Well, I don’t know what happened, but everything I was struggling with last night clicked today, and bar a couple of head-scratchers, I didn’t have any real problems completing the rest of the game. It was very lovely, and there is some “find the stars” thing I could still do which is completely impossible without a guide, but at just over two hours long it wasn’t really the epic puzzler I was expecting. But is it art? Oh yes, definitely.
Brane! Hurting! So… very… confusing. Braid is a 3D platform puzzle game. Only instead of depth being the third dimension, time is. So you go left and right, up and down, and forwards and backwards in time. But not just that – each world changes the rules a little. F’r’instance, on one world, when you reverse time a shadow of yourself re-does whatever it was you just reversed. Example: You need to get through a door, but the switch to …
Eternal Sonata (360 11/01/2008) Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground (360 20/01/2008) Assassin’s Creed (360 03/02/2008) Geometry Wars Galaxies (Wii 10/02/2008) Half-Life 2: Episode One (360 12/02/2008) Half-Life 2: Episode Two (360 16/02/2008) Tomb Raider Anniversary (360 09/03/2008) Commanders: Attack (360 19/03/2008) Undertow (360 25/03/2008) Beautiful Katamari (360 27/03/2008) skate. (360 14/04/2008) Me and My Katamari (PSP 26/04/2008) LocoRoco (PSP 02/05/2008) Nodame Cantabile (DS 04/05/2008) Grand Theft Auto IV (360 07/06/2008) Link’s Crossbow Training (Wii 14/06/2008) Assault Heroes (360 05/07/2008) Zack and …
For four years now, I’ve kept a diary detailing the games I play. Part of the reason was to see how many games I buy (and to reduce this number), and how many I complete (and to increase this number). 2008 saw a drop in completed games – 33 compared to 61 in 2007. I don’t think this is bad, when you look at the games I’ve been completing. In 2007, there were quite a few shorter games, including 5 …
It’s Guardian Heroes in cartoon form! Almost! I played through to the boss (where the demo ends) and enjoyed it very much. It’s very slick, very pretty, and lots of fun. But it’s also 1200 points, and I’m not sure I can fork out that much for it. Yes, I realise that I paid the same for Braid, but that seemed… special somehow. Maybe another time I’ll rethink it.