What are you playing this weekend/these days?


Finished Tales of Monkey Island. Controls are a bit weird, there were 3 game breaking bugs and the last chapter had too much running around, but all in all I enjoyed it a lot for the classic item and dialogue puzzles and good humour.
 
I did start whit WIndwaker HD Today, on the AYN Thor whit the Cemu Emulator,
worked quite good, even though I had to tweek the Resolution to around 940 x x , as its got frametrops when I did the wirl Attack on Grass.. , I did play until the point where the big bird did kidnapp my Sister, next step is to leave Preludia Island whit the Pirates and whit Zelda/Terra or how she is named in this game..
Allthough Twillight Princess works better from the 2 HD Zelda Remakes, I wanted also to play WindWaker, I like the Musik and this Comic Artstyle.. Twillight Prinzess will also get start this Easter Weekend..
 
I did start whit WIndwaker HD Today, on the AYN Thor whit the Cemu Emulator,
worked quite good, even though I had to tweek the Resolution to around 940 x x , as its got frametrops when I did the wirl Attack on Grass.. , I did play until the point where the big bird did kidnapp my Sister, next step is to leave Preludia Island whit the Pirates and whit Zelda/Terra or how she is named in this game..
Allthough Twillight Princess works better from the 2 HD Zelda Remakes, I wanted also to play WindWaker, I like the Musik and this Comic Artstyle.. Twillight Prinzess will also get start this Easter Weekend..
What I suggest is to monitor your GPU usage and FPS to tune your resolution, etc too be as good as possible without ever causing slow down. Make sure your GPU is high but never hits 100% and FPS never drops. Thor has various ways of doing this iiuc. I do this on pcsx2 and it looks way better than a PS2 ever could.
 
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Just finished Sherlock Holmes Crimes and Punishments. I enjoyed this one quite a bit more than the remake of The Awakened. All of the cases are ambiguous and you can actually come to wrong conclusions and the game will just let you ride with those. I got all of them right except one in which I was wildly wrong. The cases really got me thinking and taking notes of small things I noticed. Great experience. The voice acting was not quite as good as in Awakened. Despite the age and having to use DX9 because of flickering shadows on AMD cards it still looks quite good with lots of details everywhere. Music is sparingly used, environmental audio stuck out to me as well done, very atmospheric. Plays great with a controller. Highly recommended if you like detective games.
 
Recently finished The Darkside Detective and the sequel The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark. They are point&click games with low-res graphics (and great music, especially the first one) featuring a detective tasked with handling supernatural stuff. It has no movement and very few animations, which is a bit surprising at first but quickly turns out to be more time-effective than having to wait for your character to move to each item you want to interact with. It also comes with a button to highlight interactive items which solves pixel-hunting issues. The puzzles are generally fine, they usually make enough sense so that you can find the solution but rarely too basic either. The "look" action also usually gives (sometimes too obvious, sometimes necessary) hints and characters will also regularly comment in a way that helps you figure out what is expected. It sometimes felt a bit too easy, sometimes I stumbled on something but rarely for too long. Both games are divided into cases and the amount of screens/inventory object/interactive objects generally stays manageable.

At first I wasn't sure I was going to like it. It's trying hard to be funny, as if each and every description or action should have a joke but too few of them felt really fun. After a few cases, the characters grew on me and I even started appreciating some of the jokes. By the end, having always the same kind of jokes and humor was starting to be a bit boring, maybe I shouldn't have played both games back to back. I've enjoyed both games but I don't think I'd play a third.
 
Recently returned to (and finished the main puzzles of) 7 Billion Humans the follow-up to Human Resource Machine, a programming game where you programmed an office worker to do tasks. This time, it's multi-process with multiple workers following the same instructions. The first game was pleasant but as a developer it felt like basic algorithm problems I had already seen/solved before.
I'm clearly not as used to multi-process algorithm so this game was far more interesting and challenging to me. I still haven't finished all optional levels and I'm a long way from beating the shortest/faster challenges on each level.
 
Finished Wolfenstein The New Order. Bombastic FPS. Weighty, punchy, crunchy. And there's secrets to find, so that's a happy me. Next will be something a lot more chill, that was enough murderin' for a while.
 
Arcade Paradise

I played just a little but for many months, because it's a game that can be very repetitive and grindy at the beginning ... anyway I can see the progresses and everything I unlock is always super cool, the 80s/90s details are PERFECT ... the games are all invented but are anyway credible as from that time, the background music are all invented too but are very similar to famous songs of that time.

Anyway, I had the game for FREE from Epic Store, but it's soo cool that I bought it from GOG with every single DLC ... I need more of this ...

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Luckily the save game file from Epic is compatible with the GOG version :cool:
 
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Just finished Elroy and the Aliens. A decent point and click with classic item combinations and a handful of logic puzzles. The first half was a bit boring, the second half much better. Competent music, SFX and voice acting; the backgrounds are drawn beautifully.
 
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