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Thoughts: Luftrausers.
Luftrausers is a very simple game. It’s a bullet hell shooter with a rudimentary sense of physics; at the start of each game your Rauser is launched into the sepia-toned sky above a sepia-toned ocean to battle silhouetted hordes of enemy boats and aircraft, and your only goal is to survive for as long as possible while scoring as many points as possible. The former is tricky (a typical game of Luftrausers lasts three minutes or less) and the latter is downright impossible, for reasons that we shall explore later, but the interesting thing about Luftrausers is how it leverages two key elements to become far more than the sum of its very simple parts.
Thoughts: Red Dragon.
Another year, another Wargame. Eugen are releasing these things like clockwork, but while last year’s Airland Battle was a massively polished and improved version of European Escalation that more than justified a cheeky release of something that looked like practically the same game just one year later, the simple fact that it was so good has created some problems for Red Dragon. After Airland Battle already raised the bar to a point pretty close to where I suspect the ceiling is for the Wargame franchise, Red Dragon was going to have to do something pretty damn special in order to warrant filching yet another £23 from my pocket – and unfortunately for Red Dragon, thanks to that ceiling there doesn’t seem to be any more latitude to refine the series any further in terms of the core mechanics. It’s already as good as it can be, and so Red Dragon instead needs to concentrate on framing those core mechanics in new and interesting ways. And it only partially succeeds.
Thoughts: One Finger Death Punch.
Probably no post this week (22/04/2014) thanks to bank holiday weekend and my current playing habits being all over the place.
I told myself I wasn’t going to write a 2,000 word review about One Finger Death Punch, but here we are anyway.
Thoughts: Age of Wonders III.
That I had to shift this review to Thursday speaks well of Age of Wonders; I spent so long playing the damn thing over the weekend that I didn’t have any time to write about it.
Thoughts: Reaper of Souls.
Shifting this week’s post to Wednesday, probably, Thursday, definitely, since I need a little more time to digest Age of Wonders.
Like I said in the Diablo 3 review two years ago: this is going to be complicated.