Board 8 > March Game of the Month Club ft. Marsupilami, Doors: Paradox, and Pizza Tower

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I will try to beat Pizza Tower before the drawing. I'm in the middle of the third area, and based on the total stats computer in the lobby area, there might be six areas, so I might not. I wasn't feeling the first boss, but I really enjoyed the second boss. I hate the boss health fakeouts though

I will nominate Cloudpunk

Monthly Progress
Marsupilami - Abacus, KCF, Sean
Doors - Sean, JONA, Kenri, Abacus, KCF
Pizza -

Nominations
Abacus - Penny Breakaway
Ark - Rain World
Cody - Alba, Superliminal
Crispy - 428 Shibuya, ChaosHead, Ufouria 2
darkx - Princess Peach Showtime
JONA - Go Mecha Ball, Jitsu Squad, Mafia
KCF - Control, Super Daryl, Cloudpunk
Kenri - Thirsty Suitors, NORCO

Supports
Abacus - Daryl
Ark - NORCO
darkx - Alba
JONA - Thirsty
KCF - Mafia
Kenri - Rain

Drawing on Monday

Nominate:
Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus
Half Life 2: Episode 2
The Last of Us: Part 2

Should have one more nom from beating Doors, so here's a random one from my backlog

Nominate Ceress and Orea

Last call for noms, changes, and supports

Your April Games of the Month are...

Penny's Big Breakaway (PC/XS/X/PS5/Switch)
Rain World (PC/XS/X/PS5/Switch/XB1/PS4)
Go Mecha Ball (PC/XS/X/XB1)

Congrats to Abacus, Ark, and JONA for having their games selected!

Go Mecha Ball is on Game Pass for PC and Console

Rain World was part of a Humble Bundle a few months back. I've heard it's a fairly tough game.

Penny's Big Breakaway looked really cool from some videos I saw recently.

Fuck, I just might play all 3!

The lack of chatter means this is clearly going to be a high-activity month in April lol

In for Rain World and maybe Go Mecha Ball!

Definitely in for Break Away.

May try for Mecha Ball since it's on Gamepass.

Not sure if I'll do Rain World or not, depends on how long Dragon's Dogma 2 takes me... And how long I am addicted to Helldivers 2

Definitely going to play Rain World. Not sure if I'll BEAT Rain World, but I'm definitely going to give it a solid try.

Go Mecha Ball seems interesting, but a bit too expensive for me to bite.

Penny is on sale for roughly $20 USD on Xbox and PS5
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/pennys-big-breakaway/9phf8szz5nrh
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP4581-PPSA15256_00-BIGBREAKAWAY0000

It should be noted that I think the Xbox discount is only if you are a Game Pass subscriber. I don't think there's a PS+ restriction on the PS5 side.

KCF0107 posted...

Penny is on sale for roughly $20 USD on Xbox and PS5
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/pennys-big-breakaway/9phf8szz5nrh
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP4581-PPSA15256_00-BIGBREAKAWAY0000

Ohhh, nice. Now, the question is XBox or PS5...

Finished Pizza Tower

good game overall, although it's probably a bit too twitchy at times for my spaghetti fingers to play on a keyboard at this point, and also maybe leans into the speadrunning/super playing a bit too much for a game copying Nintendo games that you'd expect from a fan trying to 'fix' something that wasn't really broken to begin with (like you can't get killed by normal enemies despite the game leaning away from the puzzle elements of WL2/3 and more into WL4, but it still keeps track of how many times you can get hit and you have a life bar for bosses).

Also the bosses are a bit too much, they really could have been toned down since they take so many hits, you have to wait until they're vulnerable to damage them, and occasionally it's hard to tell what can hurt you and what can't or there's some sort of distraction in the background. Would probably have been more pleasant if they had like, half the hp.

KCF has beaten Pizza Tower

Fun and chaotic but yeah I had some of the complaints that Crispy did. I played with a controller, and I kept activating moves that I didn't mean to (especially the flatten-yourself-then-super-vertical-jump), which is probably my fault but also the fault for having move activations and a control scheme that made it quite prone to do so.

I had exactly enough Toppins to trigger the final boss (I skipped one level), and I finished the final escape with three seconds left. I shudder to think about doing it all over again