HIGH Commanding 100,000 troops to lay waste to the evil Cao Cao.
LOW Turning my fingers into pretzels trying to input certain commands.
WTF Buying two 700 year-old, 750 page novels to better grasp what the hell all of this is about.
HIGH The cartoon art style gives its characters personality.
LOW Too much effort in some places, not enough in others.
WTF I guess I’m rescuing a princess again?
HIGH The highly-precise combat mechanics.
LOW It can be extremely hard.
WTF A four-phase boss fight. Yes I said four.
High: The deep breath before (and the sigh of relief after) a seemingly impossible bit of platforming.
Low: Repeatedly losing hours of saved progress for no discernible reason.
WTF: The player can choose the color of Rude Bear’s blood—Rude Pink, Energy Orange, Lizard Conspiracy Blue, and more.
Raiders of the Broken Planet is an interesting proposition. Self-funded by Spanish Developers MercurySteam (a team not known for their online skills) the game is an asymmetrical multiplayer third-person shooter that tries to set a balance between guns and melee. The beta itself does a lot to give me hope for the full game, but that hope comes with caveats.
HIGH There’s something for everyone.
LOW There’s something for everyone to complain about.
WTF How have I spent five whole days playing this game?
HIGH Seeing familiar locales in London.
LOW Why can’t I skip sections?
WTF ‘Prease Forrow me’…
HIGH All the school sections.
LOW The story is predictable.
WTF Rotting child corpses.
HIGH Nearly every one of the murder mysteries are spectacularly well-crafted.
LOW Some leaps of logic in puzzle solving could give bad point-and-click adventures a run for their money.
WTF Goodbye Despair‘s ending makes sense, but also reaches the shark-jumping heights of Final Fantasy XV‘s finale.
HIGH Attacking bikers with a chainsaw…
LOW …Only to realize that it isn’t nearly as cool as I remember it.
WTF Where’s the Sam & Max Hit The Road remaster? Let’s get to the turkey already, shall we?
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