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Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light now no longer lives in the dark.

  Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is done, and the world is safe again from the stupidity of Lara and her thievery. This was a nice little distraction. Just played through the story, collected what I can but was not aiming to 100% this one as the cheevos also require co-op, and I do not have any friends... that will be interested in this, yeah, that's it. Anyway I have a heavy duo to move onto here, Left 2 Dead, and after that Left 4 Dead 2. I have played quite a bit of this when it first launched and over the years on other platforms, but as my playthroughs all exist prior to cloud saving and cheevos, I'll be starting from scratch, see you on the other side.

Kiki, kindof OK.

  Kiki done as much as I fancy. Just spent a night on it, not sure I wanted to spend more. It is a nice little parkour puzzle game, but after getting all but 1 of the achievements, it is quite repetitive for me. As I got it free I am not going to get too upset about this one. Next up is Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. A move away from the usual Tomb Raider offerings, this is an top down isometric action puzzle game, so yeah, it is a bit of a move away from the norm.

Kane & Lynch Dead Men, they're all dead Dave

Kane & Lynch Dead Men dead and done. And all the men are dead. I decided to save Jenny because she's an innocent in all this. She's not best pleased, but teenage daughters never are happy. I heard a lot of negativity about this game, both at release and since, any while it is a simple on the rails shooter, akin to Call Of Duty campaigns back when they were good. Sometimes you just want to shoot stuff, and this scratched that itch, and I didn't even know it was itching. My only realy complains were saving Jenny from the earth mover, completely RNG as to whether Jenny dies, and Freedom Fighters which was just a wall I could not pass on normal, so had to drop it down. The problem wasn't me getting shot too much, it was my men going kamikaze. Anyway, time to see if Lynch forgave Kane in Dog Days.

Just Move... on from these games. Fall Dungeon and Clean City

OK, so I am going to bundle Just Move: Fall Dungeon Endless Abyss and Just Move: Clean City Messy Battle together. Mainly because neither of them deserve dedicated time on their own. From the offset it was pretty obvious these were better suited as mobile free games and I was only going to dedicate a night to them. The only control you have is movement, only the left controller stick does anything. Shooting and aiming is automatic. There is very little skill involved and on the only difficult levels, luck is primarily the deciding factor on whether you win or not. Most of what movement is involved turns these games into a "walking in circles" simulator. They both share the same interface and "loadout" screens, which are the only times you use anything other than the left stick. Fall Dungeon Endless is not an endless abyss, there are 32 levels. Appears to be inspired by quake in that it is medieval themed w...

Just Cause 2, chaos perfected

Just cause 2, just causer. Wow. I had an IRL holiday in the middle of that one but wow, that was awesome. 84 hours, 90.04% complete. All settlements then factions quests all before story mission 3 and main story line missions completed after. No guides, completely blind. Found out afterwards, some recommend not doing the settlements until the factions missions at least, but I had a blast, and no unfinishable missions. There were some real pain in the arse things to find for some of the settlements, like comms towers and collectable boxes way way out from the normal area, or under the sea, or hidden in trees. Proper not easy to find. Really enjoyed it. But did not enjoy the challenges, no-one enjoys aeroplane ring challenges, so I decided I was not doing them at all. Also left some combat achievements as decided to move on. Back to some of the free slop we get now and again. Next on the list is Just Move: fall dungeon endless ...