Board 8 > May Game of the Month Club ft. Star Wars, Killer7, and UnMetal

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Last call for noms, changes, and supports

Everything is now closed. I will draw soon-ish

And your June Games of the Month are...

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (PC/PS4/360/PS3/PS2)
Command & Conquer (PC/N64/PS/Saturn)
We Love Katamari (PC/Switch/XBS/X/PS5/XB1/PS4/PS2)

Congrats to Kenri, Crispy, and Abacus for having their games selected!

I forgot to use my nomination from beating K7 but oh well. Glad ZOE2 was picked!

I think I own C&C but I'm really bad at RTS games so that one's a hard maybe for me, same with Katamari

Might be in for Katamari. Been a long time since I played that but I have positive memories.

Definitely in for We Love Katamari. I loved Katamari Damacy REROLL.

Command & Conquer Remastered is on sale for $3 USD on Steam and EA App:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1213210/Command__Conquer_Remastered_Collection/
https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-conquer-remastered/buy/pc

I went ahead and bought C&C, so I'll finally actually participate in a GotM this year (of course, since I also got the ME collection I'll likely do that too within the rest of this year).

Kenri posted...

I forgot to use my nomination from beating K7 but oh well. Glad ZOE2 was picked!

I think I own C&C but I'm really bad at RTS games so that one's a hard maybe for me, same with Katamari

I guess the remastered version added in a new easy difficulty (as well as a hard difficulty), so you could drop it at any time if you have trouble.

I clearly forgot to nominate entirely, oops. I thought I had.

Nothing for me next month, maybe I'll jump back into Mass Effect if I have time.

was a little bit into the back half of Smile when the game crashed on me after not saving since the intermission.

ah well. Taking a break for a little while even if I don't get around to finishing it tonight.

Mass Effect has taken the overwhelming majority of my gaming time the past three months. At this rate, I will probably finish the trilogy sometime in June. As such, I will definitely not be resuming Killer7 as I haven't returned to it since my first session.

Finished Dark Forces and Killer7.

Dark Forces was pretty good overall and pretty impressive for its time, but had a few design hiccups that keeps it from being one of the all time greats. Like you die from falling, but there's a few places where you have to jump down shafts or drop down from a ledge, or where it's not really clear where there isn't actually a way forward and you have to take another route, or where you have to manipulate a switch but it's not necessarily clear what it does unless you're looking out the window in the direction of the object immediately after pressing it. Maybe a few more voice clips to give you a bit of a nudge sometimes would have helped. Also the invisible force fields/gas not having any indication it's there (well, ok there's the light on the edge of the force field but there should be a special effect on the force field itself to make it a bit more obvious that it's there), and the respawning enemies (not a major issue, it's just a bit bizarre sometimes, like in the areas cut off from the rest of the level by the rotating bridge).

Killer7 would have probably been better if it committed to being either a survival horror or rail shooter, instead of trying to mix them. Also the "boss" battles are super not fun, although it's probably mostly intentional. The overall plot also seems like it's pretty specifically Japanese (like I get the feeling it's mostly about Japan not being allowed to have an army after ww2, and politicians like the former prime minister Abe trying to get the constitution amended to allow the country to have an army again instead of the JSDF.... but Abe supposedly had ties to the foreign unification church cult which got him assassinated in real life) but I don't really know about the politics about it to try to actually try to analyze it or the writer's position on it is, and trying to translate Japanese politics over to a US setting comes off as even stranger to a US audience. Still, glad to have finally played it at least.

Mr_Crispy posted...

The overall plot also seems like it's pretty specifically Japanese (like I get the feeling it's mostly about Japan not being allowed to have an army after ww2, and politicians like the former prime minister Abe trying to get the constitution amended to allow the country to have an army again instead of the JSDF.... but Abe supposedly had ties to the foreign unification church cult which got him assassinated in real life) but I don't really know about the politics about it to try to actually try to analyze it or the writer's position on it is

I'm not sure if it's specifically about Japan's lack of an army but for sure it's about (perceived) irreconcilable differences between the east and west post-WW2. Honestly even with two degrees in history and a focus on post-WW2 specifically a lot of it went over my head lol. If I had to put money on the writer's position I think they're not particularly fond of either side.