deKay's Lofi Gaming

Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Wii): COMPLETED!

I’m on a bit of a roll these last couple of weeks, yes? Another game completed today – Muramasa. The first thing to say about this game is: it is beautiful. I’ve not seen another game with such impressive, detailed, smoothly animated graphics in a long, long time. The animation, particularly with respect to back- and foregrounds is outstanding. Corn sways in the breeze, blossom falls from the trees… detailed and lovely. The game itself isn’t quite so special, but …

The CSS Crap Games Competition

About The Competition Every year, the cheery folk that inhabit CSS relive the ‘excitement’ of such god-awful releases for the Spectrum such as Cascade Cassette 50 – a tape containing 50 BASIC games, none of which were even slightly good. These chaps and chapesses turn their programming hand (or sometimes, foot, it would seem) to producing the worst game known to man. Marks are awarded for pointlessness, bugs and lack of playability, and deducted for realism, programming skill, and lack …

Assorted Xbox Live Arcade Games (360)

Played a few of them, but not for very long each, so I’m listing them all together. Firstly, I played Uno online for a few rounds, and almost won one of the rounds when someone joined and instantly won the entire round with 341 points on a single hand. Gah. Then I played Marble Blast Ultra, which looks especially nice in HD and lets you see a lot more of the play area as a result. Got par times for …

The Ninja Kids: COMPLETED!

Yes. On my first go. What a terrible, terrible, repetitive, glitchy, unoriginal (even at the time) and generally awful sideways scrolling beat-em-up. Yet, I played it to completion anyway. And why? Because of the absolutely fantastic Engrish in the game. “You will all be servants of the satan!” BEST.

Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon

Wandered around outside as Nico, solving another crate puzzle (or rather, the same one again), and got myself a card. I then went back inside and got it validated, and it was into the basement. Walked through it a little, and then a shadow appeared… …and play swapped to George, trapped in a laundry room. Bashing open the door, I find myself in the basement too. Where George and Nico meet up again. Found Bruno, although Susarro is with him, …

Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon

Um Bongo, Um Bongo, they drink it in the Congo. They also have vast underground labyrinths with annoying crate-pushing puzzles and irritating play-for-seconds, load-for-minutes gameplay. And yet another video game cliché – the rotate mirrors to deflect beam bit. But anyway. Those out of the way, and a spikey death avoided, I gained the Alpha Key to match my Omega Key, and it was back off to Paris to find Nico’s flat ransacked and Bruno kidnapped. And the news that …

Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon

Got George into the building Bruno tracked down. And lo – it turned out to be the same theatre that Nico had entered previously. I rescued her (which involved dropping sandbags from a lighting gantry onto a baddie’s head, as expected). I have to admit, there aren’t really many surprises yet in this game. Then I broke open a safe, stole a couple of artifacts, found one of the ‘power sites’, discovered George has some hiddern power, escaped from the …

Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon

After giving some pants to the fortune teller woman, I soon found the local Glastonbury pub on fire, so rushed in to save a bloke who turned out to be Bruno. Then it was back to Paris, where Nico had been let out of jail. Some wandering round, and some breaking and entering (which was the old newspaper-under-the-door-and-wiggle-something-in-the-lock-and-the-key-falls-out trick), later, and I was in possession of a DVD. The video on the DVD was the programmer bloke retelling his discovery …

Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon

Found my way out of the cave thing I was in from last night, through a faux Tomb Raider section, and escaped from a very gaunt baddie man. I then found myself in Glastonbury, as you do. Solved the “mystery” of a missing woman, talked to the locals, and finally found some information on Bruno, who is linked into the story in some way. Off to find him next then, I expect.