Xcom 2
So, I meant to take my own screenshots of this, and indeed all games on Steam as it's pretty easy to do that. I haven't though, I forget. Moving on from where I left off though I was getting towards the end of the game, which picked the momentum back up again, at least it felt that way to me. Firstly, it got harder again. I was getting concerned that I was breezing through the game after I'd set it to easy but towards the last 5-10 missions, I failed a couple of missions and was losing at least 2 soldiers a fight, which lead me in to the final mission with only really 3 squad members worthy of being in the fight (out of 7). Secondly, more story missions. I cared so much more when the mission was actually important or counted towards the advent. When I was trying to do some research or gather some intel then I'd be flashed up with some annoying guerrilla mission, urgh... just let me get on with it!
Point is, the last few missions were a real pick up at the end of the game and left me with a warm and happy feeling when the credits rolled, where I might not have felt that without those last few. Only problem I had with the ending is, even though it showed some stats throughout the game, they weren't comprehensive enough for me, I do love stats. Overall opinion though is that it was a really good game, but as I'm finding more and more these days, wasn't all that much of an improvement on the 2012 original, so I'll most likely be ending my interaction with this series here, much like I am with so many these days as sequels seem to be becoming rehashed stories of old games that are of little substantial difference. This is a deeper worry for me that I wish to go in to right here, but the future of games is not looking bright to me. That's one for another time though.
Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries
Picked up on the cheap on the Steam lunar sale after I'd put it on my wish list some time ago for a reason I'm not sure of, as the average review was thumb across, whereas I'm more of a thumbs up guy (though if I should know anything by now, it's don't trust people). Anyway, bought it now. It's a twist on the little red riding hood fair tail and I was hoping that I'd be able to compare it to Alice: Madness returns, which was a great game (and a twist on a fairlytale). A problem though, this game was not great, or good, or average. It was bad. Style over substance all over the place. It looks great, I'll give it that, but the story was nothing, the gameplay simple and buggy, and the 3D platforming so silly you could jump off the front of the screen like some 1995 PS1 launch game (that's the right year, right?). Point is not much to say really, don't play it, it's bad. Sorry. Under any other circumstances I wouldn't have finished it, but I've done it for this under the foreknowledge that it was short, for no sensible reason. I guess you can trust people after all.
I've played Firewatch now btw, but technically it's in week 8, so nothing there yet, despite the fact that I'll probably remember it better now than I will come whenever I actually come to write it. Where to go next though? Far cry primal looks very interesting and is out this week, I already have Just Cause 3 staring at me from my shelf and the Witness looks awesome. I don't know which to go with, granted I'll probably play them all eventually, but probably not within these 12 weeks (as they're all big games and this tends to be for shorter games). Quick one this week, things to do (not really, more laziness), for now though...
Completed
Transformers: Devastation
Unmechanical
Pneuma
Killzone: Shadow Fall
Killer Instinct
Teslagrad
Defy Gravity
Cibele
Oxenfree
Out There Somewhere
Breath of Death VII
WWE 2K16
Gears of War 3
The Deed
Her Story
Gauntlet
Xcom 2
Woolfe - The red hood diaries
Underway
Xeodrifter
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