Its been a while since I have written one of these. But finally I have played some games that I have decided to write about. No particular reason why these games are the ones that disturbed me from my game commentary hibernation. They are just the ones that I have played on the week I decided to write something on.
The first game that I played on this monumental week is NBA Playgrounds, from a distance this game appealed to me a lot. I have loved the style of NBA Jam which this game appears to have borrowed. Upon loading the game one is meet with a open card pack screen. This dampens my interest slightly. I have yet to find a game where the mechanic of opening a virtual card pack has really added anything to me. I was an avid Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Hero where I grow up, not Ninja) card collector as an sub 10 year old, the cards were stills from the 80s cartoon series flavoured by a hard stick of bubble gum that came with it, these held much more interest to me, I am yet to find the virtual equivalent to hold any such value. Any way, here the card packs represent selectable locations and players (all of which I don’t know, but to be fair unless it was the chap from Space Jam or that other guy from theShaq-Fu I’m unlike to know them). With that out of the way I moved on to have an exhibition match, which is the only option open at the beginning of the game, it doubles up as a tutorials whose helpfulness is only slightly handicapped by the fact the controls are on the loading screens and you will find yourself staring at them for quite some time. The game is a hyper energy version of an 2 on 2 basket ball match, with over the top dunks. Hampered some what by an unclear shot timing. To shoot one holds down the shoot button and let goes at the right moment (what ever that means), as one inevitably misses, the game is decent enough to feed back either “late” or “early”, information I take on board and then recreate with subsequent attempts. Despite this I won the first game, then went on to have dubious success in the tournament mode. Fickle fun.
Hello Life is Strange my old friend. I have been waiting for the “right” moment to play Episode 2 - Out of Time for the best part of 2 years. I completely and utterly loved the first episode and as such decided that the moment had to be perfect for me to play the second episode, this resulted in me simply not playing it at all. With such lofty expectations could the second episode live up to them? Frankly it does. I refuse to go into details as the joy of the game is discovering the story but its great. The game fills me with nostalgia, despite it not representing my university/college experience at all. Beautiful, dramatic and ponderous. Fingers crossed another perfectly “right” moment comes a long this year so I can sit down to Episode 3.
Going from wine to cordial, Dead Rising 4, a boisterous blockbuster game which seems to be slightly stream lined version of pervious Dead Rising games. This one seems to fit the amount of time I have convinced myself that I have to play games more then pervious outings. Seemly gone (or at least in the parts that played so far) are time sensitive survivors and restarting from the beginning of the game when you lose a life (this may have gone in part 3 to be honest I just can’t remember). In general the game seems to be more friendly to a person who has no idea what they are doing like me, possibly to the detriment of keeping series fans satisfied. But for me it seems like a pretty enjoyable way to pass the time. I found case 0 and case 1 a bit too linear for my liking, that said when Case 1 finished and the game counted up the stats it appear I hand missed a considerable number of events and items which indicates that my sense of exploration was lacking some what and that maybe I should take some time to look around. Must do better.
Also worth mentioning is Zen Pinball 2 which has been an on and off platte cleanser over the last couple of years. Currently my number one choice of game that I play when I want to listen to a podcast at the same time.
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