Forums > Contributor Zone > RotW: April 8-14, 2012 -- Overdrive returns with a...well, not exactly vengeance, but it is a return

After skipping out on my RotW for last month, I am back in all my three-days-late glory! Enough small talk; on with the placement winners!



THIRD PLACE: KOF Sky Stage (360) by pickhut

Usually, when I'm disappointed by a review, it has to do with how the reviewer reviewed it. Here, it's solely because of the game. I was expecting this collection of wild descriptions of some out-there game considering it's a shooter with fighting game characters where the characters are the "planes". But then, the sad truths about the game are mentioned. Such as where it's a pretty generic shooter that's really repetitive and gets brutally difficult. A good review that makes me know exactly what I'd be in for with this game. Man, it's just too bad that game itself isn't that interesting, as its entire concept is just hilariously awesome.

SECOND PLACE: Fortune Builder (Coleco) by aschultz

This review really won me over. And it's weird because you're writing it from kind of this math-master stance and I hate math like most people hate Hitler. But in a way, that's what worked for me. You're talking about hard mode and all this stuff about interest and exponential wealth and how it wound up even surprising you that you won. And then imagined myself in that situation, finding out I won and having no idea what happened. It made me laugh. The thing that impresses me the most is that this is on the Coleco. Because you do a great job of showing how in-depth this game is for a primitive building sim with both the number-crunching and the thinking involved with logically placing your buildings and businesses.

OVERDRIVE PLACE:

I'm not afraid to die because I am invincible
Viva la muerte, that's my goddamn principle

Ha-Har! Victory! Thanks, OD, and congrats to pick and Schultz. Also, I apologize to a few reviewers here, because I've read your reviews and haven't yet commented.

The only thing my milkshake brings to the yard is a subpoena.

Thanks for the mention, OD. Yeah, it's pretty disappointing the game turned out the way it did, since it sounded like it would make for a fun title. I've actually wanted to try it out for a long time, but it wasn't until the recent sale that brought the title down to 400 points that I decided to download it. Makes me wish I'd pick up that other SNK shooter that also went for 400 points, instead.

I head spaceshit noises.

Congrats to the other winners too and I agree that it is good to see other good reviews popping up from people I hadn't seen. Yes, that sounds bland and general, but--uh, yeah, I hope I'm saving up the good stuff for my next review.

As for my review, I'm glad the bit about the math worked for you. I realize it's sort of a third rail of potentially turning people off, but I'm glad I was able to describe being fooled by the computer. When I was writing the guide for the game, I figured I had to do a lot more and would win next time on hard level.

It's not ridiculous day-over-day interest like Dope Wars, but it certainly works enough and doesn't drag it out too long.

My principal said, 'Emo, Emo, Emo.'
I said 'I'm the one in the middle, you lousy drunk!'
-- Emo Phillips