Blues and Bullets

Blues and Bullets

Game is dead like a beached whale.

My personal experience is probably a lot like most people on here. When a sale season hits, you go out a buy a crap-tonne of anything and everything that has had a price reduction on your wishlist. Like a hungry vacuum cleaner sucking up your wallet, purse, handbag, life savings, superannuation and assorted licorices, you just buy buy buy! without really looking at the forums or the latest info or even if the game is finished yet.

Which brings me to my point. This game wasn’t finished, and never will be.

Real player with 8.7 hrs in game


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I do not really review episodic titles without having all episodes at hand with a complete walkthrough. With Blues and Bullets I did an exception as the title with its heavy noir atmosphere kept calling me. “A Crowd of Monsters” made an interesting and enjoyable game and I’m sure we’ll hear more about them in the future.

In the center of the game we have Eliot Ness who is based on the real Eliot Ness - an agent who enforced the Prohibition in the early 20th century and was famous for being part of the so-called Untouchables, a group tasked with getting Chicago rid of its corruption and - most notably - putting Al Capone behind bars. Here, the story is fictionalised - Eliot has already retired when he gets a visit from one of Capone’s henchmen. The kingpin wants to bury the hatchet and offers the agent a job most unexpected: finding his granddaughter as Sofia Capone was kidnapped.

Real player with 6.2 hrs in game

Blues and Bullets on Steam

OMEGA: The Beginning - Episode 1

OMEGA: The Beginning - Episode 1

An interactive story about Scott and his missing friend, who hasn’t been the same after an accident where he lost his leg. Solving puzzle’s brings you closer to him but also towards something darker…

https://youtu.be/Bb4XvUdfZIo

Real player with 9.7 hrs in game


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This was a cute, fun little point and click puzzle game.

However, during my playthrough i noticed a few things.

There was some dialogue that was not translated (entering the garage at the front of Teni’s house as well as the first time yo touch the bricks in the tower), and a few other pieces of dialogue that were not overly translated well and/or contained spelling mistakes. I didn’t feel like this took away from my enjoyment of the game personally.

Most of the puzzles were fairly straight forward and not frustrating. (Although one of them did cause me to look up the answer as i had clicked on absolutely everything and still couldn’t quite work it out).

Real player with 2.8 hrs in game

OMEGA: The Beginning - Episode 1 on Steam

The Wolf Among Us

The Wolf Among Us

I’ve played through this game about 5 times. Each time was fun and engaging. Definitely recommend!

Real player with 24.0 hrs in game


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A therapeutical game about Big B and his inner restraints holding him from killing everyone in this annoying town.

Snow white? More like hope she dead tonight!

Faith kinda kewl tho, “he’s not as bad as he seems 3”

10/10

Real player with 23.4 hrs in game

The Wolf Among Us on Steam

The Outcast Lovers

The Outcast Lovers

I admit I openly ridiculed some of the dialogues in this game. Especially the part with “Werther’s Original”.

But that’s kind of the issue with Outcast Lovers. It is a narrative game, with pretty much the same pros and cons as it’s prequel, The Night Fisherman. But this time, instead of making us experience or feel the narrative, the game just force-feeds us it’s main message.

And since the main message (Immigration system evil and cruel, outcasts helping immigrants marginalized, brave and warm-hearted) is the same as in the prequel game, all the tension is gone. We know how the story is going to end. And we know why.

Real player with 0.8 hrs in game

The premise of this game, and the other, is the treatment of immigrants. The story of this game was absolutely lost on the reader.

The title is “The Outcast Lovers,” but doesn’t even focus on them other than a conversation about adopting a kid they accidentally hit in a car crash (who is completely fine I guess?). One small fight between the interracial couple (which could have been an additional story element due to the times where that was even more looked down upon) does not make me care for them, or for the kid who randomly gets hit.

Real player with 0.7 hrs in game

The Outcast Lovers on Steam

Los Cops

Los Cops

Los Cops is a non-linear visual novel with point & click adventure elements in the form of a TV show about the life of aspiring actor Jeremy Jablonski, who teams up with private detective Santiago Hutchinson to save Los Angeles.

The plot of Los Cops depends entirely on your choices: what kind of relationship to build with the characters, what cases to investigate, how to deal with criminals, and what methods should be followed. You can act out the detective of your dreams or not act out at all, focusing primarily on a career in Hollywood or other delights of life. Every small victory and every bitter defeat will propel history towards unpredictable turns and endings.

Features:

  • Join the amazing adventures of private detective agency Los Cops. Play as Jeremy Jablonski and together with him understand what is more precious in life: the career of a Hollywood star, the duty of a detective to the city, or the personal life and well-being of your loved ones.

  • Each episode has its own genre, visual style and atmosphere. Enjoy classic 80s buddy movie, 40s noir detective, western, sitcom, heist film, road movie and much more!

  • Feel yourself in the shoes of a real detective with your principles and skills - collecting evidence, chases, shootings, interrogations, investigations, cooperation with gray representatives of the law, infiltration with disguise and much more. Be considerate and resourceful, but don’t get too into the role.

  • Spend time with a lot of colorful characters both on the side and on the other side of the law. Choose your friends, make enemies, build romantic relationships and just have a good time. You change with your environment and create it yourself. But remember - every decision has a consequence.

  • Face the most motley gangs in Los Angeles: from anarchist rockers to maniacs, from petty bandits to the Asian mafia. Put them in jail, bribe them for further cooperation, or become a criminal yourself. But so that no one can see.

The Los Cops story is divided into several episodes. Each of them is a separate story with a continuous storyline. The Tequila Sunrise episode is the first. Subsequent episodes will be released in paid DLC format.

Los Cops on Steam

Mirrored - Chapter 1

Mirrored - Chapter 1

Well, I guess I’m an idiot. Some of these puzzles absolutely required a walkthrough because I would never have guessed them. I can say with confidence that I would never have

! associated the positions on a map with the numeric keypad, especially when there was a card right there with a series of numbers on it. Also, the hint for the PC password was ambiguous. I kept thinking

! the order of knowledge referred to some sort of think tank or university because “order” also means “collective of people”, like an order of knights. And while I did manage to find the

! volume five clue, I had the expectation that I would need to actually

! click volume 5 to see inside of it because that’s what needed to be done before.

Real player with 10.3 hrs in game

Mirrored is the first of a series of point and click adventure games. However I can’t recommend this game for a number of reasons.

It is common for games to be split into chapters so we don’t expect the story to be completed. . With achievements for completing chapters for this it appears to have more content. In reality this doesn’t have enough content to justify it as a chapter. It feels more like a demo or an introduction.

It’s nice to have an interactive 3D environment and the artwork is a good standard. Unfortunately as the whole game is set in an office there is no variety. When you combine a right item you complete a chapter, get a cut scene and you are back in the office again. You have to use and combine all the necessary items to finish the game but only certain items will trigger another chapter.

Real player with 5.4 hrs in game

Mirrored - Chapter 1 on Steam

Symploke: Legend of Gustavo Bueno (Chapter 3)

Symploke: Legend of Gustavo Bueno (Chapter 3)

Symploke: Legend of Gustavo Bueno is a point and click adventure with the scent of legendary classics such as The Secret of Monkey Island or The Day of the Tentacle. The game is completely designed in MS Paint and it is divided in different chapters. This is Chapter 3.

Did You Finish Chapter 2?

To play Chapter 3 you must introduce the password given when you got through Chapter 2. If you haven’t, please download Chapter 2 and come back once you have completed it.

Symploke: Legend of Gustavo Bueno (Chapter 3) on Steam

Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season

Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season

I cannot really say 100% if this game was worth it or not. I’ve played all the other Monkey Islands in the past, and besides Monkey Island 4, I enjoyed all of them.

I will review this game from different points of view:

  1. CHARACTERS: Guybrush never gets boring, he is still able to make you laugh and give some funny commentaries on what is happening to him even if the situation seems hopeless. His wife Elaine is even more annoying than she ever was, and also this time she’s one of the main causes of Guybrush’s trouble. Le Chuck is seen for the first time as a human, and the Vodoo Lady has some nice corpse paint on her face. Even some old acquaintances have found their place in the game. There are a couple of good characters which worked well, like De Singe and Morgan, and the side characters also were well thought and hilarious (like the sailors belonging to De Cava’s troupe). All characters were well thought and well designed.

Real player with 5.1 hrs in game

**(Review for all five chapters)

A game made by new developers and released almost a decade after the previous episode. Many people thought that “Tales of Monkey Island” wouldn’t be an authentic “Monkey Island” experience. Indeed, some things have changed but this game couldn’t be a better fit for the series. Cool 3d aesthetics, fresh cinematic approach and a new fantastic story meet the well known, awesome humor, imaginative puzzles, beloved characters (along with their original voices) and iconic music. “Tales of Monkey Island” not only met the expectations, but it is also one of the best episodes of this thrilling series. What else do you need to join Guybrush to his new adventures?**

Real player with 4.7 hrs in game

Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season on Steam

The Walking Dead: Season Two

The Walking Dead: Season Two

I will be the first to admit that when I beat The Walking Dead: Season 1, I not only cried, but I cried like a baby. The story, setting, and, most importantly, the characters all pulled me into this world where no one is truly safe, and your decisions matter and go beyond the “choice 1 = good-but-risky, choice 2 = evil-but-conserative” trope. So when Season 2 was announced, I was eager to get my hands on it. Now, ten months have passed and the season is over, ending with “Episode 5: No Going Back”. Was it amazing, and how did it stack against Season 1?

Real player with 26.6 hrs in game

A stirring and well-acted journey, Season Two of The Walking Dead may not deliver the breakthrough experience of the first season, yet it retains the emotional punch that makes this undertaking just as heartfelt and gut-wrenching as we all so fondly remember. Each episode builds upon the last, and we open with the slightly older and more experienced Clementine being once again ripped from the last vestige of Season One’s survivors. These initial scenes, when Clementine is truly at her most vulnerable, allow new characters and personalities to fill the void, and they are definitely a step up from those that we have love and lost before.

Real player with 26.2 hrs in game

The Walking Dead: Season Two on Steam

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THIS GNMAE ABSOLUTELY DOO DOO TRASH DONT PLAY WASTED ONE DOLLAR TRASH DOESNT EVEN COME IN RUSSIAN!!! LITERALLY NO STORY AND TRASH GAMEPLAY!!! NO SPEEDRUN CAPABILITY!!!! I GUESS SOME POEPLE JUST CANT MAKE GAMES!!! AND AGAIN DOESNT EVEN COME IN RUSSIAN.

Real player with 0.6 hrs in game

I really liked this game! The main character is very charming and the game does a good job at helping players understand the context without forcefeeding you obvious exposition. One feature I liked was the ability to easily have many different saves because each choice affects your outcome; in some similar games there is nothing to allow you to see every single possible route and see how each choice affects you but Ad Movere allows you to go back instantly to see all the different paths. I also liked the soundtrack a lot! it did a good job at setting the vibes and of course the artstyle was very unique & lovely. I think you should get it if you would like a charming visual novel with a lovely plot and great QOL features.

Real player with 0.4 hrs in game

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