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Gold

The 2D psychological horror adventure game DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition is free on GOG for a day.
https://www.gog.com/game/distraint_deluxe_edition

The creepy interactive photo fiction game The Fan is now up as a direct download.
https://freebies.indiegala.com/the-fan

Pearl

[one word]

Totally agree about the story being nonexistant. The parts that are there are so lame it's also unmemorable like you said. I'm having the opposite reaction with my enthusiasm level though where the gameplay is really starting to grab me in chapter 5 now and by chapter 4 I was starting to get really bored with the game mechanics.

I actually like the idea behind the story of this game, but agree that it's pretty non-existent for the most part. Lots of rinse and repeat: get through level, boss battle, shmup stage to coffin fryer, REPEAT, with no real exposition. The idea that vampires are killing and enslaving humans for meals is pretty great, but at times I have this odd sense that I'm being made to feel guilty for eating animals and plants ....  I dunno, weird story and justification dynamic.

Now that I'm bouncing equipment around, powering up weapons, gathering materials, changing climate I'm starting to get into it a bit more. Really curious what Chapter 6 is gonna be like since 5 seemed like such a "final stage" kind of level.

I thought that the length of Chapter 5 was really exhausting and it really made the game feel unbalanced. However, I did like the castle segment with the fetch puzzles and the Chapter 5 boss battle a lot!  I felt like it was really tough and took a good deal to learn it, which made it so very rewarding for me!!!...........but............wait...........this isn't the end of the game??  Yep, I think we all had that feeling. Hell, I even took a pic with my phone here to post that I finished the game. Not so fast brah.

Anyway, I won't get into my thoughts on Chapter 6, but I feel like we are all going to have a similar opinion when that time comes. 

What I would like to do in our upcoming final thoughts segment on the podcast is for each of us to come up with one word that best describes the game and discuss your reason(s) for choosing that word.  If any of you who are not on the podcast would like to participate, we would definitely read those on the air. We are podcasting this weekend, so I will be asking for these soon, as well as Shawn and I will be posting our question of the month on social media.

Diamond

Sapphire

I completely forgot to post in the thread, though I've been posting notices in the Discord chat. I started streaming at the beginning of this month! I have been streaming the Shmup Club game for January, as well as several sessions of The Messenger, which I just completed a couple nights ago. Follow me on Twitch, and help me get my follower count up, and if I know you're a member of RF Generation, I will most likely follow back, and add you to my list of folks I auto-host.

https://www.twitch.tv/gurugameboy

I stream on YouTube as well, though unfortunately my YT channel isn't big enough yet to have a nice, easy to remember address. Hint, hint: go subscribe to me
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx2OxuuP9FirL9DVac09Q4g

Emerald

If we can beat 30 more games in the next 8 days that'll put us at 150% of January's monthly goal! Keep gaming everyone!

Was able to clean up my Sqoon cart that wasnt working a few days ago and get it to loop tonight. Pretty unique shooter and a lot better than I initially thought it would be. Also for it's length it gave me a lot more trouble than it should have. Found out how to get some extra 1ups and learned to hold back my power up drops until my energy was low and did a lot better. Also didn't realize until fairly late that if you can destroy the entire factory you get to keep your energy level at whatever it was when you destroyed the factory for an extended amount of time, that helped take a lot of the timer pressure off on the later stages.

No ending screen and the game immediately loops back to phase 1 so here is a pic of the final factory being destroyed:


Was still in an arcade kind of mood so I plugged in Mappy Land after Sqoon was done. It starts off pretty charming and fun and pretty quickly just gets annoying. The levels with the vines and floating trampolines are atrocious and then there are a couple levels in the game where you are in a cave and all of the platforms and ladders are invisible so you just have to trial and error your way through them. Just stupid design and not fun to play. Was neat that the cut scenes in the game kind of told a primitive story of you meeting your mate, getting married, having Christmas and then having a son together though.

No ending screen for this one either so here is a pic of the final cut scene:


@Fokakis79 - I always feel like a Big Man!

@EZ Racer - That's a big game and you're making awesome progress. Keep at it!

@Disposed Hero - That's a perfectly accurate description of my feelings towards Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu also

EDIT:All Claims and Completions up to date!

I wish I could go back to being a kid.  So many good memories from back then and too much responsibility now.