I have been playing games for a long time. NES all the way up. Back in the day I used to always play Ring King, Mike Tysons Punch Out, Excite bike, and Zelda. Those were the early day favorites. Now my main games that I play are FTL (faster than light), Hearthstone, Torn, and NSFL. I’ll give a mini review of FTL.
FTL: Faster Than Light is a space game where you have crewman on your ship of choice. Everyone has their specialty and their own battle station. The gist of it is you start on the left side of the map with many jump points on the map. Working your way from the left side of the map to the right side of the map, you can’t lollygag too much because you have the empire chasing you. (essentially a line that moves from the left side to the right side of the screen. Thus forcing you to hit the exit on the right side and move to the next zone. If the line overtakes you, you have to fight an empire ship which is strong, and once beaten you get nothing but to get away and stay out of their reach. Each jump point is a random experience usually a battle between your ship and the enemy or neutral ship. This is the meat of the game. Of the random experiences you can run into shops where merchants are selling anything from weapon, crew, upgrades, drones, etc.. that you can buy. There are many different types of fits for your ship and you can choose to destroy the enemy different ways from sending your crew to board their ship and kill their asses. Or you can set fires on their ship, you can damage their hull and then damage their oxygen systems and suffocate the crew to death. You can be a Ion ship and tear through their shields and shut down their weapons, you can be a straight up missile ship and or a rail gun ship and just blow them out of the water with pure offense. There are so many different strategies. All the while the enemy is doing the same to you, so you’re running around having crew put out fires, or repairing hull damage, or repairing sub systems. A huge part is you can pause it. Select your crew, send them where you want them to go, select which weapons/drones/missiles you want to fire and where they are targeting. It was a very well thought out and planned game.
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FTL: Faster Than Light is a space game where you have crewman on your ship of choice. Everyone has their specialty and their own battle station. The gist of it is you start on the left side of the map with many jump points on the map. Working your way from the left side of the map to the right side of the map, you can’t lollygag too much because you have the empire chasing you. (essentially a line that moves from the left side to the right side of the screen. Thus forcing you to hit the exit on the right side and move to the next zone. If the line overtakes you, you have to fight an empire ship which is strong, and once beaten you get nothing but to get away and stay out of their reach. Each jump point is a random experience usually a battle between your ship and the enemy or neutral ship. This is the meat of the game. Of the random experiences you can run into shops where merchants are selling anything from weapon, crew, upgrades, drones, etc.. that you can buy. There are many different types of fits for your ship and you can choose to destroy the enemy different ways from sending your crew to board their ship and kill their asses. Or you can set fires on their ship, you can damage their hull and then damage their oxygen systems and suffocate the crew to death. You can be a Ion ship and tear through their shields and shut down their weapons, you can be a straight up missile ship and or a rail gun ship and just blow them out of the water with pure offense. There are so many different strategies. All the while the enemy is doing the same to you, so you’re running around having crew put out fires, or repairing hull damage, or repairing sub systems. A huge part is you can pause it. Select your crew, send them where you want them to go, select which weapons/drones/missiles you want to fire and where they are targeting. It was a very well thought out and planned game.
(425 words)
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