Otherwise, it’s just as stimulating as shooting those mechanical ducks at the carnival. There’s so many games that involve shooting zombies, I’m really to the point where the act of killing them has to be satisfying in and of itself. However, what little I did monkey around with in the zombie shooting department slightly disappointed me, as it felt like there was no “oomph” to capping the undead. What would have helped was some kind of radar, so that I could tell where the zombies were spawning in at. Looking up wasn’t really an option for me, unless I wanted to do my best impression of someone holding onto an electric fence. Unfortunately, in order to play this successfully, you typically have to be able to look up, so as to see and shoot the zombies. I did almost get into a game mode that requires you to run as far away from your spawning point as possible. Getting into something that centered around both would probably be a sort of miracle. I’m not into the concept of zombies or voxel building. But even without the lightning stuff, I wouldn’t have been able to get into this.
Thus, I was limited to smaller, shorter sessions. There’s a lightning effect that seems to go off fairly regularly in the background. The truth is, whereas I could avoid having a seizure by not firing the build gun in FortressCraft, there was no way to avoid my personal epilepsy trigger in CastleMinerZ. Probably something that would taste like a blander version of Cap’n Crunch, only with stale marshmallows. I mean, hey, zombies! Who doesn’t love zombies? I’m fucking shocked that General Mills hasn’t added a zombie to their Monster Cereal lineup. It leaves me like a flock of sheep without a border collie: utterly useless.ĬastleMinerZ has more of a point.
This is a Lego set without my instructions. If you like to build voxel-style and want a clean slate to do it with, FortressCraft might be for you. I don’t think it would have mattered either way. So I was stuck using the slow-as-constipated-shit pick-axe. Unfortunately, the little ray-gun building thing that allows for faster construction is also what nearly triggered my epilepsy. I also had issues with the speed of building. Give me the world to mess around with and I couldn’t come up with anything to do. But the monument never quite came out looking the way I envisioned. The little angry yellow-faced monster thing in my logo. I tried to set a project for myself: a giant version of my Sweetie character. If you’re the creative type, hell, it’s probably exactly what you’re after. I’m just as bad at playing sandbox games. I just don’t have the imagination to take a set designed for, say, Indiana Jones, and create my own Starship Enterprise from it. When I was a kid, I would get a set of Legos, whip out the instructions, follow them to the T, and once completed, never touch that set again.
You know how there are people who will get a set of Legos and come up with the craziest contraptions on their own? Yea, I’m not one of those people. I mean, I couldn’t get as deep as I wanted in either of them due to my epilepsy, but I think I played enough to get the gist of it.
CASTLE MINER Z ALIEN VERIFICATION
Well, while I certainly won’t argue that they’re badly made games (they’re not), I now have the verification I need that this genre isn’t for me. I’m not sure why they want to know what I think, especially if they already like them.
Requests that come from people who already own and are fans of these games. Then again, I wasn’t expecting hundreds of requests for these reviews. I decided temperance was the best solution. I figured I would either not get into them, or I would get too into them. There were two reasons I’ve avoided the whole Minecraft craze and most of the clones that have followed in its wake.