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For Mature Audiences

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Played a bit of Madworld for the Wii and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS.
Both M rated titles, and both on Nintendo platforms.
I played a good bit of Madworld, lumbering my way through a couple of the earlier levels before I really started to “get it.”  It’s really more like a puzzle game [...]

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Ruined Techno for me, forever

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The Nintendo DS is not considered a musical instrument.
There are music games, yes, and there was the brilliant in concept but flawed in execution Jam Sessions guitar simulator for the DS.  (Full disclosure:  I spent about two weeks just trying to play Jonathan Coulton’s RE: Your Brains.  It’s just too unwieldy on a directional control [...]

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Persistent Growth

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Persistence. I’m going to call it a feature. Three really excellent titles feature persistence this year:

The World Ends With You, by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS
City of Heroes, by NCSoft, for the PC (and MAC!)
Fable 2, by Lionhead studios for the xbox 360

The World Ends With You had a great system of [...]

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Lock’s Quest

Friday, October 31, 2008

I like Lock’s Quest.
It’s a tower defense type of game, mixed with Rampart, and PixelJunk Monsters, with some combat thrown in. The combat is simplistic, and really isn’t the focus of the game, but it’s handy. In “tower defense” games, it’s frustrating when that one enemy slips past your defenses and you end [...]

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Speaking of sequels

Monday, May 21, 2007

Just checked on my order status, looks like Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 (or more simply, Ouendan 2) is on its way over to me from the Mysterious Far Reaches of Asia. That and Rhythm Tengoku.
Both are classified as rhythm action games, a niche for which I have a little bit [...]

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