My Steam backlog impressions

[RingmasterJ5]

I have a LOT of Steam games, most of which I've never played. Now, I'm finally going to try them out. I'm going to post my impressions here, as I play them. Hopefully with screenshots.

These are all games I have never played before, except with the possible exception of demo versions. I'm only going to show the first level, so I can show as many in one post as I can.

1000 Amps: Puzzle game where you jump around in the dark until you touch lights. I don't know if it was just the early part in the game going too easy, but I honestly had no desire to play this any more just a few minutes after I started. Also, doesn't use the Steam overlay, so no screenshots.

A.R.E.S.: ...Failed to start. After uninstalling and redownloading...



It works.



Well, this is clearly Mega Man. I love Mega Man, so this should be good.



Not even ten seconds into the level itself, and I've already unlocked something.



After a bit of platforming, it's locked me in a room, that I'm presuming is going to be filled with-



OH GOD IT'S ON MY HEAD

After that's done with, it gives me a crafting menu, which I have no use for at this point in the game:



After a few more minutes of platforming(sorry, this game is quite hard, so it's a bit hard to screenshot while playing), it locks me into another room with this thing:



Then later, into a room with these things:




And this thing, which kills me:



I return the favor and get a D grade:




My screenshots don't do it justice, but this was actually quite fun. It plays a lot like Mega Man X. I'll probably play this again.

But now, I have the next game on the list, the one some of us got for free last summer: Alien Breed 2. I'll save that for the next post.

[Johro]

I just recently gave that game a shot. It IS quite hard and I've since got stuck and put it back down. It was fun though.

[RingmasterJ5]

Alien Breed 2 had a very odd controller glitch, so I couldn't play it.

The next game I tried, Altitude, was quite fun, although the multiplayer focus made screenshots impossible.

I then tried a much slower game, which actually resulted in a ton of screenshots. So here we go...with this thing.



In the opening level, I'm playing a dying tribal chief possessed by a kind spirit.




Hours later, he died of a tragic accident at the tribe's monthly Jumping Lunch Karate tournament.

And, a bit of simple platforming away, we have this giuy bowing to his rock god:



Because of his blasphemy, I proceed to beat the crap out of him:




Next, I find a guy I can pick up:




And... chew on?



Oh god, am I going to be a cannibal?

...No, it doesn't let me swallow him. He's staying where he is, though.

And up a ladder:





Yes, I know exactly what to do. I must...



SACRIFICE MY FELLOW MAN.




...Aww, even the enemy doesn't want him. But anyway, the solution:




So after I meet this masochist:



And a bunch of Spore rejects:



I die, which marks the end of my first try of this game:



There's some kind of "revival" fetch quest after, but that's all I'm going to play for now.

This was...average. Not something I see myself going back to, but not really bad, either.

Coming up: Mermaid assassins from Avadon.