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⚰️🧊 First Impressions: Log Lady
Mar. 27th, 2026 07:01 pmFirst Impressions: Log Lady
( Game Description )
Right now, I don’t have the spoons to engage with a horror-themed game. I don’t know how integral the horror is to the game – the premise is that something dreadful has happened and you need to gather clues to prevent something worse –
combined with the fact that it has tables containing suggestions. (They’re not too graphic and you don’t need to follow them, but they all point in a certain direction).
The reason this is a First Impressions/Put on Ice thing rather than an unreview and boot is that I am keen to experiment more with mystery RPGs, both solo and group play, and this has an interesting mechanic involing a clock, so if it takes you x many moves without resolution, and I do want to play thorugh this to see how well it works. (Dog Detectives didn't quite land for me).
Will I ever actually get around to this? Ask me again in Mystery Month. Which unfortunately is June 2028, so I may be a while. (I hope I get around to it sooner than that, but I've put it on my list.)
The other thing I like about this game is that it feels as if it has enough substance (one will have to see whether that's actually the case): Far too many games (cough, Flying Courier, cough) give only the barest hint of a setting and a story and leave it entirely to the player to make up EVERYTHING (many more examples can be found in the Unreview Category)
So it's promising to see that this one has more substance. Whether that's enough to actually play will need to be found out.
( Game Description )
Right now, I don’t have the spoons to engage with a horror-themed game. I don’t know how integral the horror is to the game – the premise is that something dreadful has happened and you need to gather clues to prevent something worse –
combined with the fact that it has tables containing suggestions. (They’re not too graphic and you don’t need to follow them, but they all point in a certain direction).
The reason this is a First Impressions/Put on Ice thing rather than an unreview and boot is that I am keen to experiment more with mystery RPGs, both solo and group play, and this has an interesting mechanic involing a clock, so if it takes you x many moves without resolution, and I do want to play thorugh this to see how well it works. (Dog Detectives didn't quite land for me).
Will I ever actually get around to this? Ask me again in Mystery Month. Which unfortunately is June 2028, so I may be a while. (I hope I get around to it sooner than that, but I've put it on my list.)
The other thing I like about this game is that it feels as if it has enough substance (one will have to see whether that's actually the case): Far too many games (cough, Flying Courier, cough) give only the barest hint of a setting and a story and leave it entirely to the player to make up EVERYTHING (many more examples can be found in the Unreview Category)
So it's promising to see that this one has more substance. Whether that's enough to actually play will need to be found out.
