Today I played Serious Sam: The Random Encounter and it’s…a bit of an odd duck.  Take the frantic shooting action of Serious Sam, and put it in…a turn-based JRPG?  It actually kind of works though, as combat consists of you running backwards away from a huge pack of enemies, selecting which weapon to use, and then you can move up and down to adjust your aim and dodge bullets while the turn executes, and then it freezes for the next turn and you can pick another weapon or item, etc.

It’s an interesting take on the JRPG style that’s appropriate for the Serious Sam series, but it got kinda repetitive very fast, as you wind up in fights every few steps you take.  Interesting, but not a keeper.