It’s not often I play a big all-the-graphics modern games these days. In fact, even Spider-Man 2 is now a few years old. It does look amazing but the important thing is how it plays. Very few games are this much fun to just get from A to B. Batman: Arkham Knight was, and the first Sony Spider-Man was, but most other games don’t give you the freedom and the tools and the verticality that just make it a joy …
New Evercade cartridges arrived last night! one of them is the Taito Arcade 3 compilation, the highlight (for me) on it being Puzzle Bobble. The original one! In the arcade! As I already knew, it’s great. Only, because it’s the arcade version, it only has 30 levels so I was done within an hour. 30 levels! I’m sure later home versions had many hundreds of them or randomly generated endlessly, but no.
Well this has been a long time coming. Yes, I could have bought it at any point but it was seventy paahnd or something else obscene so I didn’t. Then I got it for Christmas and it was added to the pile and in the last week, I finally got round to playing it. Just as Sony gave it away as a free rental on PS++++++++. The secret to comedy, is timing. Let me first tell you about the install …
Aaaaand I’m done. Yes, I completed it a couple of weeks ago, but I had to go back and do some more, getting my different Lives levelled up and completing some of the side missions and ranking up regions in Ginormosa. I also collected the remaining Strangelings, and delved to deeper depths in the dungeon tree. But, I realised – everything now is just grinding. There’s no purpose to anything. Sure, I can get to higher levels, and get better …
Yes! I was one of those idiots that paid SIXTY SIX POUNDS for a piece of plastic that you put your Switch (or Switch 2) in, so you can sit awkwardly while playing games made for one of the worst consoles ever made! It’s like having two red-tinted Game Boys stuck in front of your eyes that you can only really play at a table (or, as I did, on the sofa with a teetering pile of lap cushions), all …
Almost exactly 11 years ago, I played and completed (and then played some more) the original Fantasy Life game on the 3DS. I really enjoyed it, and after all this time I was excited to play the sequel. Only, it isn’t really a sequel. There’s nothing, plot wise at least, that links this game to the previous one. Sure, the mechanics and graphical style are nearly the same, but there’s no story continuation or even, as far as I can …
A while back, I played the demo of this and enjoyed it enough to stick it on my wishlist until it went on sale. Eventually, it did! While it might not look like anything special, and there are a million late-90s style 3D platformers around, what this has that most of the others don’t is a properly controllable character. As in, the jumping and “steering” physics and controls feel right. You know how on the Super NES, Mario in Super …
This is great and it is so obviously using Hades as a template it’s not even fair to suggest it’s anything but a clone. But a really good clone. It even mentions about the powers you obtain as being “boons” at one point, which is what they’re called in Hades. So, in case you don’t know how Hades plays, I can explain for Turtles. You start in the sewers, and face room after room of similar but random layouts and …
And here it is! Party House is one of the games on UFO 50. The idea is, on each level, you are hosting a house party and every time you open the door a random guest from a pool of guests turns up. Each guest has a different effect on the party, however, and that’s where it gets hard. So to start with, your house can only hold 5 guests. Some guests increase the popularity of the party (which, each …
UFO 50 is presented to you as a collection of 50 games from an 80s game development company called UFOSoft, for their three computer systems called the LX-I, LX-II and LX-III. The thing is, UFOSoft never existed, the games never came out in the 80s, and the LX series of computers aren’t real. It’s all a lie. Except that there are actually 50 games here. All full games, fully realised, and they all could have plausibly existed in the 1980s …
The original release of Oblivion is the reason I bought an Xbox 360. Of course, it didn’t quite work out at the time as nowhere had a copy of the game in stock even though I had the console in my hand as I trudged round the local video game shops (remember those?) searching for one. I ended up ordering a copy of the special edition with the map and a coin from someone in Australia and made do with …
It’s been a long time since I last played Oblivion, but it’s just as good as I remember. The increased detail, faster loading, and other improvements here no blunt have something to do with that. It still seems to have most of the original bugs intact, mind.
Yes, this again. For the record, this time I played it on my Retroflag GPi, and I played as Scarlet (the red one). One rival managed to make it to the Mother of All Battles at the end, and they were quickly dispatched.
While I was playing Cat Survivors, I was convinced it was actually the same game as Catlord that I’d played a year or two ago. I mean, they’re both cat-based Survivors games that were peanuts on the eShop. Turns out they’re not the same game. Catlord was a freebie from No Gravity Games, and although it does have a cat and is a Survivors game, it plays somewhat differently. Firstly, it’s harder. Secondly, you have a jump button that you …
