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Tuesday, 7 April 2015
The LoadDown 11 17 2011
The snow is starting to fall here in Michigan, which means the holiday shopping season will be ramping up soon. Lots of big console titles are showing up on store shelves, but lots of little titles are turning up too...
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.
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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.
Monday, 6 April 2015
The LoadDown 09 18 2011
I havent been keeping up with the blog very well these past few weeks, but Im going to try get back on track now that my personal schedule is slowing down a bit. So let me start by catching up with what should have been last Thursdays posting...
WiiWare -- One new game, MotoHeroz, a cartoonish motocross physics-based platformer with local multiplayer and online challenges and leaderboards.
Wii Virtual Console -- Nothing here this week; Nintendos retro focus seems to be shifting to the handheld 3DS these days.
DSiWare -- Two new games this week. Bridge, is, well, the classic card game of bridge; Defense of the Middle Kingdom is a tower-defense game with cute 16-bit-RPG-style graphics.
Nintendo 3DS eShop -- In addition to the DSiWare titles, 3DS owners get Capcoms 2-D black-and-white Game Boy classic Mega Man: Dr. Wilys Revenge. Its very much in the style of the 8-bit NES Mega Man games (and the recent neo-retro sequels) but only has 4 stages.
XBox Live Arcade -- Two new games last week. Red Bull X-Fighters is a racing game based on the extreme motocross competition sponsored by the makers of the popular beverage. And Treasures classic, rare Saturn shooter Radiant Silvergun comes to XBLA, making this excellent game a lot easier to find and enjoy.
PS3 on PSN -- A healthy selection of four new titles. From Dust is a recent Populous-style "god game" with powerful (if sometimes fiddly) landscape-sculpting controls and realistic simulations of water and plants. Elemental Monster: Online Card Game is what it sounds like, a card-based battle game, new from Hudson Soft. Renegade Ops is an overhead-perspective vehicle shooter. And Segas Altered Beast is an up-rezzed HD version of the classic coin-op fantasy beat-em-up, now with trophies and leaderboards.
PSOne Classics -- This platform seems to be coming back to life, just when I was on the verge of dropping it. Last week saw two new releases: Capcoms fighting game Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness, never originally released for the US Playstation, and Ataris reimagined Pong: The Next Level.
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WiiWare -- One new game, MotoHeroz, a cartoonish motocross physics-based platformer with local multiplayer and online challenges and leaderboards.
Wii Virtual Console -- Nothing here this week; Nintendos retro focus seems to be shifting to the handheld 3DS these days.
DSiWare -- Two new games this week. Bridge, is, well, the classic card game of bridge; Defense of the Middle Kingdom is a tower-defense game with cute 16-bit-RPG-style graphics.
Nintendo 3DS eShop -- In addition to the DSiWare titles, 3DS owners get Capcoms 2-D black-and-white Game Boy classic Mega Man: Dr. Wilys Revenge. Its very much in the style of the 8-bit NES Mega Man games (and the recent neo-retro sequels) but only has 4 stages.
XBox Live Arcade -- Two new games last week. Red Bull X-Fighters is a racing game based on the extreme motocross competition sponsored by the makers of the popular beverage. And Treasures classic, rare Saturn shooter Radiant Silvergun comes to XBLA, making this excellent game a lot easier to find and enjoy.
PS3 on PSN -- A healthy selection of four new titles. From Dust is a recent Populous-style "god game" with powerful (if sometimes fiddly) landscape-sculpting controls and realistic simulations of water and plants. Elemental Monster: Online Card Game is what it sounds like, a card-based battle game, new from Hudson Soft. Renegade Ops is an overhead-perspective vehicle shooter. And Segas Altered Beast is an up-rezzed HD version of the classic coin-op fantasy beat-em-up, now with trophies and leaderboards.
PSOne Classics -- This platform seems to be coming back to life, just when I was on the verge of dropping it. Last week saw two new releases: Capcoms fighting game Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness, never originally released for the US Playstation, and Ataris reimagined Pong: The Next Level.
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