Just a brief thing about Grow Up here. It’s good, it’s not as good as the original (Grow Home), and I enjoyed it.
OK, perhaps a little more than that. The premise is slightly different to the first game. You now have to find the parts of M.O.M. (literally your mothership) scattered around the planet. There is more than one Star Plant. The onus is more on jumping and (later) gliding from place to place. For some reason the game pauses sometimes when you collect things or land. It’s very pretty. The strange animals are cute. You can still drown them while they look at you with disappointment.
Despite the game, there’s less growing up than in Grow Home. Instead, you have to scale multiple heights rather than one main one. Each feels less high, and although you ultimately reach the moon, it doesn’t seem nearly as high up as in the first game.
Still, as I said, it was fun, the skies were blue, and I very much enjoyed it. 100%ing it, by doing all the challenges and finding (or rather, stumbling across) all the crystals though? Nah, y’aight.
Did you know? The Nintendo Switch is out soon! All these games will be completely defunct then!
Play
Bioshock Infinite (PC)
Well that was a thing, wasn’t it? I completed it, and wrote a reasonably big thing about it, and you can find that here. With spoilers. In essence, though: “Bioshock Infinite is a great story punctuated with pointless, annoying combat sections.”.
Grow Up (PS4)
I completed this too. It was fun, and definitely a break from Bioshock. It’s more of the same game that Grow Home was, only slightly less good.
Pokémon Go (iOS)
They put new pokeymen in it! Well, new old pokeymen. I caught a lot of them.
Pokémon Sun (3DS)
I tried to play this, but the PokéPelego stepped in every time and defeated me. It takes so long harvesting your berries and swapping your pokeys about in the training isle, and collecting all of the pokébeans, that “a quick go” means busywork and no actual game. Sigh.
Total War: Warhammer (PC)
It’s my first Total War game, and I am not a fan of Warhammer. However, I am a fan of unit management and real-time strategy, and this is just great. I can just ignore the Warhammeryness of it anyway. Only about five battles in so far, and I’m playing as the humans (Empire? I think?). There’s a lot to take in, but it seems to be doing a good job of telling me how to play without lecturing.
Want
A Nintendo Switch. It’s out soon, I hear.
Bin
Nothing!
Expense
Ruh roh…
I bought a single month’s Humble Monthly in order to get Total War: Warhammer stupidly cheap. It’ll be a few days before I find out what else I got in the bundle. That was £8.97.
I also got, thanks to Sega’s Make War Not Love giveaways, Steam copies of Shining Force, Alien Storm and Golden Axe II. Free!
And finally, £24.99 went on the incredible Humble Freedom Bundle. Worth it just for The Witness, which I already had. So gave it away. Um.
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