Heya, readers.
No Indie Wonderland today, as you might have intuited. In fact, if you read last week’s review really carefully, you might even have seen the announcement in the footer on page 2! Go check, it’s right there! In order of time-claiming importance, my last week consisted of a lot of things denying me the time to play and review:
1) Work stress
2) Illness
3) Wrapping up XCOM 2
4) Curing cardboard diseases
5) Dark Souls 3
6) I was out of milk that one time
Regular service resumes next week.
And speaking of Jarenth Plays XCOM 2:
Good news is, I finished the gameplay parts of this Let’s Play. We’re looking at about 27 episodes right now, plus intro and epilogue. So expect this series to run about a month longer. ‘Bad’ news is, I’m afraid I didn’t get to all of you on the sign-up sheet. Sorry! I just… didn’t lose enough soldiers. You’ll still see a handful of new faces make their debut, but all in all, I’m guessing I got to about half of the names on the list.
Obviously I don’t want to leave anyone empty-handed who had the wherewithal and the fortitude to enlist in the first place. So one thing I will do, at the end of this Let’s Play, is add everyone who didn’t already show up to my character pool. And then that character pool will be made available for download right here — probably in the epilogue. That way, everyone can have their own Jarenth Plays XCOM 2 adventures! See if you are better than I at keeping this colour-uncoordinated group of schmucks alive.
– Jarenth
You monster! How dare you don’t get enough other people killed!
That’s what I was going to say: I recently re-read the first XCOM Let’s Play and I remembered being gripped by the stakes. Jarenth was losing sometimes, there were squad wipes. Either he got his game on (completely believable) or the second entry is easier but i don’t feel the same “skin of your teeth” impact.
And I’m not saying this because of my alter ego’s fate (even though I’m a bit bummed i couldn’t hit more aliens)