This was up on the 3DS VC this week. I wasn’t going to get it, as I had other things to be playing, but when I hopped on to the eShop to see what else was newly available, I suddenly got the urge to play it. An hour and a half later, I’d finished it. I actually really enjoyed it. Sure, it’s a bit simple. Yes, it’s pretty easy (especially the bosses – if you’ve got a dinosaur to ride …
This is a big game, isn’t it? I mean, long. Huge. Hours. I’ve plugged over 20 hours (offline) and at least 3 (online) into it so far, and I’ve only just started the 3* offline quests and have barely touched the online quests – let alone go back to previous quests to complete the subquests I’ve missed. For the first 10 hours or so I was totally lost. Everything was confusing, from inventory management, to farming, the way online works, …
This is pretty much all I’ve played since it arrived on Friday. The first thing I’d like to point out is this: Lego Rock Band is 896896347286463 times better than Guitar Hero World Tour. The game’s Story Mode structure is great, it’s funny, and – most importantly – the track list is excellent. World Tour’s is just pants. Of course, the tracks in Lego Rock Band are more “mainstream”, and not just obscure B-sides from 1970s dinosaurs. Really enjoying it …
Let me just start with one statement: This is not as good as any of the Megadrive Sonic games, nor is it even on par with Sonic Rush. However, it isn’t bad. Strangely, it is both alarmingly fast (during actual levels) and painfully slow (the “adventure” chatty story bits) with some mid-speed boating inbetween. Yes, boating. So far, I’ve played the first two “zones”, beaten two bosses (a dinosaur, and a big robot with swing-ball set), and I have all …
Look. I want to like it, I really do, but I can’t make myself like it. There’s just something fundamentally wrong with it. Firstly, you don’t have much control of Sonic. You can veer (not even steer) left and right, and speed up and slow down. And jump. That’s it. Actually, you don’t really have a huge amount of control over jumping either, since you can’t choose a direction to jump in. You have to “charge” your jump to jump …
I’d never heard of Don Doko Don. I don’t even recall seeing it on MAME. But I set about playing it (on Taito Legends 2) anyway, and then ended up completing it. Like several of the games on Taito Legends, Don Doko Don is very similar to Bubble Bobble. You have a single screen per level, and one or two players have to defeat all the baddies on the level to progress. Where Bubble Bobble have Bub and Bob, dinosaurs …
What? You mean my swanky new Apple Mac mini has games on it? Cripes! You’re right! Nanosaur 2, installed by default on the hard drive and tucked away under Applications, is crap. Yes, free. Yes, a game on the Mac. Yes, it has DINOSAURS with GUNS. Sadly, it’s still crap. Flying a pterodactyl around shooting things and collecting spinny things isn’t actually as great as it sounds. Tch.
