Flotilla

Ever found yourself on the run from space deer because you helped some cats hide their stolen equipment... no then get your ass on Flotilla an Indie game that I am in love with because the game play is beautifully simple and the soundtrack is absolutely incredible.
Here's a picture of a those cats I was talking about:

So the basis of the game is you have 7 months to live and two spaceships at your disposal (to start with anyway) so you set out to have your last adventure and lets just say it gets pretty whacked out crazy. It has a sort of Faster Than Light feel about it with the choosing where to go and what happens except you aren't getting chased by anyone, apart from your looming death that is. Anyway so there are really two types of game play, the navigating and the fighting (which by the way is done superbly).

So the picture with the cats doesn't really show what the, lets call it a map screen is really like so below you'll find another picture of the navigation map screeny thing.

This is the travelling screen and as you go to each planet things happen and you get points. Why do you get points, because there is an online scoreboard.
This game is available on Steam for  £6.99 and there is a free demo on Steam.
You can also go to their website which is http://blendogames.com/flotilla/ and buy it for £6.22.

Right onto the battle screen as shown below, looks pretty hectic but it is much the opposite.

The combat in this is turn based so you select where you want a ship to go first across then up and down and then what orientation and what the primary target should be.
Ending it here as I am going to go play it and I suggest you do the same.

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Natural Selection 2

what a brilliant game it would seem this has taken over everything at the moment I haven't really touched anything but natural selection 2. the game may not be well balanced and every server gets pretty damn laggy, well lets just say it hasn't been optimised yet but there is a patch coming out soon I believe.

So the above picture illustrates a dead marine because there is no way he's getting out of that, the big dinosaur looking son of a gun is an Ono's the biggest, most expensive and shiniest alien available that isn't particularly good for how much it does cost.

The guy in front of the Ono's is what looks like a basic Marine with the terrible machine gun there is nothing special about these guys it's just your basic spawn as a Marine. Those orange glowing things on the floor are Cysts they allow the Aliens to expand their structures to new areas and open new hives also as a marine the last thing you want to be doing is walking through goop filled tunnels.
(when I first played this I knew nothing about the cysts and the goop and it looks a lot like sick )

Here we have an Alien base from the viewpoint of a Gorge which I guess would be classed as a healer/builder. Now you may be thinking OK so why don't I just get Aliens vs Predator 2 because this seems very similar, well it is very similar but with no Predators, but and this is a big but there is another game play mode that may come as a surprise if you know nothing about Natural selection 2 and that is Real Time Strategy.

Here is the Alien commanders viewpoint, now this changes the game completely because you cannot get any upgrades in the normal FPS mode without the commander expanding and researching. This really is what made me want this game so badly because the thought of  an RTS where the troops you have are real people just feels like a winning idea. The Marines have a commander as well but both teams are very different pretty much the biggest similarity between the two teams is that they both have commanders.

But alas time to leave this now and go and play some Natural selection 2
this is available on steam and on the day of this post it is on sale for £11.39 ($18.51) so go go go and I'm sure you will enjoy it

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Super Meat boy

So my friend introduced me to Super Meat Boy and we done a bit of a live stream of me attempting to play it and well it was a lot of fun so I think we will do another stream soon maybe even today and you will be able to watch it here.
http://www.twitch.tv/w4nd3rer

so head on over there for some live game play at some point maybe today maybe tomorrow,

that's all for now thanks for reading

Aaand we're back

So it has become apparent that I'm really not good at keeping this up, well I am going to be as efficient as possible as the holidays are basically over now. So now onto a game of some sorts.

Atom Zombie Smasher.
This is an Indie game that I thoroughly enjoyed which is surprising because I much prefer to  be the one destroying the human race as there is nothing like the screams of people in terror, but anyway a very simple game that is still enjoyable even after you have played through it a few times.

  Above is the map where you choose where you will be engaging the zombies, but this is no first person shooter, this is a strategy game where you save the populations of city's from the brain fetishists that are invading from all directions. You have control of a helicopter from the start and you unlock more things to help you as you save people also everything has upgrades too.

Now if you are still reading this you may be wondering what the two bars at the bottom of the map are, well they show you the progress of the survivors (yellow) and the zombies (purple) and how close they are to winning and any particular milestones for example new types of zombies.

So where does the action take place I hear you say in my head, well below this sentence all will be revealed.

So this is the battleground as it where and this screen shot has been taken right at the end of a round where the goal shown in the top right has been reached and there is only 6 seconds left on the clock.
Now the many pinky purple dots represent zombies and there are no civilians to be seen but I assure you they are yellow.
At the top of the city there is a building with blue marks through it and some blue beams coming off it this is the sniper team that you unlock by saving people and they will pick off zombies one by one from a distance like, well a sniper and they are perfect for aiming down a long street so they can get as many shots in a possible before the zombies get to close.

The green dots near the very center are a group of infantry that you can move around and they will take down zombies as they go, they are very effective and good for holding the ends of roads to stop the purple menace getting to the trifle flavoured yellows and turning them purple adding to the problem.

But anyway that's all I'm saying, keeping it short, more soon I hope

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NonChalant Episode VI: Return of the Mediocre Reviews

Hey so long time no post... again well we seem to be doing this in drips and drabs, still no Tombi unfortunately but we can only hope it will come soon. The good news is I finally got past the unknown reason I couldn't make Ben an Author as anyone who has been here more than once will know by Ben's first post.

In other news I have now made the actual YouTube channel for this instead of just using my account
which I will link to here: https://www.youtube.com/user/NonChalantReviews?feature=mhee
So if you followed that link you came across a channel with one video uploaded and no picture.
In short this is very much a work in progress so as more videos get uploaded we will be improving the channel.

Some time ago I said there will be more posts coming more often well this time its for real from here on in I'm going to put a lot more content on here and there is going to be more videos too.

Also on a completely unrelated note my friend showed me an amazing web comic based on Dungeons and Dragons It is pretty funny and the story is really good so check that out and come back here when your done and you never know there may be more content.

Goblins: http://goblinscomic.com/06252005/

Ace Of Spades - A Quick Look

Hey guys, Ben here. Here's a brief video of Ace of Spades. A really fun, in browser indie game coming soon to Steam. Have fun.

Tombi LP Preview

 

Hey there, just a quick introduction for our Tombi lets play I'm really looking forward  to putting more of this up and I hope you enjoy whats to come.

Back soon