Time quota critical! Game bail! Game bail! Wii explosion imminent! Abandon console! I have hit the Giant Brick Wall of Too Many Games. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve had Super Paper Mario, Bioshock, Sonic Rush Adventure, Mario Party 8, Phoenix Wright 3 and now MySims all arrive. None are especially short. I don’t have time! Gah! Especially since I can see MySims becoming the huge time drain that it’s spiritual ancestors The Sims, Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon …
It would appear that not only was Monday a “new game day”, but today was too! Both this and Phoenix Wright 3 for the DS arrived from Play Asia today. I didn’t play Bioshock much, as I’m concentrating on Super Paper Mario at the moment, but I wanted to make sure it worked since it’s the NTSC-J version that Play Asia are selling. Imagine my horror when it didn’t work. I put the disc it, it started to load, and …
It’s that time of year again. Well, actually, it’s not, which is the problem. Traditionally, there’s slim pickings for new games around this time of year. The busiest times for releasing new titles (especially big titles) is normally around Christmas and often over Easter too, but the July-October period is like release death in the UK. Except this year. As well having Bioshock released this week already, there’s fahsands more out between now and the end of November. Before the …
Lego Dimensions: Doctor Who (PS4 03/01/2017) Lifeline: Whiteout (iOS 08/01/2017) Lego Dimensions: Ghostbusters (PS4 08/01/2017) Lego Dimensions: Sonic the Hedgehog (PS4 14/01/2017) Mr. Pumpkin Adventure (Wii U 15/01/2017) SteamWorld Heist (3DS 02/02/2017) Pokémon Sun (3DS 06/02/2017) Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair (PS4 09/02/2017) Lego Dimensions: Portal 2 (PS4 12/02/2017) Grow Up (PS4 19/02/2017) BioShock Infinite (PC 19/02/2017) Lumo (PS4 23/02/2017) Monster Loves You! (PC 25/02/2017) BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode 1 (PC 01/03/2017) Thirty Flights …
When Little Big Planet was announced, there was a lot of excitement over how innovative and clever and creative it was. And it was all those things, and it looked fantastic and everything. Then we all realised that it was just a platformer with horrible physics and a rubbish, game breaking and unnecessary third dimension. The fact that virtually all of the user made levels don’t bother with any level depth speaks volumes. Despite the lovely narration by Stephen Fry, …
What a totally nuts game. So many ideas, parodies and play styles all thrown together, seemingly randomly, with intentionally terrible (well, great retro but terrible modern) graphics[ref]Which you can change to make look even worse! Like it’s a C64 game or it’s running on a Game Boy![/ref] and sound and garnished with groan-worthy puns and not-so-subtle innuendo. And it’s brilliant. One minute you’re in the sewers beating up ninja turtles, the next you’re a Ghostbuster, before taking part in a …
I’m a sucker for gaming tat, so it was no surprise that as soon as the OneStation was shown to me, I bought one. And five game cartridges. After an agonising three week wait, it finally arrived from Hong Kong. Missing one cartridge. However, as will be revealed, that doesn’t actually matter. But wait! I’m getting ahead of myself! You all want to know… What the hell is a OneStation? Until it arrived, I wasn’t really sure. It appeared to …
