I had been toying with this type of post for some time, especially while in the middle of completing the next titled game.
Back in January, I got myself a PS5 as a birthday gift, so I would be lying if I said I was focusing solely on this challenge. If it weren't for the PS5, I would have completed my first run much earlier. Not that I am complaining mind you!
After I started this blog, whenever I completed a PS5 title, I considered raising a post here about my findings. However, because the game was not part of the challenge, it never felt right. But then I started considering a summary page of "extra" games that I had beaten. I wouldn't go into detail like with the challenge games, maybe just giving them a single paragraph or two. It was either that, or including the consoles into the challenge, but I didn't want them sitting there waiting until their game's letter came up. So I preferred to keep them open.
So here is what I completed in April:
Name: Untitled Goose Game Date Completed: 14/04/2024
I was primarily playing this game cooperatively with my 8-year-old daughter. It was a fun, silly puzzle game. The only difficulty I had was... well... my daughter taking sadistic pleasure in tormenting the NPCs instead of completing tasks. But she had fun. I was rather impressed by how smoothly the game played and how well the goose's behavior was animated.
Name: Marvel's Spider-man 2
Date Completed: 19/04/2024
I had already played the other two games the previous months before playing this one. The cinematic telling of the story had me hooked from beginning to end. I was impressed they weren't shy to do what they did to some of the characters. I was, however, a bit gutted that some abilities from the first game were removed. Also, by the third act, the game did start feeling like it was starting to drag on but thankfully concluded before that feeling took hold.
Name: Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia
Date Completed: 20/04/2024
This game was my "palate cleanser" between open-world games. I had already played the other two chronicle games in the series and compared to them, I feel this was the 2nd best. I was grateful they reduced the timed levels (India had way too many), but the few sections requiring you to get to an objective under a set time were so tight that they hardly left any margin for error. There were a lot of frustrations there.
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