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Quiet, Please! (Wii U): COMPLETED!

Posted on 26/05/2016 Written by deKay

Quiet, Please! is a quaint little adventure game where you have to silence all the irritating noises around your house before you’re able to go to bed. There’s a lawnmower to stop, your brother to get to bed, a dog to stop barking, and various other sounds to get rid of.

It’s short, not too taxing, but pleasant enough and has nice big chunky pixel graphics. On the Wii U it’s one game in a pack of 4, which at the moment is just £1.79 for the lot, so it’s definitely worth a go.

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Assassin’s Creed Revelations: a change of scenery

Posted on 24/05/2016 Written by Xexyz

I've not played much of this recently, since gaming time has been limited and the PS4 controller is always there screaming "Rocket League!". However, I did manage to progress with the story, largely because I last left the game on a boat to Cappadocia - a town built inside a cave. There wasn't much to distract me there, with a few data fragments spread around and little else. The missions were generally easy, with the difficulty coming not from the missions but from the soldiers on rooftops, which were the most effective way of getting around. I rescued the spy, caused explosions, and killed the big fat man. Back to Constantinople!

Emily is Away (Mac): COMPLETED!

Posted on 22/05/2016 Written by deKay

Emily is Away was an odd one. On one hand, it was very easy in the sense that you can’t really fail and it’s pretty short, but on the other hand it appears to be impossible to get a good ending. I’m not sure I missed anything, as I played it through a few times and although you can get different endings, none of them I’d suggest were “good”.

The game I’ve played before which is most like Emily is Away is probably the iOS game Lifeline. Whereas that played out like a Choose Your Own Adventure in real-time over a course of a few days, Emily is Away is real-time multiple choice AOL chat-alike played out one chat per year over five years.

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You’re Emily’s friend, and you chat about music, school, college and friends. Depending on your actions, your relationship with her can be platonic, unrequited or temporarily requited (it seems), as you live apart for your college years and she ends up in a strained relationship with Brad while you offer advice from afar. Will she see your advice as interfering, helpful, or with an ulterior motive? That’s where the sometimes ambiguous multiple choice comes in.

Ultimately, all my attempts ended up with me being miserable, her being miserable, or both of us being miserable – and with us losing our friendship completely. See, no good ending. Actually, there’s an early tip-off that there’s no good ending when Emily tells you she’s really into Coldplay. That probably tells you a lot about Emily.

It was an interesting game to play, and since it’s free (or “pay what you want”, if you want) it’s definitely worth a look. Just don’t expect any sort of happy ending.

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Star Fox Guard (Wii U): COMPLETED!

Posted on 22/05/2016 Written by deKay

Well Star Fox Guard wasn’t quite the game I was expecting. I had read it was a tower defence game, and it is, but what I didn’t know what that you have to manually activate and control the towers yourself!

In each level there’s a sort of maze, with a tower in the middle. Twelve camera turrets (which you can move about) are stationed around the maze, with all of the “feeds” shown on the TV. On the gamepad is a map of the area showing the current locations of the cameras and a radar of any enemies they’ve picked up. You tap on a camera here to make it the live camera on the TV, which you can then use to aim and shoot the baddies as they appear and head for your tower. If they reach it, it’s game over.

The baddie robots come in two classes – combat and chaos. Combat bots must be prevented from reaching the tower, whereas chaos bot try to disrupt your cameras by disabling, blocking, or even stealing them. It gets a bit frantic at times as you try to juggle all the attacks. Thankfully I had my daughter calling out the numbers of the cameras that bots appeared on!

After every three levels you get a new map, and after every three maps you get a boss level and then move onto another planet.

Star Fox Guard was quite short, but I’ve unlocked a load of extra missions now and there’s a mode where you can create a level for others to challenge (and of course, you can take on other people’s creations too) so there is still plenty to do. It’s a good game, and when I finished it I realised it sets itself up as the prequel to Star Fox Zero… which I also have!

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