Week of 12 Nov 2023
“The vampire is not here.”
Achievements Earned In:
- State of Decay
- Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
- Just Dance
- Vampire Survivors
Woo, I finished State of Decay! Well… barely before the end of the week. As I thought, the rest of Breakdown wasn’t especially difficult; I simply played it safe and slow and avoided getting overwhelmed. I learned very quickly as I got into the gun-based challenges in Level 4 & 5 that you have to be ready to get swarmed as soon as a shot goes off. This is especially annoying because The Sniper challenge requires you to get 25 "headshot streaks”, which is when the game gives you a bonus for getting five headshots in a row. The guide on TrueAchievements makes a big deal out of hiding atop a gas station and sniping them from there… but after a few attempts I found that method lacking. Also, I’m not a coward, so I grabbed my strongest pistol (so I didn’t accidentally fire any extraneous shots) and would just confront the hordes head-on near my home base, in case I drew too much heat and needed to quickly get to safety. It didn’t take very long, and I actually found getting shotgun kills for The Moustache much more annoying. And the rest were all pretty easy, too. All except that pesky “Mercy Shot” mission for The Killer challenge that just refused to occur. I started a new game in the mode so I could setup a community with no meds or facilities that could keep people healthy, then the waiting began. Since the game runs in real-time, I moved to other things for the remainder of Wednesday, and Thursday and Friday, checking in each morning for any happenings. It finally happened on Saturday, and after walking around a little poor Daisy got too sick and I got the call to kill her dead. That was both the achievement for doing so, and the achievement for unlocking all the Breakdown heroes! And that’s this game done. Quickly transferred my saves over to the Xbox One version and shut this annoying sucker off.
Achievements unlocked: 46 (+6) | Completed
My feelings exactly.
With that out of the way, it was time to quickly clean-up Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures. I’d already been playing on-and-off through the week between checking in on State of Decay, so jumped back in to really work on this after getting mostly done with that game. And this continued to be just as easy as before… at least until the arcade mini-games. They’re not hard, but the difficulty is definitely a noticeable increase. There’s four of them, with Pacerchini probably needing the most skill, as you zoom through a tunnel dodging ghosts and other cars on a strict time limit. The other three aren’t bad, from a tank-battle game to a bullet-hell game. And the bosses are a joke, taking only a few minutes to quickly knock out. The actual normal stages are far more annoying, though even that is minimal. All-in-all, a nice and simple completion.
Achievements unlocked: 25 (+15) | Completed
I only played Just Dance once this week, as I quickly came down with… something. Still deducing what that is (and why I’m posting this a day late). But, I managed to get the achievement for scoring 40 Gold moves, which was just a matter of time. Actually, since I got that achievement for getting Megastar rankings, the rest of the game is nothing but cumulative achievements I’ll get just by playing. Heck, if I weren’t grieving and if I didn’t loathe playing with my phone this would have been knocked out ages ago.
Achievements unlocked: 11 (+1) | Completion: 79%
I figured after knocking out those other games this week, why not toss Vampire Survivors on the pile? After knocking out most of the Whiteout achievement earlier in the week, all I had left by Saturday was quickly grabbing the artifact in Tiny Bridge, defeating the “end boss” (first try!), grabbing the Greatest Jubilee weapon you unlock from that to finish off The Collection, and then getting 100k kills in a run with the final character. And that’s this beast finally done! I’m sure they’ll quickly add a new add-on and achievements soon, but for now I can’t use this to extend my streak anymore. Sad. Not that it was all that good anyway. Still shocked this was so high in people’s GOTY lists. It’s fun, I guess, but that good?
Achievements unlocked: 196 (+7) | Completed
Highest ratio: 4.50
The Rescuer (State of Decay)
Lowest ratio: 1.37
Icy Temple (Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures)
