This Game Is Wizard is a fantastic little puzzle platformer for Windows. It's apparently a remake of Wizard for the C64, a game I've never played before (I was an Atari 800 kid). The puzzles and platforming stuff gets pretty clever in the later stages and starts really requiring some foresight to get every treasure on every level. It seems like the game is still in development, so maybe we'll be seeing more levels in the near future.
I've managed to get 100% of the treasures on every level, but I've not gotten 100% perfects (you get 100% perfect if you get all treasures without getting hit).
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Haze
Copied from a post I made on SelectButton:
Haze isn't a terrible game, just a really really dull one.
For a little while, I thought they were going to wind up doing some neat stuff with their subtitling, because while you were a Mantel soldier, certain lines of dialog wouldn't completely line up with the subtitles shown. I thought maybe they were going to make that into another way that Nectar alters your perception or something. Alas, once I switched over to the Rebel side, dialog STILL didn't match up. This game just feels tedious and kind of rushed.
They spent a lot of time hyping up their asymmetrical or asynchronous or whatever the fuck they called it combat, and in the end it didn't really amount to much. The only real "trick" that Mantel had was Nectar, and that was pretty much necessary to fight the rebels because those fuckers blended into the scenery really well. The rebels have a lot more they can do, but just about all of it is useless. They also don't need to highlight the enemies because they already stick out like crazy. The fastest way to kill them is still to just shoot them a lot.
Other than that it's strictly by the book. Generic shooting sequences, generic vehicle sequence, generic guns, generic sequences. Nothing really stood out much at all. They were trying to be all "Why is Mantel here, anyways?" for a little bit, but then they just go and tell you like fifteen minutes after you switch sides anyways.
I don't really get how this game came from the same guys that made Second Sight.
Post Update:
I'm not bothering to finish this game. It's just not compelling enough to spend any time with it. Haze doesn't do anything wrong and also doesn't do anything right. There's just nothing here worth experiencing.
Haze isn't a terrible game, just a really really dull one.
For a little while, I thought they were going to wind up doing some neat stuff with their subtitling, because while you were a Mantel soldier, certain lines of dialog wouldn't completely line up with the subtitles shown. I thought maybe they were going to make that into another way that Nectar alters your perception or something. Alas, once I switched over to the Rebel side, dialog STILL didn't match up. This game just feels tedious and kind of rushed.
They spent a lot of time hyping up their asymmetrical or asynchronous or whatever the fuck they called it combat, and in the end it didn't really amount to much. The only real "trick" that Mantel had was Nectar, and that was pretty much necessary to fight the rebels because those fuckers blended into the scenery really well. The rebels have a lot more they can do, but just about all of it is useless. They also don't need to highlight the enemies because they already stick out like crazy. The fastest way to kill them is still to just shoot them a lot.
Other than that it's strictly by the book. Generic shooting sequences, generic vehicle sequence, generic guns, generic sequences. Nothing really stood out much at all. They were trying to be all "Why is Mantel here, anyways?" for a little bit, but then they just go and tell you like fifteen minutes after you switch sides anyways.
I don't really get how this game came from the same guys that made Second Sight.
Post Update:
I'm not bothering to finish this game. It's just not compelling enough to spend any time with it. Haze doesn't do anything wrong and also doesn't do anything right. There's just nothing here worth experiencing.
Monday, October 13, 2008
I Play Games
Daphny is playing Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless Army. She is a detective.
This is my thing for posting about video games. Video games that I play, or video games that I see Daphny play, or whatever. Maybe I'll post little mini-reviews when I finish a game too.
Anyways, HELLO.
This is my thing for posting about video games. Video games that I play, or video games that I see Daphny play, or whatever. Maybe I'll post little mini-reviews when I finish a game too.
Anyways, HELLO.
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