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Wars Farm: Gungeon Prophet in the Borderlands


On 09/12/2020 at 12:08 PM by KnightDriver

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It's a strategy game, a resource management sim, a shooter with a card battle minigame in a sprawling open world environment full of wise cracking NPCs. Honestly, I got kind of confused trying to get my head around all the stuff this game throws at you. So, I went and played the following five games instead. 

Advance Wars Dual Strike: 

I finished level 5 with an A rank; 1-4 I did all with S ranking. 

Farm Together: I created what I call "Diamond Town". I'm thinking it will be like Las Vegas. I put all crops, trees, flowers and fish that produce diamonds there and surrounded it all with railroad tracks and all my houses. I've got two farmhands working the trees,.flowers and crops. Come for a visit. I'll let you harvest it all. 
I'm also going for the monthly special quest completion achievement. Each month there is a new quest that awards you with new items. There are multiple levels to these quests which ultimately means growing thousands of a special new crop. I expanded my sprinkler fed fields and harvested them as often as I can. I'm not sure I'll get to the end of it, like my friend has. I only work on this stuff on the weekends. I can see how this quest encourages you to visit your farm every day, but I can't, and won't, do that. I'll unlock some new stuff in any case. 

Enter the Gungeon: I played it on Game Pass for rewards points. I really like it. It's a top view, 8-bit style shooter. The controls are excellent. It's a rogue-like, so when you die you start over, but the levels regenerate differently each time to make it seem fresh. It's challenging. I got my points but kept it installed to play it again later. 

Nowhere Prophet: Also played for Game Pass rewards points. I like this one too. It's a card battler that also reminds me of Banner Saga. You move a caravan of post apocalyptic survivors across a wasteland and battle bandits and whatnot. The card battle system is pretty neat in that it takes into account line-of-sight in certain instances. You play fighter cards on a field and shoot at the other side trying to take out their leader. There is a lot of stratgey here. You can also manage your crew, buy weapons and equipment for your leader and visit relatively safe locations to earn perks you'll use in battle. I got past the first major boss battle and opened a new area. I got my reward points and kept it installed for later. 

Borderlands 3, Krieg DLC: The latest story DLC has dropped, and I played a few hours of it. It's more of the ame zany dialog and frantic FPS battles I enjoy. I do feel fatigued at times with these fights. They are big long blast fests against many foes. I wipe my brow at the end of each one and finally get to the part I like best, exploration. This will be my new main game for a while, but I'll be bouncing back to Farm Together every few hours to harvest some crops. 

What did you play recently? 


 

Comments

Matt Snee Staff Writer

09/12/2020 at 01:35 PM

you know, there are a lot of card-based battle system games now, but I've always been hesitant to try one out. But I've read about a lot of good ones. 

KnightDriver

09/14/2020 at 09:04 AM

I love a good card battler. 

SanAndreas

09/12/2020 at 06:35 PM

The one game with a card battle system I played was Baten Kaitos on Gamecube. I think that Nintendo liked Baten Kaitos so much that they ended up buying Monolithsoft. And that's how we got Xenoblade Chronicles. It looked like a card-based version of FFX. Even one of the characters looked like Wakka.

KnightDriver

09/14/2020 at 09:09 AM

I feel like I tried Baten Kaitos once, maybe I owned it too. I definitely remember seeing it at Gamestops and wanting it at least. I'd love to give it a spin now. The card art reminds me of the Culdcept games, which I really like. 

Cary Woodham

09/13/2020 at 08:14 AM

My favorite card based battle game was SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash on the NEO GEO Pocket Color.  I liked it even more than Pokemon!

KnightDriver

09/14/2020 at 09:10 AM

I have some version of that game on DS which I still haven't tried. 

Cary Woodham

09/15/2020 at 10:38 PM

The DS Card Fighters game isn't that good.  Three reasons:

1. In the first game, you could just use cards whenever you wanted.  In the DS game, they added energy cards so you must have enough of those to use your other cards.  I didn't like that.

2. In the NGPC game, you could visit towns and other places to battle others in the main story mode, but in the DS game, you're just climbing a tower.

3. And this is the big one.  There is a game breaking bug that keeps you from progressing, and there's no way to avoid it on the DS game.

KnightDriver

09/16/2020 at 06:11 PM

Too bad. I'll try it anyway to get a sense of it. 

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