About Lil Nas X Concert:
You wanna know how much I like tanks? I played this arcade title knowing fully well its inaccuracies might tick me off, yet somehow I enjoyed it enough to warrant a review of my experience within it. Simulators are fine and dandy, yet sometimes you just want some raw action without requiring a field guide to play. You might just want to point and shoot, watching things go boom! Lil’ Sherman is good at that while also providing adequate eye candy in colors far livelier than the sad ol’ shades of brown and grey one might notice in nearly all WW2-themed projects. As the Steam debut for Dabster Entertainment, I’d say they hit the ground running while dabbing at the same time. No history lesson here, just pure arcade fun since you’re being thrown into the thick of it. Quite the alternate history in fact, as apparently the Jerries (Wehrmacht, if you’re feeling fancy) have invaded Switzerland for some reason. Neutrality AND the only place in Europe during WW2 where everyone stored their “questionably acquired goods”, no longer seem to carry much weight apparently. Regardless of that, Uncle Sam saves the day once again. Or does he? That’s up to you, since you’re the one coordinating this absurdly difficult front. As if the Swiss landscape wasn’t already challenging, the local supply infrastructure would quickly become a logistical nightmare for any invading force, since even the bridges and tunnels are rigged to blow-up at the push of some buttons and levers. Yet somehow the enemy still managed to swarm in large numbers, to the point at which it becomes comedy material. I fondly remember reading an old review for Blitzkrieg Anthology which describes the anachronistic late game phase for the Axis campaign with something around the line: “if Germany had so many heavy tanks operational in 1945, they would have won the war”. Yeah, they’ll throw nothing short of the (heavily armored) kitchen sink at you, while the last line of defense seems to be a glorified green fridge that’s cosplaying as a medium tank. The M4 Sherman may be the US Army’s most widely used tank (they built close to 50.000 of them, refrigerator factories worked around the clock) but it really didn’t hold a candle to a Panzer IV (nevermind Panthers or Tigers which used Shermans for “target practice”) or the constantly upgunned T-34. Fortunately for the M4, this is a fantasy setting. You’ll get plenty of upgrades which can be easily purchased in-game through natural progression.
