In Lugaru HD you are a bunny. That beats up other bunnies. A lot. I’m not sure there’s really much else to say. Unfortunately I’m terrible at these kinds of brawlers, and I wind up just mashing attacks until something hits and completely forgetting all the blocking/parrying tactics, and this game is rather too chaotic and fast-paced for me.
I gave Hammerfight a try today, but I only made it through three or four missions before giving up. It’s a neat enough idea, control a floating machine and move the mouse to swing weapons on it around to hit enemies, but the mouse motions required become really frustrating really fast, especially with a small space to work in, a mouse that likes to catch on the edges of things, and a game UI that likes to cover up important bits of the screen during the fight. Not a keeper.
Today I checked out Unstoppable Gorg, yet another tower defense game (there was a bit of a wave of them a while back), but the twist of this one is that you place satellites into orbit instead of on fixed ground spots, and you can rotate the orbits around as the enemy waves attack, to defend particular spots on the fly. Interesting, but not interesting enough to stick with I think, and it was actually fairly difficult. I kept getting my ass kicked on Medium, and it almost feels like you have to ‘cheat’ by winning on easy to get research tokens to upgrade your satellites first. It has a nice retro-50s flying saucer B-movie style to it, though.
I played a bit of Far Cry 2 as today’s game, after having only briefly started it before. I’m not usually big on shooters, but this one’s different enough in how it’s more of an ‘open world’ one, with various factions and buddies to get missions and rewards from, lots of terrain to explore, etc. It reportedly gets kind of repetitive once you get tired of clearing the same checkpoints of guards over and over, but I haven’t reached that point yet. A keeper for now, I think.
Today I randomly picked Black Market to check out, though I couldn’t remember where I’d gotten it in the first place. One of those big indie bundles, probably. Anyway, it’s a space trading game with a main storyline, but it felt more simplistic than I’d like. I’d rather spend my time in Space Rangers 2 instead, so I’m not going to pursue this one any further.