Blood Alloy: Reborn Review (PC)

Blood Alloy: Reborn is a 2D arcade shooter where you're thrown into one of three areas and are left to shoot and slash your way through countless robots in order to achieve high combos and high scores; sounds like fun, and it was fun for the first ten minutes, but every minute after that was tedious, repetitive, and anything but fun. The problem is, Blood Alloy: Reborn is rather empty and it only took me ten minutes to feel like I had experienced everything the game has to offer and, while the game is all about high scores, there are no online leaderboards, so I was only competing with myself and that's not very compelling.

As I mentioned previously, there are only three areas in the game and the two I played in didn't feel different enough to make me pick one over the other, feeling different only in terms of how they look; however, the visuals are only okay, so I didn't care if I was playing in a factory of a jungle because they shared similar [enough] layouts and average visuals. When I first unlocked the jungle I was hoping it would force me to play in a completely different way, but that didn't happen and I highly doubt the city--which is the third and final area--will be any different--I didn't unlock the city because that would have required hours of time I'd rather spend in just about any other game right now.

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I really, really like marksman rifles in The Division.

Pixelated Sausage is now on Patreon

I've been talking about getting this up and running for a while now and, well, I finally kicked my own skinny white butt and did it, so, you can watch the video below to see my face and words coming out of my face, or you can just click this link and be whisked away to our Patreon page: Why Pixelated Sausage is on Patreon.

McDroid Gameplay Preview: It's a Thing

Watch Marc play the first two levels of McDroid, a tower-defense game full of robots, strawberries, a cute coating of cel-shaded visuals, and so many strawberries...did I already say strawberries 'cause, strawberries.

RYB Review (iOS)

RYB is making me feel awfully stupid and this may come as a surprise, but I don't like feeling stupid. I don't like being thrown into a puzzle without directions, forced to solve it on my own with not even the slightest clue as to how I can do it, and that's what RYB does. I've played the game for about thirty minutes now, cleared ten puzzles, and still don't know what I'm doing; it hasn't clicked and I keep hoping, with each new puzzle, some switch in me will turn on and, suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, I'll get it, but that's still not the case and I don't know how much more time I want to spend feeling stupid before enough is enough.

And just like that, after taking a break from writing this to play a wee bit more, I finally get it. It's quite simple and fairly obvious, making me feel stupid in a completely different way, but I don't think that excuses the horrible first impression RYB gave me, especially for a mobile game, which, more so than ever, are quite disposable these days--there are so many mobile games coming out each and every day that, if a game doesn't grab one's attention immediately, it's very easy to just delete it and move onto a new one, something I was so close to doing with RYB, until it clicked--however, even though I finally get it, I can't recommend a game that throws the player into the middle of the ocean without a life raft, turning its back while saying, "Don't scream for help, just figure it out on your own."

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Breaking up with achievements

I have decided to break up with achievements; we're still going to be friends, we're just not going to live together anymore. What I mean when I say this is, I am going to (try to) stop actively thinking about achievements because they have become a prison, a prison that takes away from my gaming experience more often than not.

For years I have chased achievements and always made sure to check out a game's achievements before I played it so I would know if any were missable, if the difficulty affected them, or any other information I deemed "important." But what was I getting out of this? Do achievements mean anything? Are there any tangible rewards? Will I ever "catch 'em all?" The answer to each question is no and I'm finally ready to accept that.

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PSP #280: Superhot is Supercool and Street Fighter V is Supernot

Marc starts off the show talking about The Oscars despite the fact they didn't watch any most of it, followed by a wee little bit about their art and some exciting related jazz. After that, they talk about some anime, like The Boy and the Beast--which will finally hit theaters this Friday--and an anime where a girl became a girl instead of a boy by dropping her balls while running out of her mother's womb during childbirth. And then, in the end, Marc talks about a few games, including the super hot and occasionally super annoying Superhot.

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Who knew Bebop was in Street Fighter V?

It's a Thing: Superhot Preview

Watch Marc play Superhot for the first time. It's a thing. Spoilers: It's super cool.

PSP #279: Rollin' on the River of Flames with Anime and Indie Games

Marc starts off the show talking about their experience getting banned and unbanned from Twitch, and the joy had while watching Triumph's [The Insult Comic Dog] Election Special 2016. After that, they talk about just a wee bit more new anime, including one very, very, very weird show that has more phallic imagery than anyone would ever want. And then, like every other episode, they end the show with a handful of games, including one of Marc's favorite games of 2016, but I'll keep that a secret for now...

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