Recent reviews by Tohonas

A wonderful story woven into a turn based combat system. It speaks volumes that I normally hate these kind of games, but I loved Banner saga.

The art, the music and the writing is amazing. The combat is pretty tough, and I had to turn the difficulty down for the final battle, but it was a great experience.

Get this game!

Massive bullet hell fun!

Pick your cute l'il android and get blasting. It's colourful, great to play and sounds awesome. What's more to say. If you love bullet hell or shmups, grab it!

ASM is great. Miserable, depressing, but great.

If you like games like Will O' Neill's Actual Sunlight or Little Red Lie, you'll love this.

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This game saved me. In the grip of one of the worst hangovers I've ever had, 10,000,00 was the only thing I could stand to play. I played it for hours, from start to finish. By the end I felt a bit better and had successfully navigated an awful day.

Thanks x 10,000,000!

Hop, jump and shuriken Nazis to death! Yay!

With a very cruel time limit and some devious levels, 10 Second Ninja is a hell of a test of your reflexes. I'm far to slow to get very far on the game, mainly because I'm always hunting the 3* awards, which are super tough to get.

If you like punishing, fast games, this is for you!

0rbitalis is a super-chill little game. One click sends your tiny red spacecraft into the void, where you slingshot around celestial bodies, with the aim of staying in orbit as long as possible.

Hypnotic, beautiful, with a relaxing soundtrack by DoseOne, you should totally give this a go.

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Behold the Kickmen is quite simply the best football game ever made, if like me you don't give that much of a toss about football.

It's a football game that has all the knowledge of Moss and Roy from IT Crowd (thing about Arsenal is...) and manages to be absolutely ace.

There's training! There's a manager! There's a idiot antagonist that makes you so so angry, ooooh.

Simply, get it, and go do some goals!

Light into sound makes lovely ambient tunes and pretty patterns that would make a stoner’s screensaver proud. That’s what Auditorium is: zen-puzzle goodness with beautiful colours and ambient loops. Using a variety of modifiers (high speed, attract deflect etc.), the aim is to pull the coloured light-spurts through little colour containers to form part of a tune. Activate all of them to complete the tune, pass the level and leave a psychedelic spirograph floating on the screen.

There are more than seventy levels, and they can be fairly tough to beat, but the chilled soundtrack and trippy colours mean frustration is generally very far away. It's a nice and relexing game.

First reviewed here: http://www.goplaythat.com/2015/05/20/goplaythese-dating/

The Weaponographist is a dungeon crawler with a bit of a twist. The main character Doug McGrave has been cursed with ever breaking weapons and decreasing strength.

Massacring enemies keeps your combo meter up, which in turn allows you to hit harder, but each weapon you pick up has a finite lifespan, forcing you to swap out and adapt on the fly. Dying doesn’t impede your progress, merely depositing you back in town to upgrade your skills with any money (which is, apparently, goo!) and dive straight back into the dungeon!

While The Weaponographist may on the surface appear to owe a large debt to The Binding of Isaac, it actually plays in a very different way. The variations between weapons force a different play style every minute or so, and keeping your combo up means getting all up in enemy faces to finish them as quickly as possible. The game is perfect for a burst of 20-30 minutes (although later dungeon runs will take longer) and a bit of light stress relief!

First reviewed here: http://www.goplaythat.com/2015/05/20/goplaythese-dating/

Admit it, it’s always been one of your greatest ambitions to own and operate your own dating agency. Well, Kitty Powers is here to help! While Kitty romps around town collecting the loneliest hipsters, geeks and chic types, it’ll be up to you to pair them off with suitable partners, reaping both fame and fortune if all goes well.

And how, you ask, do we ensure that our potential couples hit it off? Well, the obvious answer is MINIGAMES! Test your memory to recall amusing childhood anecdotes, pay a Generation Game style game to remember the dessert trolley, play higher or lower to hold in a potentially date-ruining fart, it’s all in here! What if the truth hurts, and maybe that guy’s beard isn’t all that? Well, just lie! It’s as simple as spinning the wheel of fate and seeing whether they believe your little fib. After all, aren’t all the best relationships founded on lies?

Doused in innuendo, with plenty of winks and nudges, Kitty Powers’ Matchmaker is a simple but bawdy good time. the refreshing ability to pair off same sex couples (without making an enormous deal out of it) is also a very nice and welcome touch.

First reviewed here: http://www.goplaythat.com/2015/05/20/goplaythese-dating/