Rise Of The Golden Idol is a pretty tedious follow up to a game that had promise. The narrative is really lame and inexplicably watered down, compared to the prior game's murderous death cult plot. And unlike the last game's too long final chapter, I was getting a little sick of solving "How did bumblefuck steve hurt his leg?" mysteries past the first decent chapter.

Inspector Waffles was a more enjoyable narrative for its amusing puns and wholesome vibes. But its point-and-click adventure puzzle gameplay was *very* typical of its genre propensity for using moon logic. 

Example: You need to give your female colleague a cinnamon coffee, before she'll give you a warrant for a murder case. (And you can't immediately call for her firing.) So you find a coffee machine in a unique painting and trinket selling shop, where the owner won't allow you to use it until you can find her something worthy of selling to her clients. So what do you do? Well, find an old love letter related to your murder case and spill some worse coffee onto it. Then seek help from a stranger in the apartment next door, that'll let you use their hairdryer to blow your soggy/ruined piece of evidence. And that...somehow...translates to being something that the art owner can sell...(Glad I looked that up, instead of wasting too much time on solving that.)

And I'm going to hold off on buying more games on Steam. (Tempting as it may be.) So I can focus on all the stuff that I got for Christmas. Last Epoch, you're next in line. Sekiro, you have to wait for the holidays to be over. [i]I want to be happy for those...[/i]