My Thoughts on Giant Squid Studio´s ABZÛ

ABZÛ is the first game of Giant Squid Studios, which is led by Matt Nava who was the art director for award winning games Journey and Flower and you can clearly see the artistic influence these previous games have on this title. Personally, I think that this game is an amazing although simple game, which manages to capture your heart without a single line of dialogue and it's those type of visual cues that I find are not only intriguing but rare in modern gaming. 

In the game you not only explore the depths of the ocean but you get a chance to meet known, rare and even extinct sea life as you solve puzzles and swim around. According to Giant Squid Studios on their website: ¨The name references a concept from the oldest mythologies; it is the combination of the two ancient words AB, meaning ocean, and ZÛ, meaning to know. ABZÛ is the ocean of wisdom¨.

And that's just what this game is, with its vast category of marine and sea life I found myself discovering creatures I had never seen before much less heard of. This game takes you by the hand and shows you the vast and intense depths of the ocean in a way I have never seen in any other ocean based game. I know, i'm being redundant but I simply cannot get over how amazingly gorgeous this game is and yet it´s visuals are nowhere near as intriguing as its soundtrack created by Austin Wintory which takes you all the more deeper into the vast ocean levels of the game. 

All in all I cannot begin to explain to you how amazing this game is it's something you have to experience yourself and it's definitely one of those games that's too amazing to miss. It´s available not only for Playstation 4, but for XBox One and Steam. So what are you waiting for? Go check it out now!

And to catch a sneaky peak come on over to my youtube channel and watch my livestream playing ABZÛ. And I recently made my twitch account please come follow me there and I look forward to seeing you guys there for my first Twitch Livesteam and also you can now join the ranks of the Sailor Squad a donate to help improve this channel either by clicking here or on the Panda🐼 in the upper right hand side of this blog. 

Emily Wants to Play and So do I

Hello and welcome today we are going to talk about a game that I livestreamed recently, Emily wants to play. It´s an indie horror survival game made by Shawn Hitchcock who drew on his fear´s and ended up with a game that is outright horrifying. Emily, is a ghost of a mentally unstable little girl, and she´s the main antagonist who will go after you to kill you. Your goal is to survive as long as possible so, you can collect different objects and tapes which are hidden around the house. It´s truly a great jump scare game, but fair warning it´s a game that will have you screaming literally every ten minutes. While I was playing this game I was amazed that it was made by one man and what's even cooler is that Shawn is making a sequel simply called Emily wants to Play 2 which will be released sometime this year, can I say hyped? 

 I can´t wait to see the next game because I am truly enjoying the first and I hope you will continue getting scared with me on future livestreams of this and other games. And tell me are you as excited as I am about the next game? Leave a comment down below and let me know.

My thoughts on Pac-man 256

So seriously I have a strong addiction to Pac-Man. Pac-Man was the first video game I ever played as a kid I started playing it when I was 5 in an old movie theater that my family used to go to a lot and I still have fond memories of going to see movies and playing Pac-Man. It's something that was always in the backdrop of my childhood weather I was playing it in that old movie theater or with friends at the pinball museum or in an old ice cream shop it was a game that just always was there. And to this day whenever I hear the Pac-Man music I just can´t help but smile.

Coming out of the nostalgia a bit there´s a new or rather newish Pac-Man game out that's available for ps4, Xbox, android and desktop, called Pac-Man 265 and I'm addicted to it. It's basically your same old Pac-Man board but it goes on forever until you die. But with practice that one life is all you'll need to beat that elusive high score. 

In this game you get a ton of ghost. You have the original ghost, Blinky (red), Pinky (pink), Inky (blue) and Clyde (orange) but also you get Spunky (Grey), Sue (purple), and Funky (green) and Glitchy (Changes color). And each of these ghost have different patterns and mannerisms. Blinky will go after the player. Pinky will go either vertically or horizontally to chase the player. Clyde will keep going down to the bottom of the board and Inky just circles a certain part of the map while Sue will move slowly in a horizontal line to try and keep the player from progressing. Now Sue is maybe the easiest to deal with simplest and slowest pacman ghost you´ll deal with in the game and then there's Spunky who will wake up and chase the player for a few seconds until falling asleep and I can tell you Spunky is maybe the worst out of all of the ghost because of the fact that he´s grey he blends in really well with the black background.

Then there´s maybe the most exciting aspect of this game are the power up, all of which you can unlock different levels for by simply collecting the gold or orange coins as you can find while you're playing. (Here are the many different power ups you can unlock. There are over 20 different powerups my personal favorites are the Cherry power up where you creates a radius around Pac-Man that turns ghosts into cherries and the Giant Pac-man power up which makes pac man grow and enables you to squash enemy ghost.

Laser 

Shoots a laser that toasts ghosts

Freeze 

Slows all ghost movement

Bomb 

Touch a ghost to trigger an explosion

Giant Pac-Man

Grows and can squish ghosts

Tornado

Summons a tornado that chases ghosts

Stealth

Ghosts cannot see or harm Pac-Man

Fire Pac-Man 

will leave a fiery trail

Trap 

Lays traps that catch ghosts

Magnet 

Nearby items are attracted to Pac-Man

Pac-Men 

Summons clones of Pac-Man that hunt ghosts

Shatter 

Summons stalacmites. Smash them for points.

Pyro 

Fire spreads in all directions

Twinado 

Summon two tornadoes that chase ghosts

Optics

Lasers bend around corners

Boom 

Touching ghosts triggers mini-explosions

Regen 

Pac-Dots will regenerate

Radar 

This power-up creates a radar-like blade 

circling around Pac-Man. 

Any Ghost that touches the blade will die

Cherries 

This power-up creates a radius around Pac-Man 

that turns ghosts into cherries.

Sonar 

 Creates a radius 

where ghost are pushed away 

All in all it's a great game and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a little dose of nostalgia in their lives. What do you think of Pac-man 256 do you love it? Hate it? Leave a comment down below and if you enjoyed this article you´ll love my livestreams of the game which you can watch below. 

My Thoughts on No Man´s Sky

When No Man's Sky was first announced it sparked the inner child and imagination of gamers the world over and I was no different. The graphics and gameplay seemed amazing, all of the planets seemed unique and rich with both plant and animal life and it seemed like an adventure that I and the entire world wanted to go on. 

That being said, Hello Games and their game, No Man's Sky was marketed in such a way that it let the consumers create the product expectations. Which would later lead to major disappointments and blame laid squarely on the shoulders of Sean Murray. Now, many people blame Mr. Murray, saying that he outright lied about the games content and whereas I can genuinely understand where people are coming from I don't feel like they're being really fair. 

I mean who hasn't gotten excited about a project that they're doing and blow it out of proportion, or simply taken on more work than they could possibly handle due to excitement. I mean I know I have. 

Sure, Mr. Murray shouldn't have said most of what he did until everything was 100% certain but I feel that it was a mixture of both his excitement and wanting his game to be the best it could possibly be. It seems to me he wanted to implement all of the new ideas coming at him and simply couldn't due to time restraints. 

That being said, I think Sony deserves the blame more than Mr. Murry simply because they should have provided a PR person for him to promote the game. Instead of putting a man with little to no experience at the helm and throwing him and Hello Games under the bus when it backfired. 

I think that the reason, the real reason No Man's Sky was pushed out the way it originally was with almost no feature and wonky spaceship battles was that Sony was pushing Hello Games to do so. Now, I have no evidence of this but it's what makes the most sense to me, and it's something that's been done in the past. 

If you go back and you watch the interviews and if you go over the story in game you can see quite clearly that Murray, and his team at Hello Games, has a very idealistic and naive sense of the world. So, in my mind I think that for the most part he really thought that he and his team would be able to implement all of the game aspects he promised. However, when Sony, their parent company came knocking at the door demanding the game it simply wasn't ready, but they had to deliver. 

So instead of being honest with his fanbase (which maybe he couldn´t be due to Sony) about the state of the game, which totally could have saved his reputation in the moment. Murray, and his company, immediately set to work on the Foundation Update which I have been playing. And honestly the update is amazing. I just wonder what would have happened had they been given more time. 

Murray should have been upfront but my guess is that he really thought they would be able to accomplish everything it just sort of fell through. But, I think he and his company learned the lesson because when they launched the the foundation update he said he didn't want to say anything until it wasn't 100% certain. 

And now they´re currently looking for a writers, QA testers, and programmers and if you have experience in any of these fields and want to work for Hello Games visit http://www.hellogames.org/2016/12/were-hiring/. I would have loved to see this happen before I'm glad to see it's happening now.

I was a bit annoyed at first with the game and its many bugs at launch but this new update has me hopeful and ready to play more No Man's Sky. What do you think of No Man´s Sky and  Hello Games? Do you agree with what I said? Disagree? Please leave a comment down below. You can also check out my livestream that I did playing No Man's Sky, down below 

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Unboxing New V2 Camera for Playstation 4

I am so happy, we finally found the new playstation 4 camera we were looking everywhere for. Luckily we managed to find a shop where they were selling it. Below you can see the full unboxing.

The new playstation camera has many features and it´s compatible with the new playstation VR. I look forward to seeing all of you in my next live stream so be sure to subscribe to my channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCffcMUlQOBWekYuTG3m0WfA). 

Pokemon Go New Pokemon Discovered. Ditto!

I was so happy to find out today that Ditto has finally been released on Pokemon Go. I really didn´t think that they would launch him. For my fellow trainers who want to find and capture Ditto, there´s a trick to it. Ditto will disguise himself as any other pokemon, Pidgeys, Ratatas and Zubats, Charmanders anything and when you capture it, it will then change to a Ditto. So, what do you guys think? I am super excited about this and I guess this can mean that in some moment they can add Mew and Mew 2. I´m so happy and I look forward to seeing more updates and new pokemon soon.

Which undiscovered pokemon do you look forward to seeing in pokemon go? Leave a comment and let me know.

Pokémon Go! Review

When I was a kid like so many other kids who were around in the late 90´s I was obsessed with pokémon. Pokémon Indigo was released in the US in September of 1998 and it's the story of a young boy who once he turns ten years old is able go on the road to becoming a pokemon trainer and along his journey he meets trouble as well new friends.

So, when I heard that Niantic was making pokemon go and the ability to catch pokémon in real life, I was instantly brought back to my days of playing Pokémon red on my gameboy color. So, after many long weeks of constantly checking everyday to see if pokémon go had launched in Argentina, I was finally happy to see Pokémon go in the Google app store.

I downloaded it and made my avatar and chose my very first Pokémon a Bulbasaur but you can choose between Charmander, Squirtle, Bulbasaur and Pikachu. To get Pikachu you have to walk past the other three options.

From Left to right: Bulbasaur, Pikachu,
Squirtle, Charmander

And talking about walking, the whole idea is to get people out and about and this app encourages you to do just that. First you have to walk to pokéstops near you or you can visit ones that are a bit far and for walking you are rewarded at pokestops with pokeballs to catch pokémon, Revives for your pokémon after they use up all their HP at a gym, Potions to recover hp and eggs which can hatch to get pokemon. In order to hatch eggs you have three options: As far as distance that you have to walk into order to hatch them, you have 2, 5, and 10 kilometers. The 2 kilometer eggs seem to be your basic ratatas, weedles, pidgey´s and caterpies with the occasional Zubat. The 5 kilometer eggs have more chances to get rare pokemon but what you really want is the 10 kilometer eggs, to give you an idea the last 10 kilometer egg I hatched I got ponyta. At pokestops you can also win more incubators you originally get one infinite but you can only use it once at a time, that is unless, you use one of the extra incubators. Then you can do two or more eggs at a time. Also you can put lures at pokéstops so you can lure near you for 30 minutes.

As far as avatar creation it´s very minimal. There are very few options, I would love to be able to change hairstyles. You only have a spiky hairstyle for guys and a ponytail for girls. And there are very few clothes and some are only available in certain colors.

I really like the overall idea of the game, the fact that you can literally go out on a pokemon adventure just like Ash in the anime, but I wish you could battle other pokemon with your pokemon. I mean when you catch a wild pokemon it´s just you, the wild pokemon and a pokeball. Whereas in the games and in the anime it clearly states that unless it´s a really weak pokemon taking out your pokeball to catch it randomly without attacking it with one of your pokemon will almost never work. I hope with time they will change that aspect of the game and I also hope that soon you can battle with other people.

Once you reach level five and go to a gym you will be able to pick which team you would like to be on either: Team Instinct (Yellow), Team Mystic (Blue) or my team, Team Valor (Red Team). Once you pick a team you'll be able to battle for your corresponding team at your local gym´s. Here is where you will really level up. Even if you lose you gain a ton of experience points. So, don't be afraid to get out there and give it a shot. You can always heal your pokemon when they get hurt.

Well, that's my review for PokémonGo, I hope you like it and I hope that you will stick around for more here at Sailor Gamer. You can follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Also, check out the review our sister site, Nerdy Eye Candy did on Pokémon Indigo you can check it out here.