I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
Apr 9, 2023 - Day 99 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 106
Game: The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Jul 15, 2009
Library Date: Mar 13, 2018
Unplayed: 1853d (5y27d)
Playtime: 31m
I went into today's #NewPlay just trying to stay upright, and I slept for a couple of hours afterwards. This may have contributed to my feelings towards TSoMI:SE.
I've said it before in these reviews: I'm not a huge point-and-click adventure fan.
TMI time: for a lot of my life I struggled to admit that I didn't like some things, and it's only in the past few years that I've been able to let myself say "Actually, I don't like this."
Some of my earliest computer gaming experiences were The Colossal Cave on a rebuilt mainframe we had at home (that's a whole other story), and a pirated copy of Zork.
When I started on PC, I played all of the Quests (King's, Police, and Space), and I'd usually get to a point of frustration and abandoning them.
I didn't play any the SCUMM-based adventures, and so I have no nostalgia for them; sadly, for the most part, they just do nothing for me.
TSoMI:SE isn't a bad game. I can see the love that went into rebuilding it, but maybe (in the immortal words of Fozzie Bear) "It's not that it's wrong, it's just wrong for me."
I will try it again when I'm more awake but at best, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is: