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kitler53 · Oct 04, 2023, 03:35 AM

Quote from: Legend on Oct 04, 2023, 02:56 AMBeen on my wishlist for a while but all I know is that it has good reviews. Outside of a dev talking about it today, I've never actually seen it mentioned anywhere.

Only $9.99 so I'll buy.

I've seen in top ten lists before. it always tops the sokoban like games lists. I know you said you don't love that sub genre but I like it.

Legend · Oct 04, 2023, 06:31 AM

I'm 2 hours into Monster's Expedition. I like it more than Stephen's sausage roll in general, but I felt far too aimless for most of those 2 hours. The game has a clear objective/success state but you have to spend some time learning what that is.

It's a fun sokoban. Absolutely loved how it handled the game's title. The writing is pretty bleh but a kid would probably have a lot of fun with it.

kitler53 · Oct 04, 2023, 02:10 PM

good thing i'm a 40-something kid.

Legend · Oct 04, 2023, 08:03 PM

Game has a good/easy flow when I know what the goal is. A few times I've been stuck for more than a few minutes since what I think is the goal is not actually the goal.

Fair amount of clever stuff. I think I'm getting close to the end, but I don't know. My biggest critique is that progression is just so mindless.

Legend · Oct 04, 2023, 10:32 PM

Finished monsters expedition. Pretty disappointing ending, but overall I enjoyed it. Had clever ideas and was executed well but its only big surprise was in the opening.

Was pretty fun to play. Most puzzles were relatively easy so I made it through in under 10 hours despite doing most of the extra content. Some puzzles were fun and hard, but most of the hard puzzles were just annoying. I wouldn't even know what the game wanted me to do so I'd have to exhaust the possibility space.

Gonna clean up stuff I missed. I'm hoping the game still has some secrets but I doubt it.

the-pi-guy · Oct 05, 2023, 04:10 AM

I think I would rate the main quests:
Dark Brotherhood
Greybeard quest
College of Winterhold
The Companions
Thieves Guild
The War arc

Legend · Oct 05, 2023, 05:15 AM

Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Oct 05, 2023, 04:10 AMI think I would rate the main quests:
Dark Brotherhood
Greybeard quest
College of Winterhold
The Companions
Thieves Guild
The War arc

I know some of the dark brotherhood quest but otherwise you lost me.

the-pi-guy · Oct 05, 2023, 01:25 PM

Quote from: Legend on Oct 05, 2023, 05:15 AMI know some of the dark brotherhood quest but otherwise you lost me.

Here I spoil the 6 big quests in the game.

Spoiler for Hidden:

Legend · Oct 05, 2023, 06:42 PM

I member parts of most of those. Just had no clue what the quest names were.

I hate temporarily impossible puzzles in puzzle games. Monsters Expedition has just a few and now whenever I'm stuck I have no idea if I need to think harder or go solve unrelated puzzles. The game uses a fog of war over the map so you can't know what's even just one island over.

I'm going for 100% so the game's doing something right, but it has a lot of issues outside its sokoban gameplay.

kitler53 · Oct 05, 2023, 08:51 PM

i'm playing sea of stars.

i typically hate turn based RPGs but i'm mostly enjoying this one. it is very, very basic. no exploration, no branching stories, very simple armor progression (whatever you find is always 1 better), very basic combat. yet i'm still enjoying it. it's soo easy to zone out to. the art work is pretty. the music has been good except in 1 area to me.

Legend · Oct 06, 2023, 06:24 PM

100% of expeditions done. Still have some snowmen remaining but I think I'm calling it for monster's expedition. The fog of war is just so unfun in these later stages, at least for me.

7/10. Moment to moment is often pretty fun and is better than Baba is you and Stephen's sausage roll imo but it's just the exact same thing hour after hour.

the-pi-guy · Oct 10, 2023, 02:37 AM

"follow me and we will talk to the counselor."

*Turns around*

"Well hello counselor"

Lol.

the-pi-guy · Oct 10, 2023, 03:10 AM

I have one more trophy with the main game, one more with the dragonborn dlc. I still have to do the Dawnguard DLC.

And then I can put Skyrim away for another 8 years.

My main save is at 59 hours, and I've put probably 7 hours into two other save files to finish some quests that I messed up/didn't want on my main save.

Legend · Oct 10, 2023, 03:54 AM

Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Oct 10, 2023, 03:10 AMI have one more trophy with the main game, one more with the dragonborn dlc. I still have to do the Dawnguard DLC.

And then I can put Skyrim away for another 8 years.

My main save is at 59 hours, and I've put probably 7 hours into two other save files to finish some quests that I messed up/didn't want on my main save.

That's shorter than I expected for the plat.

SWORDF1SH · Oct 11, 2023, 06:27 PM

Completed the Talos Principle. Got all the sigil and stars in 27 hours. Almost as enjoyable at when I played it the first time.

Things felt familiar but still a challenge. I can remember I had help on 2 of the stars the first time round and still had to get help on how to work out that dang clock puzzle.
All in all, I completed this a lot quicker than the first time round because of previous experience but still not quicker than legend lol

Now on to the DLC.