12 weeks, 12 games, year 3, week 11

   whoops, fogot to post this a week ago! I've noticeably slowed down, I'm well aware of that. I've swapped Pro Evo for Fifa so I've been playing a lot of that to get up to a level of ability where I can blast past opponents on line (don't worry, I've reached it). Add to that House of cards and my general lack of energy so I've slowed to a crawl. Thankfully, I've already met my self imposed target of 12 games (as if anyone cares) so I'm done really, but there's weeks to fill and a lack of ideas to blog about. Anyway, 1 this week

Broforce

   This one is a retro looking side scrolling 2D platfromer (my favourite) with guns (or maybe not). It's based on 80's action movies with a tongue in cheek take on many of those heroes (or villains). Comparisons to Super time force are easy, so there will be many. That was also a retro looking run and gun platformer based on action movies, which I preferred to Broforce frankly, but there is enough in here to make it fun on it's own terms. I do like the fully destructible environments I must say. You can tunnel underneath enemies to get by easily, or use the environment as a weapon. The characters are varied as well. The different weapons are useful in different situations, even the one that, up until that point had been useless (the one that shoots below) turned out to be an awesome weapon against the final boss. I like how you get the extra lives too, rescuing POW's off the level, which will then change you to another character, which can add a tactical level to the game, as you may already have the perfect character for the environment, so do you gamble your character on that extra life. Oh, character's are randomly selected btw, probably should have said that earlier.
   It plays well, is fun and lighthearted, so why don't I like it as much as Super Time Force? For one, there's definitely the element of I played that before (scroll back down here a couple of years to see thoughts) so that set the standard for this (as far as I know) 2 game genre. Also, bosses. I know, I go on and on about my dislike of bosses, but that's because it's a big thing for me. I probably spent as long trying to defeat the penultimate boss than I had the entire game up to that point. I red the final boss was a nightmare as well, so considered giving up, but no, I fought on and didn't even break a controller (nearly though). Thankfully, turned out the final boss was nowhere near as hard as the Internet told me. After the 3-4 hours I probably spent on the previous boss, I knocked this mofo out in 10-15 mins. Youtubers are idiots.
   My advice, if you have a PS4, it's on PS plus right now, get it and play it. It's one of those where I probably wouldn't recommend paying for it, or not at full price anyway (Steam sales come around frequently enough if you're a PC gamer), but for free, I enjoyed it enough.

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
Far Cry Primal
Broforce

Underway

Xeodrifter

Should probably remove Xeodrifter now, it's never going to happen, and I don't just mean this last week, I mean ever.