Forgive me, Father, for I have played another mediocre WiiWare game. Anima: Ark of Sinners has a solid sense of style. It’s got a nice-looking, sword-wielding female lead who’s been trapped inside an immense and ancient city – the now-deserted remnant of a once thriving and advanced civilization. The mystery of what happened to the people [...]
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Review : Academy: Checkers
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
Academy: Checkers is a DSiWare download that may be the most feature-packed checkers game ever made. Granted, there aren’t a lot of different options with checkers – but there are enough extras in here to show the developers wanted to give players as much as possible. Standard checkers is a given, as you line up your [...]
Review : Bring Me Sandwiches
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
When Gourmo the Alien lands on earth, he has but one demand: “Bring me Sandwiches!”. Of course, Gourmo’s ideal sandwich includes such non-traditional ingredients as fire hydrants, little kids, dogs, buildings, and virtually anything in between. As fast food employee Jimmy Nugget, players must run through over 25 2D side scrolling stages, collecting Gourmo’s requested [...]
Review : Sonic Generations
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
It’s almost jarring to see SEGA finally deliver on their generation-old promises that SEGA “does what Nintendon’t.” They have finally re-purposed Sonic as a platforming mascot that is, for the first time in ages, wildly definable by its own merits instead of trying to play catch up, tagalong or sorority sister with its mustachio partner in crime. [...]
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No Comments »Review : The War of the Worlds
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
“The street was pitted with craters and blocked with smashed vehicles,” says a placid yet quietly panicked voice, “but without weapons to fight back, all we could do was run and try to keep a few paces ahead of their heat-rays.” This quote is important to The War of the Worlds for a couple reasons. First, it’s [...]
Posted in Arcade, Genres, Platform, Reviews, Xbox 360 Tags: Review, The War of the Worlds No Comments »Review : Sequence
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
Sequence is, on paper, an interesting concept. You take a rhythm game (in this case, you play with a control pad or a keyboard, not by stomping on particular areas of the floor), slap on a whole mess of RPG elements and a lot of unnecessarily snarky dialogue and voila: you’ve got yourself a “hybrid” game, [...]
Review : Balloon Kid
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
Who remembers the NES classic Balloon Fight? Probably lots of you, seeing as how it was just re-released for the 3DS two months ago as part of Nintendo’s Ambassador Program. But, OK, who remembers its Game Boy sequel Balloon Kid then? Probably not nearly as many. And that’s a shame, since Balloon Kid is a solid little adventure game. [...]
Review: Tetris: Axis
Posted by Rishi on October 31st, 2011
Is there such a things as “too much Tetris”? Tetris Axis is trying to find out. Stuffing almost every minigame from recent Tetris releases into a single cartridge, Tetris: Axis tries to make up for the fact that three version of Tetris are already available on Nintendo’s portable gaming device. Yet despite some questionable design choices, it’s [...]
Reviews : Mahjong Cub3D
Posted by Rishi on October 31st, 2011
Mahjong, the popular Chinese tile-matching game, has been all over the mobile and shovelware markets, showing up on numerous gaming platforms over the last several years. Atlus, known for bringing obscure Japanese games to North America, is publishing the latest, Mahjong Cub3D, in the States. Originally a 3DS launch title in Japan from Sunsoft called [...]
Review : The Adventures of Shuggy
Posted by Rishi on October 20th, 2011
The Good Tons of gameplay variety Creative structure yields high replay Cutesy comic-book presentation Great boss battles. The Bad Controls are a little loose. When cooking, throwing in too many different ingredients can pollute the flavor of the pot and produce unpalatable rubbish. The same can be said about making video games, though every [...]
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