{"id":5213,"date":"2015-07-01T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2015-07-10T14:14:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T19:14:46","slug":"monthend-video-game-wrap-up-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5213","title":{"rendered":"Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up \u2013 June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is getting a little bit out of hand here. I&#8217;m going to stop listing the games that I play every month without fail. Because you can pretty much assume that in any given month, I&#8217;ve spent a good chunk of my time playing the following:<\/p>\n<p>Monster Hunter 4, Super Smash Bros for Wii U\/3DS, and\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon Shuffle.<\/p>\n<p>I love them all dearly, but there&#8217;s no point to reiterating that I&#8217;m playing them every month unless there&#8217;s some sort of reason to mention it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I guess I don&#8217;t really love Pok\u00e9mon Shuffle. That&#8217;s more of an addiction than anything.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~ Game Over ~<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Shipwreck<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; A cute little top-down adventure that&#8217;s very reminiscent of Link&#8217;s Awakening. It&#8217;s not as deep, and it doesn&#8217;t have as much heart, but it&#8217;s still pretty good. Oh hey I even wrote <a title=\"Shipwreck: Nameless Protagonist\u2019s Awakening\" href=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5224\">a thing<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Psyscrolr<\/strong> (WiiU) &#8211; I decided to give it another shot. After the horrifying ordeal that was stage 3, I was ready to give up on it forever. Imagine my surprise when I learned that the game was over! For now&#8230; That was apparently only &#8220;Chapter 1&#8221; but I doubt if I&#8217;ll go back for more. As this game is trash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Dark Room<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; Starts as\u00a0a pretty basic idle game. Then it aggravates you by occasionally setting you back (taking supplies, destroying buildings, etc). Then it grows an RPG mode. Then it becomes a vertical bullet hell thing. If you can bother to work through the annoyances, it&#8217;s actually\u00a0really cool.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mega Man 3<\/strong> (NES)\u00a0&#8211; I wanted to play a Mega Man but didn&#8217;t want to deal with the Boobeam Trap and I felt like something different from Mega Man 4. 5 is boring. I&#8217;ll probably play\u00a06 next.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas <\/strong>(PC) &#8211;\u00a0The best indie imitation\u00a0of a Zelda game that I&#8217;ve seen. The Phantom Hourglass to Shipwreck&#8217;s Link&#8217;s Awakening. Only it&#8217;s really solid and considerably better than Phantom Hourglass. It does not have\u00a0stylus controls, you see.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~ Now Playing ~<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Clicker Heroes<\/strong> (PC)\u00a0&#8211; Yeah I&#8217;m still at it. Usually I end up losing most of my Sunday to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; It seems to be a little-known secret that I love Dr. Mario. As a wee one, it was my\u00a0falling-blocks game of choice (though supplanted by Puzzle League in my teen years), and to this day I still enjoy a marathon session. This version has <em>so many options<\/em>, but the only ones that matter are Classic and Online Battle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Puzzle &amp; Dragons: Mario<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; It was fun at first, but it quickly becomes <em>insanely difficult<\/em>. Seriously, you&#8217;ll be hitting brick walls in World 3. <em>World 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Puzzle &amp; Dragons Z<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; Much more user-friendly, at the cost of it being not quite as nice to look at. On the plus side, it still looks better than the mobile version. Looks aside, I am so hooked on this game. It&#8217;s like virtual heroin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OlliOlli<\/strong> (3DS) &#8211; Bought when it went down to 50% (also because it&#8217;s\u00a0a rare 3DS\/WiiU crossbuy), and have barely touched it. Played enough to ace the first stage on normal. It&#8217;s fun, but there are more pressing things to attend to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure<\/strong> (PSP) &#8211; I bought this because it was on sale and because I&#8217;d heard some very faint praise for it from an online acquaintance. Pretty plain 3D platformer\/action game, only this one stars a little girl who wields a drill as a weapon and is friends with invisible monsters. Charming, but not overly compelling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Starve: Giant Edition<\/strong> (WiiU) &#8211; Seriously I don&#8217;t even know how to be good at this game. It&#8217;s hard enough to keep up a good stock of food, but then monsters suddenly come out of nowhere and bang your dead. I mean, I&#8217;m having fun, but it&#8217;d be nice to have a ghost of a chance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wasteland 2<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; A vast, complicated, post-apocalyptic WRPG. It&#8217;s pretty darn fun, even though your guys and\/or gals can&#8217;t hit the broad side of a barn until their weapon skills are pretty far along. With a machete even! Seriously. The hit % in this game is\u00a0unbelievably low.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wolfenstein 3D<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; It was a dollar, man. A dollar! Made it to level 3 but apparently my saves like to break? So&#8230; I don&#8217;t know how long this will last.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fallout: New Vegas<\/strong> (PC) &#8211; I&#8217;ve got a bad feeling about this. Well, it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;ve got a life to fritter away anyhow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is getting a little bit out of hand here. I&#8217;m going to stop listing the games that I play every month without fail. Because you can pretty much assume that in any given month, I&#8217;ve spent a good chunk of my time playing the following: Monster Hunter 4, Super Smash Bros for Wii U\/3DS, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monthend Video Game Wrap-Up \u2013 June 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,49,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mario","category-mega-man","category-monthend","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5213"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5290,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions\/5290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}