Transistor one of my absolute favorites from PS+, incredible game!
I finished Transistor once and had enough (the game encourages you to try NG+). Too complex battle system for me to be really good at it.
These posts move it up and then straight back down my to play list! I like incredible games but I'm mostly playing these as sides to other games so I'm not looking for anything to difficult or complex.
On a different note, I finished up DotT and am going to play through again to listen to the dev commentary and get the few remaining trophies (and to play through Maniac Mansion a few times with my favourites kids). It's still a fun game with silly humour and puzzles that though not always immediately logical make a certain degree of sense after the fact and in the context of the mad world of the Edison's and the revamp just makes it better. The art and sounds have been updated perfectly in keeping and you can feel the love that went into redrawing and remastering everything so perfectly. Great job Double Fine.
I'm also close to the end of my first run through of CounterSpy and am just playing a few more missions to unlock some guns and formulae before taking on the final mission.
It's a game that is annoying me a lot but not necessarily for what it is but for what it could be. In and of itself it's not a bad game, it's actually a very agreeable one but it NOT a stealth game and procedural generation is a crappy way to make a stealth game however you dress it up.
A stealth game should always allow you to progress without being detected (and ideally without even laying a hand on an enemy) if you are skillful and aware enough but it's not worth trying that in CounterSpy! You may get to the very last screen entirely unspotted, be feeling great and then walk through a door and be presented with x number of enemies staring straight at you rendering all your previous success null and void.
Played as an action game with a sprinkling of stealth mechanics it is a much more fun experience.
Worth noting though that anyone who plays inverted (Y) will have to make comprises playing this as you cannot invert the controls differently dependent on whether you are playing a 2d element or a 3d element. I've ended up leaving it uninverted as I spend more time (broadly speaking) in 2d and then imagine the 3d sections as controlling a pseudo mouse pointer rather than cross hairs.
It's a shame that I have these couple of issues with it as there is a lot to love about this game.
Last but not least I dipped into Transformer Devastation with some friends and we were disappointed not to find any local co-op or versus options. Not sure the single player will have enough in it to keep me interested but I'll give it a go (as a group we just ended up playing KI2 classic which was free with GWG in January instead!).
Hope you are all having good weeks PS+ games playing folks. Have a good weekend y'all.
