Prime Gaming - July 2022 | Phenixx Gaming

I wasn’t expecting much and I am still disappointed. These were also the words of a majority of the F1 world when Nelson Piquet finally apologized this week, though that’s a whole other issue. Prime Gaming, it is a bit odd this month as I only have four games to talk about today. There are five games available between the 12th and 13th of July as part of Prime Day, and there are about 26 others from June 21st until the 13th of July also as part of the Prime Day offerings. As I said, with the Prime Day offerings including GRID: Legends and Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, I still wasn’t expecting much from the actual month’s games, totaling 35 available in July.

They say in comedy to start with your second-best joke and end on the best, so we’ll do that very thing as Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark kicks us off today. It is a turn-based RPG from 2019 with the influence of 90s party-based JRPGs, and this really is a testament to how poor this month is. I have a well-established hatred towards turn-based RPGs with more unpleasant stats than the scales in the morning. In spite of that, and the delay of Sea of Stars, I think I am interested in this one simply because of how colorful it is. I’m fickle, I know, but I am only human. colorful things appeal to me, hence why I like the gays and colorful RPGs.

Going straight to the bottom of the pile and following all the Monkey Island games being off-loaded onto us, we get Ron Gilbert’s 1987 Lucasfilm Games’ release, Maniac Mansion. This is the unwanted step-child of the LucasArts adventure game and predecessor to Day of the Tentacle the same way your mum is the predecessor to your next turd.

I’m not saying Maniac Mansion is bad, but it is one of those games like Metal Gear Solid 3 that quietly revolutionized gaming forever. Where MGS 3 gave way for the flood of survival mechanics, Maniac Mansion gave way to having actual graphics in adventure games. Something that today looks gaudy.

The sequel to Sig Hansen simulator, Fishing: North Atlantic is an open sea commercial fishing simulator that I am actually quite interested in playing. Ok, the concept of also doing Wicked Tuna simulator as well as Deadliest Catch doesn’t interest me as much. At least crab fishing is interesting and ridiculous thanks to mental cases like Johnathan Hillstrand. Look, I’ve reviewed Euro Truck Simulator 2 and Moonglow Bay, I think we’ve established I am a very boring person that enjoys a calm slow game as long as it is good. Here is hoping the bugs noted by a few have been fixed and I won’t recreate my experience fishing last 4th of July.

We’ll end with what I think is the heavy hitter, and it is a testament to poor this month is that it is the height of it, Suzerain. Suzerain is a turn-based politics game where you take control of a small fictional land called Sordland amid the brink of war, economic collapse, and corruption. Come to think of it, the only fictitious thing about it is the misspelling of Scotland. Truth be told, this is what I believe This is the President should have been. Something where you have to deal with the political problems of the country and not your wife’s glue-sniffing episodes and DC fortune-tellers leaking Yankie White details to the papers.