Posts Tagged 'Platformer'

Oniken Preview

Warning: This preview includes detailed mechanical spoilers but minimal narrative spoilers. Oniken, like La Mulana before it, is a love letter to gaming days of yore. An era where limited color palettes, memory and chiptunes more or less forced developers

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Oniken Preview

Warning: This preview includes detailed mechanical spoilers but minimal narrative spoilers. Oniken, like La Mulana before it, is a love letter to gaming days of yore. An era where limited color palettes, memory and chiptunes more or less forced developers

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Sky Island Review

Warning: This review contains detailed and unrestricted spoilers. Sky Island is a puzzle platformer starring a vaguely humanoid star who collects stars. If your mind isn’t completely blown yet, let me add that you can collect coins for points, Goomba-stomp

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Sky Island Review

Warning: This review contains detailed and unrestricted spoilers. Sky Island is a puzzle platformer starring a vaguely humanoid star who collects stars. If your mind isn’t completely blown yet, let me add that you can collect coins for points, Goomba-stomp

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REVIEW: Enslaved Odyssey to the West

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a game developed by Ninja Theory, and published by Namco Bandai. It is available for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. It is a less than mediocre game and clearly intended for a ‘casual’

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REVIEW: Enslaved Odyssey to the West

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a game developed by Ninja Theory, and published by Namco Bandai. It is available for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. It is a less than mediocre game and clearly intended for a ‘casual’

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Why Fight When You Can Run?

It is an idea that most games discourage, to say the least. Combat, hitting things, shooting things, cutting things, breaking things, slaying monsters, just fighting seems to be the big focus of most of the more well known, popular games

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Why Fight When You Can Run?

It is an idea that most games discourage, to say the least. Combat, hitting things, shooting things, cutting things, breaking things, slaying monsters, just fighting seems to be the big focus of most of the more well known, popular games

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Tempura of the Dead: Review

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8O7qCvdZsE&fs=1&hl=en_US] President Tompson is a bad enough dude to save the country. And if he dies, there’s always loyal Gates to back him up, without regard for the intricacies of presidential sucession. Tempura of the Dead is a three dollar

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Tempura of the Dead: Review

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8O7qCvdZsE&fs=1&hl=en_US] President Tompson is a bad enough dude to save the country. And if he dies, there’s always loyal Gates to back him up, without regard for the intricacies of presidential sucession. Tempura of the Dead is a three dollar

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Fallen Angel: Escape from the Underworld

Your indie game of the week comes courtesy of the Indie Games weblog, which you should really read if you don’t already. The game is Escape from the Underworld, made for Indie Kombat, and it is a fantastic little exploration

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Fallen Angel: Escape from the Underworld

Your indie game of the week comes courtesy of the Indie Games weblog, which you should really read if you don’t already. The game is Escape from the Underworld, made for Indie Kombat, and it is a fantastic little exploration

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Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1

Oh Sonic. Oh Sonic. I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry. If this were an episode of Tennant era Doctor Who, this is where the Doctor would proceed to blow Sonic into thousands of tiny little pieces. It’s taken Sonic 4,

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Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1

Oh Sonic. Oh Sonic. I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry. If this were an episode of Tennant era Doctor Who, this is where the Doctor would proceed to blow Sonic into thousands of tiny little pieces. It’s taken Sonic 4,

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Fez before Fez: Babel

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFPmCcEVozQ&fs=1&hl=en_US] You know your game has *probably* been in development too long when people have already been inspired by your game. It’s like the Stephen Colbert joke about Rush: by the end of one of their epics, they’ve influenced themselves.

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Fez before Fez: Babel

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFPmCcEVozQ&fs=1&hl=en_US] You know your game has *probably* been in development too long when people have already been inspired by your game. It’s like the Stephen Colbert joke about Rush: by the end of one of their epics, they’ve influenced themselves.

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Explodemon: Not a new Pokemon

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InQxWsmMN6g&fs=1&hl=en_US] There are games I wouldn’t know about except for the lovely folks at the IndieGames blog. Explodemon is one of them. An 2.5D platformer coming to PSN this year (hopefully), it’s endured something of a complicated development history. Not

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Explodemon: Not a new Pokemon

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InQxWsmMN6g&fs=1&hl=en_US] There are games I wouldn’t know about except for the lovely folks at the IndieGames blog. Explodemon is one of them. An 2.5D platformer coming to PSN this year (hopefully), it’s endured something of a complicated development history. Not

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Making a Mario game is hard!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in6RZzdGki8&fs=1&hl=en_US] I’ve posted about some knockoff Mario related things over the months we’ve existed. You know, Super Mario Crossover and Super Mario Bros. X. You might remember the first, and not remember the second. Well, now here’s Infinite Adaptive Mario,

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Making a Mario game is hard!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in6RZzdGki8&fs=1&hl=en_US] I’ve posted about some knockoff Mario related things over the months we’ve existed. You know, Super Mario Crossover and Super Mario Bros. X. You might remember the first, and not remember the second. Well, now here’s Infinite Adaptive Mario,

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