When checking out games on the show floor of a convention like PAX East, there’s a strange phenomenon that occurs with surprising regularity — you’re paired up with a stranger to play along with you in a much anticipated, co-op focused game, and by the end of your demo, the two of you are as thick as thieves. The goodbyes you share as you leave the demo station are as painful and poignant as that fateful farewell ceremony on the last day at Camp Golden Friendships.
My demonstration for Battleblock Theater was not one of these magical instances — not due to the nature of my unacquainted co-op partner, but because of the many, many ways The Behemoth’s latest allows you to royally screw your accomplice. With so many annoyances at his disposal, I can’t really blame him for his malfeasance.
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