Bloody Hell, I’m actually knocking this one out on February 1st. Seriously, this isn’t back dated. Amazing, right? Okay, I know, not really, but hey, I’m slowly getting back to writing more than one entry every few weeks! With that space filling introduction out of the way, let’s look at what we’re getting from Microsoft this month.
In the modern line up, we have Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse and Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield.
With Broken Sword 5 we get a puzzle adventure title. The art style is pretty nice, and the overall graphical quality looks especially nice in this preview. This series seems to be popular enough — this is at least the 5th game in the series, after all, but I know nothing about it, and puzzle adventures can be pretty rough for me to play at times — there’s always some puzzle in the middle of the game which I can never figure out, so I often, in the past, would never finish these games. Maybe I’ll give this one a go, who knows.
As for Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield we’ve got another side scrolling auto-runner. Yay, just what I’ve always wanted! /sarcasm. Okay, this may not be a bad game but I just can’t really do these, so it’s a bit disappointing for me personally. Don’t really have much to say on it beyond that.
On the classic lineup we have Hydrophobia and Band of Bugs.
Hydrophobia looks like an interesting one, and seems to be highly regarded by the peanut gallery. Water, terrorists, female protagonist engineer, this has a lot going for it at first glance. Should give it a go later this week, maybe.
Lastly is Band of Bugs, a strategy / tactical game based around, you guessed it, bugs. Reminds me of a watered down Final Fantasy Tactics, and I don’t just mean that in the type of game it is — the thing, for some reason, looks like a polished PlayStation game in the video. By that I do mean a game for the original PlayStation, from 1995 (what the peanut gallery would call a “PS1”) and I find that quite odd but, whatever, we’ll see how it is later in the month. It looks like one of those games that might actually be pretty good. Who knows.
As I said, the peanut gallery is actually a bit more positive about this lineup, so there’s at least that. Still many of the comments are the usual complaints for the sake of complaining, so, eh. It is what it is.
Till next month.