the background noise

Playing some Mercenary Kings  currently, a run-and-gun Metal Slug -a-like from 2014 that like so many others comes straight out of my 'games to play that will honest-to-goodness get played someday' list. It's been something of a disjointed experience to say the least, a game that's provoked some thoughts about one of the pre-eminent qualities of modern gaming: the time it takes to complete, to finish and to call it a day.

Howdy ho! Presenting the second part of my all-singing all-dancing gaming retrospective of this distant time we refer to as earlier this year. The games I've played and a paragraph or so of my thoughts on each presented for your deliberation. All opinions are my own, mint-condition, I accept no substitutes and tell no lies. Except that last one obviously... to the list!