I played The Baconing once before, but couldn’t remember much about it, so I revisited it as today’s game. It’s a fairly standard ARPG whose main strength lies in the setting and characters rather than the combat, but it’s a bit too “monkey cheese” for me and I kept dying since you can lose health extremely rapidly. Not a keeper.
I checked out Gratuitous Tank Battles as my game for today, and it’s fairly standard tower defense with a few twists, like being able to design your own units, choose both the attacking and defending sides, and manually designate targets. It’s hard to judge just how well I was actually doing though, especially since you don’t get much warning about what kinds of units are coming, so it feels like I just have to slap down a variety of defenses and hope that’s sufficient. Not a keeper, though I think the previous game, Gratuitous Space Battles, might fit my tastes better.
I suppose I should actually say something once in a while…
I’ve recently realized that I might have a few too many games, and hardly any of them even get played at all. I’m therefore putting something into motion that I’ve intended to do for a while now — play a different game that I haven’t played before every day. It’ll only be for an hour or two to get a feel for it and decide if it’s worth playing any further. If so, it gets put on the short list to come back to later, otherwise it gets uninstalled.
So, over the weekend I binged a bit and started with 1000 Amps, which is interesting but not really grabbing me enough to play much further; Blocks That Matter, which had a similar reaction but it’s short so I might finish it anyway; and Faerie Solitaire, which I might keep around just as an idle time-waster.
Tonight, I played the first chapter of Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon. It has a lot of the same mindless shooty fun as the previous Xbox game, but it also has some annoyances too, like how I constantly get swarmed in ways that make it hard to shoot, the active reload is really hard to hit, and some enemies just take waaay too many hits to kill. Apparently there are only three chapters though, so I think I’ll keep it and just do one runthrough, not bothering to farm weapons.
Yay for default templates. I’ll have to see if I can stealcome up with something better at some point.