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Grissallia<p>December 27, 2023 - Day 361 - NewPlay Bonus Review<br>Total NewPlays: 389</p><p>Game: Strange Brigade</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: Aug 28, 2018<br>Installation Date: Dec 27, 2023<br>Unplayed: 0d<br>Playtime: 42m</p><p>Strange Brigade is a solo or co-op action-adventure third-person shooter, set in Egypt in the 1930's.</p><p>I'd been sitting on Strange Brigade for a while, because I've previously played one of the Zombie Army games by the same developer (Rebellion), and it so thoroughly creeped me out, that I had no desire to go through it again.</p><p>But with access to the game via my son's Steam account, and a spare Steam key, and it being the middle of a sunny day, I thought I'd give it a shot.</p><p>You play as one of four members of the titular Strange Brigade, a special unit of the British Government tasked with dealing with supernatural entities.</p><p>One of the options is Gracie Braithwaite, a brawler, and a red-headed Lancashire lass. One of the things I've learned from my family tree, is that great-grandmother was from Lancashire, and was described by my grandmother as "a Lancashire lass", and it just felt right to choose her.</p><p>In terms of the gameplay, while it bears some basic similarities to the Zombie Army Trilogy (because zombies are heavily featured!) and it uses the same Asura engine as ZAT, it styles itself heavily after pulp movies of the 1930's, with an overly chirpy English narrator providing running commentary.</p><p>The game is bright and colourful, unlike the spine-chilling environments of ZAT, and I found Strange Brigade a far more enjoyable experience - at least once I remapped the rather wild control scheme.</p><p>Nothing like hitting the shift key to run away from a zombie, only to drop a grenade instead.</p><p>I had a bunch of fun with Strange Bridgade; it's pretty:</p><p>4: Good</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/StrangeBrigade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StrangeBrigade</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ActionAdventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActionAdventure</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ThirdPersonShooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThirdPersonShooter</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>
Grissallia<p>Feb 2, 2023 - Day 33 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 40</p><p>Game: Agents of Mayhem<br>Platform: Steam PC<br>Release Date: Aug 16, 2017<br>Library Date: May 26, 2020<br>Unplayed: 982 days (2y8m7d)<br>Playtime: 41m</p><p>From the developers who brought you Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Saints Row The Third, the over-the-top Saints Row IV: Re-Elected, Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, and Saints Row (a reboot of Saints Row that shares a name and little else) comes a repetitive "open-world" action-adventure game vaguely connected to Saints Row (but not the reboot) that is to action-adventure games what Hush Puppies are to high fashion.</p><p>You play as a squad of three characters, that you can switch between mid-fight. Like Trine, but somehow less fun.</p><p>The game is set in a largely deserted, but very pretty, representation of a futuristic version of Seoul. The gameplay is smooth, the mechanics proficient, the characterisation and voiceovers are well done.</p><p>I played through two missions; all the pieces of something entertaining are there, yet somehow fail to mesh into something I want to keep playing.</p><p>I can't put my finger on what's missing, just that it is. A little less polish, and this would be "meh", but for me Agents of Mayhem just scrapes across the line to:</p><p>3: OK</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AgentsOfMayhem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgentsOfMayhem</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ThirdPersonShooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThirdPersonShooter</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/OpenWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenWorld</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>
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