Week 8

Or as it's otherwise known 'the week before Horizon and Switch'. So, I didn't want to go in to anything big, so I looked at what was left in my masses of owned yet never played games (thanks Ps Plus/ Games with Gold) that were short but also not crap. Most of the games I have that i want to play that I've picked up from all over the place are long, some of which I'd like to play some day, although I know damn well around 90% I never will. But I found something off PS plus and also splashed some cash.

Not A Hero

   Did you ever play OlliOlli? Well, I didn't. That was the first notable game by the English team behind this game. This is a 2D side on shooter where you zip through levels (at first anyway) and shoot up the place in different blocks of buildings while trying to help a Bunny become Mayor of England. The game is fun as you try to get past hoards of enemies while covering behind walls and leaping through windows and constantly facing new types of enemies that frequently appear. The real fun though is the cast of characters. As you move along in the game you unlock more playable characters, all of which have OTT British accents, but in a good way. There's a cockney gangster, a scouse piss head, a female chav and more. What's better than playing as a Welsh girl shooting up some enemies while shouting 'Flippin' Eck!'. Well, lots of things, but that is good also.
   Unfortunately the game gets a lot harder in the last few levels. Well, that's bad phrasing (I could go back and change that but that would mean less words), what I actually mean is it gets harder (like it should) but also has longer levels and no save points. I get the point that that is the challenge but when I'm spending 45 minutes trying to do a level that takes about 2 minutes to complete successfully I start to get frustrated at playing the same bits over and over just to get back to the bit I'm struggling on, then die, again, and have to repeat. this really does fit in with my dislike of bosses as it's the same kind of thing. I have not finished this game yet but there's only a couple of levels left so I'll get there and if you're a PS plus member you should download it (as you should every PS plus/ Game with gold game as they're free, you can still delete them from your console but the store knows you own them so you can get them back whenever you want (yet so many people don't (I don't understand this thinking at all))) and give it a go one day when you're bored. It's worth a try as it's pretty cool.

And then I spent some money $£¥

Resident Evil 7

   Speaking of bosses... As I played this on Xbox I could've took my own screen shot/ video, but I didn't, so I'm using someone else's as usual (spoiler, unless it's a PC game I always just use google image search (except for that one for Dead Rising 4)).
   So, I'm not a survival horror guy, I played Alone in the dark (I think it was Alone in the dark) when I was a kid and got scared to death. I love horror films but since then I've been worried that I'd be really scared by them. Childish I know. But I figured that 20 years later it was time to make the jump. Honestly though I didn't find this game scary but it was very creepy. Despite the fact I don't normally play survival horror games I still know the idea of what would be coming. It's slow and methodical and all about moments. Most of the time you're walking around with the sense of unease that something could happen at any time but largely doesn't which builds the suspense. Most of the game is about exploring the house to solve puzzles to move on to the next section. The puzzles are not hard but well made, the only problem that could occur from the puzzles would be when turned off and come back to a day later you may forget what the puzzle was you were in the middle of (good jib for guides).
   I do like the story. I have a general understanding of the Resident Evil story without playing any of the games but this wasn't a big thing, or not until the end anyway when Chris Redfield saves you. Whoops, spoilers. You are Ethan (terrible name, bad start) and you are looking for your lost wife Mia (as before). You track her down to a creepy mansion that turns out to be inhabited by some weird redneck cannibal types and as the game goes on they all get morphed in to monsters. There are also 'the molded', the side enemies that appear when you're not fighting a member of the family. I get the point of having these small enemies to give more gameplay but these guys were annoying. They're slow and the only danger they pose is that they drain so many of your bullets (which are in very short supply) while you're killing them. I'd much rather have more enemies that took less to kill. Oh well, Never mind.
   I can't go in to the last third of the story because it will be spoiler central but it transitions well to something else. From a gameplay side it plays well. The shooting is solid and movement is fine. There's not so much action that it needs to be a big thing but it's more than adequate for what it is (that makes it sound bad, it's not supposed to). I very much enjoyed this game and I'm glad I gave this genre a chance after the age of 10. Great, yet another genre of games to play now.

Completed

Mekazoo

Bastion

Sound Shapes

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

Pony Island

Undertale

Mighty Morphon' Power Rangers Mega Battle

Batman: A Telltale series

Super Mario run

Ratchet and Clank into the Nexus

Westerado: Double Barreled

R-Type: dimensions

Dead Rising 4

Little Big Planet 3

Ratchet and Clank: The quest for Booty

Rebel Galaxy

Rage

Resident Evil 7