Re: Humble Choice June 2024

On 6/4/2024 2:52 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 Hey! Hey, hey, hey! You know what day it is today? First Tuesday of
the month, that's what day! Are you excited? I'm excited! Can you tell
that I'm excited? 'Cause I'm excited! Today's another chance to get 8
new games! How can't I be excited? Let's go see what games we get!!!!!
 This month, you get:
 * Risk of Rain 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/632360/Risk_of_Rain_2
    I've not heard of this game before. Actually, you could
    say that of pretty much every game this month. Doesn't
    mean they're bad; just unknown. Oooh! Mystery! Anyway,
    "Risk of Rain" seems to be a unlikely mix of "Elden Ring"
    and "No Man's Sky"; git-gud melee combat combined with
    soothing visuals and exploring/surviving an alien world.
    I'm not really a fan of roguelikes, but this one seems
    polished, so maybe I'll give it a try.

 From November 2020, my "What have you played this month?" for it.
Unlike the original Risk of Rain which is a Rogue-Like Platformer and
at least in the top 3 of Indy games I've played in this millennium,
RoR2 is a Rogue Like looter shooter, and at best just o.k. It looks
like all the enemies in RoR has been made 3d and a lot of lore added
to the game. However it's still a bit of a platformer and even
getting to some areas can be difficult or impossible if your character
doesn't have some ability to go up, or found items to do so. You
don't have to get to those areas though. It is timed to get harder as
time goes on so you need to be quick, but killing enemies and
advancement is slow, and there's no in game map (may be in an item
that can be found later?) or radar (there's an item that can point out
collectables but you have to be lucky enough to find it first, and I
found it almost worse than nothing because there's a number of things
that you may not want to or are unable to get due to being unable to
carry more than 1 of that type.) The graphics look very simplistic,
but it kind of works for that, with a somewhat psychedelic alien
look. The music is amazing with a psychedelic electronic feel, but I
think it's recycled from RoR. It has an online multiplayer play, but
I wasn't able to find any games to play in, so it appears dead already
which is a bad sign for something so new, there were a few but they
were either to only exchange items (which I'm not even sure what the
point is in a Rogue-Like) or very advanced into the game. It
definitely isn't anywhere up to Immortal Redneck if you want a
Rogue-Like Looter Shooter and I'd recommend that first if you haven't
played it. If you liked IR, then you might like RoR2, but possibly
not.
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-Justisaur
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