Fridaily Update

Welcome to another Fridaily Update, this week has been a bit slower than normal due to me still struggling away on Bionic Commando: Rearmed. I did make some more progress, working my way through 4 different stages so far and getting closer to the point where I felt the game got a bit easier last time. Let's hope that's still the case for Super Hard as these levels can be really trying! I managed to get the Helmet upgrade, which gives me an extra hit to work with but the enemies don't take any prisoners and 1 more hit helps but isn't the game changer I'm looking for. I really hope I manage to complete this run sometime this weekend as I can't help but feel that this is starting to drag, taking time away from me playing other games.

Speaking of other games I've managed to convince my good friend Beast to start playing BloodForge so we can both knock out the achievements tied to the challenge arenas of the game. I think BloodForge is an average game, with some great style and violence to it, but their challenge system is actually really neat. I'm sure some other games are doing the same thing, I just can't think of any right now. BloodForge's challenge arenas are basically wave survival with different and more numerous enemies swarming you as the waves progress. In between each wave you have the ability to choose a modifier which will give you more or less points as you progress. Once you die you can send a challenge to a friend who, if they accept, will have to try and beat your score or survive longer than you did with the modifiers you picked. If they win the challenge can then be bounced back to you and you'll have to try to beat the new high score. When somebody fails, it's game over and you can issue a new challenge if you'd like. It's a cool system that doesn't require you to be online at the same time.

BloodForge's style is great!

We've been sending challenges back and forth to work towards our multiplayer achievements and as soon as I have mine I will have BloodForge completed and will start working on another review. Apart from BloodForge the only other game I've made some more progress in is Angry Birds, finally managing to 3 star all the levels Episode 2 had to offer. If I'm honest it wasn't really me who completed Episode 2. I only had one level that I could not 3 star, even though I must have tried over 100 times. I was at my parents place Wednesday night and my brother was there, who is a much better Angry Birds player than me, and he said he'd give it a go. After ten minutes I heard that familiar 'bloop' that we all love so much and as soon as I finish Bionic Commando: Rearmed I will start work on finishing the rest of Angry Birds. I just need to worry about 3 starring all the levels in Episode 3, which luckily is the last episode to have any star related achievements, as the rest are all grinding related and can be done on any level.

I got a reply from Xbox Support about my Serious Sam: TSE inquiry which, as I expected, resulted in nothing. I'll post it soon, with some thoughts, on a different entry as this one is getting long. I reviewed Zeit² yesterday, you can read it here. That's everything that's happened in these last few days, leave a comment and I hope everyone has a good weekend!