MSPixel Black Friday Special!

Welcome to MSPixel's Black Friday special! You know my deal: I give you guys a double length MSPixel, and you promise to stay in and not get shot over a megacorporation's wish to see y'all shoot each other over 15% off.

Because legit, lock your door, you gon get shot.

I've gone three games and never depicted the squad select screen? That's sort of irresponsible of me, really.

I took Tali and Liara for this mission, instead of my usual brosquad. I was doing an experiment. I'll tell you more later.

Yeah, a random energy pulse just rolls up and whacks us sideways, sending us plummeting to the surface. Kind of. Does an all-ocean planet have a surface? Either way, Cortez kindly finds us a little landing pad.

oh yeah and also reaper troops roll up too

What can I say? They're looking for Leviathan as well.

We take care of them with incinerate. ... what do you think we do?!

I was able to plonk enemies straight into the ocean, that was good times.

An unintended side effect of my experiment: Tali and Liara died once every, oh, three seconds. I had no idea how much I was relying on Garrus, dang.

Kill enough baddies and Steve will call you over.

Cortez comes up with a plan to get the mech online: he's going to give Shepard batteries, and Shepard's going to get the batteries to the mech. Cortez kind of totally stole that plan from multiplayer, but we'll forgive him.

So get that mech online, and it's pretty good times.

Man, so I ran into a situation on the last leg of this level.

Tali and Liara had died, you know, again.

Back to Cortez.

Leviathan gets compared a lot to Bioshock, but I think anything wet gets compared to Bioshock. Wet is kind of Bioshock's thing.

Exclusive Bioshock 4 screen shots:

Anyway, into the drink we go.

I'm glad we're doing an extra long MSPixel today, it gives me time to pull total bullshit.

The level here is simple enough: Shepard shoots little glowy probes, you walk toward them.

No, but seriously.

Ha! We have fun here at MSPixel Headquarters. But really,

Next time, I'll make him talk!

YouTube!

I liked doing that YouTube feature a few weeks back! We should do it on the regular, kids, what do you think?

Are you a cosplayer? This is my very favorite Shepard makeup tutorial. It's a good explanation for how to do Shepard's iconic super black super smudgy eyeliner.

Somehow, I had no idea Splatoon had a single player mode. Does this game not look hot? Seriously?

SATURDAY POST: Happy Thanksgiving!

Good Lord, Shepard, you might be a shittier artist than I am.

Leviathan: Every Day I'm Reapin' It

Let us now to Dr. Bryson's lab.

Also, this crap happens:

Seriously, there's no ingame explanation. Maybe Vega got lonely?

Bryson's got an idea, let's hear her out.

gurl act like you ain't transparent

Okay, let's make this happen.

Leviathan hops into Ann's head pretty quick.

That legit looks like Vega is buttfucking Ann, and I apologize sincerely.

Actually, there's a renegade interrupt here, you can let Leviathan keep doing his thing and EDI can narrow it down all the way, but it's seriously not that hard to just search on your own in the Normandy.

Also, it, you know, spares Ann severe head trauma. According to the wiki, if we lay off Ann, she'll become a war asset later, so we'll go easy on her.

... what the hell does that even look like? Do they bring her to Chawkwas?

So anyway, because EDI couldn't narrow down Leviathan's location, we have to go scanning for it. Let us now discuss scanning.

On the galaxy map, Shepard can roll around the map and send out signals with the Normandy.

If you're lucky, you'll get a hit and usually grab a war asset (or, in this case, Leviathan's location.)

However, the reapers can hear the signals the Normandy sends out.

I swear to hell it goes down like this.

"How the hell do I draw a reaper texting?" I asked myself, realizing that sometimes I have to solve problems that the Bioware art department doesn't.

So anyway, the reapers roll up on the Normandy. Seriously, if you're good, you can get like ten reapers just in your crack.

If they catch the Normandy, the game will toss you a game over, so you'd better drive.

It's not hard, but you can't really screw around either.

The most important part is to sing the reaper song while you do this. To the tune of Every Day I'm Hustlin', by Rick Ross: