Firewatch
Wow, old channel 5 Uefa cup coverage was terrible. This game though, is great. It's a 'walking simulator' (as the genre has unfortunately been branded despite games such as gone home, the Stanley parable and so many more being so great) where you shrug off your mentally ill wife to live in the woods and keep an eye peeled for any fires. The main part of the game is the relationship between your character and your boss who you talk to on a walkie talkie. The relationship is very much down to you, you can communicate as much, or as little as you want (well, you have to talk 6 times) and be as nice or mean as you want. Ooh, there's a lovely feature on this tape about our away game against Athletico Madrid, strolling around a field, Dwight Yorke getting held up at the airport, Gareth Southgate chatting shit and so on.
The only problem I found in the game was the other story in the game, I just didn't care about the guy I replaced or his son. It's overlookable (that's one word, right?) though because of the great character relationship, and of course the gorgeous world that there is to explore. It's about 3-4 hours long but you can add more time if you want to explore all the nooks and crannies, finding tortoises and so on, but that is about the perfect length for me anyway. It didn't seem like I missed much not finding many of the extras, it might be just a nice bit of icing on top. If you like story based games with little actual gameplay (which I do, that wasn't supposed to be sarcastic criticism) then this is definitely worth picking up.
Saturday Morning RPG
If one thing can be said about John Gregory, it's that he knew how to get the 'best' out of Julian Joachim. I heard about this game a while ago and then I noticed it was 60p on the Steam lunar sale, so I went for it. It's a very simple RPG that's split in to separate episodes (as if it were a TV series (also, they weren't all released at once but over time)) like a kids cartoon. It's very 80's themed, with so many references that I can't even. Turns out though, the last episode was never completed for whatever reason so it left me on a cliffhanger. The game itself is fine, it's a basic RPG with the main attraction all the humour and references. The weapons you pick up are all based on something, like the Simon Says machine where you have to complete the sequence to do your attack, or the single glove that deals out a Moon Walk slap. There's scratch and sniffs that boost your stats and 80's movie tie-ins all over the place.
Gameplay wise it's fine, it's nothing new. It reminds me in many ways of South Park the stick of truth, in that it's a simple but funny light RPG. It's nowhere near as good as South Park mind you, but it was fun for what it was Might have helped if I were about 5 yers older though, it's really for kids of the 80's. For 60p, get it. For full price? depends how much you like the 80's (or RPG's). Can we get Ian Taylor back in the Villa team?
Right, time to start Far Cry Primal, maybe.
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
Firewatch
Saturday Morning RPG
Underway
Xeodrifter
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