New Addiction

I saw this coming, anything where I can listen through my ridiculously large collection of music and play a game was bound to be a hit with me! In this PC game you play a small hovership, your music produces a track for you to run down, objects and speeds vary based on different song elements, simple! :) If I can manage it, I might start producing some YouTube gameplay videos!

As a strict vegetarian...

My boyfriend's brought Super Meat Boy for our Steam account and despite having a putrid hatred for platformers and a dislike for the concept of Super Meat Boy being meaty, bloody and squelchy since I'm well... I'm vegetarian, I've decided to play it and I'm actually really enjoying it!

It's not the type of platformer that annoys me, I can see why it's an award winner... very simple, really good controlls,  I'm really good at it which makes SUCH a change, the only thing I dislike is the collection side of it and that's not compulsory. The meaty, bloody and squelchyness did at first bug me but I very quickly got over it as I stopped relating Meat Boy to err... dead animals and started seeing him as a separate being that isn't actually meat... just a block of red that leaves red trails? I'll try not to think about it too much, noticed you can unlock other characters so I look forward to that!

It's not you, it's me!

I actually vowed to myself to never play this game again, hold me against it.

There's nothing wrong with it, in fact I'd go as far as to say it's the best tactical game I've ever played! The problem is well... as you've seen in the past, me and tactics, we just don't go! Why? Because I take so freakin long to advance due to being such a perfectionist and I always make sure my 'restart entire game' button is at hand in case I make any minor fuck ups! ._.

The King of the Night has something to say...

Oh hai guys! I'm the King of the Night!

I'm the final final boss of Ninety-Nine Nights... if you can remove 45 minutes of your life and attempt to defeat me and then despite the incredibly slim odds: succeed, you'll be presented with the most abrupt ending to a game ever!

It explains nothing. D:

The key element to producing an amazing game...

...Hideous voice acting!

I couldn't stop laughing whilst watching the video above, it's so over-exaggerated and confusing and YES! It IS from the original English dub of Dynasty Warriors 3, not a fan dub or something down those lines! My little brother re-purchased this game so I decided to have a little go on it with him today and oh nostalgia! This game really DID kick off the Dynasty Warriors series and well... the general KOEI Warriors series. :) Oh, and to mention, this game has the best versus mode of the series! It's simply random officers slammed against random officers in a 4 vs 4, fun fun fun!

Games just aren't as ruthless as they used to be!

One of my favorite titles for the Playstation is an action-advernture called 'Alundra', I played it last night for the first time in 10 or so years! I'd forgotten a lot about this game, particularly how sick and twistedly merciless it is with it's one set difficulty, random death traps, barfing out monsters everywhere, brain wracking puzzles and general complexity! I made the same hilariously hideous mistake I made last year when I played Tomb Raider... playing into the game for about an hour and a bit then suddenly dying finding I only had the option of restarting the entire fucking gaaaame, urgh, why do you punish me for playing you?

Yes I did! Now stop patronising me!

14/04/11 update: It took me awhile to figure out but I'd accidentally mapped 3 actions to one button so when pressing square, Alundra was attempting to dash, attack, and use a selected item all at the same time... since I haven't played the game in such a long time, I failed to notice any abnormalities and have continued to play like this for roughly 2 hours! :S

A decent rip-off courtesy of Activision

Screenshot from Smash TV

Me and my other half were looking through games we could cooperatively play. A game he recommended was "Smash TV" for the SNES, a very unique overhead run and gun arcade style shooter... upon playing it, it reminded me of something I'd previously played and enjoyed, after a little thinking I realised it was "Dead Ops", an arcade style 4-player mini-game on Call of Duty: Black Ops, no doubt a changed theme rip-off of Smash TV, but a decent one!

So err nice one on resurrecting a classic Activision, something I can actually praise you on, oh, but overall... you're still twats.

Dynasty Warriors eight hundred and twenty seven thousand, four hundred, and thirty six

Once upon a time Dynasty Warriors 2 could be found where I originally purchased it, in Morrison's 'not a great seller' bargain bin, ten years on and the Dynasty Warriors series has indeed made a name for itself producing a further 4 remakes and numerous spin-offs. As you may or may not know Dynasty Warriors 7 is soon to be released... my main concern in all honesty is if it's an improvement on Dynasty Warriors 6 or for that matter if it's an improvement on Dynasty Warriors 2 from which these screenshots scattered above and below this block of text are snapped.

A quick look on the wikipedia page of Dynasty Warriors 7 shows that Famitsu amidst other reviewers state "it's great improvement over previous titles". Although reassuring I'm not going to let it rest on Famitsu's opinion, I'm going to have a decent look at it myself, that'll probably require me playing it. Before I wrap this up let's take a glance at what Dynasty Warriors 7 has to offer...

For me the most exciting new features are:

- Extended story line, Dynasty Warriors 7 WILL cover a larger time scale than all it's predecessors, introducing a further decade or two of history to the series along with sparkly new characters and a new force.

- The capability of equipping any weapon along with duel wielding, the new combat system itself looks incredibly impressive and contains plenty of much needed visual wankery.

- An additional mode called conquest, perhaps this'll cancel out additional add-on games although I doubt that, downloadables have already been announced...

My favourite feature by far is interlinked cut scenes, the action just flows, very visually impressive, tasty.