Tuesday 7 April 2015
The LoadDown 11 17 2011
WiiWare -- One new title, Pinocchios Puzzle, which retells Carlo Collodis classic tale one jigsaw puzzle at a time. Up to 4 local players can participate in assembling the puzzles, but theres not a lot of entertainment value on offer.
DSiWare -- Two new titles this week. Escape Trick - Convenience Store is a mini-adventure game, in which the player must solve puzzles to escape his own workplace. Rated E with "mild language," so Clerks this is not. Play & Learn Chinese is a language-education game, with vocabulary drills and other exercises.
3DS eShop -- The DSiWare titles are also on the 3DS, as always, along with the oddly-titled 3D Classics: Kirbys Adventure, which as far as I can see is just the 8-bit NES Classic running on the 3DS. No three-dimensional effects are in evidence in Nintendos publicity materials. Its a great and underappreciated game that came out in 1993, late in the NES life cycle -- Ive played through it on the Wii Virtual Console, and its a fine choice for portable play. I just dont see what qualifies it as a 3-D Classic.
XBox Live Arcade -- One new game this week, Xotic, a colorful first-person shooter with some RPG elements. One of those games that, at first glance, would have been a retail title once upon a time, but now qualifies only as a digital release.
PS3 on PSN -- Three new titles this week. Telltale Games Jurassic Park: The Game, an adventure game heavy on the Quicktime Events (i.e. Dragons Lair-style button-pressing challenges) is the big one -- it tells a new story set around the events of the first movie. I am anxiously awaiting some free time to play the PC version, hopefully this weekend. If dinosaurs dont appeal, PS3 owners also have Hollywood Squares, based on the long-popular TV game show, and Burgertime World Tour, updating the classic Data East arcade game.
PSOne Classics -- A new game this week, Human Entertainments 1998 strategy-RPG Vanguard Bandits; I believe this is the US version, localized by Working Designs in 2000.
