Saturday Morning Gaming: Serial Cleaner
Serial Cleaner (currently 90% off!) is a fun little trifle of a game set in the 70’s where you are the guy that gets called in to remove evidence. You’re not a *BAD* bad guy, you’re not killing people or anything. You just show up at the crime scene and make some of the little things disappear.
First things first, you check out the scene:
Then you run around and clean things up. Pocket the watch and get the body back to the car.
Then you go home and hang out with your mom. Get updates on the big upcoming boxing matches. Listen to the news on the radio.
When the phone rings, pick it up and get your next job.
Eventually you get jobs that are a lot more complex. Open and close doors. Use your tools to clean up the blood. Hide in the bushes. Don’t get sandwiched between police officers.
The soundtrack is fun and funky and you go from saying “this is a piece of cake” to “okay, first I have to get the wallet *THEN* I have to get the body *THEN* I have to clean up the blood because if I do it in a different order, I get caught” pretty quickly.
A fun little game that it’s probably best to not interrogate too much.
So… what are you playing?
(Featured image is menu page from Serial Cleaner. All screenshots taken by the author.)
I decided to buy the Deluxe Edition of Diablo 4 and get in on Early Access.
Overall, it feels a lot like Diablo 3. The skill system is closer to 2, where you get to spend points to unlock stuff, but it is still quite different. There are a lot of passive skills and you can respec for gold.
You do not have to do the main story in order. Right now, I have access to 3 or 4 main story objectives. There are also a lot of side quests.
There are random dungeons. I think the dungeon are made by combining several objectives from a pool of objectives to create some variety. I am not sure how much real variety it will be in the long run, though.
I am playing a Barbarian, which is different from my usual class choices in the Diablo games. I am only level 17. I probably got around 6 hours in over the weekend, so it’s still an early opinion.
It is kind of weird seeing other random players running around, but it’s not as populated as an MMO open world (at least, not yet).Report
Any uniques yet?Report
No, and not for a while. I am playing Veteran World Tier (difficulty), which does not drop uniques. I have to complete a capstone dungeon to unlock Nightmare, which is where uniques can drop. I suspect I have to finish the game to get to the dungeon, but I am not certain.Report
This is not the best design choice I have encountered.Report