Well I tried Mercenary Kings which a game on offer for free on PS4 this month, well no wonder it's free, I thought it was awful, the game is clearly going for a retro style with it's 16-bit lookalike graphics, but the gameplay is terrible, combat is not very exciting or engaging and basically the game gives you no help and has the nerve to impose a time limit, it's not a case of getting from one side of the level to the other, you are given objectives to complete and are given zero guidance on them, for example, one mission, I needed to rescue 8 hostages in 20 minutes, the map is no help either, it just shows you the area, I struck luck by walking through a door and found 2 of the hostages, so everytime I found a door on the level I would walk through it just to be spawned on a different part of the map, well I give up at that point and have no intention of ever playing it again and I'm gutted because from what I saw it looked like something that would play like Contra or Metal Slug.
There is even a trophy for rescuing the kickstarter backers, which confirmed my suspicions that it was an indie game, I get the feeling that I'll be slated though for even daring to criticise an indie game.
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