GFA: Jungle Inferno Contract Campaign

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Category: Fad Item is available for a limited time. Rating: 6/10 It has been 113 days since Valve turned out the long-awaited and seemingly fabled Pyro Update, better known today as Jungle Inferno. With this update, a grand total of 126 contracts, of which 84 are optional, were made available to players who purchased the Campaign Pass and I have since finished all of them. These are in-game challenges with rewards tied to them. With this pass running for $6, Or $4.50 during the current sale. was it worth the money? In short, kinda. Being able to play a game over a decade old with new objectives feels great, however not all of these objectives are up to the task. Shortly after launch multiple contracts were adjusted to be less impossible to complete under normal circumstances. However I think that several other contracts were in need of adjustments of this sort. …

GFA: Fight Songs: The Music of Team Fortress 2

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Rating: 8/10. A Must-buy for any diehard fan of Team Fortress 2. Category: Fad. This Item will pass into obscurity in time. Music is bad. You have a better chance of dying in a blimp accident than of buying a good record. So congratulations, little boy or girl, because you’ve somehow defied the odds. The album you hold in your hands contains the world’s only good music – all the best notes, in the best keys, in the best order, orchestrated specifically for you and your best buddies to hold in each other’s guts by. And there are no lyrics, so there’s nothing to compete with whatever words you choose to scream at the sky while enjoying the smooth sounds of Team Fortress 2. ~RED Distribution Co. Never change, Valve Writers, Never Change. Fight Songs: The Music of Team Fortress 2 is the near decade-in-the-making soundtrack for, well, Team Fortress …

Nintendo Switch: All You Need to Know

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Have Fun Looking into the Past! Launching March 3rd, 2017. I hate to start off with a large negative, but the Switch will have a paid online system. Multiplayer will be free up until the fall of 2017. After that? Monthly subscription fees kick in for those who want to play their beloved games online with friends. Said service will act like their competitor’s with the addition of voice chat, the choice of one SNES or NES title with online functions per month and discounts on other products. More details to come. The console will have anywhere from 2.5 to 6.5 hours of battery life depending on what it’s being used for. Not unexpected, but better than what I had predicted. (3-4 Hours.) Region locking has been removed. This is a plus. Now one won’t have to purchase a whole new console from another region in order to play an unlocalized game. …

GFA: Cave Story

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There’s a story. You’re in a cave. That’s the game. It’s good. I rate it 8/8. Ian Kim, We’re done here. …? Oh, you wanted my usual review size. Well then: Cave Story, released in 2004 as a freeware PC title. All developed by one man. It’s a 2-D shooter platformer in which you’re quickly dropped into Mimiga Village, populated by the rabbit-like Mimiga. Apparently, someone known only as “The Doctor” (who has no ties to the Time Lord, mind you) has been kidnapping Mimiga left and right for unknown reasons. Our amnesiac protagonist seems to be the only one with a chance at ending this. I can’t continue without spoiling anything. Do yourself a favor and Do. Not. Look. Up. The. Plotline. However, I will say it does have multiple endings depending on your actions. The freeware version originally only shipped in Japanese. There was a translation patch made, …

Now this is A Year to Remember.

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108 years. That’s how long it took for the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series again. Not being a baseball fan myself I can now understand why it’s such a big deal. The tension can be enough for some grown men to lose their fingernails, and for others to sweat in the rain. This sits as the sole game I have watched with complete interest, ranging from the opening Home-run to the final play in the bottom of the 10th. A well played game on both ends. I really don’t think we could have had a better game. Baseball fans are free to say what they wish. Now, the real question is how on earth Back to the Future got so darn close to the actual year… Where’s that Almanac?