


ArkOfTurus has beaten Sonic the Hedgehog

Never been the biggest fan of this game. It's alright, and I don't mind replaying it (outside of the water levels), but I probably won't be playing it again any time soon.
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Shonen_Bat
12/02/18 4:16:01 PM
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Princess Remedy beated

Got everything except the jealous chest that I forgot about entirely.

Nominate Iji (PC). Also free and short, a little longer on a first play than Princess Remedy though.
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RoseChevalier
12/02/18 4:18:26 PM
#13:


oh man both Princess Remedy games are so good!
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KCF0107
12/02/18 6:17:26 PM
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I'm starting to run out of nomination theme ideas. I think that I will do episodic games for January, so I will begin with Hitman (2016)
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-hotdogturtle--
12/02/18 6:25:14 PM
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Posting in a Princess Remedy topic.
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KCF0107
12/02/18 6:34:54 PM
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I didn't realize so many people have played it. I tried to have a discussion about it in early 2017 only to get one person to talk about it.
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KCF0107
12/03/18 6:45:43 PM
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I hope to start stuff by the weekend
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KCF0107
12/04/18 6:29:22 PM
#18:


Bump
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TheArkOfTurus
12/05/18 10:52:44 AM
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I finished the first three fights in Furi. Not bad, but I'm not getting the urge to play any more. Considering Smash comes out in two days, I'm probably not getting back to it.
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KCF0107
12/05/18 10:14:58 PM
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How would you say the difficulty is? I know that one boss is notoriously cheap, but I am guessing that is later in the game.
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Cody11533
12/05/18 10:22:01 PM
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Cody has beaten Princess Remedy.

Still a fun little game. I also still need to play the sequel.

And in belated news, I have beaten Beyond Good and Evil!

I had a few frustrations with the camera, I'm pretty awful at stealth, and some voicelines started to drive me nuts with how often they played (CARLSON AND PEETERS! I get it Double H!) but on the whole I enjoyed it a lot. The setting and story were absolutely fantastic, it is a shame that they are only now making another game in the series. That ending was not very conclusive! They definitely had more stuff in mind that didn't get made. Jade has quite the unexplored backstory.

The music was probably my favorite part though. The bar and garage themes in particular were very catchy for their respective types of music. Apparently we need more reggae and grungy rap music in games.

All in all, it was definitely worth the playthough for me. I'll keep the 2nd one on my radar, should it eventually come out.
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TheArkOfTurus
12/05/18 10:53:12 PM
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KCF0107 posted...
How would you say the difficulty is? I know that one boss is notoriously cheap, but I am guessing that is later in the game.


First two bosses were easy. Third boss was a bit of a difficulty spike, but wasn't too bad once I got the hang of him (thankfully all of my difficulty came in the first two phases. I can imagine bosses with a really tough final phase being a nightmare.)
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KCF0107
12/06/18 7:58:57 PM
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Does the game auto-save between phases or do I have to start the fight over from scratch when I die?

Also, I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed your time with BG&C Cody.
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Mr Crispy
12/06/18 8:07:06 PM
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Furi's on sale on steam right now.
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TheArkOfTurus
12/06/18 9:16:13 PM
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KCF0107 posted...
Does the game auto-save between phases or do I have to start the fight over from scratch when I die?

Also, I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed your time with BG&C Cody.


You get some retries, but if those run out you have to restart at the beginning.
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Und3adUnicorn
12/07/18 2:16:00 AM
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Und3adUnicorn has beaten Princess Remedy!
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KCF0107
12/07/18 6:59:46 PM
#27:


I was seriously contemplating ending my run hosting this at the end of the year as recent as last month due to the decline in activity and most notable to me, discussion. I would argue that people talking about the games is more important than playing them. If nobody says anything, then this is just a bunch of people simply playing video games independently. We do that all the time, so there's no reason to have a community project for that.

Because of there being at least one game with a good amount of activity in recent months, and a few people saying in recent months that they would have never played a game had it not been selected (discovery of games is one of the cornerstones of GotM), I decided that I would stick with running this next year.

While GotM has almost certainly run its course, I will oversee it for the entirety of 2019 and re-evaluate everything toward the end.
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Cody11533
12/08/18 3:01:10 PM
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I appreciate you taking the time to run this KCF. Some of my participation here comes from replays, but the ones I enjoy the most are when games from my stupidly-massive backlog show up. I think from this past year I cleared the following games from my backlog specifically because of this project: Beyond Good and Evil, Telltale Batman Season 1, Firewatch, and Banjo-Kazooie. They were all games I wanted to play, but it gave me the incentive to get off my butt and play them.

I'm also admittedly awful at discussion, I am a lurker at heart. But I try to always contribute my thoughts at the very least when I've got a game here I'm playing. Like you said, this project without discussion is no different than using RNG to pick a game to play on your own. At its best it should act like a virtual book club, but with video games.
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MegamanX
12/08/18 6:38:56 PM
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It lasted a lot longer under you then me, oddly enough just how rate the game went
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KCF0107
12/09/18 3:49:35 PM
#30:


Monthly Progress
Furi -
Princess Remedy - Ark, Shonen, Cody, Unicorn
Sonic - Ark

Nominations
KCF - Hitman (2016)
Shonen - Iji
Wickle - Jet Set Radio
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KCF0107
12/09/18 3:52:05 PM
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MegamanX posted...
It lasted a lot longer under you then me, oddly enough just how rate the game went

You ran a Rate the Game? I know of the Ulti version, Tranny version, and the Ed/myself version. Did you do it after mine ended in late 2015?
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MegamanX
12/09/18 8:20:55 PM
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no no,im saying you ran rate the game, then you took over and became more known for it than the original runner of it
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KCF0107
12/09/18 8:32:33 PM
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Ah, gotcha.
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KCF0107
12/09/18 8:48:45 PM
#34:


KCF has beaten Princess Remedy

80/80 hearts
5/5 or 10/10 for the other things
100% completion
Finished in 31:36

I was trying to do a speedrun for my second time through this, but after playfully chastising Ark for not having 100% completion, I felt obligated to go for it. Still, I managed to cut my time by about 25 minutes (I am pretty sure that I beat it in the 57-59 minute mark the first time), so perhaps I can say I accomplished both?

Glad to re-visit this though. I remember downloading this in I want to say 2015 because I liked the visual style and the gameplay looking like "it won't suck" or something along those lines. I don't know why it took me like a year to finally play it, but I instantly put the sequel on my wishlist after finishing it and beat the sequel earlier this year.
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KCF0107
12/09/18 8:51:16 PM
#35:


For my second episodic nom, I'm going Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series hoping that Telltale doesn't pull it from storefronts until next year.
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KCF0107
12/10/18 6:24:41 PM
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I will hopefully get through Sonic tonight
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KCF0107
12/10/18 11:35:17 PM
#37:


KCF has beaten Sonic the Hedgehog

I'm not really a fan of the game and certainly not the series, but it brings me back to playing this (along with Bubsy and Vectorman) at Pepe's Playhouse at Kroger when I was a kid. Still, it's among my Top 5 in.the series. It probably goes:

1. Sonic 3 + Knuckles
2. Sonic Colors
3. Sonic 3D Blast
4. Sonic 2
5. Sonic 1
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KCF0107
12/10/18 11:36:49 PM
#38:


For my next episodic nom, I think that I am doing a repeat and going with King's Quest (2015)
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Und3adUnicorn
12/11/18 5:42:21 PM
#39:


I want to nominate Brutal Legend And Heavy Rain
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KCF0107
12/11/18 6:05:47 PM
#40:


I defeated the first two bosses in Furi. I like all the fighting mechanics individually, but the transitions from each distinct combat setup are not seamless at all and would much prefer that there was a singular style for all phases.
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KCF0107
12/12/18 2:32:46 AM
#41:


So I have been brainstorming ideas for special selections next year. Removing all ideas where I make the ultimate decision has brought me to three (probably lame) concepts:

Second Chance: A random user active in GotM is given the opportunity to select a game that was nominated by another user but not selected in the drawing. They will probably be notified early in the month and are free to give me a queue or something throughout of their preferred choices as the nominations come in so we can hopefully have everything decided shortly after the drawing.

User Special: Users give me a game whenever they want to. The earlier the better, and I suppose you can change it, but you can't nominate it as long as it's your special game. Maybe it's a game that you love and want to increase its exposure, see other people's reactions, or want to have an excuse to replay. Maybe it's a game that you want to play alongside others via co-op or in spirit with a game that should generate more discussion. Then 3-4 times through the year, I will have one of the designated games randomly selected, ending your participation in the special program. I know that it seems stupid as you would prefer to nominate it is selected, but with fewer than 10 users I would call active in GotM, you might have greater odds getting a particular game selected through this route as you are not allowed to have repeat noms for the "normal" drawing.

Leap of Faith: I come up with a theme similar to what I have been doing the past two years, but instead of me making the final decision, I will come up with 3-5 options and present them to everyone here to vote on. The twist will be that the game titles won't be given but vague descriptions instead. I think that I did that once for the Valentine's Day selection in 2017. I might have had our Discord channel decide it.

I'm aware that these are probably stupid compared to having holiday-themed and anniversary celebrations the past two years, but clearly I wasn't good at making decisions on my own, and I would like to have special months still go on. I'm open to suggestions.
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Und3adUnicorn
12/12/18 5:55:06 PM
#42:


Und3ad Unicorn has beaten Sonic!
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Und3adUnicorn
12/12/18 5:55:48 PM
#43:


Id like to also nominate Cthulhu Saves The World!
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TheArkOfTurus
12/13/18 1:22:00 PM
#44:


Gonna nominate

Yakuza, Katamari Damacy, and Gris
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TheArkOfTurus
12/13/18 1:26:08 PM
#45:


And I guess I'd go with Leap of Faith out of those three, but I don't really have any strong feelings about it.
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Lolo_Guru
12/13/18 2:10:18 PM
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I like second chance very much, and honestly, would love to see this happen most months. People will have a reason to talk up their nominations then, and help us get excited for them, and when one is chosen this way it's very likely to get at least 2 completions.
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KCF0107
12/13/18 5:36:17 PM
#47:


Monthly Progress
Furi -
Princess Remedy - Ark, Shonen, Cody, Unicorn, KCF
Sonic - Ark, KCF, Unicorn

Nominations
Ark - Yakuza, Katamari Damacy, Gris
KCF - Hitman (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy Telltale, King's Quest (2015)
Shonen - Iji
Unicorn - Brutal Legend, Heavy Rain, Cthulu Saves the World
Wickle - Jet Set Radio

2019
Second Chance - Lolo
User Special -
Leap of Faith - Ark
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TheKnightOfNee
12/14/18 2:38:33 AM
#48:


Nee has beaten Princess Remedy

This was my second time playing through the game. The first time was a few months back. I don't remember how I heard about it, possibly from someone I knew? But luckily I took notice and discovered this gem of a game.

This time, I tried playing on Hard, and got the jealous chest for the first time. It made the early game way trickier than the late game was.

I'm really glad to see so many people playing and enjoying Princess Remedy. After some dud game selections last month, I tried to nominate something that would hopefully drum up some interest. I also would recommend checking out the sequel to Princess Remedy! It's pretty cheap, and just as fun as this game.
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TheArkOfTurus
12/14/18 5:06:59 PM
#49:


KCF0107 posted...
2019
Second Chance - Lolo
User Special -
Leap of Faith - Ark


For this one I actually want half a point (or vote. Votes and points are the same thing.). Definitely don't want to be more than a tiebreaker if other people have do have strong feelings.
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Lolo_Guru
12/15/18 2:14:50 PM
#50:


I've decided my first two nominations.

First is Adventures of Lolo - this game holds a very special place in my childhood, important enough to me to use it as my name here. With its switch online release, there's a simple way to access it now legally.

My second will be Celeste, as a game I think someone else has tried nominating before that wasn't picked. It's something I've tried before but didn't get far and have heard too many good things about to put it off for much longer.
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