Finished HROT, an old school FPS
At first I wasn't sure whether I should get this because of the drab look. But it makes sense and it manages not to get boring visually. It's an FPS with short-ish levels that wants to remind you of Quake.
The weapons are okay, the shotguns and grenade launcher are the clear winners here. Found myself only using the machine pistol when I was out of shells. It's effective, but just lacks the satisfying, punchy audio goodness and instant gratification of the aforementioned two weapons.
Apart from enemies just lounging around in your path, there's quite a number of monster closets and sometimes monsters just teleport into the few arena-like areas you come across.
I wasn't expecting to laugh out loud, but I did quite a few times. Not only because of the humorous details, enemies or bosses, but also for how deviously a bunch of the secrets are hidden. This one is great if you love secret hunting.
Had a great time, money well spent.
Edit:
Finished Warp Frontier, a science fiction point and click
Oh, what a shame. This game looks great, sounds good, has great voice acting. There's good characters and dialogues with some good humor. The premise is awesome, and I'm a sucker for sci-fi. And suck me in it did in the beginning, as it starts off in a very promising way. But...
The puzzles are the most uninspired I've seen in a point and click. 5 times cut something with your knife. 5 times glue something with your unnecessary two different kinds of adhesive. And that process you do twice on different occasions to seal a hull leaking atmosphere.
Then there's light logic puzzles that have you plug and unplug fuses what felt like dozens of times, while walking through the same drab underground tunnel. And later in the game use your robot assistant dozens of times, in the same way again and again. All that includes a lot of the same animations playing, so those get old really fast. The same goes for interacting with a little text menu to control your space ship. Click-clickety-click, listen to you character voice the order to the ship, listen to your ship repeat/confirm your order, watch the ship move in three to four different little animation sequences. Yes, you can click to skip two of those sequences, and the same goes for dialog. But it gets annoying very quickly.
Thankfully the character will speed walk on double click, so that's a times saver. And I mean it when I say speed walk: He did not get a run animation, instead his regular walking one is played at a much higher speed. That makes him look like an absolute dolt and is almost funny again. Thankfully the game has a very good hint system, that nudges you in the right direction step by increasingly clear step. That's a brilliant feature I would love to see in every adventure game.
If you're a sci-fi superfan, a hungry devourer of point and clicks and find it on a discount, it's recommended. Otherwise steer clear.
