Clearing my backlog, I may be some time.

I am calling it a day on Fantasy General 2, it is just not my kind of game and I am starting to get annoyed by it. I have just completed the Shrouded Coast/Krell missions and on my way out of the games equivalent of Blighttown, which looks to be around the 60% mark but I am done. This is not fun for me. It is not my type of game at all. I can bring my self to do maybe 1 mission a day then need to stop. I am officially putting it to bed. In it's defense, this is just not my kind of game, at all, and this is my fault not the game. It is so nicely polished that I really want to love it, I have not got a single bad thing to say about it. As I have next to no knowledge of the genre I cannot comment on how FG2 sits within it, but the graphics are very nice, the controls are easy to manage, upgrade progression and item assignments are easy to understand, the story is excellent and I may come back to it at some point. If you are into turn based strategy games, defin...

Ok, so i failed again to start on Fantasy General 2. Had a lot on yesterday, and as these quests are quite lengthy, and I was just filling time, i decided to give the next freebie in the list was Curseland. Now, the developer is open about this game from the start, it was a class project that just got built on. The animation, play style and level design is crude to say the least, but it does have a certain charm. Think games you used to get free in Atari ST magazine in the 90s. I got it at 100% off and not sure the 89p original price is worth it in this day and age, but it did get my attention, at least for 36 minutes. Right back to Fantasy General 2.

So I spent a while this morning trying to increase the stability of Fallout Tactics. The problem may be Linux, or Proton, or just the game being too old. The screen tears constantly, and not in a vsync way, it tears every few pixels and pretty much renders it unplayable. I have never seen anything like it. This will have to add it to the "look at this later" pile. So I decided to give a freebies another go. First off was Crown Champion: Legends of the Arena. This just gave me a black screen. Tried proton hotfix, experimental, 9.0.4 and 10.0.4, one of these has pretty much solved most issues, but this game just does not run. Next was Arabian Gulf. This is at most an hour. 3 levels, can pretty much finish the game with the second weapon you get, the human "enemies" do not move until you get a few feet away, and the zombies do not need to be engaged at all. Ok, so time to go back to Fantasy General...

Caveman World: Mountains Of Unga Bunga. Well, you've been kinda fun, and kinda torture. While I have joined the 2.6% of players who have actually finished this game, and also got all achievements, it's not that impressive when you realise thay only 6.2% of players have achieved the easiest trophy of collecting 100 items, something that can be gained around level 3, of 27. It's a physics based side scrolling platformer. There is not combat, despite having an "attack" button, but dinosaurs and big nasty bugs can hurt you, but the biggest enemy in this entire game is the physics. Rolling items like eggs and big stone wheels (?) is infuriating, but pulling off some of the gymnastics they expect you to do with the logs is near impossible. However its being a fun couple of hours (7? I spent 7 hours on this, jees, although some of those was just sat Idle while I tried to accomplish anything else) I am glad it is over. An...

Billie's wheelie wheeled off. Short and basic Super Monkey Ball clone but a nice bit of fun. If i had friends I could compare runs, but I don't, well that own this anyway, so will just have to be satisfied with all achievements. Caveman World: Mountains Of Unga Bunga next. No idea what to think of this, but it has cheevos so some thought seems to have gone into it.

Battle Simulator: Counter Stickman... don't do it. Boring as hell, no real progression to speak of, like a tactical squad game that, but once your guys are picked and on the ground, you lose all control and just watch the guys walk to the right and shoot some other guys, no control, no real reasoning behind the score you get at the end of each level. This would be a poor attempt as a free mobile or flash browser game, but I am playing it on a 5950X and 9070XT. I got it for free, but currently priced at £2.49, for shovelware, and I'm not happy about owning it but as now I do, I am glad I only got it for free. It is officially Billie's Wheelie time. Should not be long on this one.

Playthrough 1 of Along The Edge has been completed. Now, this is a French interactive story book translated into English. When I first started, I found the story and dialogue very corny. However after chapter 3 I was in there. A bit Lovecraftean horror meets 90s "pick your story" book meets a slight whif of Until Dawn (God no, not the movie). Bloodborne, but only the subtitles. I will definitely be running through this again for the alternative versions of the story during small gaps between other games. Next on the official list is Battle Simulator: Counter Stickman, whilst also playing Billies Wheelie and Neir Automata, depending on how I feel at that exact moment in time. I still have to finish Fallout Tactics and General Fantasy 2.

And Fallout 2 has fallen. Man that thing is a beast compared to the first one. So much more to do, so much more you need to do. I would have liked to have seen Arroyo rebuilt or at least visitable again after the final fight, but there was also so much I didn't do. I left New Reno alone, mainly because I could not decide which family deserved to get wiped out the least, but also it was just so busy. I did not complete either of the factions in San Fran as I got to a point where the end was in sight and went for it. I also did not finish Mariposa, because I needed a break after killing everything on the floors and just now remembered. That final boss fight was either impossible, challenging but good, or super easy, dependent on whether you had 1 particular item, or if you disable or ignore some help. Next is Fallout tactics, this is the last FO game I own that needs completing. Side note: I am also not best please that it clai...

 Ooh, slight change of plan last night. Did not have long to play so decided to finish off Isle of Jura. For any one interested, this is sweet little fishing game where you play a girl doing a school project on fish. I have played it here and there and just needed to get a few more to finally finish it, so it is now done. While the rule is not to buy any new games, i have been keeping an eye on any that are getting a 100% discount, and in keeping with the alphabetical nature of my original approach to this task, I am going back to A. So actually next on my list is Along the Edge. Not sure what to expect with these