Hello all. I hope everyone had a nice Christmas.

Wendy - re Christmas Carol, if there aren't a lot of puzzles and not a lot of HO scenes, what is the gameplay?

I just finished playing Nevertales.  I played for about 7.5 hours including all the bonus chapters.  I did miss one rose and pretty much all the morphs as I didn't realize until near the end that there were any!  I did appreciate the fact that you could go back in and get them along with the missed rose.  How in the world do you get three stars in an HO scene?  I had one scene that took me 36 secs, 100% accuracy and I still only got one star.  It was the only scene I got a star in.  Did anyone get stars?  It was a very good game.  I loved the storybook scenes and the narrator was good.  Lots of interactive stuff.  I hope you enjoy it Wendy.

I started Love Story the Way Home.  I wanted a nice game.  No asylums, mad docs or scary things.  I didn't get any games on this sale.  I thought about it but figured I really don't need anything and can wait to see if there is a BOGOF in the new year.  I don't have any hanging chad as I only bought three games this month on a BPM.  I think that is a record for me.  I finished 9 (I doubt I'll get Love Story done by the end of the month.
 

I did go in and replayed as I was looking for the morphs, but only got the one star on the 36 sec one.  So I'm not really sure what you have to do to earn those stars.

I've finished the main objective in Farmington Tales 2: Winter Crop (rebuild the farm) and now I'm just playing on to get all the tophies.  So I'm going to count the game as done.

My stats for Decemeber:

Bought 3
Mosaics Galore
Ancient Mosaic
Farmington Tales 2: Winter Crop

Finished 8
Luxor: 5th Passage
Luxor Evolved
Punished Talents: Seven Muses Collector's Edition
Scrabble
Enigmatis: The Mists of Ravenwood Collector's Edition
Ancient Mosaic
Death at Cape Porto: A Dana Knightstone Novel Collector’s Edition
Farmington Tales 2: Winter Crop

The Customer Favorites Sale (all SE's) runs until either Thursday or Jan 3), so unless BF surprises us and runs another sale concurrently, I'm done buy for the year.

Yearly stats

Bought 91  (44 CE's, 47 SE's)
Finished 104
Replayed 18
Spent 196.78
Average cost per game:  2.16

On hand
5 punch card codes
11 game club credits
2 customer service coupons
 

I hope everyone had a good holiday.

I finished The Fog.  It was a good game except that I didn't understand the ending at all.  Also, by the end I totally forgot about what the story was about.  You are a mother who wakes up from a car accident with her child missing and you are looking for her. As you start exploring you find out that there was an experiment codename The Fog that drove the residents nuts.   I just wish the ending was better explained.

Started on Christmas Stories.  What a fun game with so much to do. 

Hi, Sunshine and Jen
  I have Weather Lord but I only played a bit of the demo and then got out of the TM mood.  Haven't done one in ages.  I liked how different it is.  They put out a sequel but I thought I'd wait until I actually finished the first one.  I haven't decided about The Fog yet.  I hate when they have a good plot idea and then it disappears along the way.  The story is a big part of my enjoyment.

I did my buying for the day, and year.

Madam Fate CE
Nevertales CE
Final Cut Encore SE
Cursery SE
Alex Hunter SE
Combined with the 4 punches I had, that gave me 18, so 3 more PCCs  Now I just need a SE BOGO and I'm good to go.  Actually, I'm thinking maybe I ought to cash in those 3 PCCs today, what if they quit doing BPM next year?  I have a list of games, so maybe I'll do that.