LAST MONTH ON PS PLUS
DANGER! Ha, made you flinch. But you’ll have to forgive me: I’m just setting the tone here, as danger is what April’s Instant Game Collection was all about. Not only did we contend with the multiplayer arena chaos of David Jaffe’s sketchy freebie, but we entered a very perilous spacetime with friends and got up to some very swift, very risky shinobi shenanigans.
I’ve noted down my full impressions of scribbly shoot-‘em-up DRAWN TO DEATH (PS4) over to the left, so let’s skip the remedial classes and jump straight into LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS SPACETIME. The other PS4-only offering this month was a two-to-four-player delight, and determined to test our relationships with its bonkers spaceship piloting. Steering its ridiculous craft through campaigns to rescue cute critters was a teamwork-based scream. No, really – my throat still hurts from yelling at my pals to “MAN THE BLOODY TURRETS!” The rage continued with ALIEN RAGE: EXTENDED EDITION
on PS3 – and not just because of the name. The first-person sci-fi shooter was infuriating, thanks to its unnecessarily punishing difficulty and utter lack of anything original in its UFOswarmed endless corridors. At least it made us feel something: thoroughly average PS3 title INVISIMALS: THE
LOST KINGDOM and its bland brand of collect-a-thon platforming made it all but, well, invisible to us.
Another Plus-sized disappointment of a month for PS3 owners, then – and another opportunity for PS Vita to rescue us from mediocrity (with PS4 Cross Play to boot). Precision speedrun platformer 10 SECOND NINJA X had us addicted to shaving seconds off level completion times, while CURSES ‘N
CHAOS’s adorably brutal 8-bit beat ‘em up made for a lovely portable timesink. Procrastination levels: critical.