The Detail, first impression

Have you ever wanted to be a detective and find the murderers? Then try The Detail. It is very artistic game and runs in same ways if you have played Telltale games.. Except first impression was that I really have more choices than other similar games I have played.

Episode  one begins.

Once again you will make choices in the game and hope that they lead in to best solution.

Epilogue was fastly played through.

The game looks stylishand cartoonlike. Atmosphere isn't the most cheerfull but I have seen same in other games. And If you're detective solving murders, working days probably aren't the loveliest ones. I have to admit that I wouldn't want to play this game when I am very tired or on the bad mood. Even game isn't running fastly you really begin to think what you can and can't do.

Slowly colours were involved into game.

you're playing different chars in the game.

The city isn't the dream.

Heading to see first real case.

When I played the game further it became more colourfull. But still it is dark and colours are well thought how and when to use it. I am not best to solve crime scenes but perhaps I can finish this game even the choices aren't easiest. Usually you have only bad options and you try to figure out what would be best from those. When you can choose what to say, you usually have small list of words, no phrases or sentences. just few words what gives impression what your character will say. And that works even then there are situation when characters speaks a bit differently than  what you thought.

Who would like to play this game? If you prefer storytelling games this is for you. When you need to figure out all the details in adventure games here you will be getting choices from what to pick. I haven't finished my cases yet but I will type more about the game if my opinion changes about it. For now I think it is well made and intereting game.. even lying to people do not feel good, even in game!

Theme Hospital

Yes Theme Hospital! It was one of my favourite games from theme series when I was way younger. When newer games started to get more of my time this lovely small game was forgotten until I heard the news. EA origin offers Theme Hospital for free, at  least for now. You just need to download EA origin to your computer and you can find Theme Hospital from there. 

Doctors are the heroes!

waiting for the first patient.

And the game was excatly how I remembered it. You start with empty building and first you need rooms where you can find out what is wrong with the patient. Then there are pharmacy for medicines and even psychiatrics the cure persons who thinks that they're like Elvis. Tempo of the game is very fine since it runs smoothly but still you can react fast enough to events. When you play further you have to react faster to emergencies so that you can cure all the needed patients. 

Patients are waiting for doctors.

You need to think of the space so that you can build everything what is needed.

Of course game looks simple since it was released in 1997. But still the magic of the hospital game hasn't vanished. It is still fun to find a balance between the cured patients and the wellfare of the staff. You need to have enough money to hire enoug hstaff so that they can rest at times. Otherwise you begin to loose your great workers. 

If you like strategygames this is good snack to you. Game is rather easy to learn to control a nd it is simplier than many modern strategy game. But sometimes gaming can be fun and not that serious, right?

Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

I gave a test run to Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. I am not big fan of war strategy games since I am so bad playing those (usually loosing to computer opponents easily). But now I promised to try this game when my friend wished to play that with me. And to be honest, experience wasn't that terrifying than what I thought! Even it was very confusing anyways.

Test game shall begin.

I had earlier played tutorial through so I was very unexperienced about whole Command and Conquer serie. I had heard about it before. But allways I had skipped those by thinking they are not for this girl.

At first I only had the base.

Added some power structures and started to build army.

When I tried tutorial game controls seemed very easy ones. And in the test game.. controls were the easy part. But then.. what to build, where and how. That cost too much time to think when meanwhile enemy got stronger. If I had played alone I know that I would had been destroyed but now at least my  teammate knew how to play and kept the situation safe. But when the enemy attack against my base it surely did look bad.

I was unprepaired for the attack and got one of my buildings destroyed. 

When I realised that I needed bigger army, it was easier to attack against buildings even.

yay, victory!

The first map for this game was small one. When I realised that I only needed big amount of troops, starte to produce such more. and with team work (my friend did most of the job and I only assisted) we got the enemy down.

First experience about Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars was definetely positive. I usually like the games what I can pause when I want to but now I had to stay and play since game isn't happening in turns. But this was short enough to keep my attention. Of course other missions are most likely longer but it was nice to try short one first. I wasn't able to open all the building options in my base so I did something probably wrong. But that gives me something to learn for the next time then. I will later tell about other missions when I get into game more.. but if you like strategy games, you probably like this (and probably have tried this way earlier than me).

Do you still remember Spore?

I loved spore when it was released in 2008. It would be fun to live through evolution and see how your specie will survive, yes? Well I would say yes and at least interesting test. So I still remember how I was thrilled to play Spore. But something happened.. I never finished the game.. When I saw it on christmas sale I had to buy it and retry. Would it be as cool as earlier?

This time I went with herbivore.

Somewhere in the galaxy lives my creatures.

I have usually played carnivores but now I tryed to test pure herbivore. The beginning was as fun as I remembered. Swimming in the ocean.. hunt various a pieces to improve my specie. And of course escape from deadly hunters. This part of game is fun but it is palyed through fast since it do not offer anything else than easting, little fighting and swimming.

Creating my lovely little swimmer.

First task is to hunt food and avoid carnivores.

Finally my specie was ready to leave the water and begin a new life using lugns instead of gills. Sooo fascinating.. I got own homebase and started to make friends from other species. Of course I would had been able to be aggressive towards them also but that might ended badly to specie who eats fruits. So decided to stay on nicer side.. besides isn't it marvellois when your creature learns to sing?

At first creatures were rather simple looking..

But evolution changed their colour (or me) and wings became part of their bodies.

But then.. it was again.. First two parts in the game worked.. Then suddenly it jumps into tribe mode which is something totaly different. Last time I didn't like it and yes.. also now I haven't played much further. So Spore seems to have same issues to me than it was years ago. It feels totally different game on third part and maybe that is the problem. But I will try to play it through some way so that I could see what is the fourth part of the game even (yeah no spoikers thank you!). But do tell me.. Have you had same issues with Spore? Or was it smooth to play through?

Have you tested MS-Dos games?

Lately I have seen same news in many Magazines: Collection of old  MS-Dos games has been released and you can try old classics. Simply awesome even that makes my gaming list so much longer. I tried some of those and well it was nice exprience to test my skills with them without even need to download them to my own computer. But if you wish to forget your spare time, click here.

Banished, The first winter

I got Banished as a christmas present and I have to say that it has something familiar. When I was younger, I loved The Settlers. It was so fun to watch how small characters does what you want them to do and now Banished seemed similar. Except there weren't humour on it nor neighbours.

If you want to build, this is game for you.

The game begins from the spring. You have group of people who has left from their homeland. Only having some gears with them. Of course amount of gears depends what difficulty you're using. I decided to play my test run using easy level so that I will learn how game works even. You need to learn basics quickly and make people to work. Autumn arrives soon and if you are not prepared there will be a lot of corpses then. 

I noticed that you need to make sure having enough firewood and food before winter comes. I made some bad mistakes on my first game so after few years I caused starvation to my folk. It  wasn't very nice to watch when half of the people died at the very same year. Experience was more intensive since game gives name to all the villagers so I saw how they died one by one.. At least on Settlers I just had workers and soldiers.

Nathon lived alone 10 years until Trish was old enough to marry him. Starvation killed more women than men.

Finally Nathon had that big family he had wanted but still every year was mostly surviving.

And yes.. even I tried to survive from the years after starvation had a lot of food village didn't recover from that. My first game wasn't anything but to survive year after year allways having problems with ingredients.. when I didn't have enough firewood, when iron was missing so that smith was unable to make tools. So after all the first game was catastroph! Even I also noticed that families can grows even there wouldn't be marriages:

Krisella ended up to be widow during starvation.. but still she gave birth to two children even family did not have father.

But truth is that there were hunter Mari living next to Krisella. He never got married but perhaps didn't spend all nights at home..

But what I thought about the game? I find it interesting. Villagers who has names makes it somehow more personal one. Game is done nicely after testing it about 14 hours but selection for the houses isn't very wide. I believe this is game what I play every now and then but between games I will need breaks since so far game hasn't offered too much excitment or variations. I will tell late more about the gaming mechanics itself.

Time to hunt!

Have you ever dreamed to be a great huntress? Well I have but for some reason or another I haven't gotten hunting license so far. But at least now I have been able to test hunting by trying the game called The Hunter. I believe you can try it for free on Steam but then you will have limited amount of fields what you can play and animals what you are allowed to kill. You can either buy licenses to kill certain animals or simply buy monthly ticket to hunt anything you want.. and of course you will need good weapons also which will be costing more, surprise.

You can host your own small server where you can hunt with your friends.

Server is downloading.

I will write more about this game when I have played it further but now after playing around 25 hours I can give some thoughts about it. First impression: Hunting ain't that easy even in game! And first advice.. Do not ever run if you want to catch something!

You allways begin from one of the hunting lodges.

Bear has walked along this path.

It is nice to know that you truly have to track in game even that has made easier than in real life. You have own machine for it what will show you were mooses are moaning. If you find tracks from the ground it will tell what animal it is and which direction it has gone most likely. And yes.. there are differences among species.. Pheasants or rabbits are way easier to track and kill than foxes for example.

Yes.. I found poo.. and took photograph about it.

There are watchtowers in many areas what you can use for hunting.

As you can see,  you can also take photographs in game since game looks very nice. Even I admit that it only looks nice when I am using my pc. I tried to play game once with laptop and it was hard to see even the animals when they walked in the forrest.

I haven't found all the possible animals just yet nor killed them. I believe that makers of the game has given some thoughts where animals actually lives since you can't find all the animals from the same map. At times you need to be walking around swamps or hills to find even tracks of certain animals. But I will be telling more about the various species in my second posting about this game. Then I will tell more how the hunting goes.. describing one hunting journey. 

Magicka, co-op game

Magicka is something like combining some humour, wizardry.. and Vlad -who isn't vampire-. The game was released in 2011 but still it is good to play. The humour works and it was easy to play even for me who isn't get used to difficult battles (I admit that without help I would had been defeated far more often). I tested co-op game with it.. so all the comments are about that gaming mode. If I am not totally wrong there can be 2 to 4 players in co-op but I tested it when there were only two of us.  And yes I have played this game about two hours so far so..  Perhaps I will add new postings when I have tested more other stories as well.

You can play with others or even against others.

The story begins. There is humour in  the background story which is nice and so far not annoying.

First of all.. Learning to move by clicking with mouse was the most difficult thing to me. They are using WASD in so many games that I automatically try to use them.. but now those are for casting. You will have eight different elements for casting.. those you can use for yourself or against enemies.. Plus of course you can combine elements to gain new spells. and Mostly those combos makes even.

Tutorial begins from the basement. Here testing protecting shields.

After survivin from the basement you're heading outdoors.

Dead moose in the middle of the road.

The story is very linear.. I haven't finished it so far but I have tested it to sixth episode so far. Of course it is wise to look around carefully since there are some secret spots which gives you something extra fun during the game. The battles are the main thing with the story.. so get used to fight.. all  the time! When you go onward, allways stay alerted.

You can see the selection of eight elements on the left corner.

Vlad  himself!

Best place for the mage is in the front line?

Yeah.. Some battles had to redo but luckily there is enough checkpoints.

I have to say.. if there wouldn't be co-op option I would had not tried this game at all. My friend asked if I want to try it out and I said sure. and yeah it was fun to play with someone. So pick someone and try game together.. it is fun! Nordic humour works at least to scandinavians and story goes forward fastly. At times battles were rather long ones so.. breaks are good to have when playing this. At least I think so since I have no patience to sit still ten hours. This game was also found from Steam and since it is an old one.. the price ain't too much so worth of trying.