12 Weeks, 12 Games, Year 2, Week 4

   To follow up on the question I posed at the end last week, after finishing D4 I still don't know if the game was made by a mad genius or a 5 year old. Honestly, all signs point to it being bad, but it sort of wasn't, was it? I'll try and explain; You were a cop, your wife died and now you've gone rogue (well, P.I (G)) to try to solve her murder and your ex cop partner still gives you a hand. You can travel back in time using 'mementos' (which are things specific for a time and place so that you can travel to that time and place) but you don't have one for the time when the old lady popped her clogs so you're trying to prevent it from happening another way by preventing whoever may have done it from getting to that point in the first place (not that you know who it is, except 'look for D'). Of course you don't know whether this drug smuggler on an air plane deal has anything to do with it, just that it involves the same drug as was involved in her death and there's a suspiciously large amount of people on the flight who's name begins with a 'D'.
   I don't want to ruin the story as the insanity of it and the characters is what makes the game so engrossing because you really don't know what could be going on. Needless to say the ending is nuts but also leaves you on a cliffhanger for a potential season 2 (this game is a season of episodes, like the Telltale games series' with the exception that there's only 3 episodes and you can only get them as a whole package, not in individual bits). It does have a long list of problems though, like how much stamina you lose from opening an overhead department, his annoying 'Bowston' accent (kept me thinking of 30 Rock), the fact that the guy you're playing as is so inherently unlikeable and the extremely slow talking giant surgeon guy, talk faster FFS, I don't have all day!

   As I said, I don't know where I stand on this game, is it good or bad? I really do not know. I can't strictly recommend it because I'm still not sure what I'm recommending, I'll just describe it as 'interesting' and move on.

   To Apotheon. Another freebie (thanks Ps Plus) and also the first game I've played that's actually come out this year (Early front runner for GOTY (based on that it's the only I've tried so far (except for Gat out of Hell but that's more of a stand alone piece of DLC (I'm still counting it on this list though (shut up)))). It's an old style action platformer done in the 'Metroid-vania' style (as people like to call it when yo can do things in whatever order you like). It's based in ancient Greek times where the gods turn against you and you have to take down Zeus and his under-Gods and stop them from ending the world just because they had a falling out. I'm only a couple of hours in so far and 2 Gods in to however many there is to kill but it's promising. Fun so far though I fear it my get repetitive, time will tell. I do know that the item switching could be done easier as it can take too long when you're surrounded and the voices are hilariously bad. I hope this was intentional because they sound neither Greek nor Godly but just average Joe-like.

   Just before I wrap this up (before I have to spend ages correcting all my grammar anyway) I want to point out that 'Dying Light' was released about a month ago in the US, and it's not out here until next week still? I only just found this out as I was gonna pick it up on my week off and catch up, but I suppose I'll be keeping with time, this just seems like an insane delay to me especially as there was essentially nothing out in January but now there's a fair few things coming out.

Completed

Transistor
Worms Battlegrounds
Saints Row 4: Gat out of Hell
Wolfenstein the new order
The Swapper
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die

Underway

Apotheon