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oh hey 2 more free games again again again. Jagged Alliance Gold Edition and Titan Quest Anniversary Edition. might take a look at both of them at some point but not planning on playing either one
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played some One Way Heroics. its a Roguelike (lite? Rogueish?) with some rpg to it. a big evil Darkness comes from the left of the screen and you have to run rightways to avoid it while killing monsters and leveling up and doing standard RPG things until you die, kill the Demon Lord, or other game enders. after each run you can store some items/equipment for the next attempt. has 8 classes (more in the expansion that i dont have) that are kinda standard rpg fare.
i think its a good one but its not for me. i was playing on the normal difficulty but not making any progress. in some roguers like Isaac theres not really any hard progression like levels so each attempt is its on thing. this however has the item storage and rpg stuff so it feels like i should be making some progress by finding gooder equipment or useful items or whatever but that wasnt really happening. i didnt seem to find that many enemies, when i did they didnt drop much, dungeons always had some strong monster that bopped me, and money doesnt carry over so i couldnt buy anything. very possibly i was doing it bad and wrong of course. i switched to the easy mode and got through it with little trouble so theres that. it wasnt the true ending and theres more to it but im not sure if ill go back to it
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and since that was a game i didnt want to play in long sessions i started up another thing. Gladiator Trainer from out favorite jrpg bundle. not sure what the name of this genre is but its a raising/management kinda thing. mord of an estate wherein youre raising slaves to fight in the arena for money and fame and shit. its fun but not very deep. the estate management is pretty much just spend money on things and theres no downsides or considerations to make or anything. the fite slaves have classes and certain classes have an advantage over others but again its just buy them equipment and thats it. you dont control the battles so theres not much you can do toher than level and buy better stuff. theres a handful of other things but theyre minor and generally of no consequence.
i actually think this may be the best game in that bundle. granted that probably just comes from me not being familiar enough with the genre to fully feel its not goodness like i can for the others. really simple but i still enjoyed it. theres also a neat bug that trivializes the entire game though. battles are 1v1 so you have to pick who fites in it or select the Withdraw Option to end it. if you hit cancel instead of select it just drops all your dudes in the fight including Withdraw Option (who you get to control). the fights are a joke since its 2+v1 and you get a lot more money (fighters with high morale perform post victory theatrics and get monies) making everything very easy. anyway i still wouldnt recommend buying it. only 2 games left from this mess are Labyronia 2 and Labyronia prequel
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for the weekly point and click i returned to monke with some Monkey Island. Scecret of Money Island is one of the few things i actually played and finished. apparently that was back in 2012 what fucking happened to time. i was debating whether to play through it again but decided against it since i already beat it and the story isnt connected enough for me to go back through like Sam and Max. i did start up Monkey Island 2 though! didnt play through it too much but it seems to be more of the first one. im trying to avoid using a guide but even with little i played i already had to look some things up since apparently i cant fucking see anything in these games :/ . theres a hint/show clickable items button features which i was avoiding using but if im gonna use a guide theres no reason not to use these so ill probably do that next time
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and the last fite game of the week is none other than Blazeblue Cross Tag Battle because YOU CANT ESCAPE FROM CROSSING FATE. i was kinda following this one right up until the launch details were announced and i noped out. havent paid much attention to it so i didnt actually know htat much about it except little bits ive seen here and there across the internet. most of that was how bad and simple and dumm and character moveset ruining it was. having actually played it i can see why that would be said and agree with a little bit of it. its 4 buttons (or 5 if assist call counts as a button). A and B are primary attacks and are just auto combos. C is a tag team attack, sweep with down, and some ex specials. D is for defense stuff and an AD attack. partner call can do a lot of things that i cant keep track of. it also has an English dub thank goodness.
i went through story but didnt pay any attention to it since its a crossover game so i assumed the story would be shitnothing. and yeah the movesets do feel kinda off so i can see where the hate comes from but im not sure if its game ruining. maybe because i havent really played any of the games against other people that much so im not as affected by the changes. its also a crossover with a bunch of series that have totally different mechanics doing something unique seems like the best thing to do imo. so other than that and no rollback it seems p good. not sure if its the kinda thing i would spend a lot of time on but still worthwhile. ive been going through the character tutorials/combo trials since they give of a lot of ingame money to unlock things with. i have enough for all the colors which is all i really care about but i feel kinda compelled to go through all of them so im going to. ill call it done though since ive done what i wanted to
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only 30 games left the end is almost in sight!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/283270/Jagged_Alliance_1_Gold_Edition/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/475150/Titan_Quest_Anniversary_Edition/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/266210/One_Way_Heroics/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/527990/Gladiator_Trainer/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/32360/The_Secret_of_Monkey_Island_Special_Edition/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/32460/Monkey_Island_2_Special_Edition_LeChucks_Revenge/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/702890/BlazBlue_Cross_Tag_Battle/

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congrats to azuarc for victorying GotD guru
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