This week I break down the latest reviews on ZTGD including Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, A Witch’s Tale and so, so much more.
Swingaling, an elusive furball with feline traits and a very stretchy arm, takes center stage in this title from Pocket Monkey Games. Players must guide the swingaling as far through the forest as possible by latching onto branches and avoiding foes. The Swingaling is a little creepy in its bright-eyed naivete, leaping through the canopy like an agile lemming. That’s a-ok, so long as he haplessly flings himself onward in my quest for high scores. That’s really the only objective here, attaining brag-worthy distance and posting it to Open Feint. (more…)
The sixth episode of the Wrap-Up covers a handful of reviews including Brutal Legend, NBA Live 10, Osmos and a host of others.
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Prope’s Wii collection of games are in your iPhone! The Let’s Tap series, famed for its vibration-based controls, now have you putting your iPhone on a tissue box so you can tap-tap-tap away. Lacking a tissue box on your morning commute, you can select the Touch mode that allows tapping on the screen or the Free mode that lets you tap any part of the phone. Having tried out all three methods, I’ll save you some time: you will want to keep a tissue box handy. With the Let’s Tap series broken into five small games for the Apple devices, we will serve up our analyses here in bite-sized reviews for each. (more…)
Gem Game is deceptively titled, as so far as I can tell it is not a game. At least, not a fun one. Better described as some kind of visualizer, you tap to make orbs bounce and get them to land in cylinders. Filling the onscreen cylinders may result in a gem orb and occasionally turns all the onscreen orbs into the same color. You get a ruby ball for three balls of the same color, a sapphire ball for three ruby ones, and finally a Rainbow ball for Sapphire. The “game” is won when all the orbs are Rainbow orbs. I would shoot my hands off long before that ever happens. I got tired of tapping trying this one out and had more fun holding my phone and jerking it upward, repeatedly. (more…)
Silent Blocks is, simply, Jenga. Feature two modes, the gist is the same in each: gently tap to remove blocks from a teetering tower. Removing blocks to combine blocks of like color cause them to fuse into jewel blocks. In Binary mode you have 100 moves to fuse as many blocks as you can, hopefully not bringing the tower down in the meantime. Alchemist mode is geared toward the puzzle-minded, with a handful of difficulties tasking you with creating specific jewel blocks in a limited number of moves. (more…)
Rhythm Tap offers up a selection of brief musical styling for you to tap your way through. By tapping in time to the music you hit music markers from the right side of the screen. Combos are triggered by successive correct taps, and net you higher scores. Otherwise, your score is derived from the number of taps out of a total possible you managed to land. At the completion of each song you are awarded a rank, and your top five scores are recorded. If you fall in love with any of the jams, there is also a little “Buy Truck” button in the lower left. Buy track perhaps? (more…)
Bubble Voyager offers up some survival style fun. Set over graph paper schematics and some sort of aquarium death trap, you guide the little voyager through hazardous obstacles, trying to best your high score. Tapping propels the Voyager upwards as he moves ceaselessly forward. Points are awarded for things like distance travelled, collecting stars and successfully landing to restore your energy. To achieve a perfect landing you have you control your descent by tapping gently. Successive perfect landings net you more and more points each time, in addition to refilling you energy meter – essentially your health. Run out of energy by traveling too far without refueling or from colliding with enemies and it’s game over. At the end of the game your high score can be featured in worldwide rankings, should you choose. (more…)
The fifth episode of the Wrap-Up covers a handful of reviews including Dead Space Extraction, Demon’s Souls, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 and a host of others.
The latest weekly review wrap-up is here. Games include: HYBRID: Eternal Whisper, MySims Agents, Toy Story Mania, Gran Turismo, Zombie Apocalypse, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, NHL 2K10 and Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of the Leviathan. (more…)
Gamevil, the same guys that brought Zenonia to the West, deliver HYBRID: Eternal Whisper to your iPhone and iPod touch, a game that raises the eternal question: how J do you like your RPG? You play as Grey, thus named for his hair and eyes, a boy haunted by the suspicion that he, like some monstrous creatures, is a Hybrid. Set in the world of Platina, a place that seems doomed to be overrun by unstoppable Hybrids, everyone throws up their hands in despair and sits back to wait for the prophesied Guardian that will slay the Dark Spirits. Grey, however, goes ahead and tries to do battle himself taking him on an adventure that spans parallel worlds. (more…)
The third episode of the ZTGD weekly review wrap-up is now live as I break down Darkest of Days, NHL 10, Halo 3: ODST, Champion Archer and much more.
I play a little post-PAX catch up and run through games like Fling!, Beatles Rock Band, Section 8, Wolfenstein, Disgaea 2 and much more in this two week special. (more…)
Ah, New Orleans, how I miss living in a city that just felt like it was propped up with some kind of magic. In The Curse of Skabooki you are thrust into battle of god and evil as old as the bayou itself, and must guide a voodoo doll, Skabooki, to safety by solving block-based puzzles. The puzzles are created to destroy Skabooki, and are all attributed to Baron Samedi, a loa of the dead in the voodoo tradition. In this story-telling he is the crooked mayor of New Orleans with a familiar love of rum, out to get the Oonaki, the Witch Doctor. Skabooki is bound to the daughter of the Witch Doctor and is meant to protect the young girl. By correctly removing sets of blocks and helping Skabooki through the puzzing levels he will find his way home. If it sounds like a lot of backstory for a puzzle game, it is, but all that effort makes for a rewarding game you may as well be playing in St. Louis Cemetery.
Mankind is proud to a fault and, in Champion Archer, too darn proud to rally together while their kingdoms are ravaged by invading Orc hordes. Finally, with one King left for the remainder of mankind humanity goes to the Elven Council to plead for their assistance. The Elven Lords don’t want to get their pretty elven selves (I’m taking liberties) involved in the muddy human kerfuffle as they’re pretty convinced pride is going to cause humans to fall at one time or another. One slightly less snotty Elven Lord sees fit to lend a helping hand, and you play as that brave social outcast who will inevitably be ruthlessly mocked and driven away by his Elven brethren, return to the human kingdom taking up residence on a bar stool and telling the barkeep about the glory days when he took down 100 trolls and survived 80 rounds. In the meantime, slay some trolls! (more…)
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