#vaporum

[nintendocafe]

Steampunk Dungeon Crawler Vaporum coming to Nintendo Switch on April 11

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The Best of MMXVIII

Welcome to the my personal list of games I enjoyed this year. That’s right it’s my list, feel free to disagree with me but it won’t change anything. Anyway here are the rules;

1. These are games that I’ve played and reviewed this year. 2. There isn’t an order to this list, its not a top 10 (or 9 in this case), these all feature because of how good they are. 3. The games don’t have to have been released this year.

Now lets get on with it!

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

This game was harrowing, I can’t say I enjoyed because nothing about playing this game was what I’d call joyful. But it was an experience that I’m very glad I had. Vikings and mental health make for a good game... who knew?

Pyre

This game tricked me into playing a sports game.... and I don’t care. The as per usual with Supergiant the music is outstanding and the art style? I would love to get some prints of the backgrounds to frame!

Dishonored 2

Once again there is only one AAA title on my list. This game builds on and improves everything Dishonored did. Some of the level design in this game was inspired!

The Sexy Brutale

Time travel and multiple murder mysteries, a fantastic combination. Well, maybe not for the the victims but it’s a lot of fun for the one solving them.

Vaporum

I do love a good dungeon crawler, I also quite like steampunk as a aesthetic. So Vaporum ticks a lot of boxes for me. Think Legend of Grimrock but with guns as well.

Just Shapes & Beats

This game is a great example of what can be done with a minimalist art style. The controls are really responsive and the levels are very imaginative. Throw in some fantastic music and you have a winner!

Subsurface Circular

Solve the mystery all while never leaving your seat, and I’m not even talking about the player! It’s a short game but one well worth a look into.

Space Tyrant

A four X strategy game come digital board game with a 80's style Saturday morning cartoon look. It’s not often I get to manically laugh like a super villian but this game gave me plenty of reasons!

Owlboy

A pixel art platformer with a lot of heart. It’s amazing how much this game made me care for the poor little mute that is Owlboy. On top of that the game has a lot of challenging platforming, which isn’t something I thought would be possible for a character that can fly.

Overall it’s been a pretty good year of gaming. Of course I’m always working somewhat in the past so what I experience isn’t reflective of whats been going on with the gaming industry as a whole. And I have to be honest, NEVER have I been more glad that I don’t deal with a lot of the crap the industry has been pulling. Last year I had hoped that the industry would buck up its ideas and stop treating us like an eternal money source. Seems I couldn’t have been more wrong.

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Vaporum: Steampunk Dungeon Crawler

Version #399#14 I take so much offence over this scam marketing false advertising. Besides the subtitle, here’s what the store page says: Vaporum is a grid-based dungeon crawler RPG in an original steampunk setting. When you start slapping popular words on everything hoping to get a couple more sales they lose all meaning or worth. This is so much not “steam-punk” i don’t know how can you be more…

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Vaporum

I enjoyed Vaporum. Its sheen had worn off a bit toward the end as it trended towards lengthier combat encounters, but the balance was such that nothing felt too easy or too hard. Was the story particularly engaging? No, but at least it didn't get in the way. Definitely worth it if you like this sort of game.

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMOeTsMoezKbjk-G31YMmLbhH9oDPmTEU

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Vaporum: Lockdown - Blast Review

Developer: Fatbot Games s.r.o Rrp: £14.99 (Gog.com, Humblebundle and Steam)

I was going to give this game its own fully fledged review just like I did for its predecessor, however having played through the entire game there really isn't any point. This game really is more of the same, not that that's a bad thing at all, I greatly enjoyed Vaporum, even gave it a spot in my yearly round-up for 2018. As far as tile based dungeon crawlers go this is one of the better ones to play.

So what can I say about this game? Well for one I found it to be more challenging than its predecessor, in part this was because of the optional special challenge area (or 'Special Experiments Compound' as the game calls it) that features very difficult puzzles that give a good chunk of extra experience for completing them. But it wasn't just that, the standard puzzles that are all around the game seemed to be more difficult than before... or maybe I'm out of practise, which is totally possible.

I do have one bugbear with the game though, and that's to do with the inclusion of certain characters that appear. While this game is a prequel, in order to understand certain events, especially toward the end of the game, you really need to have played (or at least go on to play) the original game. Without that knowledge the way certain characters look or behave will make little to no sense.

If you can get past that though (or play the original game before this one) then you're in for a great time and a fine expansion into the Vaporum universe. I look forward to seeing what Fatbot Games create next.

[sanguith]

As previously stated I played Vaporum. The game is full of awesome characters but the guardians were my favourite for sure.

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