A PASSION FOR ALL THINGS GAMES
A Bejeweled Clone – Match three shapes of the same color to make them disappear, opening up the possibility of combos, and make room for new pieces to fall in their place – it is the puzzle game gameplay technique that has been used by many and is tried-and-true. Super Swap! is basically a simplified […]
Simple Gameplay. Tons of Content. Lesson in Frustration. – Puzzle games are rather difficult to create as players need to be challenged but not pushed to the point of rage-quitting frustration. Unfortunately, 1001 Crystal Mazes Collection has an overwhelming amount of content but this is clearly a lesson in quantity over quality. There are dozens […]
Undercooked – Like Crazy Chicken: Pirates 3D, Crazy Chicken: Director’s Cut 3D is a rerelease of the original lightgun DSiWare shooter only with poorly implemented stereoscopic 3D support. The inclusion of online leaderboards is a step forward but with only two levels and no way to lose, Director’s Cut 3D is a short lived one-trick […]
Pull Your Balls. Shoot Your Balls. – Ball Fighter is a simple puzzler that uses a typical match-3 style of gameplay and was originally released as a PC title then later ported to DSiWare in late 2009. Unfortunately, the basic and bland gameplay feels like work as opposed to having that addictive “just one more” […]
Same Problems As Before Only Worse – Escape the Virus: Shoot’em Up is basically a new way to play the original game Swarm Survival; you play as a piece of inaccurately depicted DNA while fighting off viruses from a top-down view. Instead of strictly playing defense like in Swarm Survival, Shoot’em Up is an offensive […]
Chu Chu Lemmings – Mixing the guide-the-mindless-drones puzzle aspect of Lemmings with the twitch tile-based arrow guidance markers of Chu Chu Rocket is basically Arctic Escape in a nutshell. Although more based around puzzles than fast reflexes, quick thinking is often required to ultimately guide penguins to the end goal. Even though there are several […]
Mixing Business with Pleasure – Usually reserved for special weekend occasions and Mother’s Day, brunch is probably the most laid back meal of the day. Interestingly, Circle Entertainment decided to blend panic, the exact opposite of what brunch stands for, into this always enjoyable but rarely participated meal. The end result is something that offers […]
It’s not bad. It’s not good. – The Jewel Master series has seen a several incarnations on a few different systems throughout the last few years with the biggest push from Storm City Games on the original DS handheld. Jewel Master: Cradle of Egypt 2 3D is basically the same game as the original DS […]
Simple and Easy Going – From the same company that brought us the underappreciated Witch & Hero, Wakedas is a casual pick-up-and-play downloadable puzzle game on the Nintendo 3DS eShop. The goal is to connect colored pieces on a grid- think organizing the single side of a Rubik’s cube. The concept behind the game is […]
A Simple and Addicting Sleeper Hit – With a unique twist on tower defense, a charming 8-bit graphical style, and very simple but yet addicting gameplay, Witch & Hero fits under the “sleeper hit” category – something that is of higher quality but gets overlooked. Interestingly, the plot actually ties directly into the gameplay. A […]
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