Best Of

Space Run(10.9 hours): A frustrating game because I think tower defense games are something I have a slight knack for but it felt as if the game was the office flirt that keeps friend zoning you at the bar after work....come on!

Having played a fair share of tower defense games I was amazed on my first run through a map. Sitting here staring at the graphics and thinking this is Defense Grid. But this game is made by a one man shop in France. Everything in this game is a trope. Names are silly, characters are silly, mid-match phrases are silly. There is a lot little things to add to your experience in a very positive manner. Just from the voice acting, graphics, and, and plot I consider this a must have for tower defense players and a fantastic game for everyone on the cheap.

I keep saying "tower defense", however, this is a reverse tower defense game. The skinny for Space Run is that you are a freighter pilot in space, game is derived from Galaxy Trucker, that does odd jobs for 5 different companies. Your basic job is to fly from space station to space station while blowing up asteroids of different types, competing companies's ships, pirates , and boss pirates. Every mission you are given a ship with a new design. Each company has a different type of cargo and thus different types of obstacles. This also breaks all the missions into 5 difficulty levels that sort of run parallel since your overall campaign doesn't require finishing all of the jobs from one company to unlock the jobs for the next company. A level progression like this helps entice replays of older levels as you learn new skills. There is a double down effect with this as well since you earn credits to unlock new tower types and new powers on tower types. Couple all of that with also needing prestige to unlock jobs means you will be redoing some of the earlier jobs to destroy the level or try and finish it without looking like a total noob.

Gameplay in the end game can get stale as you quickly realize that success means following some basic rules. Don't build any towers until you know enemy flight patterns around your ship and what kind of enemies you have to destroy. You always have to keep money in reserve and slots open for more rockets so you can make the deliver dead lines. Oh did I forget to mention that? Time limits on every mission to complete them, no longer do you just have to survive until the end but you have to get there on time or early. sigh. A large amount of micro management for a tower defense game, similar to the level in Anomaly but not quite. Game controls don't help this issue since you can't zoom and to move the camera around means using the arrow keys.

Stress and reward balance felt decent but do expect to replay levels until you have unlocked all of your attack towers. Rather glad I have this game under my belt. The people who haven't played this game in Icrontic surprised me, y'all should fix that next time it goes on sale or in a humblebundle.

Games Completed: 114
Time: 5 weeks 34.82 hours

Oh, they ain't done. Seven to go!

BG&E does look like my cup of tea, and people always rave about it. It's on my to-do... just not my backlog.

I KNOW WHAT WE'LL DO! WE'LL SEND THE ASSHOLE IN TWO BOATS AGAINST FORTY-NINE! AAAAHAHAHAHA! Fucking brilliant. Oh, and also, he needs to use artillery WITHOUT A RANGEFINDER! AAAAHHAHAHA He'll be whackin' awaaay in the sand trap! Oh! And we'll call each hit a stroke, cause when you miss you feel like yer gonna fookin DIE! AAAAHAHAHA

No, but seriously, how many devs must have lost their jobs for this crock of crap?

Serious review coming when I beat this piece of torture.