It’s for all of these reasons that I failed to connect at all with these vapid code-zombies.īut if this all sounds like your bag, then know that as you complete missions, and as your crew survives them, there are RPG elements where you earn income and can spend it on upgrades for your plane and crew.
But no, they’ll happily take damage to their dying breath even though the first aid kit is just a few feet away. It would have been cool if your crew slowly learned their roles or something, surprising you with an automatic enemy tag or taking the initiative to heal themselves before they die – you know, like normal people. I get that these game’s appeal to a certain type of gamer, but I really don’t need any more babysitting in my life right now. Then, naturally, you go off course and miss your objective area because your navigator is a #ing idiot who needs constant reminding of the heading every thirty seconds, and then you forget to open the bay doors so you need to come around again and – look, the whole thing is just one big ball of deliberately programmed stress. Because you can move your crew around the plane to perform various jobs (such as grab ammo, shimmy down to the viewing area to snap reconnaissance photos or drop some supplies), you’re often left fumbling around trying to manually tag incoming fighters (yep, your gunner is totally blind to enemy fighters unless you – the gaming god – tag every single one of them), all the while fighting a bucking camera that seems constantly set on “slow and arduous”. Stress is added when enemy fighters start attacking mid-mission, as the threat needs to be dealt with immediately. It’s hard to describe, but the whole thing feels like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube to a tight time limit while wearing pot mitts.
They’re just so complex that it would take days of regular playing for muscle memory to become comfortable and confident. I found the main hurdle to enjoyment here to be the controls. However, it doesn’t take long to discover that the cute and enticing wrapping harbours a tough-as-nails simulation game, where every single detail of the mission must be monitored and directed by you. The elevator pitch of Bomber Crew sounds pretty good: take control of a plane crew as you go on missions, dealing with enemy fighters, broken equipment and adapted missions, all wrapped in a cutesy, bobble-head aesthetic.
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