Game of the Week: Fire Emblem Awakening!

Sorry for lack of updates! I was traveling for the holidays and was incredibly busy! I will make another post just about that and also about future blog posts!

So this is the first 3DS game i have wanted in a long long long while. But holy crap did it live up to the hype. Now anyone that knows me, knows that I like my fire emblem hard and perfect. As in no deaths. This game added an option for no deaths but like for real screw that. You need the difficulty and the real life stakes.

Now what is my absolute number one favorite thing in video games?

Romantic interests of course!

Which is one of the main reasons I love the Mass Effect series so much.

LOOKING AT YOU TRAYNOR

You too Thane…

Romantic interests to me make role playing games complete. I am a huge DND nerd so role playing is super important to me.

In Fire Emblem awakening not only do you get a million choices for love interest you also get to pair EVERYONE UP WITH EVERYONE!

Chrom? YOU ARE GETTING WITH THIS PERSON!

SULLY! YOU BETTER BELIEVE YOU GETTING WITH VIRION!

Kelham? Well….you can be alone…

It is truly a great game that is deep and fun! honestly the best game for the 3ds I would have to say!

Game of the Week: Proteus

Now saying Proteus (developed by  Ed Key and David Kanaga) is a game is really a loose definition.

I really hesitate to call it a game but rather an experience, no I am not high.

The experience of Proteus is that you are exploring an island. Just exploring you are not looking for something you are not trying to find a secret of the island or something you are just exploring the island and the world for what it is. This a game where the sound design is just as important if not more than the gameplay and the graphical design. Which is beautiful. The graphics are a mixture of pixel and third dimension. It looks sort of like if MineCraft had a child with Bit Trip Runner. It is a beautiful and vivid world but the jump out spectacle is the sound. The soundtrack changes depending on the player’s movements and location. It may become silent when you climb the top of a mountain or hill.  Or be a loud cacophony of music and noise as you explore a patch of flowers and birds.. Everything has a unique sound and it is randomly generated each time, there are seasons and there are  landscapes. The game truly is an experience it is beautiful. I would recommend anyone that wants a casual beautiful experience to purchase this game for the PC.

Game of the Week: Binding of Isaac Rebirth

So I am starting a new weekly blog post called the Game of the Week. Where it is not really a full review but just an update on what game I am playing and my thoughts on it. So because of this a game might repeat or the game of the week might not even be a good one, just something I am currently playing or very interested in.

Binding of Isaac Rebirth is a game that is a semi remake/sequel to The Binding of Isaac. Saying a remake is wrong because it is so different but saying a sequel is wrong because it is really more of an expansion or an add on but it is a whole separate game.

It is a randomly generated rogue like dungeon esque game with bullet hell elements. Where you play as a boy named Isaac, whose mother is trying to kill him. She hears a voice from god and decides to sacrifice you to him, so you escape into the basement, or symbolically you escape into escapism. There are a seemingly infinite number of items and power ups, also it is the first game in a long time to have real secrets, that even with the internet I did not have spoiled for me.

I swear you can unlock him! My friend said!

Edmund McMillen is known for his indie games that have high peaks of difficulty but to me he is most well known for his ability to give as little concrete story as possible while giving you a world that is continuing to be fleshed out and twisted. In Rebirth you have to ask is anything really happening is mom bad, is Isaac true, are the other characters real? Things like that. The game is much deeper than you would think just by looking at it and that is by the terrific game design.

Honestly I can’t put it down, I find myself with moments of down time between work or class and I will just turn it on out of instinct basically.

I think this is the best indie game of the year and the best rogue like game of the generation. Hands down.

Besides if you play your cards right something like this can happen.

BOOM UNSTOPABLE

So I say pick it up. Go deeper into the basement, find the trapdoors, and discover what it means to be god and satans favored child.

Happy Collecting.