I finished BELPAESE: Homecoming yesterday. This is an Italian game that was translated into English. It's about a guy named Peppe who comes home from university after being a total failure with no degree and he can't face his mother, so he's got to find some way to impress her. Once that's done, he gets involved in some other situations. I don't ( Read more... )

I finished Maggie's Apartment or at least it seemed that way because I was taken back to the main menu screen. This was a weird one. It's one of those games where it serves more as a piece of art than anything else. You play as Maggie, alone in her apartment, which has been locked down for some reason. She's in love with a man named Randy Rosebud ( Read more... )

I finished Orwell's Animal Farm sorta kinda. At least it seemed like I got one of the endings. It seemed to end abruptly. I'm sure there's more. It's a short game if you don't replay it, which I don't. I'm not going to get into the story of Animal Farm. I'm sure most everyone knows that story, but you're supposed to try to help the farm survive by ( Read more... )

I finished Magret & FaceDeBouc “The buddy-buddy case”. This is a French game that was translated into English and it kind of shows, but not that it's bad. Sometimes the dialog didn't flow so well, but you play as a duck named Magret. He's a cop and he teams up with a goat named FaceDeBouc who is another detective. I was a little worried the humor ( Read more... )

I finished Midnight Ramen yesterday. I would call it a combination of visual novel and cooking sim, although the latter doesn't quite describe it because there's no pressure at all in the cooking. You play as Homura who is coming of age, and together with her adoptive father Blaze run a ramen shop and Homura is learning the chops. You follow the ( Read more... )

I finished An English Haunting yesterday. I felt kind of misled about this game. I thought it was going to be about investigating a haunted house. It is about that, but that doesn't happen until the end of the game. The story takes place in London in 1907 and you play as a professor named Patrick Moore. He and his colleague Nelson Ward have been ( Read more... )

I finished The Norwood Suite. I don't know how to even begin describing this game. It's a bizarre surreal experience, which I guess is the point. You are basically exploring this hotel dedicated to a musician named Peter Norwood, and you're trying to gain access to a party. The hotel is full of music, which is quite loud. I had to turn the volume ( Read more... )

I finished The Crimson Diamond yesterday. In this Sierra style EGA graphics adventure, you play as an aspiring mineralogist named Nancy Maple from the 1800s. She's sent on a task to find out if there are any diamonds in the town of Crimson in Ontario, Canada. While there she stays at the Crimson Lodge for her field work and meets an eclectic cast ( Read more... )

I finished It's Grim Up North. However, it's only the first chapter of the game. I don't know when or if the second chapter will come out. It's a pixel adventure set in Yorkshire and you play as an old detective named Terry who discovers these shapeshifting purple goo aliens have invaded. It's a point-and-click adventure game with turn-based combat ( Read more... )

I finished The Invincible yesterday. Another pretty lengthy game. This is an adaptation of the novel by Stanislaw Lem. I never read the book, so I couldn't tell you whether it's a faithful adaptation or not. You play as Yasna, who is a biologist and has woken up on an alien planet with her crew nowhere in sight. She was on a research mission, and ( Read more... )