With my birthday come and gone, it's time to get back to work with a new graphics card and new tools. And one of my gifts where a new graphics card with Metal Gear V, which means that review will need a disclosure for the review as it will be treated as a review copy since the US Law requires me to do so. So by next week, to kill the time before the review, this will mark this upcoming mouth as Konami month to honor those who worked in the company for a long time. Until then, here's the review of Ben, AKA Yatzee's, games.
First off, Hatfall, which is free to play on The Escapist website and optionally phone app game. I say optional since you get the options of more just in cosmetics to make the game somewhat easier for you. While the review for the game seems very pointless since you can play the game free, other flash or free games usually get proper treatment as well; Especially when you count five nights a Freddy's, which might as well be episodes that was made in less of a year.
The goal of the game is to catch hats on your head, which sounds like a fun concept, but its hard because it can be placed randomly as you must also avoid getting lost by lookalikes and crushed by other falling objects. Once you fail, you then use the hats to buy clothes and skins for the other characters so you can tell them apart. There's also selected parts of the game where Yatzee pissed the wizard off and if you manage to survive, you would get a 1-in-3 chance of bonus hats. Also, once you play enough, you would get a gift of your choice that changes the game into parodies of other games. Silly times are all around!
Would I recommend to get the iPhone or iPad version of the game? Em, sadly no; The reason being is that there's no real difference just for more cosmetics within the paid version of the game. It's basically paid DLC for the game just to add more cosmetics which can make the game too easy as everyone can be colorful than your character. Should that be considered as an insult? Anyways, I still would recommend looking at it as this game is easy to pick up and put down.
Now for a Metroid-Vania game made sometime ago by Yatzee know as Poacher, about a guy who goes out for a walk with a shotgun. Well, things have turned very fast as he is spotted his friend Gamey tries to get him but he falls though and the player finds a hidden world underground, where it is occupied by a ghost race of the dark ones and a race of ghost that can compact with humans and grant them special powers. All the sudden, the dark ones attack and its up to Pouncer to stop the invasion!
While it dose fallows the Metroid-Vania, it makes things somewhat challenging for both the right and wrong reasons. One of them is the Belmont bounce, where you can move freely in the air like Samus can do; but getting hit will cause you to fly off into the great beyond like me enter the Smash Bros. tourinemt. Back then, it added challenge, but it's a dated control gimmick that only hardcore fans would like. The game also has that Sympathy of the night mechanic where to get the best ending, Poacher must do or do not trigger some event flags that rings with Cavestory's story.
However, getting everything in the game helps makes things more manageable, as you gain new abilities, more bomb slots, and such things you can expect from a Metroid game. And as the player progresses, the player finds that there more than what is going on. This is how devs add replay value within the game as there are three endings. I won't spoil the game out respect for Yatzee and I would recommend to play the game as well for the nice soundtrack is great as well as it comes with the game.
With this, I would recommend the readers to try these games out as they are both fun to play as well as free to play or at least one of them is. If the readers don't mind trowing money at yatzee, it's what he's often gets paid for besides his Escapist channel. No really, I know the others moved on to form their own channels, but it seems rather empty. I know they're usual a magazine, but we all know that they went down like the modern Du-Du bird as they died off because they work at a weapons shop. Anyways, where was I? Oh yes, hiding from talent seekers to avoid slavery! Carry on!!
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