![]() ![]() The reader should pay attention to the fact that Weed has now been mentioned twice, which would imply that it is a fairly significant event. Second, Steinbeck is establishing some foreshadowing of events to come. George's conversation with Lennie, Steinbeck is able to relate a few of the details without using a flashback. The reader does not know what happened in Weed, but through First, Steinbeck uses George's character to fill in narrative gaps. You keep me in hot water all the time.' " The passage ends with "He looked across the fire at Lennie's anguished face, and then he looked ashamedly at the flames." Steinbeck employs several literary techniques. What literary techniques does Steinbeck use in the passage that begins " 'You crazy son-of-a bitch. George is worried that Lennie would not survive if he was not with him. Because George has taken care of Lennie for so long, George feels a great responsibility for Lennie's well-being. He even asks Lennie if he has been mean to him. Why do you think George does not take Lennie up on his offer? George seems to regret the way he talks to Lennie. After George erupts in anger about the responsibility of taking care of Lennie, Lennie offers to run away and leave George alone. This kind of game flies by okay as a little mobile time waster, but a PlayStation 4 experience needs to offer much more than this.10. Environments look like they were done in ten minutes in Microsoft Paint, too. Because each level plays out on a single screen panel, there’s a lack of a sense of scale, which is generally appreciated in a strategy game. It’s also a horribly, horribly plain looking game. You earn stars, from one to three, depending on how well you perform in a level, but there’s very little incentive to actually want to master these levels. But in practice it leaves the game feeling completely lacking strategy or any kind of staying power. The developers would have you believe that the reason for this is to turn levels into a speedy experience levels rarely last longer than a minute or two. Contact with humans is enough to start the process of turning them into zombies. Your controls are limited to running around, and telling the turned zombies to attack or follow. ![]() All of this would be almost okay if 4 Elements also wasn’t one of the most unrelentingly plain-looking games, with terrible sprites representing enemies, and bland level design to back it up. Eventually you unlock the ability to upgrade the towers to offer additional effects the water tower can freeze enemies, the fire tower can burn them, but it’s too little, too late. That’s all the tools you have at your disposal.Įach level is significantly more difficult than the last, and you’ll find you need to replay old levels over and over again to earn stars to upgrade towers to give you a fighting chance at the next level. They can be upgraded, and you get access to four spells (also based after the element), but that’s it. These towers can be placed in predetermined places around each of the game’s maps, and then you need to fight off wave after wave of mobs. Ironically, the water tower does not cause splash damage) You’ll soon forget which tower does what, and build a mix of them just for variety’s sake. Each tower has a slightly different impact on the battlefield, but other than the earth tower, which causes splash damage to all enemies nearby (via exploding rubble. You’ll get just four towers to choose between in 4 Elements, one based after each of the elements – fire, earth, water, air. What I wouldn’t give for a high quality tower defence game on PS4 #PS4share /1laODdyXlD It’s workable, but completely workmanlike it offers an unbalanced difficulty curve and severely limited strategy to go with it. The Keeper of 4 Elements is not a good example of the tower defence genre. Some might dismiss these games as overly casual and light on strategy, the good ones are capable of putting up quite a stiff challenge, while their accessibility makes them easy to play when you’re looking to kick back and relax. Though the genre has fallen away to a great extent over the last year or so, I still like to check out what’s happening. The Keeper of 4 Elements (Sony PlayStation 4) But because we love you all so much we review ’em anyway.Įnjoy! And be sure to let us know what games you are playing at the moment in the comments. These aren’t necessarily bad games – not at all! But rather they are smaller or shorter games, or they might be free-to-play and therefore don’t really need a review at all. ![]() Welcome to the latest batch of short ‘n sweet reviews, where we look at a number of games that we have been playing that we just haven’t got the time to do give full reviews to. ![]()
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