Well, just based on the premise of this game, the developers might as well have come to my house and taken my money, because it was 100% sure I’d buy it. I mean…a humorous Diablo clone, with a great graphic style and made by Ron Gilbert (one of the Monkey Island creators)? Sounds like awesomeness to me.
Read on and see if it reached my expectations!
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If there’s one genre that’s been slightly under-represented this generation, it’s the shoot ‘em up. I mean, in most previous generations you couldn’t walk into a video game store without being surrounded by shmups. They were everywhere. Now there’s barely any of them in stores, and the network marketplaces of PSN and XBLA just have a handful of them.
Gundemonium Collection is a set of 3 shmups featuring “cute” chibi anime girls, and tons of bullets on the screen trying to murder them. The 3 games are: Gundemonium Recollection, GundeadliGne and Hitogata Happa. The first 2 are side-scrolling shooters like Gradius, while Hitogata Happa is vertical-scrolling, like the Touhou series. The games can be bought individually at $6 each, or as a pack for $15 (saving you $3 if you get the bundle).
So since the 3 games come in a collection, I’ll do a quick review of each game separately, with a small section to talk about the parts that are similar.
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Sometimes games don’t need incredible budget and huge teams to be made. As proof, Joe Danger is a game that was made by a team of only 4 people. A very ambitious group to say the least.
The trailers for this game were quite interesting. Seemed like Excitebike, but with bigger jumps and various other obstacles. I waited a bit after it came out, but caved in and shelled out the 15$.
Read on and see if it was worth it!
I LOVE old-school sport games. Rather than just trying to simulate the sport and make it as realistic as possible, appealing ONLY to fans of the sport, old sports games were made strictly to be fun, and enjoyable for both fans of the sport and people who just liked playing video games. They simplified the rules and gameplay, and as such ended up being much more enjoyable games, since they could be different enough from the actual sport to feel unique, and similar enough to not lose the feel of the actual sport. Oh and here’s a kicker: even Madden used to be fun to play! Crazy stuff.
Give me Ice Hockey over NHL 10. Give me the Mutant League games over any Madden or NHL games. As for baseball… well, seems like they always made baseball games as boring to play on consoles as it is to watch on TV, no change there… But anyways, sport games were generally a lot more fun in the old days than they are now.
Tecmo Bowl is a series that I completely missed in the old days, since I wasn’t interested in American Football at all at the time. So this release let’s me finally see why it’s so popular.
So read on and see if Tecmo Bowl Throwback has that retro sport game feel!
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Everyone loves pinball, right? I mean, there’s nothing more enjoyable than skillfully aiming at ramps, hitting targets, and trying to prevent your balls from going to the bottom of the board. Since 1777 when primitive forms of pinball were invented (with “flippers” being added in 1947), pinball has always been fun and popular. It had some ups and downs, and people barely care about it anymore, but there’s one thing for sure: there’s really no way NOT to like pinball.
I’ve been out of the pinball scene for years now, with the last thing I played was a pinball game on Windows XP (3D Pinball: Space Cadet), though I have been wanting to play pinball for some time now. For some reason pinball machines aren’t very common around here, so actually playing pinball is rather rare. At time of release I didn’t see Zen Pinball when it came out, but after seeing some gameplay videos recently, I went and picked it up right away.
So read on and see if my thirst for pinball was satiated by Zen Pinball!
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This is a strange little package by Capcom. It includes one of the most classic Beat ‘Em Ups ever, Final Fight, and the largely overlooked Magic Sword. Rather than remakes or upgraded ports, those are basically just the ROMs from the arcade version, with addedonline capabilities and a few visual options.
So this will be a rather short review, but it’s still a game I want to comment about a bit.
So read on!
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What made me curious about this game was that it was advertised as a mix between Super Monkey Ball and Marble Madness. That made me interested in at least trying the game out. I mean, a modern game being advertised as being similar to Marble Madness? I loved that game on the NES!
I was still completely unsure as to what to expect, since I didn’t watch the trailer. But I still picked it up as soon as it became available.
So how do Super Monkey Ball and Marble Madness mix well? Is it more than just a rip-off of both? Read on and see!
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AH yes, Capcom milking something that hasn’t really been milked since the early 90s. After the success(and awesomeness) of Mega Man 9, it was no surprise that people wanted more, and Capcom never misses the opportunity to make easy money.
Since the fans loved it so much, myself included, this game goes back to the NES style of Mega Man games again. Cover art and all. Yeah, I really love that cover art… The game features nostalgic graphics, nostalgic music and nostalgic gameplay.
Does it hold of as well as Mega Man 9, or should have Capcom stopped milking the cow already?
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The first Matt Hazard game bombed. Big time. The story of the fictional former video game icon doing a return seemingly didn’t appeal to anyone. Or maybe it was the mediocre and very buggy gameplay. Who knows?</sarcasm>
On my side, I appreciated the humor, but the game didn’t really feel right. Following the first Matt Hazard comes a new game in the series, this one going for what the first game SHOULD have been: a Contra/Metal Slug-like action platformer.
So did Matt Hazard finally find his genre of choice, or should he just give up?
Read on and see!
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This game started out as a rumored Zelda game for some reason (because of the triforce symbol on the clock thing). It got a bit of hype because of that. What really interested me was the graphics, ad then I heard about the completely random concept. After playing the demos, I was sold.
What is it that made me fall in love with it? Read on and see!
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