Wolfenstein: The New Order finished! Also Arkham Asylum, plus board games

This week I managed to finish (not saying "complete" as i only played one of the 2 timelines, and did not get all of the collectibles) Wolfenstein: The New Order.  I had to consult a walkthrough again for the final boss fight - it's split into 3 main kind of sections, the first is fine, once you know what to do, but the second part is really tricky. I gave it several attempts before I (embarrassingly) had to turn the difficutly down to the lowest level! But i didn't want to spend a lot of time trying it because I have plenty of other singleplayer games that need playing.  However for the last section i handled it fine at the next-lowest difficulty, which is the one I played most of the game on.  I originally began playing on "normal" difficulty but turned it down a notch when I reached the first level that requries some steath - the one where you find more knives and get the ability to throw them.

Having finished it, for now I have no desire to either go back and get some or all of the collectibles I missed, or even go and try the other timeline.  I did enjoy the story and the gameplay, but for now I'm Wolfenstein'd out! In fact for a bit I've now turned to Batman: Arkham Asylum.  Another modern classic, i had not got far into it the last time I played (which was ages ago) so luckily there wasn't a lot of story I needed to remind myself of.

I've also gone and played just a little more on 2 point-and-click adventure games I have on the go - Monkey Island 2, and Ben There Dan That.

Finally, i've had a few boardgame sessions online - a couple of games of 7 Wonders, a game of Kingdom Builder, a game of Carcassonne and a game of Eminent Domain.  I'd never played either Kingdom Builder or Eiminent Domain before, and would certainly like to play Eminent Domain again!

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