Board 8 > Aug. Game of the Month Club ft. Ace Attorney, Banner Saga, Aragami, and Quantum

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KCF has beaten Quantum Conundrum

I will echo some thoughts I thought I came across earlier that the platforming elements could use a bit of work. I personally ran into some input delays that probably caused the bulk of my deaths. Other than that, this is a thoroughly solid puzzle game that I enjoyed.

I have no idea who John de Lancie is (quick Google search shows that he was on some Star Trek show at one point), so I was a little bummed that the voice actor didn't turn out to be John Lithgow.
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And for my final nom since I doubt I will be beating The Banner Saga in the next day, I will do Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
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Monthly Progress
Attorney - Lolo, Ark, Cody
Banner - Ark
Aragami - KCF
Quantum - Abacus, Ark, KCF

Nominations
Abacus - No More Heroes III, Psychonauts 2
Ark - Streets of Rage 4, Monster Train, Control, Urumangi
Cody - Coffee Talk, Valhalla Cyberpunk Bartender, Neo Cab
Crispy - Great Ace Attorney 2
darkx - LiS: True Colors
KCF - Wargroove, Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (2017), Yooka-Laylee Impossible Lair
Lolo - Bloodstained: Ritual, StarTropics, Spelunky 2
Paul - DOOM (1993)

Supports
Abacus - DOOM
Ark - Wargroove

Drawing tomorrow
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Support Control

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Support Great Ace Attorney 2
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I finished up the last of the DLC levels in Aragami and missed a staggering amount of enemies. I am just completely perplexed as to where they could have been hiding.
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Last call for noms, changes, and supports
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You can currently get Aragami for as low as $1 on Steam via a Humble Bundle
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/best-of-stealth-bundle

However, I highly recommend getting the highest tier if you can afford it and stealth games aren't a turnoff for you because the first two games in the Hitman reboot series, Ghost of a Tale, and ECHO are also included, and all are great. There's also two other games that I have not played (Heat Signature, Styx: Shards of Darkness, which the latter is actually a sequel to a game that I have played).

That being said, I just bought the bundle since I didn't own most of these on Steam, so I do have an Aragami key if anyone is interested and doesn't want to pay money.
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In other news, I have made the supports used list public on the spreadsheet. I decided to put it in standings.
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Noms, changes, and supports are now closed. I will draw soonish.
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And your September Games of the Month are...

The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve (PC/PS4/Switch/3DS/Android/iOS)
Wargroove (PC/XB1/PS4/Switch)
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (PC/XB1/PS4/Switch)

Congrats to Crispy and myself for having their games selected!

I'm so sorry that I got back-to-back two nom selections
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1. Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, The
2. Wargroove
3. Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
4. Control
5. Control
6. Life is Strange: True Colors
7. VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
8. Streets of Rage 4
9. Spelunky 2
10. Urumangi
11. Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, The
12. Psychonauts 2
13. DOOM (1993)
14. DOOM (1993)
15. Wargroove
16. Monster Train
17. Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (2017)
18. Neo Cab
19. Coffee Talk
20. StarTropics
21. No More Heroes III
22. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
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4. Control
5. Control

=(.

Will definitely be playing Ace Attorney and Wargroove, though.

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That humblebundle seems really cool! I'll probably get it for the hitman games - always wanted to play them.

Also neat! I may play through The Impossible Lair in September. I've owned it for a while and started it, just never finished. We'll see though since I'm definitely playing NMH and Psychonauts either way.

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Looks like I'll be wrapping up The Great Ace Attorney.
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fitting that Ace Attorney wins back to back months on board 8

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Looks like another no-game month for me.

Which is absolutely fine because September is fucking stacked with new releases between Tales of Arise, Wario, Life is Strange and Kena.

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ArkOfTurus has beaten Aragami

Had some technical issues, and kinda hated the final boss, but it remained a solid, if not spectacular game aside from that. Don't think I'll be grabbing the DLC right away, or the sequel when it comes out, but I might want to revisit this at some point.

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I neglected to mention this, but Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is currently available on Game Pass for PC and Console
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I'm been playing more of Banner Saga, and I am in constant fear that I will run out of supplies.
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I think that I am in Chapter 5 of Banner Saga. I have struggled with supplies and sometimes combat with Rook's side, but everything has been smooth sailing on Hakon's side. Chieftan and Volgnir or whatever have died so far, but I feel like those were unavoidable, scripted events?
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I'm on Chapter 6 now. I decided to fight on the bridge and lost Fasolt. I later lost the Hogun/Mogun brother without a scar during a later Dredge fight. I now have two days of supplies and low morale as I entered an unwelcoming city with no Juno in sight.
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Started Quantum Conundrum today. Game is alright so far, I completed the Blue section. I can definitely feel the Portal vibes.
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KCF has beaten The Banner Saga

This was far more engrossing than I thought it would be. I beat it within a week. I'm not feeling good about the potential future consequences of my actions.
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Suprak has beaten The Great Ace Attorney Adventures

That was...really disappointing, honestly. Part of it has to do with how high my expectations were. I saw the reviews were amazing so this was the first game in forever I got on release day (technically I suppose I got two PS5 games on release day, but that was because they were bundled with the console I got).

I dunno. It wasn't terrible. I did really like a lot of the characters and parts of the story were pretty good too. But the actually "game" part here is way way worse than I remember any of the other AA games being, and that includes Apollo Justice or AAI. I actually stopped after those two so I haven't played the rest of the PW games on the DS, so I don't know if it got worse or not. But I remember getting stuck at parts, having to look through the evidence and figure stuff out. That never happened here. It was really quite boring, and on top of that parts of some cases dragged a lot where you basically know what happened for the last third of the case but you have to solve a series of increasing simple testimonies for things everyone should've figured out an hour ago.

It wasn't bad. But I think I'm going to stop after the first and maybe come back to the second later. It certainly wasn't what I remember the AA games being. SAD.

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Cody has beaten Quantum Conundrum.

Good game, cute aesthetic and some fun puzzles.
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Beat The Great Ace Attorney 1

overall ok, but felt like it had a lot of problems due to (for whatever reason) not wanting to break up investigations/trial segments over multiple days like last game. So there's entire investigation segments without any investigation just big lumps of dialog, or having people that can help push the story forward just sort of coincidentally be on the jury (instead of having a break for the day so the prosecution could find another witness to put on the stand) which got to the point where it actually pointed it out in the dialog like a damn rpg maker game.

Also I really disliked the second case, to the point where I can't help but think it's the worst in the series just because of how unsatisfying it was even though I don't really rank cases like a lot of people on b8 do. and even though I don't necessarily automatically dislike children characters, Wilson also kind of irritated me since they went a bit too far with her character being a genius/prodigy at everything, despite being sort of a stand in for Pearl like Susato is sort of a more nadesico ish Maya.

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