I only put in a few hours toward the games I had planned to complete for February. My plan got blindsided by friends wanting to play City of Heroes, which was honestly a blast. I did get a character to max level. So maybe I can count that as completing something for a game since I’ve never done that for an MMORPG.

This month I didn’t have the energy to play much VR so I didn’t finish any games on the Quest. However, I did finish a couple of games on my phone:

Pokemon Gold

I wanted to play a GBA remake of the Johto region, but couldn’t find a faithful one, so I just decided to play the original on the GBC, I didn’t like the graphics at first, but got used to them quickly. I’m not a great Pokemon player by any means, so I did have to brute force the final battles a bit which made the endgame grind a bit tedious but the fast forward option on the emulator helped a lot. I’m not sure if I could play the games without it at all, as all the animations and battle transitions take a while and try my patience a bit. Overall, the game is pretty easy up until the final few battles.

Builderment

As a big fan of Factorio I’m always looking for a good mobile clone of the game and this one was mentioned in a comment here on Lemmy somewhere so I decided to try it and I’ve got to say, it did not disappoint. It is simpler than Factorio, but the end game machines and recepies did require a bit of a headscratch to figure out the most optimal ratios and arrangement which is exactly what I’m looking for in these kind of games. While it is a f2p mobile game with micro transactions (with shockingly high prices), they never got in the way of the experience without spending any money.

I’ve also started playing Broken Sword 5 last weekend, but didn’t finish it yet. After playing 1, 2 and the fan made 2.5 I really enjoyed the charm and humor in the games, but I decided to skip 3 and 4 after reading the negative reviews and talking with my brother, who is a huge fan of the series.