Board 8 > Jan. Game of the Month Club ft. Wonderful, Psychonauts, PixelJunk, and Mass Eff.

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Last call for noms, changes, and supports

Everything is now closed. I will draw soon

Your February Games of the Month are...

Black Mesa (PC)
Chicory: A Colorful Tale (PC/PS4/Switch)
Space Funeral (PC)

Congrats to Sean, JONA, and Crispy for having their games selected!

Chicory is on PS Plus Extra

Space Funeral is a free download on itch.io
https://thecatamites.itch.io/space-funeral

Space Funeral also shouldn't take over an hour tops.

Both Black Mesa and Chicory are on my wishlist but idk, trying to save money right now since I spent a bunch on games earlier this month

Will probably play Space Funeral though

Wow Space Funeral is so niche it doesn't even have a page here on GameFAQs.

If it is only an hour I'll probably check it out though.

In for Black Mesa and probably Chicory too.

In for Chicory, and probably Space Funeral.

Black Mesa is great - but I think I prefer Half-Life over it.

I'm interested in Chicory, but not sure if I'm interested enough to buy it. Probably can't run Black Mesa, and I don't really want to replay Space Funeral.

Mr_Crispy posted...

I've been working on episode 4 of Pixeljunk Shooter (despite hating it because of all the big euro shooter energy it's got going on barf).

I'm pretty sure they somehow managed to make the last level of episode 4 unwinnable in the vita version, since unless I'm missing something or it's possible to get another shield powerup you can't move the ship fast enough to get out of the way of the falling rocks in the narrow tunnel. (maybe you could do it if you entered the section with the shield, get hit with the first rock, go back for the powerup so you can get past the second rock, I didn't want to start the level over again to try it)

I had to download the ps4 version to get past that part.

Just wanted to come back and confirm you can beat the Vita version of that level without using shields. I think you're talking about the third area of the last level of episode 4 (puzzle area with the eater ship and rocks that fall on you). You don't need a shield at all. Just use both sticks at the same time to get extra speed and you should be able to avoid all the rocks easily. I'm actually curious what is different in the PS4 version because I imagine the levels should be the same in both.

Looks like I'll have more time for One Piece Odyssey this month.

Just finished chapter 5 of PixelJunk Ultimate. I should be able to wrap things up within the next two days as long as there isn't a huge difficulty jump.

Overall, I'm definitely enjoying the game. Good job whoever nominated it because it gave me a reason to finally check this out!

Couple of minor issues:
1) Not a fan of using diamonds to track progress, as mentioned already
2) The game does have a really bad habit of just giving you the finger and killing you sometimes on your first playthrough. It really punishes trying to move anything but extremely cautiously, and there are a couple of levels here that just dump a stream of lava in your face and laughing as you have to start over. Or you'll take a path you previously cleared and SURPRISE instant death enemy out of nowhere. The levels are short enough, but I thought this was poor design.
3) No auto-fire button? In a shooter? BLASPHEMY
4) The first two worlds are super boring. Things pick up a lot for me after 3 and I've been enjoying the game substantially more ever since, but it was definitely a slow ramp up for me
5) It's kinda dumb how you have to play a whole level again if you want to get back to one specific part. For example, in one I miss a secret area where the special scientist was hiding. I go back and find it, clear the stage, but now I've forgotten to check out a second hidden area because I already got all the diamonds. So I have to play it a third time, all the way thorugh, popping into the three hidden areas I've already found in one go. I get they do this for leaderboard purposes, but it makes going through a second time if you missed one single hidden item a huge drag.

Still - overall definitely a good game. I'm looking forward to the final chapter and it has been good enough to motivate me to check out the other PixelJunk games I've missed up until now.

Suprak beat PixelJunk Shooter 2 (via Ultimate).

Overall, I thought it was fairly enjoyable! Some shortcomings here and there but I had fun with it overall.

going to have to abandon wonderful 101 - not going to be able to finish it in time (only got past the first boss).

Still on track to beat Pixeljunk shooter though. Beat the episode 5 boss earlier today, and am one stage in episode 6.

"hey why don't we design a boss where the player has to dodge tiny grey and black bullets on a grey and black background?"
"BRILLIANT!"

finished Pixeljunk Shooter Ultimate

Suprak_the_Stud posted...

Just wanted to come back and confirm you can beat the Vita version of that level without using shields. I think you're talking about the third area of the last level of episode 4 (puzzle area with the eater ship and rocks that fall on you). You don't need a shield at all. Just use both sticks at the same time to get extra speed and you should be able to avoid all the rocks easily. I'm actually curious what is different in the PS4 version because I imagine the levels should be the same in both.

I figured I was probably mistaken, since I never found anyone else with a similar problem online when I searched for it. Still, you don't even have to go full speed to avoid that in the ps4 version.

In general the PS4 version seems to run much faster and the view is zoomed out further. The physics were pretty obviously simplified a lot in the vita version, and there's less particles flying around.