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Vacation Vexation (Wii U): COMPLETED!

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Vacation Vexation, the third game in the Quiet, Please! series, is a departure from the previous two games for several reasons. Firstly, it’s not set in the same house, meaning new locations and characters. Secondly, it’s quite a bit longer than the other games, and thirdly, there are a few arcade games to play!

vacation vexation

The plot this time involves you trying to relax at the beach, but of course things keep interrupting you and actually getting hold of a towel, a parasol and a book to read are proving troublesome.

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Probably the best of the games so far, but there’s still one left!

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Vacation Vexation (Wii U): COMPLETED!

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Vacation Vexation, the third game in the Quiet, Please! series, is a departure from the previous two games for several reasons. Firstly, it’s not set in the same house, meaning new locations and characters. Secondly, it’s quite a bit longer than the other games, and thirdly, there are a few arcade games to play!

vacation vexation

The plot this time involves you trying to relax at the beach, but of course things keep interrupting you and actually getting hold of a towel, a parasol and a book to read are proving troublesome.

Click to view slideshow.

Probably the best of the games so far, but there’s still one left!

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Quiet Christmas (Wii U): COMPLETED!

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Because the end of May is the traditional time to play Christmas games, right? Quiet Christmas is the sequel to Quiet, Please!, and on the Wii U at least is included in the same collection.

Quiet Christmas

The aim this time is to get your house ready for Christmas, which involves helping your dad fix the heating, making cookies for Father Christmas, and getting rid of carollers. The Anti-Asset Reuse Brigade will be up in arms as the vast majority of the graphics are recycled from the first game, but the puzzles are new so I didn’t see it as a problem.

As before, short but sweet.

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Quiet, Please! (Wii U): COMPLETED!

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Quiet, Please! is a quaint little adventure game where you have to silence all the irritating noises around your house before you’re able to go to bed. There’s a lawnmower to stop, your brother to get to bed, a dog to stop barking, and various other sounds to get rid of.

Quiet, Please

It’s short, not too taxing, but pleasant enough and has nice big chunky pixel graphics. On the Wii U it’s one game in a pack of 4, which at the moment is just £1.79 for the lot, so it’s definitely worth a go.

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Emily is Away (Mac): COMPLETED!

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Emily is Away was an odd one. On one hand, it was very easy in the sense that you can’t really fail and it’s pretty short, but on the other hand it appears to be impossible to get a good ending. I’m not sure I missed anything, as I played it through a few times and although you can get different endings, none of them I’d suggest were “good”.

Emily is Away
Ho ho ho! That ceiling joke!

The game I’ve played before which is most like Emily is Away is probably the iOS game Lifeline. Whereas that played out like a Choose Your Own Adventure in real-time over a course of a few days, Emily is Away is real-time multiple choice AOL chat-alike played out one chat per year over five years.

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You’re Emily’s friend, and you chat about music, school, college and friends. Depending on your actions, your relationship with her can be platonic, unrequited or temporarily requited (it seems), as you live apart for your college years and she ends up in a strained relationship with Brad while you offer advice from afar. Will she see your advice as interfering, helpful, or with an ulterior motive? That’s where the sometimes ambiguous multiple choice comes in.

Ultimately, all my attempts ended up with me being miserable, her being miserable, or both of us being miserable – and with us losing our friendship completely. See, no good ending. Actually, there’s an early tip-off that there’s no good ending when Emily tells you she’s really into Coldplay. That probably tells you a lot about Emily.

Emily is Away
Yeah we do.

It was an interesting game to play, and since it’s free (or “pay what you want”, if you want) it’s definitely worth a look. Just don’t expect any sort of happy ending.

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