Rating: 7/10 πΈπΈπΈπΈπΈπΈπΈ
Ages: Mainly 8+ but younger kids can have fun with it, too. I'll explain below...
Grammer's Games
Reviews of video games and other games. The quirky. The silly. The just plain fun. I receive no compensation or free products for these reviews. I purchased all the games like anyone else.
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Out of Space
Saturday, August 26, 2023
BroForce Forever
Rating: 7/10 πΈπΈπΈπΉπΎππΈ
Ages: 8+
One of my sons exposed me to the chaos that is BroForce. Chaos is the right description. This game is a parody of all the early video games where you had to slaughter lots of enemies, save your friends, then escape on a helicopter. So in this game, you and up to three of your buddies have to slaughter a lot of bad guys, aliens, and a bunch of other things, blow up the landscape but not too much or you end up with bottomless pits you can jump over, die a lot but save each other, then escape on a helicopter. At least on the early levels. The later levels have different win conditions. My son's advice, when I asked what the objective was, was simple, "Go to the right and try not to die."
The characters are hilarious. All of them are puns on 'Bro' and various action heroes. RamBro shoots a machine gun and has a red bandana. McGyBro hurls explosives and has a mullet. Brophy the Vampire Slayer throws wooden stakes and holy water. You get the picture.
Game play with four players is an absolutely chaotic mess of explosions and various weapons firing. You die. A LOT. But it's all okay and fun. We laughed a lot, blew up everything a lot, and generally had a very cathartic time blitzing levels.
*Lots and lots of cartoon violence
*Lots of silliness and bad puns
*Occasional hard levels that caused some outraged cries of "WHY did you just BLOW UP EVERYTHING?"
Bonus - this one is available on a lot of platforms, not just Nintendo Switch.
Friday, August 25, 2023
DragonQuest Treasures
Rating: 6/10 πΈπΈπΈπΈπΈπΈ
Ages: 5+
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Graveyard Keeper Update
I kind of gave up on Graveyard Keeper not too long after I wrote that review. The story was fun, BUT...
There are WAY too many ingredients for potions and things and the chain to make some of the stuff you need is VERY long without clear instructions or hints on how to get there. You have to mix two or three things together to get a new ingredient that you then have to mix with two or three other things to get a new different ingredient which you then mix with more, and keep repeating until you finally manage to figure out how to make the stuff you really wanted in the first place. Oh and did I mention that all of these mixing and grinding and whatever steps can take place at any one of six different stations? Yeah, it got way more complicated than I wanted to deal with.
The reason you want these things is to eventually make zombies for yourself so you can automate all the fiddly little things like wood chopping, stone mining, grape growing, etc. I managed to get two or three zombies but then ran out of the bonus potions I'd found. See the paragraph above for why I gave up on trying to make more. The potions to make the zombies do what I wanted just took way to long to figure out and were too hard to make.
Did I mention that all of this potion making is trial and error until you accidentally stumble on a set of ingredients that make what you want? It's not always the same ones, either. Multiple ingredients can end up making the same thing. What they make also depends on if you grind them, smash them, blend them, cook them, or decompose them.
Another pet peeve were some of the quests. Why hand a player a quest right at the beginning of the game that they have no hope of finishing until they are more than halfway through your long, involved story? It's frustrating to me.
So, overall it was a fun game, but unless you're willing to spend a lot of time fiddling in the alchemy lab trying to figure things out, it drags horribly. And if you're like me and like to see progress by checking off quests, even if they're dumb fetch quests, this game will only make you frustrated. Half of the quests they hand you near the start aren't even possible until you've unlocked most of the items in the game which doesn't happen for a looooooong time.
I'm dropping my rating to 5/10.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Graveyard Keeper
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
No New Games
I tend to buy games in spurts as I find them. I haven't found any recently that I enjoyed playing, so no new reviews for a while. The games I like tend to be very niche. There aren't that many out there, at least not good ones that I enjoyed. If I don't like the game or don't enjoy playing it, I won't review it.
If you come across a fun game that you think I might like, please leave a link in the comments!
Friday, January 7, 2022
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
Rating: 8/10 πΈπΈπΈπΈπΈπΈπΈπΈ
Ages: 10+ (combat is on the complicated side, but if your younger one just likes riding a monster around, it might work for them)
This is mostly why I bought myself a switch and another copy of the game. There are a few quests and things you can only get with partner missions, which require a second switch and a separate copy of the game. My son and I had fun playing through a couple of them already and I'm looking forward to doing more.
Out of Space
Rating: 7/10 πΈπΈπΈπΈπΈπΈπΈ Ages: Mainly 8+ but younger kids can have fun with it, too. I'll explain below... The basic premise of thi...
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Rating: 6/10 πΈπΈπΈπΈπΈπΈ Ages: all ages, although younger children and impatient adults might get frustrated by some of the fiddly mechan...
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Rating: 7/10 πΈπΈπΈπΉπΎππΈ Ages: 8+ One of my sons exposed me to the chaos that is BroForce. Chaos is the right description. This game is...
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Rating: 6/10 πΈπΈπΈπΈπΈπΈ Ages: 5+ I've been a fan of the DragonQuest series from the beginning. Big caveat: I've really only play...