Status shinespark Aug 20, 2025
My endless attempt to play every indie tactics game continues! This one has a tacky murder gameshow premise, but underneath that ultraviolent veneer it's largely inspired by the first Mario + Rabbids, with very similar weapon and enemy design and the exact same type of puzzle-y overworld between levels. Even if Mario's gunslinging days are over, it's cool to see …
My endless attempt to play every indie tactics game continues! This one has a tacky murder gameshow premise, but underneath that ultraviolent veneer it's largely inspired by the first Mario + Rabbids, with very similar weapon and enemy design and the exact same type of puzzle-y overworld between levels. Even if Mario's gunslinging days are over, it's cool to see that the ideas behind his weird XCOM series still live on.
Like in Rabbids, your characters' abilities are so overwhelmingly busted that you can just run your winningest play over and over to breeze through each map, but your more limited movement options make the repetition of it all set in faster. And the play-by-play announcer constantly mispronouncing stuff in Spanish really started to grate. Other than that though, a perfectly decent time.
