![]() Think of it like Ready Player One with just slightly less bullshit. But in this world physically entering the digital plane is perfectly possible. With or without context, it doesn’t make a ton of sense. When the FFC invade it with a virus and try to shut it down, it’s up to you and the local gangs to jack in, Matrix-style, and save the day. In an effort to preserve something “gnarly”, Gilly has combined a ton of existing games into one huge super-game. Their totalitarian reign has put all the arcades in your city out of business, save one: Gilly’s Arcade, run by the protagonist’s uncle. The “man” you’re sticking it to is the FFC, of FunFunCo, a corporate behemoth that has cornered the fun market in the most egregious of ways: with rules and regulations. Everyone talks at you in weird adjectives, urging you to stick it to the man in the most irritating way possible.īut we’re ahead of ourselves here. Fun, of course, is subjective, and your mileage may vary depending on how resistant you are to an overuse of slang written with a grasp of youthful vernacular possibly gleaned by listening to commercial radio and writing down the words that sound made up. It’s a run-and-gun looter-shooter in a colourful world that offers top-notch gunplay and addictive progression, and it’s possibly the most fun I’ve had this year. It’s not a game about story – although it has one. I begin this way because Arcadegeddon from Illfonic has dropped squarely into the latter category, and I can’t leave it alone. ![]() Something that’s just unequivocally fun remains, a series of much smaller bangs that don’t let up. Story might pack a big bang, but the after effects soon fade. It’s the Destiny 2’s and Monster Hunter Rise’s that hold my attention long-term. Story has its place, and a lot of the time it’s important, but it’s not the story games I keep coming back to. I’ll be the first up the hill waving the flag for complex story in games, don’t get me wrong, but I’ll probably have no idea what to say when I get there. To start the fight, players must destroy a crystal and jump through the portal. The difficulty of the fights depends on the players loadout and upon completing the fight, the stage ends and moves to the next.There’s a lot to be said for good old fashioned fun and frolics. The final element are the optional boss fights, which become available when a certain amount of progress is made. As stages progress, more enemies are introduced to up the challenge and add some much-needed variety. On a macro level, each stage is comprised of arenas that require players to complete a certain objective such as surviving a wave of enemies, destroying glitches, and capturing different points among others. Arcadegeddon has a variety of ways to spice up each level to keep things fresh and the player invested.Ī large variety of quirky and animated weapons can be found in colored chests, with the colors corresponding to the rarity and quality of the weapon. The second way is to complete the daily challenges that are a little more intense but earn players a spot on the leaderboard if their run is good enough. Each gang has a set of challenges that will not only get their allegiance when completed but will give unique cosmetics and rewards for completing optional challenges. Challenges are available in two ways, with the first from the variety of gangs that the player must recruit to fight back against the FFC.
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