Let's Play The Ciddies!
So I got this new game called 'The Ciddies' and I thought I'd make a LP of it. It's fairly experimental as games go, so I'm interested to get stuck in and show you guys!
Unfortunately, it has a pretty lengthy loading time. It took about six months to boot up. Definitely a glitch of some kind.
Anyway, when the game did decide to load, I was taken through a big cut-scene when I was given a task. A rather imperious looking figure appeared before my character:
My mission was to go through a sequence of challenges to attain the ultimate prize. A fairly standard story progression, I thought. Like Mario. And the characters interesting as well. We had Robbie Rotten and a wolf, a Tonberry, a warrior, and a man with a machine gun. Such an eclectic party! I was very intrigued where this would go.
You must be wondering about the gameplay at this point. It's very odd, a mix of different genres. It involved throwing warpy powers at enemies, before subjecting them to an awkward hot springs scene. It was... peculiar, to say the least.
One flaw I already see forming is that what I play isn't really translating into the story. So I shoot a few bad guys, splash around a bit. Then the next cutscene shows the group nominating on an online forum competition. What's that about?! I later discover that those were the challenges mentioned by the opening quest-giver. We all passed the nominations, and so the next challenge was issued.
The gameplay changed once again. This time, it was slower paced, and I was controlling some pets fight each other to the death, literally. I lost a cat to a weird-looking fire moth.
And this was all taking place in some dystopian virtual reality where such animal fighting is legal.
A few more fights later, I had apparently won enough points to move onto the next round. Everyone in my party had gained enough points to level up as well, so that was nice. Probably the best farming opportunity was camping at the blue wall, and allowing enemies to come at me. Still not sure what the prize is yet, I don't think I've seen it been advertised at all.
Anyway, that's it for this post. Come back in another six months, where I'll post up the next chapter to this LP... or not. Who can say?
