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Marooners

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I am a big fan of couch games, I have two kids and a husband so having anything 4-player we can all play together in the same room is great. First, you pick your character, a little girl, pirate, scuba diver? Then what color do you want to be? Don't forget to pick the best weapon. Like the T-rex bone, caveman's club, shaman staff, and much more. There are a few modes to play from, but it took a while to understand some of them. There is a party, arena, or any in offline mode. (I honestly didn't play the online mode since we played 4 players) Now what it does is hop between each mini-game, it will start off by telling you what to do for that level, but then it will quickly start. If you are in chaos mode it will randomly change in the middle of the game without finishing to another game. You can also choose to finish each game before switching to a new one. You could end up running from a giant bolder trying to smash you one moment to, trying not to get squished b...

Horizon Chase Turbo

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Horizon Chase Turbo is a game you can sit down and play with your friends for hours. It goes up to 4 players split screen, (I know couch games are so hard to find anymore) which you can progress with each other through the campaign. Each point each race for the place you are in, if you collected all the coins on the track, and how much gas you have left. Yes, I did say how much gas you have left. Going through the course you can collect coins, collect more nos boost, and collect gas cans. Make sure you keep track of your gas usage, and how many boosts you have left. The controls aren't bad but I do have to say the colors are very vibrant and after a while, you may need to take a break from them. Going from bright daytime to dark nighttime in some of the races is the worst. The levels are very fast going. As you progress you can unlock more cars, and even upgrade your cars. Make sure you choose your upgrades to help how you play. (I didn't see any gas ones till the third ...

Heavy Rain

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So recently my brother's ex left her PlayStation 4 at my house. She's like let me know if there's any games you want to play so I'm like cool I'll see what you have. What she had was like no space, so I bought an external to go with it. And download all the games that she owned. Which took forever for just 18 games, like why does downloading games suck so much. Anyway, one of the games I tried out was called Heavy Rain, I never heard of it before so it was pretty much just me randomly playing everything since I haven't had a PlayStation since PS2. It was like a pick your ending, your choices matter type of game. So you move around four characters and their parts of the story. I will say the beginning  hour is a little drawn out, but the story draws you in. Other than that, you should know I don't mind graphics, what I care about is story. gameplay, and the controls. More or less the controls more than anything. In this game the controls are weird. F...

The Freddy Game

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Here we go back to 30 years for this one. It somehow still had all the pieces too. But old slapstick horror A Nightmare on Elm Street with the man himself Freddy Krueger as the star. Here we can see the layout of the board and the pieces. Each person gets a player. Each person has their own fear. Mom is afraid of rodents, and the mailman is afraid of lightning. Now everyone has a hand of cards, four white cards and four black cards. Among the black ones is a you are Freddy card. (make sure to keep it a secret you are Freddy until you have the upper hand) Now the point of the game is to either kill Freddy or Freddy kill each player. On your first turn, you roll the dice to progress, while on your second turn, you have the option of rolling OR telling a story with the cards in your hand. If you have a hallway card you can move to a different room using room cards. A story could be like, "I heard moan ing in the cellar , so I walked down the hallway with my crowbar . but...

Jurassic Park Danger Board Game

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This is the start of board game reviews. The main concept of this game is to turn on the three attractions and make it to the helicopter before the dinos eat you or before the spots are all taken up. One player will be the dinos, and of course, they want to gobble up all the players. Everyone else will be a random character and each has their own abilities to make it past the dinos. Each player has a deck for their character and keeping five cards in your hand at a time, those are how your character moves. If it is running, sneaking, or climbing to another area. The dinosaurs can also sneak so watch out. You must collect your character token, which each has a different way to collect them. Some are by task while others are by just visiting a certain area. Which you can work together with others, or work against them to make sure you can escape. Once the attractions as activated like, the visitors center, maintenance shed, and the control center, you have to make it to the ...

Heroes of the Monkey Tavern

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So I was going through games that were on sale in the Nintendo eShop. I found a dungeon crawler game called Heroes of the Monkey Tavern I was thinking okay it's cheap I have gold coins let's get it, but then I saw there was a demo. Sweet, I can try it first! So I downloaded it and the Switch takes forever to download the game unless it is sitting right next to my wireless router. So I didn't remember I even downloaded the game till a few days later. I booted it up and had a cute little story to begin with. It empathized 4 heroes in the story. Then you pick 4 hero classes and avatars. You also add a few points of your choice to their stats as well. I was excited to start it off. I'm suddenly in a dungeon and it took me a bit to figure out the controls. the left stick does nothing. the left buttons each move in a direction, while the right stick looks around the direction you are facing. The L and R switch the direction you are facing and the ZL ZR switch the character t...

The current Dayz

So right now Dayz is a game preview, pretty much a beta game on the Xbox One right now. Pretty much you buy the game at an unfinished price and have to deal with the development and working out the bugs. Of course, it is at a reduced price than what they are going to sell it at afterward. Ark had their game at $19-$29 until its release at $59. Dayz is currently $29.99 it was on sale over the holidays for black Friday and I believe the PC version which is farther ahead than the Xbox version was on sale last week. That all being said this game is in development and we have no clue what is going to change or be the final product. As an Xbox player, I can see what is happening on PC and expect that to happen on Xbox next, but other than that we have no clue what is really in store. Recently they added "base building" and cars. I say "base building" Because at first, you could walk right through all the walls, then they don't clip into anything. You can't use...